Using Kahoot! and others the way your brain craves Sure, you might think. I use Kahoot! and G Suite and others in the classroom all the time. Use Special Text Boxes on Your Class Website to Alert Parents and Students to Important Information. We love WordPress. It’s our favorite tool to create professional looking class websites. Last week, we were helping one of our colleagues set up her class website for kindergarten. One of the things that she wanted was to a little box at the top of her website where she could post important information for parents and little reminders of things to do. The great thing about WordPress is that there are hundreds of attractive themes out there to choose from. Could Storytelling Be the Secret Sauce to STEM Education? In the short story “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas,” author Ursula Le Guin describes a utopian city that has everything people want or need — beauty, religion, happiness — but it’s all possible because one child is kept in the dark, separated from all joy and light. Citizens of the city have to go and see this boy, but some can’t take the guilt and walk away. After reading the story, Lev Fruchter and his class talk about what elements make up utopia and use the conversation as a jumping-off point to talk about equations. They talk about adding good things and multiplying them if they’re really great or, inversely, subtracting things that make people unhappy and dividing the really bad elements. This is all a way of thinking about the math that will eventually run a computer program. Fruchter loves words, but is comfortable enough with math and science that he was called upon to teach them.
The 35 Best Web 2.0 Classroom Tools Chosen By You 100 Web 2.0 Tools Every Teacher Should Know About 44.24K Views 0 Likes We're always trying to figure out the best tools for teachers, trends in the education technology industry, and generally doing our darnedest to bring you new and exciting ways to enhance the classroom. Google Slides: Choose Your Own Adventure - Teacher Tech Eric Curts posted directions for using Google Slides to create a choose your own adventure style activity. Using hyperlinks within a Google Slides presentation, build a story or tutorial that asks the viewer to make decisions. Google Slides is probably my favorite collaboration tool. See what your students can collaborate on and create! My students created an awesome adventure story using collaboration tools. They were not physically together and had no other directions than those provided by Eric Curts.
More Than 30 PowerPoint Tips from the PowerPoint Pros! A lot of rapid elearning hinges on PowerPoint. That means your success building courses is influenced by how well you know PowerPoint. To help you learn more about PowerPoint I pulled together a solid list of PowerPoint resources. ‘Choose your own’ adventure stories using Google Slides. – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS Are you looking for an interesting way to encourage your class to write? ‘Choose your own’ adventure stories worked brilliantly for me! What is this type of story?
Scoop.it: Curation Made Social Recently out of private beta, Scoop.it is a curation tool that’s made for sharing. The technology (or what are my powers?) Scoop.it allows users to gather and display content in an appealing format and publish it on the Web. Creating a page for a topic you want to curate is easy. You just follow a series of prompts. 8 Great iPad Apps for Creating Stop Motion Videos 1- Stop Motion Recorder StopMotion Recorder is toy video camera enable you to make stunning stop motion video like claymation. And you can edit, share movie via Mail, 'Facebook', 'Twitter (Twitvid)', Twitter(yFrog) & 'Youtube' from your iPhone. 2- Animation Creator HD Animation Creator HD allows your creativity to come to life on your iPad or iPad Mini!
Google+: The Dark Side of the Circle Ira Socol is a graduate research and teaching assistant at Michigan State University. He also blogs at SpeEd Change. Social networking sites like Google+ present powerful classroom opportunities, but they are also designed to create hierarchies. "Let's face it, [The Social Network] presented [Mark Zuckerberg] as a relentless bully with a computer instead of muscles. It also made Facebook's creation seem like a ploy to get back at a girl, rather than the simple desire to create." -- Mike Eisenberg, ScreenRant True or not, the portrayal of the intentions behind the creation of Facebook-style social networking will seem logical to those who work among adolescents.
Videos - NetSafe Utah The following videos have been produced in an effort to educate students, parents, teachers and others on a variety of Internet safety topics. We invite you to view and/or download these videos for your educational benefit. If you would like to download any of the videos below, visit eMedia. (2 min 19 sec) When Alex runs into a bully on the playground, he knows what to do. But how can Alex handle the bully when he starts posting mean messages and texting threats? Five Open Source Flash Card Apps to Make Rote Learning Easier by Lisa Hoover - Sep. 14, 2009Comments (0) Chances are, when you've needed to learn something by rote memorization you've turned to flash cards (multiplication tables, anyone?). There are plenty of ways to learn things that require instant recall but few are as effective as flash cards.
John Hattie: 10 myths about student achievement John Hattie’s 15 year meta-analysis of over ¼ of a billion students worldwide has enabled him to identify what really aids student achievement. In an interview with Sarah Montague for BBC Radio 4, he dispels some popular myths about what does and doesn't matter in your school. Factors affecting student achievement – Hattie’s take: 1. Class Size Reducing class size does enhance student achievement but only by a marginal amount. The Google+ Guide For Educators Home » Education, Social Media Written by Grace2 August 2011 Unless you've been living under a rock the last month, undoubtedly you've heard of the new social networking site everyone has been raving about: Google+. All this buzz has generated some great articles (my to-read pile just keeps growing!) so it's been hard to find just one favorite Google+ area to discuss...that's why I've decided to share some of my favorite articles to help get educators started. Here's my Google+ Guide for Educators: