Thinkfinity gives many links to other great teaching websites whether it be for math, history, science, you name it! Then those sites give you links to other helpful teaching sites! It's great. It also gives you news in education, interesting facts, discussions between others using the website, interactive tools and lesson plans!!
The Smithsonian website is awesome. I was really excited about this site being that I want to be a history teacher. It has a ton of awesome lesson plans that were fun, interactive, and used technology. What I found really cool was the fact that it has all of the Smithsonian artifacts online so you can view them without having to go to the museum! Another great tool. Also, it had a ton of ideas on how to incorporate the media and technology into a history lesson plan.
The only thing that is limiting about this website is that it mainly only focuses on American history, so if one was to teacher European history, they wouldn't be able to use the information given, but perhaps the teacher could look and get ideas from it.
I really don't see any flaws with the Thinkfinity site as a whole and the other websites that are linked to it. It seems overly helpful and I'm sure there was plenty that I didn't even get a chance to look at because the information just seems infinite. I will definitely be checking this site out a lot now to gain more information on it and will most likely use it in the future in my classroom.
You certainly sound enthusiastic about Thinkfinity! That's terrific! Were there particular resources or lessons you would use? Do you see yourself including any of these into your digital textbook chapter? Were the interactives designed to foster creativity or did they focus mostly on factual recall?
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