The 5 Best Free Word Cloud Creation Tools for Teachers Word clouds are fun ways to get students thinking creatively about any topic. The problem is that it’s sometimes difficult to find the one that best meets your needs. Lucky for you, we’ve taken the dirty work out of it and compiled The 5 Best Free Word Cloud Creation Educational Tools for Teachers! Utilize these free educational technology tools to get your students’ minds immersed in any new topic. Word It OutAbout Word It OutWord It Out is a word cloud creation tool that is easy to use and gives users many options for customizing their clouds.How to Use Word It OutBegin using Word It Out by clicking the link above. Once you are on the site, click the blue “Create Your Own” button. Free Educational Technology Word Clouds are great ways to get your students thinking about any topic in a new light. When it comes to finding the deeper meaning in a text passage, a word cloud is a simple application that you might have seen as a cute bit of fluff rather than a useful academic tool.
Blog I am grateful for… With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I am taking some time to reflect on just how very fortunate I am. Since becoming a connected educator in 2011, my learning world has expanded beyond my expectations and then some. I know that many of the successes our school is experiencing would not have been realized without this support. Here are a few people and groups that have recently made an impact on my professional and personal life. I am grateful for my All Things PLC (#atplc) Voxer group. read more Upcoming free webinars: Peek inside the Life of a Connected Learner Peek inside the Life of a Connected Learner Spend an hour chatting with us and find out about our unique brand of coached, team-based professional learning and how to learn like connected learners do – through action research, lesson plan studies, virtual classroom visits, and more. All the Connected Educator Month events you won’t want to miss October 8-14 It’s here!
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Slide Makeovers: Presentation Design Lessons from Real Slides I was browsing the web the other day and stumbled across a handful of slides that I thought could use a makeover. The slides were cluttered, the main message unclear and visuals weren’t leveraged to make any impact. So I asked my team to redesign them. I thought it would make a fun and insightful exercise, with the objective of demonstrating what not to do when designing presentations. Before we walk through the slide makeovers, there are 2 essential practical presentation design lessons for you to keep in mind: 1. 2. Remember that, and learn from these mistakes: Before: Example 1 Current: As a general rule, never use Clipart. DIY Suggestions: There is no reason to fall back on Clipart because there are so many great alternatives. Slide Makeover: Example 1 Before: Example 2 Current: This slide breaks a cardinal rule of presentation design by featuring two distinct ideas on the same slide. DIY Suggestions: When tempted to put more than one idea on a slide, just say no. Before: Example 3
Utah Coalition for Educational Technology (UCET) Free Online Grammar Check, Plagiarism, Spelling, and More | PaperRater Du post-it au mur collaboratif ! les outils web 2.0 dans le projet personnel et professionnel (PPP) L'idée d'utiliser les outils web2.0 a commencé à germer lorsque nous avons démarré la veille collaborative dans notre groupe MoodleLab sur Diigo Impliquée depuis 5 ans dans le PPP, je constatais qu'il était difficile de mobiliser les étudiants et les enseignants sur ce sujet. Or, l’accompagnement de l‘étudiant dans la réflexion sur son Projet Personnel et Professionnel (PPP) est de plus en plus intégré dans l’ensemble des cursus universitaires. Les outils Web 2.0 permettent de rendre ces activités plus interactives, plus collaboratives, plus ludiques aussi. Focus sur un retour d’expérience à l’IUT de Mulhouse avec des étudiants de 1ère année, avec un parti pris, utiliser au maximum les outils web2.0 Carte conceptuelle récapitulant l'organisation du PPP L’objectif étant de favoriser la créativité et l’imagination, nous avons laissé le libre choix de l’outil aux étudiants.
