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sidney steinmann

How Technology Enhances Teaching and Learning | Center for Teaching | Vanderbilt Univer... - 0 views

  • Last semester, Tomarken also faced another problem – the lack of a good textbook for teaching structural equation modeling to social science students – that he solved using technology. “There is no book that is perfect, that really is appropriate, for this class. There are either books that tend to be too easy or too hard or just not broad enough in scope.” Tomarken solved this problem using the Prometheus system, by placing his lecture notes on the web. This not only replaced the textbook, it allowed students to spend more time focused on the lecture and less time copying formulas from the board. “I told them, you don’t have to write anything, it’s all on the web, just listen.”
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    using technology in the classroom 
Brittany Pilon

Meacham SMARTboard - 0 views

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    This website is great to look at if you want to find interactive lessons for your smartboard. You can get different lessons for each subject, and there are different age group activities also. 
Ally Hoefs

5 Unique Uses of Twitter in the Classroom - US News and World Report - 0 views

  • he uses Twitter not as a news source for his class but as a bulletin board.
  • I believe [Twitter] has the potential to transcend the boundaries of the classroom and socialize knowledge."
  • Creating a personal brand.
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    Explains in detail the possible uses of Twitter in the classroom. Very Creative Ideas.
Paige Thompson

SMARTBoard Activities - 0 views

  • Ways to use your SMARTBoard™ in your classroom
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    Fun Smart board activities.
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    This site will be useful for teachers because it gives explanation of what the Smartboard is and what it does.  It also has things on the page that may be useful in the future when actually being in the classroom.
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    This presents activities that can be done in the classroom for kids. It is a fun learning tool for kids at the elementary level.
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    Various SMARTBoard activities based on subject and grade
Erika Ehlen

Elementary Teacher Technology Help - 0 views

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    By using this website this can help the teacher and students learn how to use their technology. This can be very useful in the classroom for everyone to figure out how to use the technology in that day and age.
brittany vassios

5 Ways to Use Technology in the Special Education Classroom | Concordia University - Po... - 0 views

  • Word Prediction Software – Word Prediction Software simply predicts the words that are being typed to reduce the number of keystrokes used to input the word. Once several letters of the word are typed, a list of words pops up and the student selects the correct word. Some versions of the software base the list of words on the letters keyed and other versions will base the choice on context and grammar. Tablets and iPads – Tablets and iPads are the hottest must haves in the technology market. These devices can be used like a computer, an imaging device, a camera, a projector, a mouse, a keyboard, and a remote device for a white boards. The use of tablets and iPads as technology in special education classrooms is limitless and app developers, parents, specialists and doctors are always searching for more unique ways to employ these devices.
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    Ways that technology is used in the classroom, and how companies have not forgotten people with special needs and have listed things to accompany their needs.
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    Helpful when trying to incorporate technology into the classroom.
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    Helpful when trying to incorporate technology into the classroom.
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    This website describes five ways that technology can help students in a special education classroom. It bookmarks different operating systems, word prediction software, and how to create Braille. It also speaks about how iPads and apps can be used to assist students.
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    This site provides plenty of feedback on children with a range of disabilities and why technology would be useful and helpful. Also, it lists different types of technologies that are available for use.
Stephanie Koenig

Technology in the classroom - 0 views

  • And, although they sound space-aged and technical, most of the technologies that students are using are the same as those in most homes; the main difference is that, in schools, their educational potential is being explored.
  • Children in kindergarten
  • log on to the worldwide web via a Connected Classroom program.
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  • An integral part of the connected or smart classrooms is video-conferencing technology,
  • allows students to talk to experts and other schools and students around the world in real time via a video link-up.
  • Instead of going to specific classes in person, teachers and students could communicate at a time they choose by exchanging printed or electronic media such as emails, message boards or blogs, or through technology that allows them to communicate in real time such as telephones, web conferencing or video conferencing.
  • Parents need not fear the new technologies,
  • These technologies also offer greater opportunities for families to learn together.
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    This is a good article about using technology in classrooms. I like that they mention the parents in this article. It tells the parents not to be nervous about using new technologies.
Kataryna Altobelli

