8 ways to use Kahoot! beyond the basics. This article is contributed by Mickie Mueller, Ed Tech Facilitator for Norfolk Public Schools, presenter, trainer and technology geek.
In this guest post, she will take you through a training session she designed for teachers to help them discover new ways to use Kahoot! In their classrooms. Take the Kahoot! Experience to a new level I first started using Kahoot! Some backstory: getting inspired at ISTE 2016 A few months ago, I met Kahoot! One of the sessions the Kahoot! The K! This 20-minute session got me thinking of all the new ways to use Kahoot! Kahoot! Shortly after ISTE, my colleague Becky Miller and I created Kahoot! Here’s what we covered in the session and what discussions we had around that. Getting the audience warmed up.
10 Tips For Using VoiceThread For Learning. 10 Tips For Using VoiceThread For Learning by Michelle Pacansky-Brock was first seen on gettingsmart and Edcetera.
It’s really time to put the age old arguments about online classes being dull, cold, and alienating to bed and accept that these problems are only effects of the choices made by those who design, develop, and teach the course. If you are an online instructor who is aching to break out of the social limitations of the text-based discussion forum that still dominates online courses, despite the audio and visual rich social technologies that abound, read on. Take a few minutes to step inside one of my online classes and view this clip of an interaction between me and one of my former online Art Appreciation students from a class VoiceThread activity. The excerpt you see here shows a single slide (out of many) from an online activity. Classcraft: Transforming the Classroom into a Cooperative Challenge.
Gamification can be a valuable classroom practice, and tools that purport to be worthwhile resources have flooded the market as EdTech has become a daily part of more and more students’ lives.
Unfortunately, perhaps more so than with other EdTech-based practices, gamification tools often suffer the all-too-common issue of being a screen-based facsimile of a 20th-century learning style. It is far too easy to make an “educational game” that is little more than a glorified, sparkly worksheet. Just like all instructional practices, effective gamification requires a holistic approach that entails a defined and measurable end goal with specific steps to get there. What those goals are, and the best strategies for achieving them, usually cannot be fully addressed in a “game.”
Teachers' Essential Guide to Google Classroom. What is Google Classroom?
And how are teachers using it? Learn more about this popular platform and how to use it with students. It's hard to avoid Google's most popular tools -- Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs are now staples for getting organized and getting work done. These collaboration-friendly tools have revolutionized the way we communicate, work together, and store information online. For teachers and students, the education-friendly platform Google Classroom brings the benefits of paperless sharing and digital collaboration to classrooms. 5 Ways to Use Pear Deck - Maneuvering the Middle. Using Book Creator in the Elementary Classroom. Our latest free ebook focuses on the use of Book Creator in the early years.
We’re on a roll now with our series of educational ebooks, and we have a feeling this might be the most popular one yet. This time we’ve teamed up with a vastly experienced and dedicated teacher from Canada. Karen Lirenman is an award-winning K-3 combined classroom educator, an ADE and Google Certified Educator (as well as a Book Creator Ambasssador!). She’s also the co-author of the excellent teacher resource ‘Innovate with iPad’. We’re delighted that Karen agreed to write our guide to teaching with Book Creator in the elementary classroom.
This guide is jam-packed with ideas that will spark off your own and your students’ creativity. Whether you’re new to Book Creator, or have been teaching with iPads and Chromebooks for a while, there will definitely be something in here for you. Browse through the book below: 9 New Ways to Use Flipgrid in the Classroom. The video-sharing tool Flipgrid, as we all know, is popular in schools—so popular, in so many countries, that its rapid rise been attributed to “Flipgrid Fever.”
The tool has been free for educators to use for over a year now after being acquired by Microsoft. One of the main things going for Flipgrid is its ease of use. Teachers set up an account and create grids, which act as communities for students to work in. Within each grid the teacher creates prompts called topics, and students post video responses to the prompts and replies to each other’s videos.
Most of the videos are quite short, just a minute or two long, and the tool is simple enough that kindergartners use it. 24 ways to create great classroom video with Screencastify - Ditch That Textbook. Not too long ago, video creation required bulky, awkward video cameras with big, plastic VCR tapes.
Playback required a TV, a VCR and a hope that everything worked nicely together. And video editing … well, that just wasn’t readily available to the average person. My, how things have changed. Bring Zoom into your Classroom! Top 10 Ways to Use Skype in Your Classroom.