A Turn to Learn: September 2012 This idea is actually a gem that one of my students thought of a few years ago! One of my classes' favorite YouTube videos was this one... "If You're a Boy" from Harry Kindergarten. Well... my kids were chatty one day and I said "If you're a boy zip your lips." One of my girls said "If you're a boy, a boy, if you're a boy zip your lips!" When my kids get chatty, all I do is start to sing the song! If they're extra loud, I have them do actions that will get the other students attention (e.g. ones that make them move more or make more noise) such as: pat your legs, jump up and down or clap your hands. If there's only one or two students chatting, I usually do more silent action, such as zip your lips, fold your hands. I actually also use this to get my students to clean up at the end of their writing period. How do you get your kids to quiet down!
eBooks: Making Content For Kindle & EPUB Event Type: Core Skills . Speaker Attendee This is a list of known attendees, who gave persmission to be listed, not all attendees. Description The session will start with an overview of the technologies available for the creation of eBooks in EPUB and Kindle formats. Following the overview of the ways in which eBooks can be created, the differences between the terms reflowable, fixed-layout, and textbook will be looked at more closely. Progress to in depth topics will be then determined by those in attendance taking into consideration their interests, specialisms and needs. Some topic areas • creation and distribution of eBooks across formats (and resellers - including Amazon's Kindle Store, Apple's iBookstore and the Kobo Store) • EPUB sub-formats and DRM - including consideration of the recent release of iBooks Author (enhanced textbook format) • Footnotes, endnotes and indexes (displaying and hyperlinking) • use of regular expressions, wildcards and regex in eBook production • oXygen - [3]
Flipper ou non, ou quand le TBI améliore les résultats des élèves! Lorsque mars est arrivé, en 2012, et que j’ai pensé quitter mon poste de conseiller pédagogique en TIC pour retourner sur le plancher des pupitres, j’avais la tête pleine d’idées. Certaines farfelues et d’autres que j’avais lu. Parmi celles-ci, les grands avantages de la classe inversée, que j’ai dernièrement explorée et dont je vous fais part de mes propres découvertes… La classe inversée Lorsqu’un enseignant traditionnel enseigne, il démontre certaines notions, soit par lui, ou avec des techniques de découvertes dirigées. La classe inversée, c’est d’envoyer le jeune à la maison avec un clip vidéo expliquant la notion et un devoir. Frustration d’une méthode qui génère encore 20% d’échecs… Mes résultats ont été différents que les statistiques, car je n’avais pas 44% d’échec en math (car j’ai appliqué cette méthode avec les mathématiques dans un premier temps), mais tout près. -Pierre Poulin et François Bourdon , Comment j’ai « flippé » au début. Extrait :
The Cornerstone Twine - Graphisme et audio-visuel Twine est un petit logiciel tout simple qui permet de créer des histoires interactives du type « dont vous êtes le héros ». En quelques clics, votre histoire est créée et vous pouvez l’exporter tout aussi facilement en format HTML. Que ce soit pour l’utilisation en salle de classe pour la conception de récits, pour le développement de scénarios eLearning, ou encore pour exprimer votre créativité, ce logiciel rapide de prise en main vous permettra de créer efficacement une histoire. Basé sur le moteur wiki TiniWiki et sur l’application de conception d’histoires en mode textuel pur Twee, Twine offre une interface graphique facile à utiliser. Les fonctionnalités sont relativement restreintes. En ce qui a trait aux fonctions d’exportation, c’est relativement simple, le menu Story nous donne l’option Build Story, option qui nous permet d’enregistrer en format HTML le récit rapidement et le visionner dans notre navigateur internet préféré. Vous souhaitez mettre à jour la notice ?
Guidelines for Online Teaching Success Years ago at a faculty meeting Larry Ragan, PhD, director of Faculty Development for Penn State’s World Campus, was trying to soft-sell the idea of performance expectations for online faculty. He didn’t want the discussion to be misinterpreted as an indictment against their teaching style, but he also saw an opportunity to share proven practices for improving the online teaching and learning experience. Finally a senior faculty member grew tired of the tip-toeing around the subject and said, “If you don’t tell us what is expected, how will we know what to do to succeed?” The faculty member’s point was well taken, and over the years Ragan and others on various committees at Penn State have worked to define: Core competencies for online teaching success – Currently there are 28 competencies across the three main topic areas of technology, course administration, and pedagogy. The online instructor performance expectations he discussed are: 1. The instructor is expected to: 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.