FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

Set up your questions. Write your own questions, or customize any game from our extensive library. Invite the students to join. At the lesson, present your game on a large screen - just like running a presentation. Your students will see a short link (triv.in) over the screen. Using that link, they can join the game from their smartphones - no need to install any App! Start the game! That's it! Once the students are in, you start running the game. The game syncs across the main screen and the students smartphones, so that everybody enjoys a real time fun experience, while viewing the game results in real time over the large screen. YouTube video: https://youtu.be/F1Cp8JPTTYA

I once heard class discussions described as "transient instructional events." They pass through the class, the course, and the educational experiences of students with few lingering effects. Ideas are batted around, often with forced participation; students don't take notes; and then the discussion ends-it runs out of steam or the class runs out of time. If asked a few days later about the exchange, most students would be hard-pressed to remember anything beyond what they themselves might have said, if that.

Welcome to WorldPopulationHistory.org, an interactive site that lets you explore the peopling of our planet from multiple perspectives - historical, environmental, social and political. It is about the 2,000-year journey of human civilization and the possible paths ahead to the middle of this century.

"Combine creativity (the development of ideas in our imagination) with innovation (the implementation of ideas into real solutions) and students have a process for problem finding and solving that can be implemented beyond their school years. "

PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images.

a history project linking Wikipedia to a dynamic map with a time slider Note that the data used in this app is yet inconsistent and will be editable by the community in the final release

"Innovative educators enjoy using high quality digital programs to support learning where they work, but it does mean their role shifts."

"Indeed, a host of national and regional surveys suggest that teachers are far more likely to use technology to make their own jobs easier and to supplement traditional instructional strategies than to put students in control of their own learning. Case study after case study describe a common pattern inside schools: A handful of "early adopters" embrace innovative uses of new technology, while their colleagues make incremental or no changes to what they already do."

"An infographic is an illustration that uses words and pictures with visualizations that may include graphs, charts, and tables. Infographics are used predominantly as a text feature in journalism and textbooks."

"Digital Citizenship: Using the internet and social media in a responsible and ethical way Digital Leadership: Using the internet and social media to improve the lives, well-being, and circumstances of others."

GoSoapBox is a powerful, flexible, and intuitive student response system for educators to use in their classrooms. Leveraging web-enabled devices, teachers digitally engage students to conduct formative assessment and gain insight into student comprehension that was never before possible.

"One of the things teachers do best is collecting evidence. We survey students about their knowledge and use the results to provide feedback to students as well as make adjustments to instruction."

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Dragontape is a collaborative online video merging service with which you can drag online videos starting with YouTube onto a 'tape' that can be shared with the world.

"Draftback is a Chrome extension that indexes the revision history of a document then allows you to watch a video of the doc being created.  You can watch as a document goes from a blank page to the final version that was submitted for a grade.  This is helpful on two fronts: 1. Clicking the document graph and statistics will show you exactly how much time each student spent creating the file.  This makes it very easy to see who participated in a group assignment. 2. Think a student plagiarized something?  You can watch to see if large portions of text were pasted onto the document from an outside source.  This is a great way to keep the student's honest."

With Zaption Presenter, any video lesson you've created and published can be projected at the front of the room or streamed live for online presentations. Viewers join the presentation on their own devices to respond individually as they watch together. Instructors get real-time data and can add questions on the fly.

"Incorporate live polling directly into your Google Slides. Create new Poll Everywhere polls or insert one of your old favorites, all without leaving Google Slides. It's all there in a free Chrome extension."

"Incorporate live polling directly into your Google Slides. Create new Poll Everywhere polls or insert one of your old favorites, all without leaving Google Slides. It's all there in a free Chrome extension."

Appends Google Form question responses to the bottom of selected Google Docs. Use a Google Form to select which Doc(s) to append from a list, multiple-choice, or checkbox Form question -- pre-populated with Doc titles from a folder in Drive.

"Make history with us: Interview an elder for the Great Thanksgiving Listen. Choose someone to interview. Pick great questions. Find a quiet place to record. Listen closely. When you're finished, share your interview with the world. Help create an archive of the wisdom of humanity. Browse the library; hear the stories of people all around the world."

"ExitTicket is a student response system, designed by teachers to achieve one simple idea: Accelerate student achievement" This is a very powerful tool for PrimeTime 1 and PrimeTime 2 and during your class periods.