FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

Watching educational videos is a great way to learn because it allows kids to build a visual picture or model in their mind. The visual dimension not only helps them understand concepts better, but also stimulates curiosity and encourages self-learning. NeoK12 also features Web 2.0 tools for learning and teaching.

"In today's world of video recording capabilities, it only seems fitting to utilize this advanced technology to record one's teaching. Teachers can use classroom video recording much like athletes do. Athletes review video tapes in order to critique and analyze their performances, while also generating ideas and ways to improve their next performance."

"Visible Thinking is a flexible and systematic research-based approach to integrating the development of students' thinking with content learning across subject matters. An extensive and adaptable collection of practices, Visible Thinking has a double goal: on the one hand, to cultivate students' thinking skills and dispositions, and, on the other, to deepen content learning. By thinking dispositions, we mean curiosity, concern for truth and understanding, a creative mindset, not just being skilled but also alert to thinking and learning opportunities and eager to take them"

"Create and play your own free educational quiz show templates!" Why use eQuizShow to make your quiz show templates? Show students questions & answers to review; no PowerPoint; No registration required.

"Richer than a document, simpler than video, SlideSpeech transforms the way ideas are shared. By reading the speaker notes in your own presentation using the latest text-to-speech technology, SlideSpeech ensures your message comes across loud and clear."

"This version has been a year in the making. The code has been completely re-written from the ground-up to make it faster, more reliable, and easier to add features to. Flubaroo 3.0 will be available in the Script Gallery starting June 24. Just install it from the Gallery on a new spreadsheet, or follow these instructions to upgrade an existing installation of Flubaroo. "

Another simple polling/survey option for use in the classroom. Quick and easy.

This WebApp provides a simple way to merge PDF files. You can either select the files you want to merge from you computer or drop them on the app using drag and drop. After that use drag and drop to bring the files in the desired order. The resulting merged PDF file will contain all Documents in the order as they appear on the screen. When done, press merge to initiate merging.

"Quibl.com is an open debate platform to discuss any controversial topic."

"gClassFolders is a free, Google-Spreadsheet-based add-on for Google Apps for EDU that creates class folders for students and teachers to simplify and streamline their experience of using Google's world class productivity and collaboration tools in the classroom." Version 2 contains new features useful for multiple semesters.

What I can do with DebateGraph...? 1. Facilitate group dialogue - and augment individual intelligence 2. Clarify a key argument 3. Deliberate together, decide, and manage the tasks arising 4. Collaborative learning and teaching 5. Conference reporting and engagement

"21st century skills are an important consideration for every educator as we are striving to prepare today's students to become prepared for the competitive global market of tomorrow. This website seeks to provide a resource that allows educators an opportunity to easily navigate educationally relevant Web 2.0 tools, resources, and examples of standards alignment."

"DebateGraph is an award-winning, web-platform for visualizing and sharing networks of thought - and opening reasoning and action to collaborative learning and iterative improvement."

"In the past few years, many teachers from around the world have started to use a new method called the flipped classroom.  Some parents are curious, others skeptical, and a few hostile.  If you are a parent of a student in a flipped classroom, what is it you need to know about the model so that your son or daughter can have the best experience possible?"

Options for using captioning or interpreters for hearing impaired students. "  Deaf/HOH students       Using YouTube translatable captions & Picture in Picture of interpreter signing Translatable captions: I (Tim F) need to create a video showing the whole process of doing this but basically all you have to do to create translatable captions for YouTube is upload a script to a video that you own and YouTube will "magically" sync up the two and then make the captions available in 51 languages). Picture in picture: I used Camtasia Studio to easily add the video with the interpreter signing."

"Enjoy effective visual collaboration in realtime"

"A checklist on the form included: reading a book, writing on paper, typing on the computer-and also using email, looking at Facebook, engaging in instant messaging, texting, talking on the phone, watching television, listening to music, surfing the web. Sitting unobtrusively at the back of the room, the observers counted the number of windows open on the students' screens and noted whether the students were wearing ear-buds."

"Important research compiled on the effects of students multitasking while learning shows that they are losing depth of learning, getting mentally fatigued, and are weakening their ability to transfer what they have learned to other subjects and situations"

"Looking for some practical ways to get more out of your classroom tech? Check out these eight tips for ideas on how to use technology to enhance your students' learning"