The Essential 3 App Classroom Solution – Showbie This is the first in a series of blog posts written by Apple Distinguished Educator, Trainer, and Showbie Champion, Joe Moretti. Schools looking for an effective implementation of technology to enhance their teaching and learning often fail to establish a clear base line of operation for the technology. In response to this, I developed a 3 app strategy as a bottom line for minimum effective use of technology in the learning space. The diagram below shows the minimum triangle of effective use of technology. Broadly speaking: concepts need to be introduced or taught, work needs to be set and content produced with a feedback mechanism available throughout the process. I use Book Creator throughout the different year groups — even up to exam class age — for content creation. Explain Everything is a powerful, easy-to-use whiteboard tool. Showbie sits within this framework as the digital hub for any classroom activity. A great new feature that has been added to Showbie is Groups.
18 Great Google Apps for Education Posters to Use With Students July 3, 2016 As we were browsing Mindshift’s ’15 Tech Tool Favorites from ISTE 2016’ we came across this wonderful resource created and shared by Monica Martinez from EdTechTeam. This is basically a collection of interesting visuals and posters covering different GAFE related apps and tips including: Chrome tips, Google tools, Google Street view, Google Docs tips, iPad tips, top 10 Google Apps, GAFE efficient workflow and many more. These posters are available for free and some of them are also available in other languages like French and Spanish. These resources will definitely help you make the best of GAFE in your instruction and ultimately leverage the potential of technology in education. The posters are available in a Google Drive folder which you can add to your Drive account in which case you will receive automatic updates each time Monica adds a resource. Enjoy
How to use Google tools in Project-Based Learning When you think about some of the key features of Project-Based Learning (PBL), what do you think of? PBL should be student-driven, with a real-world connection. It should be core to learning, include structured collaboration, and have a multifaceted assessment. Giving students a real problem to solve, getting them engaged in their work, having them work with others, and assessing their work with more than just a grade sounds a lot like how many things in the ‘real world’ work, doesn’t it? After all, aren’t we trying to prepare students for the world after school? Many of the tech tools used in classrooms are made especially for classrooms. Google tools and project based learning Planning: Where do you start when deciding on a project your students will spend significant time on, have some say in, that will address a number of learning goals and be meaningful and relevant? Inquiry: Once you’ve decided what the students will be focusing on, they’ll need more information on the topic.
Herramientas para educación: esto es lo que nos trae Google Google ha lanzado algunas mejoras en las herramientas para educación que ofrece, dirigidas tanto a profesores como a alumnos. ¿Las conoces? Llegan novedades por parte de Google en sus herramientas para educación, con la intención de beneficiar tanto a alumnos como a profesores. Para el gigante de Internet, la tecnología puede ayudar a los profesores en lo que mejor hacen. Aplicación Expeditions para todos En septiembre de 2015 Google lanzó el programa Expeditions Pioneer Program. La app Expeditions puede ser utilizada con muchos dispositivos que escuelas y alumnos ya tienen. Nueva app: Google Cast for Education Compartir información en la gran pantalla de la clase ayuda a los estudiantes a aprender unos de otros. Tests en los formularios de Google Conseguir feedback ayuda a los estudiantes a aprender y a los profesores a estudiar. Los profesores pueden ahora marcar las respuestas correctas en los formularios. Nuevas aplicaciones creativas en Chromebooks
The periodic table of education technology We had a crazy idea over the weekend here at Daily Genius. What if we organized all the top education technology tools into a simple graphic? Then we took it a step further by identifying some of the best ways to organize data into a single visual. What you see below is the result of quite a bit of effort from the editors of Daily Genius as well as the community. Want to get weekly edtech tips and deals? We worked hard to make sure these are all our favorite conferences and products. We’ll be updating this a couple times a year to ensure it’s as relevant as possible. Download The Periodic Table Of Education Technology Click here to download the PDF version of the periodic table of education technology. The amazing Kathy Schrock made a clickable PDF version of the graphic! Want to enlarge the image below?
3 Very Good Tools to Annotate Web Content Here are some good Chrome extensions to use on your Chromebook to annotate webpages. You can use them to highlight portion of a web text, add your comments and tags, share annotated pages with others via social media websites or through generated links, organize your notes by tags and many more. And for those of you using Evernote, we have added Evernote Web Clipper which is a Chrome add-on to help you save things you come across online right to your Evernote account. Enjoy 1- Diigo Web Collector This is by far our favourite in this list. 2- Note Anywhere Note Anywhere is a great note taking tool to use on your browser. This is definitely a wonderful Chrome extension to use for curating and annotating web content.
