Jun 12
Many of you may know this website already, but in case not I wanted to share the Australian Rainforest Maths website by Jenny Eather. It has some of the best online interactive activities I have seen for kindy through to upper primary. Each year level includes the seven mathematics outcomes. One of the strategies promoted in the First Steps Mathematics course is giving students a variety of different learning opportunities to match each aspect. In particular using online activities to provide instantaneous feedback to the child as to whether they have the key understanding or not - if not the child can quickly try another strategy. This is one of the most under-rated bonuses of using interactive activities. It frees up the teacher to provide more guided feedback to students in need of specific assistance. The activities are easily aligned with the key understandings and could also be used as supplemental diagnostic tasks.
The website states that it contains:
“Over 800 interactive mathematics activities for Kindergarten to Year 6 covering the math strands of Number, Number Systems, Operations & Calculations, Strategies & Processes, Patterns & Algebra, Measurement, Space & Geometry, Chance & Probability, Data Analysis and Money.”
Paul
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Jun 06
Google Analytics is a great little tool that anyone can incorporate into a website to help analyse incoming data. It’s free up to 5 million page views - now that would be scary - that might just break the DC server! I’ll do weekly back-ups of our database just in case.
Anyway I’ve posted below the statistics for Digital Chalkies first day page views just for interest sake, and to show the kind of information Google Analytics provides:




Thanks to the person in Dresden for dropping by - c’mon the Socceroos. And curiously 2.33% of page views were from a non-resolving URL http://www.collaboration.det.wa.edu.au. Welcome to the collaborationists!
Paul
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Jan 21
Ever had a really long link/URL address that you have emailed someone and they haven’t been able to click on it? Or it just looks strange on a webpage?
Well TinyURL comes to the rescue, and it’s free! Here is the feedback you would get on a sample website:
The following URL:
http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2006/04/16/blo
gs_essential_to_a_good_career/?p1=MEWell_Pos3
has a length of 105 characters and resulted in the following TinyURL which has a length of 24 characters: http://tinyurl.com/hnbzt
TinyURL is a handy little web tool indeed.
Paul
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