8 Engaging Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create Lessons That Aren't Boring... - 0 views

  • While lectures and lessons can be informative and even “edutaining” when delivered with passion and good materials by knowledgeable experts, sadly many traditional lectures and lessons are boring, and even worse often ineffective.
  • Even if you don’t have computers or tablets available in your classroom, the fact that an increasing number of High School and college students have smartphones is making it easier than ever to leverage technology to create engaging, active lessons students enjoy working on. For younger grades, if you don’t have access to devices with Web access, perhaps you can access a computer lab by request, or use devices in your library.
  • 1. Incorporate Student Input & Gather Feedback
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  • Quick, easy Polling Applications
  • are two of many applications that make it quick and easy to create simple polls that can let you gather feedback from students – determine if they are struggling with a topic, if they know the correct answers to questions you ask, and so on. They can often participate in these polls using a smartphone.
  • You can also gather feedback by creating a “back channel” using Twitter.
  • 2. Gamify It
  • Leveraging gaming mechanics can make learning more fun is probably easier than you think. For example, any time you bring competition or levels of achievement to a classroom exercise, you’re gamifying your classroom.
  • Here’s a variety of resources and ideas for using gaming in the classroom:
  • 3. Let Students Create
  • 4. Get Interactive
  • Here’s a few tools and ideas to consider.
  • Online Interactive White Boards
  • Bounceapp
  • Interactive apps that work with Smartphones
  • 5. Have Students Collaborate
  • Here are a number of tools and techniques for classroom collaborations.
  • 6. Project Based Learning
  • 7. Simulations
  • Economics
  • Marketing
  • Medical:
  • Business
  • 8. Bring in a Guest or Two
  • With the power of video conferencing apps like Skype, Google Hangout, Facetime, and others, our ability to connect with people all across the world has never been better or less costly. Teachers have been using Skype and similar tools to being guest lecturers, experts, students, and others into the classroom for years
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    This website focuses on specific ideas of what you can do with technology and give ideas on how to keep students involved. I really liked their ideas about how to get feedback from students in a non-traditional way.
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    this website consists of ways to teach children through technology. It teaches the teacher to teach in new and exciting ways.
Garrett Whitehead

Tips on Using Technology in ESL Class - 0 views

  • In today's classroom, teachers find that they often have to compete with technology to keep students interest. It's important to recognize that a) students use this technology b) they will use it in class. Short of taking students' smart phones, tablets, etc. away from them at the beginning of each class, most teachers have to learn to work with technology in the classroom. The struggle to deal with inappropriate technology use in the classroom can be mitigated to some degree by integrating its use into the lesson. Below you will find a number of suggestions. Tip 3: Use Email to Your Advantage It's often useful to send out an email to students with resources that you want to use during the lesson. If you want to use web resources, create a class email list to send out a short update with clickable URLs that students can use to access materials. There is nothing that will slow a class down more than writing a long, unwieldy URL on the board and asking students to type it into their smart phone, iPad, etc. to access. Tip 4: Set Up a Class Blog / Learning Site There are numerous online services that allow teachers to set up an easy to maintain class blog / site. You can use this to post assignments, give homework, keep students informed with resources, etc. Ask students to bookmark the homepage and you can provide a short blog posts with resources students can use during a specific lesson as suggested in using email. This makes using students' gadgets even easier! Tip 5: Revisit Common Software in Terms of Learning Possibilities Take time to find out what software packages students are using on a daily basis. Once you have a short list, spend some time with the packages to find out what tools they provide to help out with English learning. For example, using a text editor such as Word for Windows you can help students set up spell check in English as students type. Instruct learners to try to correct their own spelling mistakes signaled by red underling BEFORE they check the correct spelling. With a few simple instructions these tools can become powerful self-study aids. Tip 6: Keep Technology Use Limited and On Task This principal is similar to any teaching task. The more general an objective or activity is, the easier it becomes to lose focus. For example, imagine that you are using a video in class to work on comprehension. Instead of watching an entire episode of a sitcom, use a service such as Hulu or English Attack! to watch individual scenes. This will help you students keep integrate new vocabulary, improve their comprehension through repetition. Tip 7: Have a Backup Plan Always have a backup plan in place when technology fails. Unfortunately, this still happens and it's a shame to have to change lesson focus entirely just because Windows needs to install the latest version of Flash to play a video. Tip 8: Use an Interactive Whiteboard If you work at a school with deep pockets, I highly recommend working with an interactive whiteboard. Related Teaching ResourcesTips for Classroom ManagementShort Activities for the ESL / EFL TeacherESL Conversation Lesson Plans Focusing on Technology Related ArticlesClassroom Rules for TeachersFive Important Classroom ProceduresNew Teacher Survival GuideTech Tools - Essential Tools for TeachersWelcome to the Elementary Education Site on About.com Kenneth Beare About.com English as 2nd Language Sign up for My Newsletter Headlines Forum if(z336>0){w('Advertisement');adunit('','','about.com',ch,gs,336,280,'1','bb',3);w('')}if(z155>0){w('Advertisement');adunit('','','about.com',ch,gs,336,155,'1','ps',4);w('')}Advertisement if(zp[7].d){Dsp(zp[7],'ip')} if(zp[11].d){Dsp(zp[11],'ip')} if(zSbLAds Training Materialscorporatetrainingmaterials.comPowerpoint training materials to teach MS Office & Soft Skills. How To Speakhttp://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/aclk?sa=l&ai=CMDtLg-OlUqXOO8jzqgGL8oHoD4PQ4JwE85adwlPAjbcBEAcgvKX3ASgJUIaAwI38_____wFgyebnjfykqBOgAaWwjNgDyAEBqAMBqgShAU_QOPpeX9oO5rcJATMuVWIj8d2xQyASm9B8wW8pMcQFv8PSzkCuUmqg4dvpzC9sNJ4rfPjsB
  • Tip 1: Get Students to Help Out
  • Tip 2: Take Advantage of the Gadgets in Your Classroom
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  • Tip 3: Use Email to Your Advantage
  • Tip 4: Set Up a Class Blog / Learning Site
  • Tip 5: Revisit Common Software in Terms of Learning Possibilities
  • Tip 6: Keep Technology Use Limited and On Task
  • Tip 7: Have a Backup Plan
  • Tip 8: Use an Interactive Whiteboard
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    Tips on how to integrate technology into an ESL class
Bryce Rudebeck

