7 Best Practices for Giving Student Feedback
Part of being an educator is having the skills to make hard concepts easier to understand, and the ability to make any student feel accomplished no matter how much they’re struggling. It’s all part of giving great feedback. Proper feedback should enable and inspire. It should make someone feel good about where they are, and get them excited about where they can go. These strategies for helping you boost your student feedback mojo could be things that you already practice with your students.
Eight Free Photo Sites That Require No Attribution
I'm a strong proponent of respecting copyright. I think artists deserve to be paid for the work that they do. I'm also a fan of using Creative Commons photography in my blog, on my visual writing ideas, and in my presentations. In general, I use the Creative Commons Photo Search to search through Flickr (though sometimes Photopin works great, too). However, I have also found that there are times when I want to use attribution-free photography. Typically, these are in moments when I want to know that I have complete permission to use the work in a commercial way (such as a keynote).
What Meaningful Reflection On Student Work Can Do for Learning
Via MindShift The following excerpt is from “Authentic Learning in the Digital Age: Engaging Students Through Inquiry,” by Larissa Pahomov. This excerpt is from the chapter entitled “Making Reflection Relevant.” Characteristics of Meaningful Reflection
10 of the Best Places to Find Free Icons and Image Assets Online
Like many creative types, I tend to get a bit giddy when I find art that inspires and captivates. However, as a web designer, I jump for joy when I stumble across websites and graphic design images that have been masterfully crafted (I’m a geek like that *wink*). No matter what type of designer you are, you will probably agree with me when I say that for as much as we love designing, there are days when you just don’t have the time to create certain elements from scratch.
Online Presentation Software: 51 Alternatives to PowerPoint
Here, emaze listed all, if not almost all online presentation software existing today. There are plenty of presentations software born to replace PowerPoint. What is your choice? 1. Animoto Animoto is a cloud-based video creation service that produces video from photos, video clips, and music into video slideshows. 2. authorSTREAM authorSTREAM enables presenters to upload & share PowerPoint, Keynote & PDF presentations online; embed in blogs, convert to video and share on social …
27 Teacher Actions That Help Promote Valid Assessment Data
Via TeachThought There is often talk about assessment–its forms, frequency, and the integration of gleaned data to revise planned instruction. Formative versus assessment, rigor, and the evasive nature of understanding are also areas for exploration.
Create icons in PowerPoint - Presentitude - a presentation and content design agency -
Using icons is a great way to add visuals to your presentation. There are many ways to get icons online, some are even free. But if you need a specific icon that you can’t find or if you want a special spin to your icon (color, shadow etc) – you can use PowerPoint’s great (and somewhat hidden) “Merge Shapes” commands to create your own icons.
Presentation Tools That Go Beyond “Next Slide Please” - HBR
Data visualization luminary and Yale professor Edward Tufte famously suggested that PowerPoint would have been a presentation medium well-suited to a communist dictator. The program’s linear nature, its tendency to discourage interactivity, its inability to easily share the information it contains, and its potential to limit communication with the audience can sometimes obfuscate rather than clarify. Indeed, Microsoft’s recent web-enabled improvements to the longstanding business application suggest that change is coming to presentation tools in a business world increasingly shaped by online collaboration and increasingly powerful internet applications. Today, users have unprecedented access to data at their fingertips and powerful applications to process them in real time.
Why Facebook is Blue: The Science of Colors in Marketing
via Buffer Why is Facebook blue? According to The New Yorker, the reason is simple. It’s because Mark Zuckerberg is red-green colorblind. This means that blue is the color Mark can see the best.
