In the school at which I teach we have eighty minute class periods. Eighty minutes is a long time for anyone, let alone teenagers, to stay in one room and on task. Therefore, I break up the time with varied activities and "break times" during the eighty minutes. One tool that can help to get the students and me to not stretch the "break times" is to use a countdown timer. Online Stopwatch is a free website that gives you the choice of a stopwatch function or a countdown function. You can set the countdown timer for any length of time and an alarm sounds when time is up.
Applications for Education
Display the Online Stopwatch countdown timer on an LCD projector to keep yourself and your students aware of how much time they have left for their "break time." Make sure you plug-in your speaker so that everyone can hear the alarm when time has expired.
Monday, August 3, 2009
A Simple Time Management Tool
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That one will come in handy in my kindergarten class. It will expose the students to numbers both, increasing and decreasing, place value, time, and time management.
Great tool! Our teachers use it so much in the classroom during the year that the students are comfortable with it during standardized testing in the spring. They use it for timed writing pieces, seat work, group work etc. Thanks for sharing.
ThanX for this hint. Here you find an alternative
http://www.teachit.co.uk/index.asp?CurrMenu=350
which offers you the countdown function. The advantage is that it works offline.
I use this ALL the time in my 7th & 8th Grade classes! My students use it when they are doing an oral presentation to help them keep to their time. I use it for timed tests. It's a terrific tool! Thanks for sharing!
If you’d like a tool for managing your time and projects, you can use this application inspired by David Allen’s GTD:
http://www.Gtdagenda.com
You can use it to manage and prioritize your goals, projects and tasks, set next actions and contexts, use checklists, schedules and a calendar.
A mobile version is available too.
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