GoConqr - Changing the way you learn Two Ways to Create Online Whiteboards Online whiteboards can be a fantastic aid to students when they’re trying to help each other work through problems or tutor each other. Online whiteboards are also helpful to teachers who are crafting visual explanations for students. Sketchlot and Stoodle are excellent online whiteboard tools. Here are this week’s most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com: 1. Would you like to have me visit your school?
Free Software and Shareware We have made the difficult decision to retire the Tucows Downloads site. We’re pleased to say that much of the software and other assets that made up the Tucows Downloads library have been transferred to our friends at the Internet Archive for posterity. The shareware downloads bulletin board system (BBS) that would become Tucows Downloads was founded back in 1993 on a library computer in Flint, MI. A lot has changed since those early years. Today, Tucows is the second-largest domain name registrar in the world behind Go Daddy and the largest wholesaler of domain names in the world with customers like Shopify and other global website builder platforms. Point is, we’re keeping busy. For the past several years, history, well sentimentality, has been the only reason to keep Tucows Downloads around. Today is different. Tucows Downloads has had an incredible run. Thank you. Sincerely, Elliot NossCEO, Tucows
Timeline Timeline allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line. Timelines can be organized by time of day, date, or event, and the tool allows users to create a label with short or long descriptive text. Adding an image for each label makes a timeline more visually appealing. Add, drag, and rearrange items as needed. For additional ideas on how to use this tool outside of the classroom, see Timeline in the Parent & Afterschool Resources section. Related Classroom & Professional Development Resources back to top Grades 11 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson A Blast from the Past with Nuclear Chemistry After researching the history and basic facts of a nuclear chemistry topic, students utilize the Web 2.0 tool Timetoast to create an electronic timeline that they use to present their research to the class. Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Timelines and Texts: Motivating Students to Read Nonfiction Graphic Map Timeline
How to create a self-marking quiz using Google Forms | Web of Notes This guide will show you how to create a quiz which automatically grades answers using a Google Form and Spreadsheet. We will be adding an image, a video and the following question types: Text Multiple Choice Checkboxes Choose from a list Creating Your Quiz 1. 2. 3. 4a. 4b. Important Notes: Your quiz can be updated/changed at any time.For Text questions which ask participants to type their answers, lower/upper case will not affect the marks (as we will see in the Automatic Grading section), but spelling and spaces will impact the marks. From here, you have two options regarding how your quiz is organised. Option 1 – One Page In a one page Form, participants are brought to a page with all the questions on it. On single page Forms, participants do not have to navigate between pages for questions. You may add multiple images/videos by clicking ‘Add Item’ at the end of the page. Here is how to create the one page quiz above, continuing from step 4: 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15a. 15b. 15c. 6.
197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About 197 Educational YouTube Channels You Should Know About If you don’t have a YouTube channel as an education provider, there’s a good chance you’re behind the times. Nearly every major educational institution in the world now hosts its own collection of videos featuring news, lectures, tutorials, and open courseware. Just as many individuals have their own channel, curating their expertise in a series of broadcasted lessons. These channels allow instructors to share information and blend media in unprecedented and exciting new ways. From teaching Mandarin Chinese to busting myths about Astronomy, the educational possibilities are virtually endless pun intended! Because we can now sift through thousands of resources while navigating a single repository, the potential for inspiration and growth in the field of education has reached a new height. Here are the top channels worth following based on views, subscriptions, and quality of content: General Physical Sciences Engineering & Technology Mr.
15 Great Timeline Creation Web Tools and iPad Apps for Teachers and Students January 28, 2014 The possibilities for the use of timeline tools in the class are endless. Whether you want to teach salient historical incidents, chronological order of events, or explain a developmental process in biology or simply outline the major learning curves for the year, timeline creation tools are the ideal platforms to implement. A timeline is a visual representation that features information in connected sequences over a given period of time. That being said, I have done a lot of scouring and compiled the list below. 1- Timeline Student Interactive This is a wonderful tool from ReadWriteThink which allows students to create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line. 2- Timeline JS This is a relatively new web tool that I am mentioning here for the first time. 3- MyHistro TimeRime is a web application which allows people to create, view and compare interactive timelines. 1- Timeline Maker 2- Timeline 3D 3- Timestream
Use Google Forms to create a self-grading quiz Andy Wolber shows us how to use Google Forms to build an automated quiz using the survey tool. Google Forms provides a free tool to create and gather survey data. Web based forms can save a lot of time. For example, you can create your own form to gather contact information or get feedback following a meeting. A Google Form stores each respondent's answers in spreadsheet cells, with each answer in its own cell. For example, a 6-question form produces a row filled from Column A to Column F with a respondent's answers. To a spreadsheet whiz, these survey responses are fodder for calculations. Create a quiz Survey data can even be used to create a "self-grading" quiz. 1. Follow the basic steps in our earlier TechRepublic post, "Use Google Forms to create a survey" to create your form. 2. Make sure the form is active and set to accept responses. Make sure your form is set to accept responses 3. Create a second Sheet within your spreadsheet document. Add a second Sheet to use for grading 4. 5. 6.
Storyboard That: The World's Best FREE Online Storyboard Creator 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – Eternal Code [via onlinecolleges.net] With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs Google Docs is a great replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so learn how to use this product even more efficiently. Use premade templates. Gmail Use the Tasks as a to-do list.
Digitala prov The 25 best education apps for connected classrooms Figuring out which tool is right for the job is something we all struggle with every day. Whether you’re a contractor, plumber, or teacher, there’s a lot of options to choose from. Teachers managing connected classrooms have it quite rough, though. There’s an embarassment of riches when it comes to apps, web tools, and digital services that want to make your life easier. So how do you easily figure out which are the best education apps for connected classrooms, you ask? Great rhetorical question, Jeff! About The Methodology To help answer your question, we polled the Daily Genius community via social media and then curated a list of the most popular apps being used in classrooms right now. What follows is the result of this effort. The 25 Best Education Apps For Connected Classrooms The following list is meant to be a useful snapshot at the top 25 apps for iOS and Android that are actually in use in many classrooms around the world. About The Badge ClassDojo Socrative Twitter Diigo Evernote
Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers Michelle Luhtala/Edshelf With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country. “I wanted to make sure we had some flexibility because there’s no one app that’s better than all the others,” Luhtala said. 30Hands allows a user to make pictures, annotate them, record a voice explainer and then packages it all into a video. Adobe Voice is a recently released education product from Adobe that allows students to narrate a story over an array of digital images. Book Creator is only available for iPads, allowing kids to easily create their own iBook by importing images, multimedia, text, and audio. Tellagami is a tool to share quick animated messages. ExplainEverything is another tool for creating video like tutorials. Symphonizer is great for music classes.
Create A Classroom Poster Using Google Docs I have been sharing a great deal of educational posters here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. I love using posters with my students and I know many of you love them too. Sometimes it seems like we can not find the exact poster we want for our class and this is when we need to use our techy skills to craft our own posters. The process is not very hard and anybody with the rudimentary tech knowledge can do it in a matter of minutes. I have already featured a post containing several web tools to help you create your posters. Click on each image to see it in full view 1- Open Google Docs, click on create, then on drawing 2- Give your poster a title and enlarge the drawing canvas 3- Customize the background of your poster 3- You can use an image as a background of your poster or you can insert as many images as you want into the content of your poster as is shown in the screenshot below. 4- Insert lines, arrows, and text 6- Create titles using word art 8- Sharing your poster