Creating Mobile Worksheets with QR Codes
Published 14 September 2017 Nik Peachey continues his digital teaching series by exploring how QR codes can be used to create mobile worksheets. He provides simple steps to help you create them, plus a fun lesson activity download too! Many teachers underestimate the degree to which they already use technology, particularly in their lesson preparation.
inklewriter - Education
Education inkle is looking to bring interactive stories to the classroom, and give teachers free and simple get-stuck-right-in software to use with their students. From within a web-browser, the inklewriter will let students make and play interactive stories with no programming required.
26 Tips for Teaching with Google Apps
This guide will teach you to be as tech-savvy as your students. It is meant to acquaint you with Google Apps’ major features and is loaded with best practices and lots of helpful, actionable tips to optimize your investment in Google Apps and improve your students’ learning experience. It’s appropriate for school IT admins, teachers, principals, and anyone else interested in learning more about Google Apps for education.
Improving your reading skills
For a printer-friendly PDF version of this guide, click here Improving your reading skills will reduce unnecessary reading time and enable you to read in a more focused and selective manner. You will also be able to increase your levels of understanding and concentration. This guide shows you how to read with greater efficiency and effectiveness by using a range of different reading skills. Other useful guides: Effective note making, Thought mapping. Reading for study
A simple blueprint for making creative ESL worksheets
Published 13 October 2017 Robert Dobie is an ELT teacher and owner of the popular ESL resource site, All Things Grammar. This article follows on from Three ways to get the most out of speaking activities and is the final in the series.
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12 Ways to Use Google Apps in Education with Susan Oxnevad
IT Integrator Susan Oxnevad uses Google Forms to train parents about the school’s iPad program. Even though she’s an advanced user, she also has practical advice for getting started. Chock full of Google goodness and best practices, this show is a “must listen” for schools using Google Apps for Education (GAFE) or Chromebooks. Listen to Susan Oxnevad Share about Google Docs
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A Wonderful App for Students to Showcase Their Learning
August 21, 2015 30hands is an excellent app to use with students in class. You can use it for a wide variety of purposes from creating demos and tutorials to crafting visually appealing presentations and videos. Students can use it to create multimedia productions showcasing their learning in the form of a slideshow with audio narration, or through an audio-enhanced image portfolios to mention but a few examples. Given its intuitive interface and simple layout, 30hands can be used with different age groups. 30hands is also great for digital storytelling. Students can add images and draw slides then arrange them by a simple drag and drop.
Cloud to Cloud Backup Blog
Google announced Classroom in May 2014 as a new tool in Google Apps for Education. Classroom seeks to simplify communication and workflow between teachers and students by adding classroom and assignment management features to Google Apps. It will be available for any school using Google Apps for Education in September 2014. If you teach, Google Apps for Education already provides powerful tools. Here are a six core uses of Google Apps, listed in order of increasing student engagement. Gmail: Customize, Filter, and Group
Incredible Ways to Improve Your Online Study Skills
Gone are days when you had to travel a long distance to a traditional classroom to undertake your favorite course. Nowadays, with the advent of computers and dedicated online study software, online course and learning have made things completely different. It could be you have just enrolled in your first online course, which is pretty good, but do you have the skills necessary for completing the course? Does it need the same, less, or more level of commitment just the like the traditional classroom setup you are used to? What are some of the best skills and strategies required for studying in an online learning environment?
With Google gaining strength in schools, here are some ways to incorporate Google apps to build collaborative practices in your classes. This page offers suggestions as to how match an app to a collaborative practice. The site also offers some insight into how to incorporate educational technology as a content tool instead of being so reliant on textbooks. by chedwards Oct 10