With tools like Socrative, Kahoot, Zaption, Chatzy, and Plickers, teachers can use tech for immediate feedback about how students are learning and understanding the lesson.
ImageQuiz, a website that uses the power of images (1 image = 1000 words) to help you learn. The website contains a variety of quizzes, that you can try out. It is really easy to make a quiz with an uploaded image of your choice from clip art or your computer. Be creative and use power point to make an image and develop a quiz. It worked on the android tablet and is free.
there’s a war raging over what some now are calling a new art form in the emerging Web 2.0 culture—remix
remix is collage, a recombination of existing, reference images or music and video clips from popular digital culture, elements of which are mashed up into something new.
If digital literacy includes remixing, then the skills of citation and attribution are more important than ever.
failing to legally protect remixes as original forms of art and expression “will make pirates of our children...We cannot kill this form of expression;
Johnson, author of The Invention of Air, a new book about the history of information flows in American and British society, said remix has “deep roots in the Age of Enlightenment and among America’s Founding Fathers.”
Remix is not new... but it is easier and more accessible than ever. A smartphone alone is a remix machine capable of remixing text, audio, video, images and more. Then with a click you can publish your remix to the world from anywhere!
Where do we think innovation and creativity come from
Fairey rounded out the talk, citing remix as one of the early 21st century’s most popular forms of free political expression.
Remix is all about making references; references are how you establish a point of view in popular culture, and they are crucial to my work as an artist.”
This is what we as educators are all about...
We challenge students to make connections, identify themes, clarify or argue a point of view. We push them to remix everyday.
Are we challenging them to respect the ideas they build their learning upon?
See helps to assessing how well Web resources meet accessibility guidelines.
☐ Can the application be used with only the keyboard?
☐ Do images have appropriate text descriptions?
☐ Do pages have a consistent look-and-feel?
☐ Does text have enough color contrast?
☐ Do pages includes headings and landmarks?
☐ Do form controls and widgets have labels?
☐ When styling and layout is removed, is the document understandable?
☐ Does audio content have transcripts?
☐ Do videos have captions?