Todays Meet is a backchannel, which helps teachers conduct online discussions, while channeling the results onto one web page or an Interactive White Board.
I have used Socrative and my First Graders were very good using it. So, no excuses for older ones. I like the fact that we can add pictures and share the SOCs with other teachers.
One of the applications I tried out was Socrative. It can best be described as online clickers. Here is an article that describes it more in detail. Since I teach at college and EVERYONE has cellphones, it is very easy (and fun) for students to use. And teachers get immediate feedback!
That's good to know. My students have a mixed bag of devices, and several have Ipads.
The first time students watch a video, they are unable to skip through the video; they have to watch the whole thing from start to finish and attempt every question.
Love this feature. Like with reading, middle schoolers pick through material to find the answers. We can't glue them to their seats, but they never know where those questions will pop up and they can't look ahead to see what answers they need to find. Love that!
You paste in the URL of the video, then watch it play
According to another blog I was reading regarding licensing and sharing, if the "embed" function is operable the owner has endorsed (consciously or thru oversight?) sharing.
Good to know to allay students' fears. Will they even think that their answers would be made public-probably not most MS students.
You can assign a video to the class, and then eduCanon collects data for you on your class’ completion of the task and their responses to your questions.
How to use VoiceThread 25 Interesting Ways* to use VoiceThread in the Classroom (*and tips) is a VoiceThread offering ideas for lessons on problem solving, collaboration on artwork, video discussions, revision/review, playwriting, poetry, and more.
While copying the embed code, make sure you’ve unmarked “Show suggested videos when the video finishes”. This helps you expose your students to YouTube videos in a safe and secured manner.
It's getting close to that time of year when teachers and students will be returning to school for the fall semester. The great thing about the start of a new school year is that it brings new resolutions for both teachers and students.
Has anyone used Thinkquest? It looks like a great way to introduce elementary students to social networking in a safe way. I also posted a great site that does online safety and cyberbulling in 15 minutes lessons with Garfield cartoons for kids.
Yes, I have used it primarily with middle school students and I have found it quite useful. The last time I used it was several years ago to set up a list of websites to use with a webquest, a very simple and easy thing to do.
This looks pretty promising. I also think the connections you made on this site are great - asking for resources and someone commented back with great resources on kids safety on the internet. Awesome!!
I now turn to Twitter friends for help in the same way that I turn to the teachers on my hallway. Recently, a friend in my Twitter feed pointed me to a great strategy for structuring classroom discussions, a practice I'd been struggling with (http://angelacunningham.wordpress.com/2009/05/teaching-students-to-dialogue.html).
he primary reason for my inability to embrace differentiation as a teacher was that, until recently, I'd never experienced differentiation as a learner. Like most practitioners, I've spent too much professional development time sitting in lectures delivered to entire faculties. No one offered preassessments, tiered lessons, or learning contracts to my colleagues or me.
Good example of how an educator used twitter to chat with an author. Also detailed her proposal to admin to override the twitter block. Great if your school blocks twitter.
I wonder how she did this? I think this would be of high interest for my world geography teachers. Would certainly add a new dimension to reporting out on current events in different parts of the world.
Teachers and librarians are finding Twitter’s great for research, too. Karen Burns, a librarian at Gig Harbor High School in Washington state, created a Twitter search widget for current events in Africa to help ninth graders with their research projects.