Kategoria BISAC: Computers >> Educational Software

With twice as much to teach and twice as much testing, finding the time to do it all is a challenge for every teacher. These timesaving tips help you make the most of every precious minute.

Quick assessment techniques that speed up grading of papers

How to map ideas into useable projects

Easy rubrics accurately assess projects and presentations

Web search techniques for fast fact-gathering

Organize existing resources for maximum use

Discover how Inspiration, Internet Explorer, RubiStar, Google, and other programs can pump up productivity in any classroom."

This volume presents a process for developing expert systems. As the field of instructional technology matures it is becoming clear that technological process, not technological devices, is the single most important factor in designing effective instruction. Computers as devices are helpful, but their primary advantage may be the discipline placed on thinking and design processes by using them. The process used when examining a problem determines the quality of information entered into a program and the ultimate effectiveness of the solution. The process in this volume is intended for...

This volume is for those interested in methods and tools for improving the development of educational hypermedia on a large scale. Interactive multimedia or hypermedia is one of the technologies which is most influencing the educating and training of people. This book shows how coordination and reuse pertain to the development of courseware, which provides new opportunities and challenges to researchers, practitioners, and designers from disciplines such as computer science, education, library science, communication and psychology.

Every chapter in the widely distributed first edition has been updated, and four new chapters on current issues such as connectivism and social software innovations have been added. Essays by practitioners and scholars active in the complex, diverse, and rapidly evolving field of distance education blend scholarship and research; practical attention to the details of teaching and learning; and mindful attention to the economics of the business of education.

This book helps teachers, librarians, and technologists apply 21st-century strategies at every level and in every content area

Primary Source Teaching the Web 2.0 Way, K-12 offers dozens of helpful tools:

A comprehensive listing of popular Web 2.0 tools

An extensive state-by-state bibliography of primary source collections online

A sample permission letter to parents to introduce a 21st century primary source unit

In-depth chapters on six different primary source categories

Primary source analysis tools for each category

Six "Web 2.0 Focus" sections offering...

Partial Differential Equations and Boundary Value Problems with Maple, Second Edition, presents all of the material normally covered in a standard course on partial differential equations, while focusing on the natural union between this material and the powerful computational software, Maple.

The Maple commands are so intuitive and easy to learn, students can learn what they need to know about the software in a matter of hours - an investment that provides substantial returns. Maple's animation capabilities allow students and practitioners to see real-time displays of the...

This seminal work on what literacy truly means in the 21st century is filled with big, meaningful ideas. The purpose of this book is not to replace the three Rs, but to expand them to a model for literacy that applies to classrooms which are shape-shifting under the pressures of converging conditions. This is a must-read for all educators

Exposes meaning from global interactive, multimedia, and electronic cybraries

Employs information for solving challenges and constructing information

Express ideas compellingly and fluently through technology to a diverse audience

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