5.+Tutorials

· Chris Mahar- Tutorial · [] · This website is specifically designed for students who need extra help in math and it is for ages to use. There is a lot of helpful information such as cheat sheets for all levels of math. The person running the site is a math professor at Lamar University. I think the site is well done and would likely be used by myself if I were having trouble in my math class. Their all very detailed orientated sections and gives a lot of examples on how to do the problems. It would be a good site for teachers to use with their students for extra help and extra instruction. I don’t think that this site should replace the importance of the teacher, but can be used as a tool to give the student’s an edge.
 * Submit your examples of tutorials here - PLEASE DO NOT CHOOSE TUTORIALS ON MICROSOFT SOFTWARE (such as Word, Powerpoint, Publisher, Excel, etc - most schools provide those to teachers). Choose tutorials on software, or how-tos on educational software, or if you have questions, check pages 215-216 in your text if you have questions related to tutorials. Please be sure that your submission contains your name, website title and address (hyperlinked), and at least a 100 word review of tutorials (see ** ****submission example**** **with questions). **

Alex Roberts Microsoft Education [] This website is great and beneficial because it provides information on what’s going on in the education world, and gives you advice on how to create lesson plans and other great information. I think it is beneficial because there is always something new happening in the educational world and this website keeps you up to date on what is going on. It also gives you advice on how to create great lesson plans, which is always a big help, I think if someone is trying to give you advice on how to become a better teacher you should probably listen, and that is what this website does!

Eric Greiner – Free Tutorials, Guides, and How to’s [] This website has many different options for teachers and anyone who needs assistance when working with technology. The main reason I chose this site is because it has many different tutorials on things besides Microsoft tools and programs. This site has tutorials on adobe workshops and on podcasts. It also has stuff for running LCD projectors. It also has your more basic tutorials such as Microsoft word and other programs like that. This could be a very good resource for teachers who struggle with technology and need a helping hand to figure out certain products and programs to help with teaching in a more innovated way.

Jagdeep Kang-Math Kalusa [|http://www.mathkalusa.com] This website gives tutorials for students who need that extra help with math. This could be because in school the teacher may not be explaining things clear enough or if the pace of the class is going too fast for the student to keep up. Math-teacher explains each concept of the mathematic problem step by step. This website also analyzes and detects common mistakes and provides more focused help to the student. At the end of each lesson there are also a number of problems that the student is required to solve, this helps the student become more aware if they understand the material or not.

Marissa Green- Free Tutorials Lessons in Mathematics Education. [] This website provides several helpful activities to help young students that need help in math. It provides examples, equations, and formulas that should different ways to solve. Math tutorials show that there are more helpful than regular math textbooks. They even go as far as to supply examples that math tutorials are better than mathematic books. If you need help in math or need to brush on your problem solving skills than this website is what you need to help you. The website has algebra, geometry and many more subjects of math to help you in any area that you need assisted in.

Jeffrey Bennett- Ahead tutorial and Review [] This site I thought was very interesting from the start. When you go to the site chat bubbles appear explaining about a few features about the site such as the toolbar on the bottom. The site is very organized for people to navigate through. On the main page it has helpful tips for students and parents as well as articles about other interesting topics. They have many tutorials available for almost any subject and it also has programs that you can take based on what kind of student you are. It then recommends how long one should be in it based on the grade level.

Daniel Schwartz- psd tutsplus
 * http://psd.tutsplus.com/articles/web/50-great-photoshop-tutorials-for-clever-beginners/
 * This webpage features 50 tutorials that highlight specific effects one can create in adobe photo shop. In this day and age where the digital media reigns supreme over all other media; I feel that it is important for teachers and students alike to know how to use this form of software. Not only does it give individuals the ability to edit pictures for school, but also is useful later in life. These tutorials highlight some of the more common or interesting effects one can generate in photo shop. Even if one were to not embrace the idea of adding creativity to pictures, its still a useful thing to have in your tool box of skills.

