Learn It In 5 - Home Infuse Learning - A Great Student Response Tool There is no shortage of student response services that teachers can use in their classrooms. Socrative and Poll Everywhere are my two favorite. But a new service called Infuse Learning is definitely challenging for that ranking. Infuse Learning is a free student response system that works with any Internet-connected device including iPads and Android tablets. Infuse Learning allows teachers to push questions, prompts, and quizzes out to students' devices in private virtual classrooms. Infuse Learning offers a couple of helpful accessibility options including support for multiple languages. To get started using Infuse Learning go to the site and start creating classes. Learn more about Infuse Learning in the video below. Applications for Education Infuse Learning has fantastic potential as a student response system. If you want all of your students to view the same webpage at once, you can push links out to your students through your Infuse Learning room.
Technology / Virtual Field Trips What are virtual field trips? Virtual field trips are interactive web-based experiences that guide students through an exploration of content about themes, such as a specific place or time. Virtual field trips boost students’ reading comprehension skills, expose them to different cultures and environments and are a great way to engage and encourage technology integration in the classroom - whatever the subject matter may be! Remember these tips when planning a virtual field trip: Stay safe! Make sure all of the sites are appropriate for students. Have a goal! Make sure the purpose is clearly defined. Give it a dry run! Make sure all links and web pages are working in district before students take the field trip. Continue the lesson offline! Supplement the trip by extending it to other content areas. Virtual Field Trip Sites Google Art Project Google Sky Google Mars Google Moon Google Earth Gallery Arctic Adventure Global Trek Google Lit Trips Hershey’s Factory Le Louvre Mt. Museum of Natural History
What Makes Great Digital Instruction “Digital instruction” (“Boundless”) is delivered via technology, such as video and smart software that offers students a personalized sequence of learning experiences, and does not include live interaction with a teacher. Digital instruction must be combined with an excellent in-person or remotely located teacher, who is personally accountable for students’ learning outcomes. It is “boundless” because, once recorded, great digital instruction can help a limitless number of students located anywhere. Digital instruction is essential to Time-Technology Swap school models that free excellent teachers’ time to reach more students. The most useful digital instruction has the following characteristics: Schools can include a seventh “A,” accountability, by monitoring digital instruction effectiveness with different students and making changes when needed. The greater the digital time, the greater the number of students reached and/or the smaller class or group size can be.
Creating Blogs and Websites This page is where you can find resources related to my presentations about creating effective blogs and websites to complement instruction. How to create a Blogger blog. How to turn on comment moderation in Blogger. How to add or subtract contributors to your Blogger blog. How to create an Edublogs blog. How to create a Wordpress.com blog. How to create a Posterous blog. The Basics of Creating and Editing a Wikispaces Wiki.More, including a video tutorial, about using Wikispaces. Creating a Google Sites website. Ten Options for Creating Websites. Yola (formerly Synthasite) is the tool that I am currently using to build websites for my department and other departments in my high school. Webs (formerly Free Webs) is another service that I have first-hand experience with in a school setting because my girlfriend (a teacher in another school district) uses it for her classes. Snap Pages provides a free service as well as a premium service for creating your custom website.
enrichment2 - home Jing, Record and share videos on your computer, by TechSmith The always-ready program that allows you to instantly capture images and record video on your computer—then share them with anyone. Jing is a great tool for adding basic visual elements to all of your online conversations Jing for Screenshots Capture What You See The Jing sun sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture your screen at a moment’s notice. Jing Loves to Share Send your screenshots all over the web. Make a Point Need to emphasize a point or explain a tricky concept? No Need to Wait Simply paste the link into an IM, email, forum post, anywhere…and when the person clicks it they see your freshly–uploaded screenshot. Share Images Instantly Jing will place a hyperlink on your clipboard when you send your screenshots to a destination like Screencast.com or Flickr. Jing for Screencasts Record What You See (and Do) Select any window or region that you would like to record, and Jing will capture everything that happens in that area. Instantly share Jing video on: Narrate on the Fly
Free Technology for Teachers Downloading videos from websites like YouTube to play offline on MrBartonMaths.com Welcome to > downloading videos from the internet (and putting them on your iPod) Click on the links below to see how to: 1. Download Videos from the Internet to play offline 2. Put Maths videos from YouTube onto your iPod to revise on the move! 1. If you wish to play videos from YouTube, or similar websites, on your interactive whiteboard or laptop computer for your class to see, but either: (a) your classroom does not have access to the internet, or (b) your school network has banned websites like YouTube, then this little guide will hopefully help you get around this problem. If you follow the steps below, you will be able to download any video from YouTube, save it as you would any other file, and then play it back on a computer or a whiteboard, even if you are not connected to the internet. Basically, there are two ways of doing this: Option 1: Use the latest version of Real Player Option 2: Use a file converting website Personally, I prefer the first option. 1. 2. 3. Phew! 4. 5. 6.
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