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Six Tools for Creating Classroom Quiz Games - A Comparison Chart Twice in the last week I have given presentations about tools for creating fun formative assessment activities. The most popular part of that presentation is when we play a couple of quiz games in Kahoot and Socrative. Those are probably the best known quiz game platforms. They are not the only quiz game platforms. There are some other good ones. Blendspace. Le risorse a mosaico Blendspace è un’efficace banca dati visuale a mosaico per avere sempre con sé tutte le risorse preparate per una specifica lezione. L’utilissima struttura a mosaico conferirà al vostro lavoro di docenti un aspetto diretto e intuitivo, nonché comodo per i vostri studenti, visto che “lì” troveranno tutto l’occorrente per ripassare quanto spiegato a lezione. Un tempo applicazione connessa direttamente ad Edmodo, oggi Blendspace è stato inglobato da TES, la più grande community didattica del mondo anglosassone, ormai fruita e fruibile anche da insegnanti di altre aree del pianeta. Infatti il nome corretto dell’applicazione è Tes Teach with Blendspace.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: An Interesting App for Adding Maps to Photos April 25, 2017 Photo Mapo is a cool iPad app that allows you to add maps to your photos.You can use it to add context to photos you include in your instruction and create mapped collections that can be easily shared with others. Photo Mapo, as we have indicated in an earlier post, is on sale now for free and only for a limited period of time. This deal is valid at least in the Canadian and American iTunes App Stores. Hopefully it will be still free by the time you are reading this post. Photo Mapo provides a number of interesting features. mappe, percorsi, storytelling Spiral è un sito che fornisce diversi servizi per docenti e studenti che consentono di creare e gestire un ambiente di insegnamento e apprendimento online per gli studenti nel quale è possibile realizzare diverse attività collaborative online. Cos'è Spiral? Spiral è una piattaforma educativa che fornisce una suite di strumenti costituita da 4 applicazioni web progettate per la collaborazione, l'interazione, il dialogo e il mobile learning anche in modalità BYOD (si utilizzano i propri dispositivi).
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Useful Apps and Resources to Help Students Learn Coding April 29, 2017 Coding is an essential skill for 21st century students. 'When kids learn to code' , Mitch Resnick states, ' it enables them to learn many other things, opens up many new opportunities for learning. It's useful to make an analogy to reading and writing, when you learn to read and write it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things, when you learn to read you can then read to learn, which is the same thing with coding, if you learn to code you can code to learn.' We have already featured a number of interesting coding resources to use with your students in class, check out this section to learn more.
Important News About Adobe Spark Adobe Spark is a great tool for making videos, storytelling websites, and simple graphics. It has been popular since its launch a few years ago. Also since its launch there have been many questions about whether or not it can be used with students under the age of 13. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Top 8 Google Sheets Add-ons for Teachers October 29, 2016 Google Sheets add-on store features a number of educational extensions to use with your forms and spreadsheets to add amazing functionalities. These add-ons are arranged into various categories. We revisited the ‘education’ category and selected for you the 8 most popular applications there. Using these add-ons will enable you to: Create graphs and forms and write complex math in your sheetsCreate and modify a planning schedule for project management in a spreadsheet; easily scaffold, manage and assess students projects in Google DriveQuickly grade and analyze students assessments, split cells, remove duplicates, clean up data and change caseAdd powerful functionality to quizzes you create via Google FormsSend personalized mass emails with Gmail and track email opens. 1- g(Math) for Sheets
Three Good Tools for Collaboratively Creating Multimedia Books Collaborating to create multimedia books can be a good way to get students excited about writing stories. Students can collaborate with each other and or with you. Through the process of sharing ideas and revisions students' work improves. Writing a multimedia ebook can also be a nice way for students to illustrate and or further explain portions of fiction and non-fiction stories that they compose. The following three platforms make it possible for students to create and publish multimedia ebooks in their web browsers.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 5 of The Most Popular Student Interactives to Use in Your Class April 29, 2017 One of our favourite resources for student interactives is ReadWriteThink. It provides a wide variety of educational materials to help teachers make the best of technology in their teaching and to enhance students learning. Check out this section to view ReadwriteThink tools we have reviewed so far. In today’s post, we are sharing with you the five most popular students interactives in ReadwRiteThink as rated by the site itself. These are tools you can use in different literacy learning activities in class to help students ‘ accomplish a variety of goals—from organizing their thoughts to learning about language—all while having fun.’ Check out links to the interactives below the visual.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: Here Is An Awesome Tool for Creating Animated Videos to Use In Your Teaching June 7, 2017 Animaker is an excellent animation video maker that allows you to create engaging video content. As a teacher, you can use Animaker to create tutorials, explainer videos, video presentations, educational step by step guides or video infographics. The process is simple and easy and anyone can create beautiful animations without the need for advanced technology or coding skills. Animaker provides you with all the tools and materials you need to create your first professionally looking animated video. You simply drag and drop elements such as characters, backgrounds, visuals and many other pre-designed elements accessible through Animaker library. You can then edit your video, add pop up effects, hand craft animations, scene transitions and when your video is ready you can download, upload it to YouTube or share it with others through social media websites.
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 5 Powerful Tools To Create Educational Whiteboard Animation Videos June 8, 2017 You probably have seen them before, whiteboard style animations are everywhere online. They are used by profit and non-profit entities to advertise, educate or to simply communicate effectively. Two popular educational YouTube channels that use this animation style are TED Ed and RSA Animate.