This site offers,
“resources for education technology leaders.”
There were several choices for newsletters to sign up for, including:
·
TechLEARNING
News, “a bi-monthly update
brought to you by Technology & Learning and the Consortium for School
Networking (CoSN).”
·
IT Guy
Alert, which offers tech
support ideas and answers two times per month.
·
Professional
Development QuickTips Alert,
offering strategies for implementing staff development (also two times per
month).
·
Site of
the Day Alert, a
newsletter that is sent out every Friday, and provides a list of recommended
Web sites for teaching and learning.
I chose to
subscribe to the Site of the Day Alert.
The sample issue that I reviewed provided five sites, including one
teacher “school site of the week.” The
sites were all great; I had heard of two (Backflip and Rubistar), but hadn’t
heard of the other two (Slave Rescue Quest and ExploreMath.com), which were
both unique and could easily be integrated into a curriculum. Slave Rescue Quest “places students in an
authentic role as a young child in 1950s Baltimore,” and ExploreMath.com offers
“multimedia activities that illustrates difficult math concepts with interactive
simulations.”
http://www.techlearning.com/content/resources/sod_newsletter_ex.html
This site offers
lessons, puzzles and homework related to math, in addition to other activities
and articles. I subscribed to the
newsletter, and looked at some back issues.
The back issues provided annotations to math-related Web sites, updates
on the Math Goodies newsletter and other links useful for planning math lessons
and teaching math.
http://www.mathgoodies.com/newsletter/
I also checked out
many other newsletters – what a shocker that I got “lost” on the Web for two
hours! – but these two seemed most interesting to me. At some point, I may go back and sign up for some of the other
newsletters suggested in the syllabus.