Smartboard Help - 0 views

  • Building Smarter ways to use the SMART Board and Support Math Core Content K-8http://www.kenton.k12.ky.us/SmartBoard/smartmath.htm
  • Use this to demonstrate translations, rotations, reflections of squares, triangles, parallelograms on a grid, this is a really nicely done site (I do not believe that you can draw your own figure from scratch, but hitting the “new triangle/square, etc” button brings up a different one each time)http://www.shodor.org/interactivate/activities/Transmographer/?version=1.5.0_01&browser=MSIE&vendor=Sun_Microsystems_Inc.
  • Biology sitehttp://kvhs.nbed.nb.ca/gallant/biology/biology.htmlCells Alivehttp://www.cellsalive.com/Body Systemshttp://www.sachem.edu/dept/sd/poster2006/bodaciousbiology2006.htm
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    Giving advice to help make smartboards easier to work with
Jenna Jagler

Creating a Tech-Savvy Kindergarten Classroom | Scholastic.com - 0 views

  • Due to the rapid growth of technology in our society, many school districts are requiring their classrooms to become increasingly tech savvy.
  • Computers
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  • Interactive Whiteboard   
  • The SMART Board is one type of interactive whiteboard.  Some other widely used interactive whiteboards are ActivBoard, eBeam, Mimio, and Webster
  • LeapFrog Learning
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    This article is about how to increase the electronic usage in a kindergarten classroom.  However, you may not want an incredibly tech savvy classroom for 5 and 6 year olds.   
caitschroeder

Social Networking Can be a Vital Classroom Tool | Concordia University - Portland Online - 0 views

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  • teachers are engaging students who are shy about participating in traditional classroom discussions, but who enjoy communicating online
  • the Internet is teaming with alternative programs, many of which are free, and tailored for classroom use.
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  • SchoolTube: A moderated video sharing site designed for K-12 students and teachers Twiducate: A secure microblogging site similar to Twitter, but aimed at elementary and secondary school students Collaborize Classroom: An app that allows teachers to create a password-protected website to post and update classroom curriculums, and add multimedia, documents and charts. Gaggle Apps: Social learning tools designed for K-12 students that include discussion boards, blogs, email, and even a “learning wall” that can all be customized by a teacher.
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    Technology can be vital in the classroom, even social media sites
gosdeck13

Classroom Technology That Every Teacher Needs - 0 views

  • The following five technological tools are must haves for the classroom of today. Each tool provides teachers with a method in which they can actively engage their students in the learning process.
  • The Internet -
  • It provides information both beneficial and detrimental to students with easier access than ever with a simple click. The information available to students online is vast.
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  • LCD Projector
  • allows a teacher the opportunity to share activities, videos, Power Point presentations, etc. from their computer with the whole class.
  • Document Camera
  • You simply put the document you want to show your students under the camera, and it is shot up on the screen through your LCD projector. Once it is up on the screen you can use the camera to take a screen shot of the document and save it directly to your computer for later or just use the live version. A document camera also allows you to place diagrams, charts, textbooks , etc. on a large screen so that all your students can see the images, passages, etc. at one time.
  • Smart Board
  • Teachers can create engaging, active lessons using the many tools
  • They can transpose diagrams, charts, and templates, have students come up and actively participate in the lesson, and then print anything such as notes that were completed on a particular day and given to students as a handout
  • students are enthusiastic
  • Digital Camera
  • engage students in the learning process.
  • Teachers who use this technology find that students will work hard to learn because they enjoy the interaction with the camera and the fact that it is a different style of teaching and learning.
Hannah Pettepiece

