Professor: Deborah Bridges Description: Fundamentals of Public Speaking refines students’ listening and verbal/nonverbal skills, essential to effective communication. In addition to developing and delivering informative and persuasive speeches, students will assess both peer and guest speaker performances to sharpen critiquing skills. Students will further demonstrate competence in the incorporation of technology used in professional presentations.
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These online math tutorials are free from Lawrence Spector. He offers:
- Skill in Arithmetic – A complete course
- Plane Geometry
- Skill in Algebra
- Topics in Trigonometry
- Topics in Precalculas
- An Approach to Calculus
- The Evolution of the Real Numbers
Access them all at The Math Page
Tags: free curriculum, Mathematics
Curriki is an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of world-class educational materials to anyone who needs them. Our name is a play on the combination of ‘curriculum’ and ‘wiki’ which is the technology we’re using to make education universally accessible.
These are some nifty online tools to play with and learn from from cool school
Tags: games, homeschool freebies
Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children Second Edition (Paperback) looks like a wonderful resource. Here is part of a review from Amazon about it:
“Covering from prehistoric art to computer art, this information-packed book is filled with lessons, stories to share, and journal, art and drama activities to engage children. Each chapter includes sections devoted to standards-aligned curriculum connections and lists of annotated book selections.”–Curriculum Connections
You can also “search inside the book” at Amazon. I explored the index and think it looks like it might offer some great resource for anyone wanting to explore art history.
Art in Story: Teaching Art History to Elementary School Children Second Edition (Paperback) by Marianne C. Saccardi
Tags: Art history, homeschool resources
Spellquizzer is software created by Dan Hite. He offers a free trial download so I tested it out. I thought the “quiz me on the list” was the most fun. The gentleman reads a sentence and then asks you to spell a word within the sentence.
Here is a quick shot of what it looks like:
They also offer a free downloadable holiday spelling lists here.
If you want to give this program a try, visit Spellquizzer and download the free trial.
Tags: homeschool resources, Spelling
