COMPUTER SOFTWARES AND WEB BROWSER APPS
FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

You are about to explore a collection of effective computer software, interactive web browsers, and mobile/tablet apps that work well with teaching and learning in Math and Science courses that is intended for the use of teachers on their daily lessons or simply a reinforcement for students’ learning. I have also included some apps that can be used by teachers for organizing their class and some useful weblinks for future references. These educational technologies are very helpful especially for teaching in an English language environment with diverse students (most specifically with Chinese students).
 
This resource depot is a product of my keen interest and passion in teaching Math. With the help of my classmates across the world who shared some unique ideas through online discussion about educational technology, I have read and explored further about this concern through the use of internet, books, research papers, and professional learning communities. I have selected and compiled these educational technologies that have been proven to influence students’ understanding of specific course concepts that makes teachers instructions more effective, making it more valuable and conducive for the type of learners that we have.
 
By sharing this resource depot, I hope that it will help and enlighten some teachers to appreciate the integration of technology into educational practice. I believe that through using educational technology, we, educators can bring out the best of every learner and prepare them to become global-minded citizens.
 
(Note: Please click each button below for further details.)

MOBILE/TABLET APPS

PLECO is a Chinese-English translation app that you can use to look up unknown Chinese words and serve as a dictionary. It has a recorded audio for Mandarin words, with speech synthesizer and store flashcards for vocabulary lists.
DESMOS is a browser application and a mobile/tablet app that allows any users to graph different kinds of equations. It works for Apple products or Android gadgets. It is very helpful to visualize graphing transformation and reflect on changes of the graph every time the values change, and how adding and subtracting a value to an equation affect the visual display of the graph. It is a free online app which is ready available on your phone or in your computer. You can also save and edit your graphs in your computer anytime if you logged in and saved your data.  
GEOGEBRA is a computer math software for drawing geometric figures and graphing equations that is designed to bridge some learning gaps among geometry, algebra, and calculus areas in Math. 
EVERNOTE is app that allows you to change the way you organize your personal and professional projects wherein you can take notes, create to-do lists, ideas, inspirations, images, and save things you made in your phone or computer.
PINTEREST is collection of ideas in media form that can be group into boards according to your intesterest. It's a good tool for gathering highlighted/important ideas, especially about teaching ideas that everyone finds interesting and useful.

WEB BROWSERS / INTERACTIVES

MATH

This courseware is intended for students who have studied or are currently studying the Advanced Functions and Pre-Calculus. ​Students will extend their understanding of rates of change to include the derivatives of polynomial, rational, exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions; and they will apply these to the modelling of real-world relationships. Integral calculus and its applications will be introduced. Students will solve problems involving vectors and lines and planes in three-space.
A free, open and online teaching and learning platform covering the concepts from Grade 12 Advanced Functions (Pre-Calculus) and Grade 12 Calculus and Vectors from University of Waterloo.
An interactive dictionary recommended for kids and/or English Language learners.
A list of Math interactives designed by National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.

SCIENCE COURSES

An interactive food chain game for kids. Learners can arrange organisms according to their food and label them correctly. THis can be a good assessment tool as well.
An interactive from National Geographic that enables you to calculate human footprint in your daily use of selected materials.
This website contains a collection of interactives about motion, designed for high school Physics. These interactives are functional on mobile phones, tablets, Chhrombooks, laptops, and dekstop devices. 
This is a list of interactive simulations for  Grade 11-12 Chemistry.
An online resource about Atmosphere that contains online textbook, interactive lab, visuals, videos, and lesson plans.

MEDIA SOFTWARES

Please click on the button and it will lead you to its introduction and the basics of how to use software. Some links have quick tutorial or support for beginners.

OTHER EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Moodle is a learning platform designed to provide educators, administrators and learners with a single robust, secure and integrated system to create personalised learning environments.  It is developed on pedagogical principles used for blended learning, distance education, flipped classroom, and other e-learning projects in schools, universities, workplaces, and other sectors (Moodle website).
A tool that can be used in collecting, organizing, and analyzing datas and information. You can create formative and summative assessments, surveys, and even invitations.

TEACHERS' BANK

Instructional math videos by lessons.
Tailored activities for teachers' use in class. Webquest is based on project-based and problem based approach that is centered on research inquiry.
A public collection of ICT lessons from the Halifax Regional School Board that might be helpful for teachers in Nova Scotia school programs.
The Math Recource Centre is intended to provide students and parents with supplementary lessons relating of the Foundations & PreCalculus Math 10.
Mathematics 10C: Explained is an animated online resource that supports the visual learning of mathematics. The entire curriculum is covered with 17 hours of animations spanning 29 lessons. All content is provided free of charge. Teachers may photocopy and distribute the lessons and practice exams.
An archive of video clips for Biology lecture and laboratory.
This flash shows the hydrologic cycle or how water evaporates, travels into the air and becomes part of a cloud, falls down to earth as precipitation, and then evaporates again. 
An interactive lesson about heat transfer - convection, conduction, and radiation.

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