A Great App to Create and Edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel Docs on iPad September 10, 2015 WPS Office Free is one of the best free iPad apps you can use to view, edit and create Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents. It is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, PDF and several other document formats. WPS Office also supports a number of file formats that include doc, docx, ppt, xls, xlsx, tif, rtf, pdf and zip. Some of the features WPS Office provides for users include: supports wireless printing and Bluetooth keyboards, allows you to share presentations and documents with other devices using AirPlay, AirDrop, DLNA or WIFI, open and edit documents directly from popular cloud services such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, OneDrive and WebDAV, export office documents and presentations to a PDF and many more. WPS Office supports 6 languages: English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish and Japanese.
12 must-have apps for supply teachers What are the essential resources for the supply teacher? Sharon Wood, founder of National Supply Teacher Week, takes a look at her absolute favourites. On supply, normal rules don’t apply. You may be left a set of plans, fully resourced, for the day. Or you may turn up with five minutes (10 minutes after you received the call to go) before the children arrive, to an empty desk, a missing laptop, and no password for the photocopier. ClassBreak Class Break features over 200 different activities and games that are outside the traditional PE class games of kickball and volleyball. Twitter Twitter is more than just a social media site. Undecided Undecided is a free app that is intended to help make decisions easier. BrainBreak BrainBreak is a great way to motivate, re-energize and refocus students at any stage of the day. Toontastic Toontastic is a free app, but upgrades can be made for a small fee. SparkleFish SparkleFish is a free app that is reminiscent of the game Mad Libs. Screen Chomp Easy PD
25 Of The Best iPad Apps To Promote Creativity In Students 25 Of The Best iPad Apps To Promote Creativity In Students This content was commissioned by Drawp, a professional-grade artistic app that promotes a simple creative workflow between students and teachers. Nailing down exactly what promotes creativity isn’t easy, if for no other reason than creativity looks different depending on what you’re talking about: Problem-solving? Drawing? Social interactions? But fundamentally-speaking, among the factors that promote creativity are collaboration, modeling, dynamic tools, and confidence. Tablets and smartphones feature some design elements that inherently promote creativity as well, including elegant touch-interfaces, a personal screen, and available connectivity with other apps and devices. When you combine these mobile devices with apps that promote creativity as well, and you’ve got a powerful combination that–in the right workflow–can produce some spectacular results. Workflow Matters In the creative process, workflow matters.
Free Music Downloads Online for Educational Use | Royalty Free Music Who says you can't get something for nothing? Royaltyfreemusic.com offers a variety of FREE high-quality royalty-free items, including royalty-free stock footage, royalty-free sound effects, royalty-free clip art, royalty-free images, royalty-free photos, and of course, royalty-free stock music. Our free Royalty Free Music section provides you with the resources you need to complete a variety of educational, personal, and non-profit projects. Need to put together a school presentation by tomorrow? Check out our collection of free royalty-free stock photos and free PowerPoint music for images and slideshow music that are certain to impress your teacher. If you are an educator who would like to use royalty-free music in your classroom, click the Free Music Programs link to submit an application to download stock music free of charge.
9 iPad Apps that Assess Student Learning | Educational technology | Learn2Earn By Katie Chirhart As an iPad Lab teacher, I work closely with the classroom teachers to deepen and assess their students’ understanding of the material taught in the classroom—oftentimes, teachers ask that I spend additional time in the lab covering material that they’ve already taught. The apps listed below are some of my favorite apps to use in these instances. Technology allows students opportunities to demonstrate and engage in learning in ways that go beyond using paper and pencil. A tedious review session, suddenly becomes a something to look forward to. Use these apps to take your classroom learning environment and assessment to the next level. Formative (Real-Time Assessment) EdPUZZLE If you’ve ever wanted your students watch a YouTube video, with questions and comments spread throughout the video, this app is for you. Socrative Use this iPad app to online quizzes that can be completed on individual devices (computers, old smartphones and tablets). PickMe Buzzer Plickers Kahoot! AutoRap
Edueto: excellente plateforme pour créer vos exercices interactifs et collecter les résultats Les plateformes se suivent et heureusement toutes ne se ressemblent pas. Edueto permet de créer des exercices interactifs variés, incluant des médias, d’inscrire des élèves sans mail et ‘affecter les exercices à des groupes choisis puis de visualiser les résultats. A l’accueil rien de bien extraordinaire, un menu vous propose d’accéder à différentes sections. Dans my library, vous retrouverez tous ls exercices que vous avez créé. Dans results se trouvent les résultats des différents exercices et enfin dans my students, vous pouvez créer vos groupes et vérifier les codes à fournir aux élèves pour qu’ils puissent s’inscrire. Passons aux choses qui nous intéressent le plus, les exercices eux-mêmes. Les exercices se paramètrent très simplement et les utilisateurs de différentes solutions ne se sentiront pas perdus. Point intéressant toutefois, tous les exercices peuvent être associés à un média, photo ou vidéo avec upload de vos propres photographies ou lien youtube pour les vidéos.
