Pathways+Program

Pathways To Your Future Technology Workshop
**//Exploring STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)//**

//**Pathways To Your Future Careers**// is a career awareness program, held at Penn State York, for seventh grade girls highlighting opportunities in mathematics, science, engineering and technology.

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Diigo

Groups with whom to make friends. Remember to set the "alerts" to a reasonable time frame to meet your needs.
 * Math Links @ http://groups.diigo.com/group/math-links
 * Virtual Manipulatives @ http://groups.diigo.com/group/virtualmanipulatives
 * TIEnet @ http://groups.diigo.com/group/tienet
 * SmartBoards and Other IWBs @ http://groups.diigo.com/group/smart-boards

Google Lets get started with something that we can all relate to:

Wolfram Alpha []

Getting to Know the Group []

Getting to Know the Group Spreadsheet

Statistics: Mean – the average Median – middle value of a sample Mode – most frequent value

Getting organized for technology use in the classroom: Use a Google Doc Form to collect students user ID's and passwords for classwork. You won't waste time retrieving it.

Google Squared Try planets, or mathematicians

Google Sets List predictor and creator

Wordle Visualize information or data

Example: media type="custom" key="9320988"

**Places to Put Stuff**
Blogs

Wikis

Khan Academy Khan library of videos covers K-12 math, science topics such as biology, chemistry, and physics, and even reaches into the humanities with playlists on finance and history. Each video is a digestible chunk, approximately 10 minutes long, and especially purposed for viewing on the computer. What started out as Sal making a few algebra videos for his cousins has grown to over 2,100 videos and 100 self-paced exercises and assessments covering everything from arithmetic to physics, finance, and history.

Example: Homework for tomorrow - Introduction to Age Problems

Fast Math Calculation Tricks Or, I always wanted to know how to do that!

YouTube Capture, embed, etc.

Zamzar This facility allows you to capture and convert YouTube videos for personal storage and use.

Presenting Information Glogster Posters without glue and scissors. Example: Math Presentation Newton's Law

Prezi Not PowerPoint! Example: Addition and Subtraction Rules Newton's Laws

Slide Share Put your classroom PowerPoint on the net and then embed into wikis or blogs.

SAS Example: media type="custom" key="9315780"

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Toondoo Cartoon creator media type="custom" key="9318654"

PhotoStory3 This is a free download and it will create a movie similar to the Civil War documentary created by Ken Burns. It is simple to use. This is a Microsoft product and for Windows only.

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Audacity When you download this program, you will also need to download a file called "lame". It allows the sound file to collect and render.

Example: media type="file" key="Poet_Poem_Poe.mp3" width="240" height="20"

Draw Anywhere Store and Organize your research and information, accessible anywhere with an Internet connection. Share your diagrams with others or by embedding into an existing webpage or blog.

Mapping America: Every City, Every Block Browse local data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey, based on samples from 2005 to 2009. Because these figures are based on samples, they are subject to a margin of error, particularly in places with a low population, and are best regarded as estimates.

Interactivate Shodor Math initiative of applet resources.

Animal Diversity Web An online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan

Periodic Table of Videos Tables charting the chemical elements have been around since the 19th century - but this modern version has a short video about each one. We've done all 118 - but our job's not finished. Now we're updating all the videos with new stories, better samples and bigger experiments. Plus we're making films about other areas of chemistry, latest news and occasional adventures away from the lab. We've also started a new series - The Molecular Videos - featuring our favourite molecules and compounds. All these videos are created by video journalist Brady Haran, featuring real working chemists from the University of Notttingham, UK.

WeatherSpark WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context.

Inner Body Inner exploration of Human Anatomy. Each topic has animations, 100's of anatomy graphics, and thousands of descriptive links. Study the anatomy of the human body online using anatomy charts, models and diagrams. It's fun, interactive and an ideal reference site for students or those who just want to know more about the medical descriptions and anatomical terms used by doctors and nurses.

Solar System Scope SSS means Astronomy for Everybody. Whether you are a student, astronomy fan or an accidental browser, you are most welcome to play with our user-friendly application. It's full of space-art graphics, has easy-to-use interface with various settings and offers interesting information. SSS will illustrate you real-time celestial positions with planets and constellations moving over the night sky. But I can see you're not just a passive spectator - and that's good, because you can actively change parameters for a better understanding of happenings in our Solar System and the Universe.

The Ruler Game Use this game to improve how you read a ruler.

That Quiz ThatQuiz is a free testing service for teachers to use with their classes. Multiple choice tests and math tests can be administered to students using this website. All grades are immediately reported to the students. Teachers receive complete record keeping of test results, including all grades and wrong answers.

Quizlet Quizlet is a fun, free, way to study languages, vocabulary, or almost anything. We're also the largest and fastest growing educational flashcards site on the web, providing powerful online study tools and games to millions of students. Founded in 2005 by high school sophomore Andrew Sutherland, Quizlet lets you make your own flashcards or choose from millions of flashcards created by other users. Example: Math

Tutpup Simple, fun, competitive games that help children learn and gain confidence with Math, English and other key skills and knowledge.

Skillwise Games for lower level ELL/ESL

**PLN Information**
Twitter The # symbol, called a hashtag, is used to mark keywords or topics in a Tweet. It was created organically by Twitter users as a way to categorize messages. Useful hashtags: #edchat, #edtech, #maths, #mathchat, #scichat, #sciences

Twitter Follower List by Genre

Tweetdeck