A StarrMatica Valentine’s Day Giveaway!
Posted on : 14-02-2011 | By : InteractiveEducator | In : General
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Read below to learn how you could have a chance to win a 1-year StarrMatica Classroom Membership valued at $300!
· Do you spend too much time getting your interactive lessons ready?
· Is your interactive whiteboard used less often than it could be because you don’t have time to create content?
· Do you wish you had lessons already prepared to be used on your interactive whiteboard?
StarrMatica is in the business of making your life easier. If you’re a teacher, busy, and have interactive whiteboards, StarrMatica’s got your back with a solution made by a teacher for teachers.
StarrMatica is a Prometheus award winning educational publishing company founded, owned and operated entirely by teachers on a mission to help fellow educators transform their classrooms with technology.
StarrMatica’s main focus is an online library of over 3,800 K-6 reading, math, and science simulations, animations, activities, games and assessments searchable by grade, topic, National Core Curriculum, state standards and textbook curriculums. StarrMatica is used on every brand of interactive technology by thousands of teachers and students every day.
Visit the StarrMatica Kids page to check out a sample of StarrMatica’s activities or sign up for a one week free trial to get a taste of what StarrMatica offers and how useful this membership could be for your classroom.
Contest Rules
1. Leave a comment on this post stating how you would use a StarrMatica Classroom Membership to enhance instruction or students’ learning.
2. To receive TWO additional entries, leave a comment (a copy is fine) on the Giveaway Posts on StarrMatica Learning Systems Facebook Page and on Interactive Whiteboard Insights Blog.
3. The winner will be randomly chosen and announced here on Monday, February 28th.
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Good luck!
I love the idea of having a database of ready to use interactive lessons. Our school is slowly placing whiteboards into each class. Some teachers are intimidated by the idea of having to create content to use on them, so I would love to be able to refer them to something like this to boost their interest in using the boards. I teach in the computer lab, but often have to try and prod teachers to try out various technologies. I think our teachers would love a membership like this.
Here is why I would like to win Starrmatica for my classroom (to the tune of “If You’re Happy and You Know It”)
RtI, en-rich-ment, even core
RtI, en-rich-ment, even core
How I wish we would win
How I wish we would win
Starrmatica
That makes learning fun!
I wouldn’t like to count the hours I have spent searching for online activities to complement the content standards I teach my 4th graders, because I know it would make me mad! So, having access to a database of activities from StarrMatica would be a great time saver, and it would undoubtedly allow me to more fully integrate technology into my lessons. I know that it would be great on the SMART board for whole class and small group work, and I think that it would open up new learning opportunities for my students that they may not otherwise be exposed to.
This would definitely be a resource to put the IWB into the hands of the students. After initially using my IWB for a lot of “teacher” centered instruction just to get to know the software, I’m now focusing on finding materials to get students using it interactively and in particular, I would use it for remedial instruction of math concepts.