Jordan Shifflett - How It Works
 * @http://www.govtilr.org/R_tutorials.htm
 * This website is a collection of tutorials for teachers. It teaches educators how work the basic educational software on most school computers. It shows how to use Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point Presentation, and many other commonly found programs on most school computers. Each category such as Microsoft Word, Excel, etcetera, all have five or six links to other websites that have tutorials for the same subject. This allows a teacher to be able to use different sources if one source was not very precise on certain subjects. This site is a database for all educational technology problems a teacher might run into. The site also offers links to other sites teachers can use to download educational software for their students.

Kellie Yanek- Technology Turtorials [] This site gives software tutorials how to use tools so teachers can stay up to date on technology. It gives step to step instructions for software, hardware, applications, web tools operating systems, and collections. For example, if a teacher were to just be use to using Microsoft computers that run with windows and then become a teacher at a school that only has Apple computers, a teacher can come to this site and get a step to step tutorial of how to run and use Macintosh software. Also an English teacher would find this site very helpful because it gives great instructions how to use Inspirations, which is a program to help students draft and create webs for an essay.

Shannon Grover- Vocational Information Center [] This website is a collaboration of many different tutorials for children and adults. I like that this site gives you access to so many different options and by doing that it also appeals to many different styles of learning by including games, videos, audio books, flash cards, and many other resources. The drawback to this might be that there are so many options to choose from that it may be hard to find the kind of tutoring you are looking for. Also, some of the sites may cost money to access. Overall, though, I feel like this site would be very helpful in finding resources for online tutoring.

Carlyn Seeman- Learn Spanish @http://www.studyspanish.com/ This website is to help students that want to learn to speak fluent Spanish. Tutorial websites are sites that help you through the process of learning a certain topic through exercises and practice tests. On this website you can listen to Spanish speaking teachers say the words aloud so you can get the feel of what it is supposed to sound like. There is also the option of doing practice quizzes on Spanish verbs, vocabulary, and other grammar components to get better knowledge of the different tenses and recognition of words. This website would be especially helpful for students in Spanish classes in high school to use for extra practice before quizzes and exams.

Kristyn McCarty-w3schools [] This website shows you how to create your very own website. You can choose from a variety of different things such as: HTML Tutorials, browser scripting, XML Tutorials, server scripting, web services, multimedia, and web building. Not only does it have a variety of things that you can choose from it also has examples that you can look at to get an idea as to how you want your website to look. There are also quizzes you can take on this web page and many other things. This website was created to help you learn how to make a website. It offers many web development technologies. Another thing that it offers is an online certificate program. You can become certified in many different web topics. Many of these tutorials come in book form. There is also a try it yourself editor where you can experiment with many of the different web development technologies which are mentioned above. For example, if you click on XML Files you can see a simple example; view the same XML file with an error, a plant catalog, food menu, and many other things. It is very beneficial to teachers because they can learn simple techniques as to how to build your own web page. It demonstrates simple steps and tasks as to how to complete the building your webpage process. Since I didn’t mention this before this is a free webpage that can be accessed by anyone.

Chanec Fink - Algebasics

@http://www.algebasics.com/3way1.html

The online tutorial that I chose is alebasics. This tutorial allows students to go and examine math problems ranging from basic algebra to quadratic equations. As I browsed this website i found I very helpful, and feel students struggling with math would benefit from this webpage. They would be able to benefit from this webpage becasue for each section there is a list made up of several different examples to chose from, and students could find a similar problm and learn how to complete the problem by explaining it step by step. I would suggest this to students who seem to be struggling in class so that they will be able to understand how to work the problems out step by step

Sarah Fairburn- The Biology Project: Cell Body [] This site would be very helpful for teachers who have students that need a little more assistance with a lesson of this sort. This could also be used just for a class itself if a teacher feels that they would like to have the whole class participate in something like this. This site includes many different links to different sections of the site which explain a certain concept to the students. There are also links within the page that further define what the lesson is about. Also towards the bottom of the main page, there are links to outside sources that will help the students understand the lesson better.

Tori Fraher- Digital Photography Tutorials [] A lot of art classes are using more and more digital photography, but when a student or teacher is not very familiar with cameras and pictures it may be kind of hard. Well this Digital Photography cite is a perfect way to learn a little more and will give teachers some incite to things they might not have known. It starts with the basics of a camera then each part down the page gets a little more difficult lastly they have advanced topics. The teacher could use this cite when he/she wants to show examples of before and after pictures, or use it to explain the terminology of a word.

