The Pennsylvania Department of Education was awarded a Teacher Quality Enhancement Grant. This Grant allowed several Intermediate Units to offer an Integrating Technology into Core Curriculum Skills course to teachers. Excellent video examples in a variety of subject.
Flipsnack is a free and easy site to make attractive flipbooks by uploading images or video and adding text. It can be personalized and would be great for an online art portfolio for students.
One might not think it, but there is an aspect assigned to cultures that deals primarily with how we view communicating with others. This aspect is called low or high context .
The Technology Integration Matrix (TIM) illustrates how teachers can use technology to enhance learning for K-12 students. The TIM incorporates five interdependent characteristics of meaningful learning environments: active, constructive, goal directed (i.e., reflective), authentic, and collaborative (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003).
This video was really helpful. The only thing that has changed is Desmos is not available as an add-on to Google Drive. I had to go to the Desmos webpage but everything else worked well. This will come in handy as I create more project-based lessons.
A simple video screen recorder for Chrome, Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. The free version allows users to record up to a 10 minute screencast. Screencasts can be saved in either Google Drive or YouTube.
This video is an excellent tool for teachers to learn how to embed a voice thread into a google site. It is much more efficient and easier for the user if the voice thread is embedded and not as a link.
Hangouts bring conversations to life with photos, emoji, and even group video calls for free. Connect with friends across computers, Android, and Apple devices.
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California, United States. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion. Wikipedia
Founded: February 14, 2005, San Mateo, CA
CEO: Susan Wojcicki
Headquarters: San Bruno, CA
Acquisition date: November 13, 2006
Parent organization: Google
Founders: Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, Jawed Karim
NBC Learn is the educational arm of NBC News dedicated to providing resources for students, teachers and lifelong learners. The online resources NBC Learn has created for the education community leverages nearly 80 years of historic news coverage, documentary materials and current news broadcasts. Includes videos and lesson plans.
With this site you can create slides that have links, animations, videos, vimeos, etc. on any particular subject you would like. This is a great resource to get the students to be creative and explore the options that this site has to offer.
Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.