FPS Integrating Technology into Your Classroom

"Give your lessons a unique spin which leads to a different learning experience everytime you play! Make a set of questions and build your own themed revision game for students to race each other round whatever kind of track you can imagine. Students join the game on their own devices and have to answer questions to move their player on the game screen. "

"Carry out lessons with ease! Knowlounge goes beyond typical smart learning and teaching methods with its shared whiteboard tool. An interactive and easy-to-use interface makes it perfect for use in flipped learning and group studies."

YouTube provides an option for doing a review for AP courses. "How do I start streaming? To go live using Stream now, open your encoder and start streaming from youtube.com/live_dashboard. There is no start button in the live dashboard." Here is a link to a web article from Richard Byrne about a teacher using YouTube Live for an AP European History review: http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2017/05/try-youtube-live-for-review-sessions.html#.WRmz7esrKM8

Analyzing Documents Teach students the process of document analysis, the foundation for working with primary sources: 1. Meet the document. 2. Observe its parts. 3. Try to make sense of it. 4. Use it as historical evidence. Learning Objectives: Think through primary source documents (photos, written documents, artifacts, posters, maps, cartoons, videos, or sound recordings) for contextual understanding. Extract information to make informed judgments. Internalize the process of analyzing primary source documents."

"Edit audio anywhere. An experimental audio editor. Copy. Snip. Pan. Record. Flexibly fade volume with envelopes. Apply and move effects (filters, compression, etc.) amongst tracks. And more. Edit while playing for quick feedback. Works online or offline."

"The editors had to ponder what would make a technology easier to avoid than try to implement, and came up with a list of broad technologies and technology trends that either A) caused, rather than eased, more problems and concerns in the classroom, and/or B) were not evolved enough to make an actual difference in teaching or learning."

"I spoke to educators from across grade levels and content areas who are actually using VR with their students. Based on their experiences, it appears VR has plenty of potential-especially when it comes to engagement. Here's a run-down on the perks from some of America's early-adopters."

"The author created a Depth of Knowledge chart that corresponds to each of the core content areas. You're welcome to view each chart in this post or download the PDF files at bottom of the website."

"Edtech is making is easier and more efficient to help students at every level, and to bring even the most timid of learners out of their shells. Dr. Kenneth Shore, a psychologist and Chair of a child study team for the Hamilton, New Jersey Public Schools, explains that "Low self-esteem can lessen a student's desire to learn, his or her ability to focus, and his or her willingness to take risks. Positive self-esteem, on the other hand, is one of the building blocks of school success; it provides a firm foundation for learning."

"I was approached by a teacher who had never redesigned her lessons to take advantage of edtech's potential to transform learning. She was still stuck in the $1,000 pencil phase of using new tools to do traditional work. When I showed examples of how teachers around the country were challenging students to design and find solutions to their own problems, she immediately saw the benefit of shifting her thinking. The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. The bad news is, she was afraid of appearing vulnerable in front of her students if something went wrong." It is okay to not know everything about technology. Many times your students know more than you do...and that is okay!

EquatIO takes the pain out of creating mathematical expressions digitally. Made for today's tech-focused classrooms, this Chrome browser extension lets you type, handwrite, or dictate equations, formulas and more directly on your computer or tablet. Then add your expression with a click of a button to Google Docs or Forms. Input's easy with EquatIO. You don't need to know any complicated math code or programming languages like LaTeX. 

Starting a game is fast, easy, and doesn't require registration! This is the first draft (beta 1.0) of our website which we hope will be a fun, communal way to learn geography and other interesting trivia. The site was started by Jeff Borland, a teacher in Portland, Maine and one of his former students, Orkhan Nadirli. We believe that students need to know much more about the world and we thought that this game format would be a wonderful way to do that. In the coming months we hope to add lots of new features (like the ability to create your own trivia sets), so keep checking back.

Kupiter is a fast-paced and fun studying game, designed to study any flashcards, vocabulary, or test review. Quizlet study sets can be easily imported into this game for review.

"Google announced that Google Keep is now integrated right into Google Docs. That means anything you record in Keep can easily be accessed in a panel in Docs. This can be an easy way to organize all of your comments in Keep, pull them up when in Docs, and copy and paste the ones you need."

Free Tools for creating professional intros, animations, slideshows and music visualizations in minutes. You don't need any previous knowledge in video editing. Make your videos online and publish to your network in one click.

"I've watched a student cry in front of her PC after she found a Word document she had worked on for days corrupted. I've witnessed someone spill coffee on my colleague's MacBook, and then felt enraged when he had to spend almost half its price to make the thing work again. Now you may ask me: What's going on with our computers? Well, there is nothing wrong with the computers. It's us. It's our bad habits that led to these tragedies. That's what I'd like to share with you today: four good computer habits every teacher should have in the digital age. "

"Educators must start with the end goal in mind: college and career readiness. To get there, students must be able to read independently and proficiently at a certain level, and fluently apply math foundations."

"A "growth mindset," as Dweck calls it, is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a tendency to believe that you can grow."

"I've found that the best feedback is the kind that can be applied right away. Why wait when we can get help right now with whatever we're cognitively wrestling with? Especially today, where technology is ubiquitous and communication is instant, we can do so much better than tardy feedback."

"Google recently added a pretty awesome feature in Google Slides that now allows users to create slide decks using videos stored in their Google Drives."