ATMIM Spring 2005 Conference

Internet Resources for Secondary Teachers

Dr. Madge Thombs

Roger Williams University

Thank you to all who attended our session! Here are the resources that we used, including the PowerPoint in PDF format and a link to the handout on PDF files that we mentioned. Please email me if you want to see other links added.

Click here for the PowerPoint Presentation

Click here for the PDF files handout

Teacher Tools and Resources:

Ø Teach-nology

http://teach-nology.com/web_tools/

Ø Rubistar

http://rubistar.4teachers.org/index.php

Ø NCTM

http://nctm.org

http://illuminations.nctm.org/

Student Resources:

Ø Ask Dr. Math

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Ø Math2.org math resources

http://www.math2.org/

Ø Webmath.com

http://www.webmath.com/

Ø Explore Learning

http://www.explorelearning.com/

Ø Geometer’s Sketchpad resources

http://www.keypress.com/sketchpad/

Ø TI Calculator teacher resources

http://education.ti.com/us/resources/teachers.html

Ø Cool Math Algebra

http://www.coolmathalgebra.com/

Online Tools:

Ø Coolmath.com

http://www.coolmath.com/graphit/

Ø Online graphing calculator

http://gcalc.net/

Virtual Manipulatives:

Ø National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

http://matti.usu.edu/nlvm/nav/vlibrary.html

Legal and Ethical Issues:

Ø Hall Davidson Fair use resources

http://www.mediafestival.org/downloads.html

Ø For articles on CIPA, COPPA, Internet filtering, and other technology topics:

http://www.eschoolnews.com

Web Accessibility Resources and Simulations:

Ø WebAIM

http://www.webaim.org/

(Simulations, information, tutorials, free classroom materials This is the source for the link to test web pages for color blindness problems.)

Ø CAST

http://www.cast.org/

(Universal design, Bobby compliance test)

Downloads:

Ø Adobe Acrobat Reader

http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/main.html

Ø Macromedia Flash Plug-in

http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

Ø Java Plug-in

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html

You can email Dr. Thombs at mthombs@rwu.edu.