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"The ease of use and simplicity of design are what really make ClassroomQ stand out. After creating an account, teachers can start a class session with one click. "Students join the session by going to classroomq.com/students, enter their teacher's name and class code. They can then ask for assistance and will be added to the teacher's queue with the push of a button. They can also see how many students are ahead of them at any time."ClassroomQ Assistance Button "Teachers see an ordered list of student requests along with any optional comments that students may have provided. Simply clicking on a student's name removes them from the list." Looks like a cool solution -- but wouldn't working in groups be a help? T/h to Nick LaFave

"Learnist, as many have already pointed out, works much like Pinterest - a way to catalog online resources on a topic and share them with the user's social network. And like Pinterest, it looks like a digital bulletin board with pictures and messages, and connects with Facebook accounts. In fact, the site's "learning boards" look quite a bit like Facebook's timeline feature, and Facebook membership is required to use Learnist at this point. In its current closed beta form, Learnist, launched by Grockit, is still very much in its infancy, but some curious teachers have already jumped on the wagon. Time will tell whether educators will stick with Pinterest, or migrate to Learnist because of its association with Grockit, which already has a large and loyal following as a social learning tool." Nice article on how educators are using Learnist. Hope this one makes it past Beta.

"8 ways to use Learnist, a Pinterest-like education sit By Lindsey Smith Learnist bears a striking similarity to Pinterest by way of Wikipedia, and the busy knowledge-sharing site is bursting at the seams with content. "Want to know how to write objectively, use Photoshop, or experiment with the "flipped classroom"? Now you can with Learnist boards. Experts create pages or "boards," which serve as informative or instructional layouts where external sources are used to support any given topic. "Education Dive compiled a list of 8 ways that education-focused Learnist boards present trends, tips, and resources to help you learn and eventually share what you know:" This is an informative list that shows how to use a technology in ways that can expand the mind to other applications/format. Good links!

"Pinterest is an electronic bulletin board where users can "pin" images from around the web. These images are then categorized into various boards on the users' profile. Pins are also shared and searchable, which makes Pinterest a wonderful resource for visual information. So what are these pin boards good for with regards to integrating them into the classroom?" Suggests ways to create lesson plans, share ideas, organize your own or students' resources, and help students explore their own presentations and projects.

A great collection of instructional videos on how to use Pinterest for education, as well as a set of links to other educational sites.

"Every educator, from kindergarten to graduate school, should contribute to the important and significant work of teaching students to use online sources and social networks for educational and professional goals. To ignore the technology, or assume that our students already know it because they use it every day, is to participate in educational malpractice." A very sensible article about what main tools are used to move kids from social media to academic purposes -- and how to get them there. Speaks to PLNs, PLEs, Pinterest, curation with Diigo, Symbaloo, Netvibes, Twitter. Very good explanation of how the work, the advantages, and the possible problems. Hybrid Pedagogy is a Digital Journal with a team of editors and writers.

A nice way to enhance project-based learning, and PicMark lets you share on several common social websites such as Google+, Twitter, and Fb. "PicMark is a simple tool that allows you to brand your pictures with a custom frame before you post them online. Adding a mark is as simple as uploading your picture to their site, choosing a frame, and sharing it to Facebook, Twitter, or Pinterest. The site allows you to further enhance your frames by choosing colors, styles, and typing messages on the frame. If you'd like, you can even design your own custom frame to use anytime. PicMark is great for teachers to share class pictures on their class web page or with students in projects. PicMark is free to join and it makes sharing pictures just a little bit more fun."

The author compares 10 bookmarking and annotating tools, such as Diigo and Scoop.it, Pinterest, etc.

"Have students create a Pinterest board with 10 pins that summarizes them. Ask students to create a 30 second podcast that introduces themselves. Then allow students to present them or play them on separate devices as an audio gallery. Create a classroom blog and ask each student to write a blog post introducing themselves to the rest of the classroom. Have students create a quick comic strip to describe themselves or to recreate a recent funny moment in their lives. Use PollEverywhere to ask students interesting questions and get to know them as a class, like their favorite subjects, bands or TV shows. Use GoogleForms or SurveyMonkey to survey students about their interests, academic inclinations, and background info - a 21st century alternative to the "Getting to Know You" info sheet! Have students create word clouds to describe themselves and share with the rest of the class. Have students go on a QR code scavenger hunt in teams to get to know each other and learn about your classroom rules in a fun, engaging way. Ask students to create their own Voki avatars that introduce themselves to the class. Encourage them to be creative with the backgrounds, characters and details of the avatar to reflect their own personalities and preferences. Have students create graffiti online that speaks to their interests and personalities and share with the class." A nice set of ready-made lessons using readily available apps on the computer.

