E-Learning Resource Extravaganza!!!

This week we held a 'mini expo' conference to share all the great e-learning resources that are available to us as teachers, to help us navigate through the maze of e-resources...

The conference was designed to entice the participants to look up our online reviews however, a lot of what was shared in the conference fulfilled my queries about the programs available and felt that there was no need to go and look up the reviews as the reasons why the resources are (or aren’t) meaningful was already shared…

Some of the programs or websites that I think looked promising to use in the classroom are:

Abracadabra             

SignPost Maths         

smART Kids          

Operation Neptune

Wonderful Words

Mendel’s Magic Maths Market

Mathletics

Reading Eggs

A plus to most of these programs available are that they are free. It is debatable on how meaningful the learning experience is when using some of them but I think that the programs are headed in the right direction...

All in all it was a good experience to get us pre-service teachers in analyzing the meaningfulness of programs and sharing our findings. As well as looking at teaching approaches that allow students to be in control of learning and us teachers…’the guides on the side’!!!

Thank you to all those involved in our mini conference...

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