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John Evans

Free Technology for Teachers: More Than 100 Tips and Tricks for New Teachers - 3 views

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tips tricks new teachers

shared by John Evans on 01 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 01 Sep 11
     
    Last fall I asked readers to contribute to a list of tips for new teachers. I compiled that list and put it together as a Google Docs presentation of 131 tips. This year, I would like to expand the list with more tips from you. If you have a helpful tip for new teachers, be it technology related or not, please consider leaving a comment on this post and I will add it to the presentation. Last year's list is embedded below.
John Evans

Educational Technology Guy: Read & Write Text to Speech web app comes to iPad and Android - 1 views

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educational technology text speech text to speech web web app ipad android

shared by John Evans on 03 Mar 15 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 03 Mar 15
     
    "Read and Write for Google is an excellent Chrome app that provides text-to-speech functions from your browser. They have just released a free iPad and Android app. The apps provide text to speech functions, which are great for ESL, learning disabled, visually challenged and struggling readers, on your device, just like the web app does in the Chrome Browser and Chromebooks."
John Evans

A Reading Comprehension Tool To Simplify Text - - 4 views

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reading comprehension tool simplify text

shared by John Evans on 24 Nov 14 - No Cached
  • John Evans on 24 Nov 14
     
    "Need a reading comprehension tool to simplify texts for students? Something practical, along the lines of our "How To Google Search by Reading Level," and Conversion Chart For Reading Level Measurement Tools? You may find some use in rewordify. In short, you copy/paste text to be "simplified," and it does its thing. It attempts to simplify the text at the vocabulary level (as opposed to syntatical, structural, or idea level). Nonetheless, when vocabulary is the barrier, it does the trick. The replacements don't always do what they should-simplify the text to make it more readable for struggling readers, or students reading beyond their natural level. Sometimes the definitions are themselves confusing, as they add an additional cognitive movement the student has to make, internalizing this now sterile definition back into some kind of meaning."
John Evans

Google Chrome Blog: Announcing the Chromium OS Open Source Project - 1 views

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google chrome blog

shared by John Evans on 21 Nov 09 - Cached
  • John Evans on 21 Nov 09
     
    "Announcing the Chromium OS Open Source Project"
John Evans

Browser Size - Analyze Website Layout & Design - 2 views

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analyze browser website layout design

shared by John Evans on 19 Dec 09 - Cached
  • Browser Size is a new tool launched by Google under Google Labs that could be useful not only for web designers and developers but also for the average website owner who wants to check which parts of the site are above the fold and visible to readers.
John Evans

How to Inspire Students to Design, Invent, and Make an Impact | MindShift - 5 views

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how to inspire students invent design

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  • John Evans on 03 Apr 13
     
    "Spark your students' curiosity in engineering and technology by introducing them to the designers, inventors, and clever thinkers featured in PBS LearningMedia. Use their stories to illustrate various themes of study like the engineering design process and the impact of technology."
Chelsea Quake

IPads in the classroom: The right way to use them, demonstrated by a Swiss school. - 8 views

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shared by Chelsea Quake on 16 Apr 13 - No Cached
  • The teachers cared most about how the devices could capture moments that told stories about their students’ experiences in school. Instead of focusing on what was coming out of the iPad, they were focused on what was going into it.
  • But most eye-opening, he said, is watching children have their own “aha” moments after watching recordings of themselves and talking to teachers about what they were thinking at the time.
  • Ten years ago, Stanford’s Larry Cuban noted that computers in the classroom were being oversold and underused. In short order, the iPad craze could take the same turn. My lesson from ZIS is that we should make sure we have teachers who understand how to help children learn from the technology before throwing a lot of money into iPad purchasing. It wasn’t the 600 iPads that were so impressive— it was the mindset of a teaching staff devoted to giving students time for creation and reflection. Are American public schools ready to recognize that it’s the adults and students around the iPads, not just the iPads themselves, that require some real attention?
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  • The school has an unconventional take on the iPad’s purpose. The devices are not really valued as portable screens or mobile gaming devices. Teachers I talked to seemed uninterested, almost dismissive, of animations and gamelike apps. Instead, the tablets were intended to be used as video cameras, audio recorders, and multimedia notebooks of individual students’ creations. The teachers cared most about how the devices could capture moments that told stories about their students’ experiences in school. Instead of focusing on what was coming out of the iPad, they were focused on what was going into it.
  • The school has an unconventional take on the iPad’s purpose. The devices are not really valued as portable screens or mobile gaming devices. Teachers I talked to seemed uninterested, almost dismissive, of animations and gamelike apps. Instead, the tablets were intended to be used as video cameras, audio recorders, and multimedia notebooks of individual students’ creations. The teachers cared most about how the devices could capture moments that told stories about their students’ experiences in school. Instead of focusing on what was coming out of the iPad, they were focused on what was going into it.
    • Chelsea Quake
      Chelsea Quake on 06 Oct 13
       
      This is an important point
  • Sam Ross, a second-grade teacher at ZIS, sees real potential in moments like this. “Children are being able to show what’s in their minds by adding the oral explanation,” he said. “That’s off-the-charts amazing.” Particularly helpful, he said, is to watch the recordings made by young children and English-language learners—students who may not speak up much in class but can actually show deep learning when asked to interview each other or record what they know. But most eye-opening, he said, is watching children have their own “aha” moments after watching recordings of themselves and talking to teachers about what they were thinking at the time.
  • In addition to Explain Everything, they include MyStory, iMovie, Animation HD, Google Earth, Book Creator, Show Me, Brushes, and Comic Life. They also feature Follett Reader and Overdrive, two subscription-based services to digital book collections.
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