Lots of ideas for using Google+, and how to use it. Links and videos in a Pinterest type board from edcanvas. Worth some time to explore.

"If This Then That helps you automate tasks like saving your Pinterest pins to your Evernote account, setting text alerts for calendar events, and sending email attachments directly to your Dropbox account. There are thousands of formulas, "recipes" is what IFTTT calls them, available in the gallery of recipes." Byrne suggests uses for teachers, but this might be an good place for students to try out simple programming skills. t/h R. Byrne

A Pinterest-type site with short reviews of lesson plans for teaching with film, and descriptions of films that might be used for education, especially those with cross-cultural interest. Will take some willingness to hunt, though there is a search engine.

R. Byrne: "A featured resource on MoMA Learning is this video containing five tips for teaching with works of art. The video not only lists the tips, it contains examples of using these tips to teach art history and art appreciation lessons to students." Most of the great art museums and natural history museums of the world have websites with instructional materials of very high quality. It's worth some time to explore what they offer and figure out how to adapt their resources for your classes. One of the other excellent resources on MoMA Learning is this glossary of art terms. In many cases the definitions in the glossary contain links to multiple examples of each term. You might also like: Three Good Places to Find Art Lessons Art Babble - Videos and Lessons In Art History Read and Download 250+ Art Books from the Getty Museum 390 Free Online Art History Books Linkwithin 33 at 7:05 PM Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Art, Art History, art lessons, Free Technology For Teachers, MoMA, MoMA Learning Links to this post Create a Link Newer Post Older Post Home LinkWithin Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger... TW FreeTech Banner Dark Blue (1) freetech4teachers HelloTalk new seesaw-468-60 Midwest Teachers Institute Banner 468x60 isd-richard-byrnes-ad-2014 ettipad-boston15-CFP-200x200 prepfactory DE_WILKES_EDGE_AD_200x200.jpg Browse The Archives ► 2015 (707) ▼ 2014 (1243) ► December (115) ► November (86) ► October (112) ► September (116) ► August (102) ▼ July (114) ► Jul 31 (5) ► Jul 30 (4) ► Jul 29 (2) ► Jul 28 (4) ► Jul 27 (3) ► Jul 26 (2) ► Jul 25 (5) ► Jul 24 (5) ► Jul 23 (4) ► Jul 22 (5) ► Jul 21 (5) ► Jul 20 (2) ► Jul 19 (2)

Using tag machines for the greatest effect. Discusses such curation devices as Pinterest, ScoopIt, Paper.li, and Flipboard. Would be a useful article to help you select what kind of archiving you want to use.

Curation of digital images with commenting. A good visual resource. You can "pin" pictures to explore a topic or concept.

"Creating cartoon avatar of yourself is fun and interesting. You can convert your photos into cartoon effects using free online tools which you can use on your online profiles like Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and any other place you want." This article suggests almost a dozen online applications to make cartoons out of photos. Find a useful tool for your students to use in digital storytelling.

"Bitmoji Classrooms are really catching on as teachers try to have fun and increase engagement by designing their virtual environments. In the simplest form, a Bitmoji classroom is just a Google Slide with hyperlinked images and objects that link out to class information and resources. Check out the Pinterest collection at the bottom of this page to see some of the creative ways teachers are using their Bitmoji Classrooms." Based on Google Slides. This site has a link to slide you can start using immediately. T/h N. LaFave.

This looks like a potentially useful site with loads of how-to tutorials on various apps and popular websites, such as Pinterest. Many lessons seem to be made by real teachers.

"In addition to YouTube videos, pictures, and voice recordings Metta also provides options for including content from Pinterest and Twitter to use in your final presentation. Metta also allows you to insert a quiz into your projects. This means that people viewing your Metta projects can watch a short video clip then answer questions about it before moving onto the next part of the presentation. Applications for Education You could have students create Metta projects in which they create book trailers using video clips, images, and their voices. Students could use Metta to create a digital collage of media around a current events topic that they're studying. Metta might also be used by students to create a showcase of their best digital works of the semester. "