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Promethe-WHAT?

Pro-ME-thee-in, that’s what!

Some of you are quick to brush this wonderful resource aside because your school or district doesn’t own Interactive Whiteboards, but WAIT!    

You can still view & use Promethean Flipcharts even if you don’t have Interactive Whiteboards!

Simply click on   to download software which will allow you to view these teacher created resources.

Then click on and either open the flipchart immediately or save it to your desktop.

“I don’t have time to find the Promethean Resources.” 

 

By utilizing netTrekker’s COLLECTIONS refinement menu, you’re able to quickly and easily browse through thousands of Promethean resources. 

 

“What kind of resources does this Promethean offer?”

These educator created flipcharts allow teachers to browse lesson plans, in multiple subjects, and incorporate into their curriculum.  Whether it’s to be used in the planning of a concept or for the students to master a concept, Promethean flipcharts will enhance any lesson.

In fact, here’s how you find one!

Under the Middle School Tab, I entered the keyword, government. 

I narrowed my results by selecting Promethean located in the Collections refinement menu. 

Scrolling down, I found the flipchart Promethean: A New Government. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                          

 

 

Tags: Integration Ideas, The Collections, Training

Collections: Quia

It’s Monday morning in the computer lab, I was just informed that the 5^th graders will be coming to the computer lab to work on their geography projects. I have 5 minutes to prepare some extra activities for those students that finish early – and for me that means it is time to find Quia activities.

Quia has created a concept that provides educators “the ability to create customized educational software online, built around their own course materials and made available to their students over the web.” Over a million educators have registered to use this service and almost 700 of these shared assessments have been catalogued in netTrekker d.i.

The Quia activities found in netTrekker d.i. span over 100 categories from Accounting to Zoology in the form of quizzes and tests including matching games, scavenger hunts, hangman, and much more. These assessments can be accessed by individual students or for whole class instruction.

I login to netTrekker d.i., click on the Middle School tab, enter the keyword geography and click search. From these 1000+ resources, it is very simple to pull out only the Quia activities by using the Quia Collection Refinement menu… I can hear them coming down the hall … I have 1 minute before they arrive in the lab… I quickly select 4 of the Quia activities, Save to My Portfolio in a folder shared in the School Portfolio… the 5^th grade class has arrived and I am ready to help them with their geography project and also direct them to some extra activities!

netTrekker d.i. has over 70 Quia resources catalogued in the Elementary section. Some of the more popular include activities to help students practice geography and map skills. Jeopardy-like games are utilized to practice reading skills for the emerging reader – by practice alphabetizing, rhyming words, and word families.

netTrekker di has over 130 Quia resources catalogued in the Middle School section. Some of the most popular include activities to help students practice matching up the World Language vocabulary. And to get students off to a good start on a research paper – have them play a challenge board game to review info needed for a research paper.

netTrekker di has over 140 Quia resources catalogued in the High School section. Some of the most popular include activities to help students review economics vocabulary. Newton’s 3 Laws of Physics can be confusing – until a student practices matching the terms with the definition.

Quia provides high-interest activities for the student by providing them with an interactive game to practice and learn skills and facts. Even though the students think that they are playing games, they will actually be learning geography!

As an added bonus by using Quia within netTrekker d.i. – you have the assistive tools for your students to use with the Quia activities – Assessments with Assistance! Dictionary HotKey provides definitions and translations for the instructions listed with the Quia activity, and for those students needing auditory support, instructions can be read to the student with the Read Aloud feature.

Tags: netTrekker, netTrekker d.i., quia

New Free Content: National Humanities Center Collection

(Note: This blog post is the first in a series of posts about nT’s collections, through which you’ll learn about netTrekker d.i.’s highly valued content partners.)

As part of netTrekker d.i.’s latest publish, three-hundred teacher resources from National Humanities Center (NHC) have been added to the Social Studies and Language Arts trees. These resources have been harvested from the NHC Toolbox Library, which offers free access to primary resources, from historical and literary texts to works of art.

Educators will benefit greatly from how these primary resources are bundled with teaching suggestions and strategies, discussion questions, and notes, all created and compiled by college professors, K-12 teachers, and NHC staff.

You can access the all of the newest NHC links by simply doing a keyword search for “National Humanities Center.”

Or, use select “National Humanities Center” in the Collections Refinement Menu to find NHC resources within keyword search results, for example, on “Native Americans” or “Civil War” or “Gilded Age.”

netTrekker’s new NHC links cover America’s beginnings, Nationalism and Sectionalism in the U.S., the Gilded Age, and African American identity.

Refine a keyword search for “African Americans” to find great NHC resources–pulled from the three-volume series “The Making of African American Identity”–just in time for Black History Month.

nT’s resources from Volume I, which covers African American history from 1500 to 1865, offer materials for study of slavery and emancipation as well as African Americans’ involvement in the Civil War and contributions to art and literature. Volume II (1865-1917) explores life for African Americans following freedom, and you’ll find a wealth of documents and related materials for studying the works of Charles W. Chesnutt and W.E.B DuBois, and for examining the institutions and political actions that shaped African American men and women in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Finally, Volume III (1917-1968) follows the further development of African American identity through years of segregation, protest, and changing perception of race in twentieth-century America. You’ll find nT links to primary documents from Marcus Garvey, Alice Walker, Malcom X, Gwendolyn Brooks, Zora Neale Hurston, Martin Luther King, Jr., and many, many others.

Tags: National Humanities Center, netTrekker, The Collections