Test Practice help from Texas

Thanks to Jeff Giddens at the Segatech site, we now have access to pretests, lessons, and post tests. These activities are provided through Sam Houston State University. Math and Language arts are covered. I hope you find these useful.

More Fun Learning Sites

I am continually looking for things to make learning fun. The sites we are about to exlpore certainly meet that criteria. The first is a site which looks at all of the Wonders of the World. It includes both modern and ancient wonders. I have known about this next site for awhile but they have added a section on floating cities. How stuff works is featuring The Freedom Ship which is currently under construction and will be a floating city. It will go around the world every 2 years. The final site for today is the World Factbook. Just about everything you want your students to learn about the world is included at this site.

PowerPoint Sounds

I don't know about you, but I get very frustrated when I add sound to a presentation and find that when I show it, the sound is MIA. I know to save the sound file in the same folder as the presentation but sometimes I forget. Now I don't have to worry about that anymore because I have stumbled upon the solution to the problem. It seems the folks at Microsoft have decided that if a sound is larger than 99k, it doesn't get embedded. The solution is to open Microsoft PowerPoint. Click on tools, options, and general tab. You will see something that says, "Link sounds with files greater than" and a box with a number. Change the number to 9999 and click okay. That should solve the problem.

Just For Fun

It's time to take your mind off of teaching and think about something else. Do you have a favorite restaurant that you like to go to on a regular basis? If you would like to find the recipes for your favorite foods from many of the best restaurants check out CopyKat. This link has recipes from places like Applebee's. Meal plannig just got easier with meals.com.

Enjoy!

A Treasure Trove for Teaching and Learning

I am so excited about the sites I just found. The first is a site where you can learn the origin of every idiom you can think of and more. Next, take a trip to the scitoys site where you will find the directions for making science toys. For example, they provide instructions for making your own 3D pictures. Can you imagine playing with time. Well, it is possible at the playing with time website. The exploratorium is another terrific site for science and math. Are there times when you need a quote but can't find it? Check out brainy quote and find a quote for almost any topic. Okay, I even have a site for computer nerds. If you want to learn any type of compuer language, check out the w3schools site.

Enjoy your journey through these sites!