Chirp Rare 1959 Audio: Flannery O'Connor Reads 'A Good Man is Hard to Find' Flannery O'Connor was a Southern writer who, as Joyce Carol Oates once said, had less in common with Faulkner than with Kafka and Kierkegaard. Isolated by poor health and consumed by her fervent Catholic faith, O'Connor created works of moral fiction that, according to Oates, “were not refined New Yorker stories of the era in which nothing happens except inside the characters' minds, but stories in which something happens of irreversible magnitude, often death by violent means." In imagining those events of irreversible magnitude, O'Connor could sometimes seem outlandish--even cartoonish--but she strongly rejected the notion that her perceptions of 20th century life were distorted. In April of 1959--five years before her death at the age of 39 from lupus--O'Connor ventured away from her secluded family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia, to give a reading at Vanderbilt University. The grandmother didn't want to go to Florida. Related Content:
10 Educational Web Tools That Support Inquiry-based Learning September , 2015 As a learning strategy, inquiry-based learning is all about learners constructing their own understanding and knowledge through asking questions. Unlike traditional learning methods that focus primarily on drills, memorization and rote learning, inquiry-based learning is essentially student-centered. It starts with posing questions and directly involves students in challenging hands-on activities that drive students to ask more questions and explore different learning paths. In today’s post, we have assembled a collection of some useful web tools and apps that support the ethos of inquiry-based learning. 1- VideoNotes VideoNotes is a free web tool that allows students to take notes on a video they are watching. Edpuzzle allows you to use only what you need from any video, insert audio notes or record over a video with your voice, and add questions at any point in the video .3- PixiClip This is by far the most popular of them all. 7- YouTube Video Editor 9- Prezi
11 trucos de Google Drive que quizá no conocías #1 Busca en Gmail y Google Drive al mismo tiempo Si tienes Google Drive, es muy probable que tengas también Gmail. Con está función, podrás buscar documentos de Google Drive mientras usas el buscador de Gmail. Para ello, tendrás que hacer click en el botón con forma de herramienta que encontrarás arriba a la derecha. Se encuentra justo debajo de tu foto de usuario de Google Plus. Haz click en "Labs" y habilita la opción de "Búsqueda en Google Apps". ¡Y listo! #2 Buscar documentos compartidos por una persona A veces buscar documentos en Google Drive puede ser más difícil de lo que parece. En ocasiones, nos acordamos del nombre de la persona que compartió el archivo con nosotros, pero no del nombre del documento. Esto puede ser un problema más frecuente de lo que parece si trabajamos con varias personas en un mismo documento. ¿Cómo solucionarlo? ¡Así de simple! #3 Usa Google Drive como si fuese Dropbox #4 Guarda un archivo en Google Drive mientras navegas por Internet #5 Crea formularios
Best Apps for Teaching & Learning 2013 Science 360 by the National Science Foundation Level: ALL (grades K-12)Platform: iOS Website Science 360 is a science and engineering news app designed to engage the user in visual explorations through photos, videos, and text. Tip: Have students explore Science 360 for possible science project ideas and explore current science in the news. The Short Story Podcasts Broadening the number of resources The Short Story brings its readers, we are extremely pleased to provide this set of podcasts, courtesy of the Florida Centre of Instructional Technologies (FCIT) from the University of South Florida (USF). In due time, we hope to provide a greater number and range of podcasts to TSS. If you would like to offer your own recordings, please contact us as at info@theshortstory.co.uk to discuss the details. This set of twenty five short story podcasts is from Sherwood Anderson’s influential short story collection Winesburg, Ohio (1919). Source: Anderson, S. (1919) Winesburg, Ohio. New York, NY: B.W. 1.The Book of the Grotesque An aging writer ponders the many people he has met and the stories he has heard in his lifetime. Audio Player 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.Death, concerning Doctor Reefy and Elizabeth Willard As her life comes to a close, Elizabeth Willard shares her life experiences with Doctor Reefy.
3 Powerful iPad Apps for Creating Diagrams and Flowcharts September 6, 2015 Looking for some good iPad apps to visualize data on your iPad, the apps below have you covered. These are some handy applications you can use to create visually appealing diagrams and flowcharts and to communicate your ideas in a visually explicit way. For those of you interested in creating diagrams in Google Drive, check out these tools. 1- Venn Diagram ‘This app allows users to create Venn diagrams that contain two or three overlapping circles. 2- Lucidchart ‘Create, edit, and share beautiful diagrams, flowcharts, process maps, and more! 3- Grafio ‘Allow Grafio to become an extension of your fingertip.