Brandon Campbell-GIMP Tutorials

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This is a website showing some tutorials on how to edit your own photos, for those who hate text and want a photo…but just don’t know how to make it look cool, such as myself. This site provides almost every tutorial you need to become an expert, and has even divided the tutorials into categories such as: “Beginner”, “Intermediate”, and “Expert”, for when you get that good at it. There’s even tutorials for photo editing. So, if you even need to create a logo, or edit a photo to upgrade it from “okay” to “superb”, use these tutorials. They’ll teach you just about everything you need to know, and then some.

Molly O’Shea – Discovery Education Tutorials [] These online tutorials give great examples of how to improve skills from every subject. When you click on the tutorial that you want to watch you and the video pops up. Not only do they give a description about what the students will be learning but they also give the ranges of grades that this will be beneficial for. The tutorial move slow enough that the students can pay attention and get the information that they need from the video. As a student I I learn better when I can actually see things being done. This can help students that are also visual learners like me and still be beneficial to the other students at the same time.

Emily Davis- Generator- 1,2,3 Your Webquests for Free- Aula Siglo XXI
 * @http://www.aula21.net/Wqfacil/webeng.htm
 * This websites offers a free and easy way for teachers to set up their own Webquests. The website is very easy to follow and gives good directions that any teacher can understand. It covers everything in a few simple steps and a teacher can put whatever they want to and they are not limited to a certain website or certain information. They can even choose their own text and color. They can add their own pictures, and then put their instruction for the Webquests in their own directions that their students will understand. Teachers can also include their own websites they want the students to get information from, and they are not limited to only a few websites but up to at least spots for websites. It makes it easy for the teachers to post the Webquests and easy for the students to find it.

Brad Mandarino – Bob Bowman’s List for Online Tutorials

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Tutorials can be very helpful and effective when trying to learn a specific thing. This site provides links to many tutorials that can walk a student or teacher through anything step by step. Using to tutorials to learn can be very helpful because they give specific instructions or directions on what one might need to know. Teachers are able to use these tutorials in ways that are fun and exciting for students. Sometimes tutorials can act as a teacher’s aide if teachers aren’t always sure about something. They also provide students with the opportunity to actively participate in learning. This site is a good resource to almost any subject matter.

Rachel Senior – Math Goodies

@http://www.mathgoodies.com/lessons/decimals/read_write.html

Math Goodies is a good resource website for students who are struggling with understanding mathematic concepts, and is a excellent reference to supplement their textbook and classroom instruction by repetition in a fun and accessible format. Math Goodies provides examples, definitions, exercises, and quizzes. Their math lessons actively engage students in grades five to eight by incorporating games, puzzles, and other interactive lessons. Students can learn about decimals, fractions, percentages, integers, and much more through this website. The site is also helpful for students who need remediation in areas such as pre-algebra, statistics, graphing, and probability. All of the lessons are also available on CD's.

CJ Stewart

Wikispace tutorials [] Though not affiliated with the wikispaces site this web site contains several useful tutorials. The site offers a variety of tutorials in a variety of formats: from a brief written explanation of how to get asterisk to show up to video tutorials on how to create rounded corner content boxes. These tutorials are nice for those who wish to add a little bit more to their wiki spaces and are looking for a specific feature. I would only recommend this site to a dabbler who doesn’t have web programming experience those with experience in javascript, php or other web coding will find that these scripts can be used within a wiki.


 * Camille Dobbins
 * http://www.wise.k12.va.us/alted/SOL/sol.htm#ENGLISH_TUTORIAL_SITES
 * This website is awesome because it gives a ton of tutorials for many subjects. One problem is that some of the tutorials don’t work, so it would be necessary to try each one before presenting it to a class. Some of the tutorials were very graphic too. For example, the one where the students are able to do brain surgery is a little bit difficult and kind of disgusting. With any tutorial, a teacher should do a full run through to make sure that it is appropriate and it applies to the lesson. Some of the tutorials also may not be applicable to each grade level.