Molly Hale's List: Week 3 Tech Tools for Students to Set and Track Goals

• Practice Real Math Problems On Your iPad.
  
• Middle school math teachers: supplement your lessons with an array of practice problems. This app provides math worksheets organized by specific topics to make it easy for you to choose the problems you want to assign. Students can practice, scribble, solve and learn math all by themselves.
• Math !!! by Math Pentagon has one of the largest collection of Math worksheets on iPad. It is a structured math learning program that engages students by letting them practice math worksheets, complete exercises & assignments on iPad. Teachers can capture student performance data, review and understand student progress - thereby saving time, paper, money and enhancing productivity.
• This app covers several Math topics for Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7 and Grade 8. The course content includes Algebra, Geometry, Statistics, Decimals, Fractions, Percent, Ratios, Proportion, Trigonometry, Arithmetic and more.
  
• Download Link : http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/math-!!!/id467548534?mt=8

3 more annotations...

• Wiggio: Group Collaboration Made Simple
• Are you a multitasker and are you currently a part of several groups? Are you frustrated by the countless amount of time and effort spent in reading group emails, Facebook group updates, phone calls, and text messages? Do you want a solution to ease your frustration and facilitate better group collaboration?
• That was what the folks at Cornell University thought. So they sat down, dumped all their thoughts, time and technical expertise into a magic pot, said “abracadabra”, and out came Wiggio. Or so it seams. Wiggo is an easy to use, full-fledged web solution for group collaboration, one that just might be what you need to make your team collaboration really work without overwhelming everyone.
• Wiggio touts itself as the easiest and free way to work in groups.

• Features

   

  Wiggio comes bundled with a plethora of features that provides you with everything you would need for group collaboration. Let’s take a look at each of them.

• Schedule Meetings

   

  One of the best features of Wiggio, and one that sets it apart from others, is the ability set up conference calls, virtual meetings and chatrooms. For conference calls, Wiggio uses Rondee, a free conference call service. You can also create private text chatrooms between multiple participants. Combine these together with other enhancements such as video and audio conferencing, sharing your screen with other participants in a conference and you’ve got yourself a Virtual Meeting. Then, much like GTalk or Campfire, Wiggio lets you search through your chat history, so your conversations won’t be forgotten the second you’ve said goodbye.

• To Do Lists

   

  Wiggio acts as an excellent group task manager. You can create and manage To Do Lists via Wiggio to keep track of assignments, tasks and milestones. Using the To Do Lists, you can easily assign tasks to individuals in your group, set due dates, etc. Wiggio may not be a big player in terms of project management like other websites destined for that purpose, but it is more than enough for managing small projects.

• Wiggio Poll

   

  A feature that I like in Wiggio is the ability to create polls. Wiggio polls can be used to gather opinions from group members on a particular topic, take a survey, etc. Wiggio allows you to create polls consisting of three types of questions, viz, Yes/No questions, Multiple Choice questions, Open Response questions. You can invite an entire group to take part in the poll or invite specific members within and outside a group.

• Events

   

  If you want to hold a meeting or a party, you can schedule it via Wiggio. Wiggio serves as an easy way to invite people to your events. Combine it with a Wiggio Poll and you can schedule a group meeting based on their feedback. Event scheduling configuration options include specifying date and time, remainder options, etc.

• Wiggio Message Utility

   

  You can use Wiggio to send messages to your friends via text messages or e mails. You can also record an audio or video message and send it via Wiggio. You need to give your mobile number in your profile to be able to receive the text messages send by your Wiggio group members.

• Final Thoughts

   

  Wiggio is an excellent tool for group collaboration. While it may not perform better at a specific task as other web apps dedicated for that task, as a whole, Wiggio is worth trying out and certainly easy to use. It puts everything together in one place, and the time you’ll save by not having to jump back and forth between different apps just might seal the deal.

9 more annotations...