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Information gathered and shared by Veteran Educator, Kay Jones, A.A., B.A., M.S.
ABE/GED: Computer Lab Online Resources for Wednesday, July 23, 2008

* You might want to bring your own headphones to use in the computer lab.

Developing paragraphs using details, examples, or facts ...

"Write your first draft with your heart. Re-write with your head." ~from the movie Finding Forrester

Go to the LitLink site to access this activity on writing essays. You will need to log-in with your user name and password that you created last week.

Home space ... Online lessons & practice tests ... GED Connection ... LA: Writing ... 3-6, 10: Essay

Note: This activity will take you to another website that will guide you through the entire process of writing an essay. It will take lots of time and may be something that you would rather do when you have more time, but it will be worth your time to go through this writing process.

http://litlink.ket.org/internet/writing/activity_9/keyideas.aspl

http://litlink.ket.org/internet/writing/activity_9/quiz.aspl

http://litlink.ket.org/ged_connection/writing.aspl

Elementary, but good! http://www.tustin.k12.ca.us/cyberseminar/paragraph.htm

http://writing2.richmond.edu/WRITING/wweb/paragrph.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/general/gl_essay.html

http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/606/01/

Take 2 practice writing tests:

LitLink ... Home Space ... GED Connection ... LA: Writing ... Practice Tests (at bottom of page)

http://litlink.ket.org/ged_connection/writing.aspl

Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Albert Einstein, Swiss/American 1879 - 1955

Just for fun!

View Abbott & Costello Math video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WMi5TUJDso

View, "Don Follows the Math," from NUMB3RS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G8x9EfHtpI

Get this answer right on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? to win $2,000! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJY5Z13q2LY

Ratios & Proportions

What is a ratio? Basic definition and example written 3 different ways: http://www.webmath.com/k8ratio.html

Ratios: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsPmg_Ne1po&NR=1

Learn about ratios and proportion: http://www.mathleague.com/help/ratio/ratio.htm

More about ratios and proportions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsewa_tkyIA&feature=related

Explanation, examples, and practice using ratios and proportions: http://www.purplemath.com/modules/ratio.htm

Remember to log-in to this site to get to this lesson: http://litlink.ket.org/internet/math/activity_3/index.aspl

Print your own practices on ratios and proportions: http://edhelper.com/ratios.htm

Math Olympics: http://www.mathplayground.com/olympic_math1.html

*Math Millionaire ... http://www.mathplayground.com/math_millionaire.html

You may explore other websites from our class list. If you want to take practice tests, I suggest one of these two websites:

http://steckvaughn.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/gedpractice

Note: Free registration is required to use this site. http://litlink.ket.org/