Some of The Best Windows Apps for Teachers Similar to Mac Apps for Teachers, Educational Windows Apps is a resource section we created last year to help teachers using Windows in their instruction find and access educational Windows apps. We haven’t published a lot in there yet but we are planning to invest more time in Windows apps store this year. However, if you are looking for some good educational Windows apps to start with, the collection below features some of the most popular Windows apps among teachers and educators. Duolingo is a great web tool and mobile app for learning a new language. 2- iMath ‘iMath is designed to help children under the age of 12 to improve math ability and develop interests in mathematics. iMath has beautiful GUI, it can help you to improve your math skill.’ 3- Khan Academy ‘Our Windows app is the best way to view Khan Academy’s complete library of over 6000 videos on your Windows device. 4- Wunderlists: To-Do List & Tasks 6- MathQuiz 7- Lesson Plan Manager 8- Essay Marker 10- Markbook
50 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers 50 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers by TeachThought Staff What are the best free apps for teachers? That’s a pretty general and subjective idea. For iOS, Android, or Windows Phone? To say that there is a lot to consider is an understatement. That said, we’ve taken a wide-lens view of the modern teacher and taken a stab at what might be considered 50 of the best really, truly actually free apps available for iOS. While we do look at music, health tracking apps, and other teachers-as-a-human-being apps, we focus mostly on the kinds of digital content that will help you teach more effectively to a wider range of students in more compelling and dynamic ways than ever before. 50 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers
15 Good iPad Apps for Students Projects and Real World Learning February 11, 2017 Here is a collection of some very good iPad apps students can use in their classroom projects. The apps, which are curated from Apple's Real World Learning collection, are geared towards enhancing a number of key skills that include: creative thinking, design skills, literacy skills, coding, and many more. Some of the things students can accomplish using these applications include: create beautiful ebooks to share with others; create visual sketches to record notes; design educational video clips, screencasts and presentations; capture and organize ideas in diagrams and mind maps. 1- Book Creator ‘Book Creator is the simple way to make your own beautiful ebooks, right on your iPad. ‘Paper is the best way to capture and connect your notes, photos, and sketches. 3- iMovie ‘iMovie lets you enjoy your videos and tell stories like never before. 4- Adobe Spark Video ‘Spark Video helps anyone create compelling animated videos in minutes. 5- Haiku Deck 6- ScratchJr 8- Green Screen
NEW! Google Classroom: Individual Student View - Teacher Tech I get asked this a lot “Alice, can you see all the work one student has done in Google Classroom?” YOU CAN NOW! Students Tab Click on the Students tab in Google Classroom to view your class roster. Click on any students name to view their work. Work Page Clicking on the student’s name on the roster opens that student’s work page. Hold Down Control and Click on Assignment TIP! Student View As always, student view is different than teacher view. Students can also find the work icon on the About tab. List of Work Students can quickly see what work is missing along with if their teacher has left them a comment. Copyright secured by Digiprove © 2017
30 essential iPad Apps for the paperless classroom – ICTEvangelist I make no apologies for making this an iPad focused post. So many of the schools that I work with have iPads both for students and for educators. The majority of the 30 Apps I’ve chosen are ones I have used extensively myself in the classroom with some new additions which I have seen being used by others to great success. It may be that you have some others that you feel would be a better fit, and if there are, I’d love to read and learn about them from you in the comments. If you are interested in purchasing a clean, non-branded version of this, or a school-branded version of my periodic table of Apps, please let me know. Mark The new Periodic Table of iPad Apps for Primary aged pupils I've always enjoyed thinking of ideas about how we can utilise technology for purposeful means in the classroom. March 1, 2017 In "iPad" Why iPad for the English classroom in education? September 8, 2011
Mochila TICútil - Herramientas y aplicaciones TIC útiles que facilitan nuestra tarea educativa Comparto con vosotros mi mochila TICútil. En ella meto todas las herramientas y aplicaciones TIC útiles que utilizo a menudo y que me facilitan mi tarea educativa. Espero que alguna os sirva. Para acceder a ellas haced clic en el título de cada aplicación o herramienta. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 1. 2. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.