"This is the second part of Alan's discussion with Eric Marcos, BLC presenter and middle school teacher in Santa Monica, CA. In this episode, Eric, his students and Alan focus on the student created tutorials' impact on how students are learning and how Eric can evaluate problems individual students might be having."
This week the focus is iPad and Web 2.0 Tools Tutorials. These tutorials will support teachers to effectively embed technology into their Literacy and Numeracy programs.
"iBooks Author is a great tool for creating interactive ebooks. Unfortunately,
creating content with iBooks Author isn't always as easy as you might hope it
is. Back in June I shared a
free 110 page book about using iBooks Author
. However, if
video tutorials are more helpful to you I have found twenty six videos that you
should look at."
How about flipping your classroom using iPad apps ?There are now several apps out there to help you create tutorials and video guides to help your students learn while they are not in class. Be it you want to totally flip your classroom teaching or simply to provide extra help to students, the apps below will definitely help you make a difference in your students learning.
Socrative is a powerful yet simple Student Response System that lets students respond to 'quick questions' or full quizzes using smart phones, tablets, or computers. Teachers love it - its very popular.
So you have decided to flip your classroom this year and invert your instruction method hoping to get more student engagement and boost their productivity levels. Well good thing you are going to give Flipped Classroom a try but before that you need to make it clear to your students what this new method is all about and why not even explain it to their parents as well.
Explain and Send is a free Chrome extension that I have just installed in my browser. The extension allows me to quickly select all or a portion of my screen, draw on it, type on it, and share it.
" When you're trying to teach people how to do something new on their computers having screencast videos or annotated screen capture images can be invaluable to you and the people you're trying to help. Here are some free tools that you can use to create screen capture videos and images.
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You Tube channels for the school, faculties & classes are easy to implement, easily accessible anywhere, anytime. Great for performing arts, science experiments, media, etc