Group items tagged

Explain Everything is a screencasting interactive whiteboard app.

Screencast anything and make it interactive. Students can use their devices and jump in on the lesson! Seems very engaging and interactive!

Teachers often face the question, "When are we going to use this?" This project is great because it gets students answering that question themselves. Students take a picture of something they see in the world and write their own math problem relating to the picture. This gets students thinking about why math is useful and pushes their problem-solving ability by making them formulate a good question. Once the student okays the project with the teacher, they are free to post with the class Instagram tag where other students can engage in a conversation about the problem. This is a great way to get students to engage in practical mathematics and it is easy to organize because it is almost entirely student-driven. This is a cool project that could be running year round. I could see myself setting this up and building a real-world problem bank with my classes.

This long-term project has students creating a blog that serves as their reading response journal for the year. For this assignment, students created a blog to replace their hardcopy notebooks. As students read various things in their English class, they use this one place to do all reading activities. Once they have finished posting, they then receive time to go and comment on other people's posts. This gives students a place to practice their writing skills with an authentic audience. As the year goes on and students get more comfortable with commenting, students could end up having rich conversations based on each other's writing. I like this because it is easy to set up and use for the course of the year. This can be applied to almost any subject area. Even a math teacher could use something like this for students to summarize their learning and bounce ideas off of their peers. The functionality and utility of this project make it a must-have for educators of all subject areas.

An easy way to make an interactive image and have all resources tagged in one location.

This is a great project where students get to demonstrate what they know about Quadrilaterals. For this assignment, students selected a quadrilateral to make an Instagram account for. They are to create an account that contained correct information about the shape and use an appropriate username. They also had to include at least 5 pictures of their shape. All of the posts used the class hashtag so they could easily be sorted on Instagram. When people finished their account page they had to go to other pages and check their peers quality of work. Questions, comments, and concerns were addressed by the students in the form of comments and likes. This particular example made use of a lot of poster paper and physical models. It would be easy to go all digital with this project and have students take or find pictures of their shape in the real world. This gives students another way to express what they know and interact with their peers.

The United States Department of Education's Office of Educational Technology has published a resource, Building Technology Infrastructure for Learning, that offers practical and actionable guidelines for educators and school leaders to help them provide Internet access to learners and make decisions regarding technology services. The guidebook is an excellent resource for anyone needing to understand or to create an acceptable use policy (AUP).

One of the best ways to keep the internet safe in your school or library is to teach responsible use, which is why developing and implementing your Appropriate Use Policy (AUP) is so imperative. Make sure that students understand that agreeing to the terms of your AUP is their "ticket" or "pass" for going online in the library.

Emphasis on simple and clear acceptable use policy so students understand the guidelines.

Glogster is a cloud-based service for creating presentations and other visual projects. It allows the user to make digital poster boards with different images and videos that can be embedded into the canvas. This allows students and teachers to create an interactive learning experience.

This is another resource that walks through the important elements of a digital portfolio. This article talks about what to include in a portfolio and how the elements should be arranged to make them more aesthetically pleasing.

Digital portfolios are becoming an increasingly popular way to showcase an individual's learning or abilities. This resource has several tips on how to make your digital portfolio eye-catching so that it might stand out from others.

Coggle is an online tool for creating and sharing mind maps and flowcharts. Whether you're taking notes, brainstorming, planning, or doing something awesomely creative, it is super simple to visualize your ideas with Coggle. Share with as many friends or colleagues as you like. Changes you make will show up instantly in their browser, wherever they are in the world.

1. Keep it Simple PowerPoint uses slides with a horizontal or "Landscape" orientation. The software was designed as a convenient way to display graphical information that would support the speaker and supplement the presentation. The slides themselves were never meant to be the "star of the show" (the star, of course, is your audience).

This website contains great advice on how to prepare for, design, and then deliver a professional and effective presentation. Gary Reynolds wrote the best selling book about how to use presentation software called Presentation Zen.

This resource gives a list of 10 tips for better and more effective presentations. It is easy to get carried away when making a presentation. Referencing these tips will help educators and students keep their slides clear concise, and to the point.

This resource is a how-to guide for teachers trying to use Google Docs to promote collaboration in their classroom. The ability to have several users working on one page at a time makes Google Docs one of the most powerful collaboration tools available. A guide on getting started is also provided with useful suggestions.

Spreadsheet software offers users a wide variety of tools and features. From organizing data and creating charts to computing complex math formulas, the possibilities are endless. Knowing where to begin and how to make sense of it all can be a daunting task. This resource serves as a beginners guide for those wanting to learn how to operate Google sheets.

Making the jump to use Google Docs in the classroom can be intimidating if you primarily use other word processing tools. It may be the case that you don't use word processing in your class at all. Google Docs offers a variety of features that can be of value to most teachers in any subject. This resource offers ideas and tips on how one might integrate Google Docs into their classroom.

This resource gives a brief introduction to what an acceptable use policy is. It would be great for someone who is unfamiliar with the concept. The article goes on to talk about what elements make up a good policy and why they are important.