Social+Bookmarking,+Online+Whiteboards+and+Google+Docs

This presentation will feature some ways in which using technology can help provide answers when students ask the eternal question “Why do we have to do this? What am I ever going to do with this?”

Familiar objects and events that based on actual algebraic and/or geometric concepts that are included in the PA math standards will be explored.

Various technology tools that are both free and relatively easy to use will be demonstrated as lessons are created that clarify mathematical ideas that are often hazy for students. In addition to social bookmarking, software that will be used includes Google Docs, Jing and SketchUp.

Instructional products developed using this technology will appeal to the digital natives in our classrooms who are geared to watching media on an electronic screen.