7 tips for those about to sail into uncharted waters 7 Tips for those about to sail into uncharted waters Whether you regarded learning technology a blessing or anathema makes little or no difference now. Your students are at home and your mission is to help them keep learning at a turning point of the academic year. The following tips come from my experience using electronic platforms to train trainers and for webinars for EFL teachers who can be a demanding audience. I'd say as demanding as your class. Here are some tips that you may find helpful: - Create Flowcharts, Floor Plans, and Other Diagrams on Any Device Easier than Visio® SmartDraw is the only alternative to Visio® that runs on a Mac, online, and on Windows (and behind the firewall). With the best Visio® import and export capability in the industry, SmartDraw is the easy, powerful and affordable Visio® alternative. More Powerful than Office SmartDraw is more powerful and easier to use than the standard drawing tools included in Microsoft Office® and G Suite®. Any SmartDraw drawing can be inserted into Word®, Excel®, PowerPoint® as well as Google® Docs and Sheets.
How to use Discord for your classroom You’ve been telling us stories of how you’re using Discord in all sorts of amazing ways during the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ve seen classrooms come together, workers without an office find a new place to connect, and tons of surprising uses. To help out where we can, we recently announced that we’re temporarily raising the user limit on Go Live from 10 to 50 people. One of the main reasons we made this change was to help teachers. With high schools and college campuses closing in many parts of the world, more and more of them are turning to Discord to make sure their students don’t fall behind and can continue to learn.
Some of The Best Tools for Creating Video Lessons Below is a collection of some great web tools you can use to create video lessons. As we have stated elsewhere, ‘The nature of a video lesson differs according to the purpose for which it is created; it can be an explanatory video, a step by step tutorial, a review, a demo, a recorded video presentation and many more. Video lessons are ideal for flipped classroom and can be incorporated in almost any learning situation. 5 Alternatives to Padlet For the last 24 hours the Twittersphere has been buzzing about the recent changes to Padlet. While none of the following tools have as many features as Padlet, they all provide the core element of a digital wall to which you apply digital sticky notes. Here are five alternatives to Padlet. These are in the order in which I prefer them right now.
WebinarJam I confirm that I am at least 16 years of age or older I have read and accept any EULA, Terms and Conditions, Acceptable Use Policy, and/or Data Processing Addendum which has been provided to me in connection with the software, products and/or services. I have been fully informed and consent to the collection and use of my personal data for any purpose in connection with the software, products and/or services. I understand that certain data, including personal data, must be collected or processed in order for you to provide any products or services I have requested or contracted for. I understand that in some cases it may be required to use cookies or similar tracking to provide those products or services.. I understand that I have the right to request access annually to any personal data you have obtained or collected regarding me.
- Teachers Score with rubrics, checklists & badges Easily create standards-aligned rubrics, checklists & badges Score on your iPad or other mobile devices No internet necessary in the classroom Issue digital badges with evidence Print rubrics for completing on paper or save and share as a PDF file View classroom performance and communicate with students KineMaster – Pro Video Editor KineMaster is the only full-featured professional video editor for Android, supporting multiple layers of video*, images, and text, as well as precise cutting and trimming, multi-track audio, precise volume envelope control, color LUT filters, 3D transitions, and much more.For professionals and amateurs alike, KineMaster offers an unprecedented level of control over the mobile editing process, and for artists and educators, handwriting layers allow you to draw directly on the video (also handy for storyboarding!). Our users include mobile journalists, YouTube creators, short film producers, educators and other professionals from various industries around the world.Use the slick videos you make with KineMaster to increase the reach and popularity of your YouTube channel and become a YouTube star.* Video layers are available on supported devices only.