5 Tech Savvy Teaching Tools That Your Students Will Love and Your Peers Will Envy
These Fun, Free Web Applications Make it Quick and Easy to Create Cool Learning Content (Watch out Though, Other Teachers Will be Banging Down Your Door Looking for Tips). Do you know a teacher who just always seems to know about the latest technology, and makes it look so easy to produce cool content that students find fun and engaging? Maybe you are one of these teachers? It doesn’t have to be hard to use slick tech tools in the classroom. There are so many free, easy to use tools out there. Here are five of my favorites to recommend. In addition to explaining the basic functionality of each tool, I’ve provided an example, and offered some thoughts on ‘ease of use’ and whether or not there is a paid plan (all of these tools have free offerings, one has a Premium Plan). Be patient with yourself if you try these for the first time and find yourself running into challenges. If you have another favorite easy free tools to share, please drop a quick comment and share! 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Create Digital Learning Content Combine Video Images Text Audio
What Is Metta? Metta (www.metta.io) is a digital storytelling tool that allows you to create lessons using audio, videos, and images from your computer or from the web. It is a great online app for creating short flipped or blended lessons for students to help them learn outside of the classroom. With this outstanding web application, teachers can easily create a digital content based story, supplemented with images and text. Teachers can also include poll questions in order to test the knowledge of students. So, with Metta, you can easily combine multimedia elements together to produce an awesome digital lesson. How To Use Metta For using the Metta app, you first need to create an account or login using your Facebook id.After you log in, you’ll be presented with a screen where you need to enter the title of your story or lesson. [Editors Note: I used Metta to put together the video below as an exercise in getting familiar with the tool. Using Metta in the Classroom Print This Post
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Aprende a evaluar con rúbricas
Sin duda, está más que contrastada, la utilidad de las rúbricas a la hora de guiar el proceso de enseñanza. Con ellas podemos fijarnos unos objetivos predeterminados y marcarnos una hoja de ruta que nos lleve a alcanzarlos. E incluso podremos evaluar durante todo el proceso el grado de aprendizaje que van alcanzando nuestros alumnos, no sólo a nivel individual (que también) sino con carácter colectivo. Algunas de los valores añadidos que aporta la utilización de rúbricas, entre otros, son: Ahora bien, la generación de dichas rúbricas requiere de un cierto esfuerzo y de un análisis de los objetivos que se quieren alcanzar, que no son siempre tan inmediatos como desearíamos. Y, aunque ya dispongamos de algunas herramientas web como las siguientes: nunca dejaremos de tener la necesidad de una profunda reflexión de cómo enfocar el trabajo. Asimismo, acompañamos esta breve entrada con una rúbrica para crear rúbricas, que esperamos os sea de utilidad a la hora de crear las vuestras propias.
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Ways to Teach Using Infographics
However, today I am sharing with you a great video by Kathy Shrock on Infographics as creative assessments. Here are some of the important ideas included in the video : Why Infographics ? To communicate a messagePresent large amounts of data meaningfullyReveal hidden data for the vieweWhat types can students create ?
30 DR Seuss Quotes every Teacher should Know about
"You have brains in your head,you have feet in your shoes, you can steer yourself any direction you choose" Does this sentence remind you of anything ? Of course it does, it is one Dr. Seuss unforgettable quotes. It s true that in the hustle and bustle of today's digital world, we seem to forget the real importance of things we have read in the past but as soon as we are reminded a whole chain of memories set in taking us back into our past learning journeys, rediscovering them anew as if we are living them for the first time . Dr Seuss words should always stay alive and we need to teach them to our students and kids.
Teachers Manual on The Use of Pinterest in Education
Since its launch in March 2010, Pinterest has become the most popular virtual Pinboard online. It has tremendously grown in popularity that it reached 10 million active users in a very short period of time. Pinterest , just like all the other popular social networking websites, has its own potential in education . Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has previously posted a detailed guide on how teachers can use Pinterest in education and here are some of the ideas we have included in that guide : Pinterest is a great content curation tool for teachers. We are also adding this great infograhic to the above mentioned guide. Courtesy of: WorldWideLearn.com
3 Smart Ways to Share Web Content and Playlists with Students
June 5 , 2014 Searching the web can be a daunting and time consuming task particularly for the less search savvy students. Needless to mention the proliferation of junk information and amateur knowledge that can deceptively lure students into using it as a source in their learning projects. Therefore, a teacher curated content can be a great way to ensure that students have access to quality web content relevant to what they study in class. There are several ways to create a curated content for your students. You can use these tools to create accounts for your class where you can aggregate, sort, organize, and share web content with your students. 1- Diigo Diigo is a social bookmarking web tool that allows users to bookmark, annotate, store, organize and share web content with others. As a teacher, you can use Diigo to bookmark links you want to share with your students. 2- Listly Listly is another great web tool to use to aggregate, organize an share web links with your students.
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