Mining for Treasures Archives: September 2007
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27 September 2007
Concept Mapping with Gliffy
I am a visual learner. When taking notes growing up, I was forever creating boxes to hold the ideas and draw arrows to connect the ideas that were forged in classroom lectures and conversations. It is for this reason that I loved Inspiration when I first saw it back in 1990. A great [...]
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26 September 2007
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Today’s pick of a digital treasure comes from Utah State University. My own personal experiences and memories using cuisenaire rods in while in elementary school and watching our math teachers skillfully use a wide variety of manipulatives in the classroom over the past 14 years convince me that approach of teaching abstract concepts using concrete [...]
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25 September 2007
File Conversion Using Zamzar
Did you ever receive an attachment or a file from someone that you could not open because you did not have the correct application loaded on your computer? Ever need to change the file format of a video or audio file so that you could import it into another application?
If you have answered yes to [...]
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24 September 2007
The Research Project Calculator
I was made aware of this tool from Tim Wilson in his blog, the Savvy Technologist – Assignment Calculator 2.0
Both students and adults have difficulty breaking down a long-range project into smaller, more discrete steps. However, using this new online tool developed by both the Minnesota Educational Media Organization (MEMO) and MINITEX, a program [...]

