How to Use Edmodo in the Classroom Edmodo, also known as “Facebook for school,” is the premier social media and learning platform for teachers and students alike. Founded in 2008, the site has since gained over 20 million users. The K-12 social media network continues to grow and is now available in six languages, including Spanish, German and Greek. The platform’s app equivalent brings portability into the equation, which means educators, students and even parents can always access Edmodo when they need it. How Teachers Can Use It With Edmodo, teachers can truly bring the classroom online. Users also have unlimited options in terms of sharing digital content. Communities allow teachers to browse subjects in order to find and share information within a broad stream of content and conversations related to that topic. The platform offers numerous organizational features for teachers, even offering an option for users to print out rosters for substitutes. How Administrators Can Use It How Students Can Use It
One Googler’s Insider Guide To Using Google Docs At Work When Google Docs launched back in 2007, it was a scrappy, lightweight document editor. Today, it’s a full-blown workplace powerhouse, with all the features you need to create, collaborate, and share your ideas quickly. As a product manager at Google, I've not only helped the team build and develop these tools, but I’ve used them every single day, often to write product requirements docs for our next feature. So here’s an insider look at five ways to incorporate Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides into your own work that you might not know about. 1. You probably just use Arial out of habit, but there are actually over 600 fonts available in Google Docs, not to mention lots of professionally designed templates that do much of the work for you. Our goal in adding these features has been to make creating beautiful, polished documents and presentations a breeze. 2. Sheets is way more than just a way to throw a quick table or list together. 3. 4. 5.
10 Ways of using Socrative – Learning Inspired Socrative is an essential app for any teacher. It is as simplistic as it is useful. This web-based app is a great tool for assessment, quizzing and engaging children in learning activities. Socrative enables teachers to create bespoke questioning activities that connect to multiple iPads. 1) Bespoke Quizzing The most obvious way of using Socrative is to create customised quiz’s for your class. 2) Multiplication Tests / Spelling Tests A less obvious way to use the quizzing nature of the app is through the ‘short answer’ questioning option. 3) Timed mental maths The app allows you to present and run your tests in a number of different ways. 4) Competitive Quizzes As I have eluded to previously, you can present your questions in four different ways. You can simply engage the children in a quiz that they take part in as individuals. 5) Exit Tickets Another great way of presenting your questions is through the ‘Exit Ticket’ activity. 6) Self Assessment assessment practices in the classroom.
Update fixes 'Pokemon Go' Google account permissions issue By Mike Wuerthele Tuesday, July 12, 2016, 11:22 am PT (02:22 pm ET) An update for the popular iPhone game Pokémon Go was released on Tuesday, restricting Google account permissions to the bare minimum needed for the app to function. The Pokémon Go version 1.0.1 not only resolves the complaints about unrestricted Google account access directed at developer Niantic, but also fixes some other issues with the game. Users had been complaining that using a Google account to play the popular game granted full access to linked Google accounts on both Android and iOS, without informing the user. Pokémon Go is free, and still requires iOS 8.0 or greater, and a minimum of 193 megabytes of storage space.
Wikispaces | Getting Started Sign Up (Without Invitation) On our landing page, click on the button that pertains to your needs Click on if you are a teacher or a st... Sign Up (With Invitation) Sign Up with Email Invitation To sign up with an email invitation, click on the link in the email, and then... Joining a Wiki Overview After you’ve created a Wikispaces user account, you have the option to join a wiki. Most wikis are ...
10 Things Every Teacher Should Be Able to Do on Google Classroom For the past few years Google has provided educators with a killer blended learning platform that allows them to create, distribute, grade assignments and share feedback all in one place. Essentially, it is a teacher’s mission control! Instant. Paperless. Awesome! To help you become a Google Classroom rock star, the folks at Educational Technology & Mobile Learning have generated a checklist of skills all teachers should master in the form of the infographic shown below. Classroom Connection: Use the tips listed on the infographic to effectively integrate this fantastic blending learning platform in your educational space! 12 Ways to Use Kahoot! in Your Classroom If you haven’t heard of Kahoot! yet, you’ve got to check it out! The teachers on our We Are Teacher HELPLINE! frequently rave about the free website teachers can use to play review games and quizzes with their students. Bonus: Kids can log in to the platform from any device, even their cell phones. Last week, teacher Beth asked for some specific advice on how to use the site: “Can anyone give me ideas for how they use Kahoot! Beth, we’ve got you covered. After you’ve created an account, launch a game and then have students input the unique pin at kahoot.it. 2. 3. ... 4. 5. 9. 10. On the flip side, you could also do this as a pre-assessment, piquing students’ interests and gauging what they already know about the topic by asking questions before teaching the material. 11. 12.
Google Classroom in one minute – EDUWELLS Here’s a one minute post with a one minute tutorial. I’m busy at the moment encouraging colleagues to start using Google Classroom. The reason I’m pushing it is that for the majority of teachers and especially the less technically inclined, it removes so many of the regular problems with choosing and setting up various apps and platforms for communicating and sharing files in a BYOD school. So here’s my summary poster that explains the key elements of each of a classroom page. Make BYOD easy with Google Classroom: A class is up and running in 5 minutes – no technician / admin requiredClassroom automatically organised Drive folders for youNo more emailing requiredStudents can submit any file type for an assignmentMessaging can happen as a class or privately to one studentMultiple teachers can run a classMainly use assignments as they have the most optionsTry to get most student work created from within an assignment Alice Keeler has load more advice on Google Classroom Here’s my poster:
11 Ways to use Symbaloo in the Classroom – The Edublogger NOTE: This is a guest post by Mimi Chau from the Symbaloo team. Edublogs just rolled out a free Symbaloo plugin available to all users that we think you’ll enjoy! What is Symbaloo? Symbaloo is a free social bookmarking tool. A fun and simple way to organize and store all your digital resources in the cloud. You can categorize your resources, share and access them from any device. Why Should You Symbaloo? Symbaloo helps teachers curate content and share the best of the web with their students. “Help, I’m drowning!” As schools start to implement 1:1 or BOYD methods in the classroom, teachers are required to keep up with the latest technology and teaching methods. And what about the “non tech-savvy” teachers that are struggling with technology? Symbaloo allows teachers to share valuable resources with their students and with each other. How do you Symbaloo in your classroom? 11 Ways to use Symbaloo in the Classroom 1. How do you share links with your students and parents? 2. Music Webmix: 3.
Scratch + Google = Next Generation of Programming Blocks for Kids — MIT MEDIA LAB Scratch + Google = Next Generation of Programming Blocks for Kids By the MIT Scratch Team On the Scratch Team, we joke about the number of hours that we put into every detail of the design of our programming blocks and interface. We believe that our careful (sometimes obsessive) attention to design is one of the keys to the success of the Scratch community — which now has more than 11 million registered members, with 15,000 new members joining every day, from all around the world. We work hard to make sure our designs align with the ways kids think and learn, aiming to make Scratch the most intuitive, friendly, and motivating way for kids to learn to code and to express themselves creatively with new technologies. Our broader goal is not just to support Scratch itself, but to spread the Scratch approach to coding and learning. We see the Scratch-Google collaboration as a perfect match, with complementary areas of expertise and a shared set of values and beliefs.