Group items tagged

"The Buck Institute for Education commissioned the cutting-edge advertising agency, Common Craft, to create a short animated video that explains in clear language the essential elements of Project Based Learning (PBL). This simple video makes the essential elements of PBL come alive and brings to light the 21st Century skills and competencies (collaboration, communication, critical thinking) that will enable K-12 students to be college and work-ready as well as effective members of their communities."

If you're a user of Google Drive, then no doubt you have also heard of and likely used Google Presentations (Google's version of PowerPoint). It's a great tool to create slick presentations in the cloud, especially after its most recent overhaul. However, Google Presentations is also a handy tool for doing some great projects with your students that have nothing to do with public speaking. Here are some fun exercises you can try in your classes.

One of my favorite features of Google Drive is Google Forms. If you're unfamiliar with this, think of it as a way to create quick surveys that can be used for a number of applications. Google automatically aggregates this data into a Google Spreadsheet, making forms a great way to quickly collect and share information. I have seen educators and administrators use Google Forms in the most creative and inventive ways. If you're just starting with Google Forms, here are five ways that you can use them to streamline your classroom!

All of the resources on this wiki have been created in Inspiration, Word, Pages, PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Docs and Inspiration Maps for iPad. If you have Pages, Keynote or Inspiration Maps on your iPad or Android, then you will be able to use most of these Graphic Organisers.

Twisted Wave is an online service (iPad app also available) for creating and editing audio tracks. One of the best features of Twisted Wave is that you can save your recordings directly to your Google Drive account.

You can choose a script and create a storyboard. Try building your own storyboard using background location photographs.

There is a new timeline tool in town! Actually MyHistro is more than just a timeline - it has a  built-in mapping tool too.

Create your own downloadable newspaper. You decide the date, headline & story.