The Early-Literacy Shift: New Words, New Media, New Friends - 0 views

  • It used to be that my students learned to write by writing on paper. Sometimes they wrote in notebooks and sometimes they wrote on single sheets, but no matter how they wrote, I was the intended audience. In most cases, I was the only person who ever saw that writing. Sometimes their parents would take the time to read through their notebooks and papers as they came home or at the end of the school year. Sometimes they would read their writing aloud to the class. But in most cases, unless I posted their writing on a bulletin board in the hallway, a very limited number of people had access to that writing. Wow! Has that changed! Now, my students regularly write on their blogs, not just for me, but also for their parents, grandparents, other relatives, friends and potentially the whole world to see. When they write a tweet, they have the potential of all of our Twitter followers seeing what they write, and since many of our followers are classroom groups, that number is potentially far higher. Not exactly the same as writing in a notebook. Their audience now exists in places they have never been and may never visit.
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Cortney Stetter

SMART solutions for Education - SMART Technologies - 0 views

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    Great resource for teachers to use for technology help. Also has specific ideas/information for different age and grade levels . 
Candice Meschke

Introducing Social Media to Elementary Students | Edutopia - 0 views

  • social media pervades all aspects of modern society, and it has become an imperative for us as educators -- and parents -- to model appropriate digital citizenship to even our youngest learners.
  • Students already have enough screen time.
  • Students need to be able to communicate in person.
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  • Students don't need to know about social media at this point -- it isn't age appropriate.
  • we were all taught the "social media" of our time in early elementary school.
  • effective social behavior could be modeled at a young age.
  • I've seen their Padlet wall of questions, witnessed the delivery of tadpoles, and watched a young boy read to his amphibian friend -- all through Twitter.
  • provides an amazingly detailed view of life in a connected classroom.
  • to engage in the cultivation of their own Personal Learning Networks (PLNs). Her students not only learn, but also share their learning with a broader community. Whether through whole-group Twitter activities and Skype, calls or individual KidBlogs, these students recognize that there are connections to be made beyond their Ontario classroom -- all while working on their reading, writing, communication and collaboration.
  • Social media enables the creation of meaningful connections.
  • By empowering her students with the use of social media, Kristin Ziemke connects them to a global audience and introduces them to the complex communication required to be effective digital citizens.
  • paper could be the best teaching tool.
  • To teach the concept of posting and commenting, the students created physical blogs on bulletin boards in the hallway of the school.
  • focus on the writing process within a familiar context,
  • Students gained experience with posting, tagging and commenting without any of the concerns often associated with "being online."
  • what's important is that we introduce all children to social media in appropriate and meaningful ways, regardless of their age, such that they can connect to a global audience and develop as empowered, networked learners.
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    Why it's important to introduce technology to a classroom of elementary students.
Alyssa Pearson

50 Education Technology Tools Every Teacher Should Know About - Edudemic - 1 views

  • Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Edmodo: Teachers and students can take advantage of this great tech tool, as it offers a Facebook-like environment where classes can connect online. Grockit: Get your students connected with each other in study sessions that take place on this great social site. EduBlogs: EduBlogs offers a safe and secure place to set up blogs for yourself or your classroom. Skype: Skype can be a great tool for keeping in touch with other educators or even attending meetings online. Even cooler, it can help teachers to connect with other classrooms, even those in other countries. Wikispaces: Share lessons, media, and other materials online with your students, or let them collaborate to build their own educational wiki on Wikispaces. Pinterest: You can pin just about any image you find interesting on this site, but many teachers are using it as a place to collect great lesson plans, projects, and inspirational materials. Schoology: Through this social site, teachers can manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators. Quora: While Quora is used for a wide range of purposes, it can be a great tool for educators. It can be used to connect with other professionals or to engage students in discussion after class. Ning: Ning allows anyone to create a personalized social network, which can be great for both teachers and students alike. OpenStudy:Encourage your students to work together to learn class material by using a social study site like OpenStudy. ePals: One of the coolest benefits of the Web is being able to connect with anyone, anywhere. ePals does just that, but focuses on students, helping them to learn languages and understand cultures different from their own.
  • These educational tools can help you to make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective. Khan Academy: Many teachers use this excellent collection of math, science, and finance lectures and quizzes to supplement their classroom materials. MangaHigh: MangaHigh offers teachers a wealth of resources for game-based learning in mathematics. FunBrain: If you’re looking for a great collection of educational games, look no further than FunBrain. On it, teachers can take advantage of fun tools for math and reading. Educreations: Educreations is an amazing online tool for the iPad that lets teachers (or students) create videos that teach a given topic. Perfect for studying or getting students to show off their knowledge. Animoto: Animoto makes it simple to create video-based lessons or presentations for the classroom and to share them with students or anyone else. Socrative: Available for computers, mobile devices, and tablets, this student response system engages students through games and exercises on any device they have on hand. Even better, teachers can easily assess student progress and track grades. Knewton: Adaptive learning has been a hot topic in recent months, and with Knewton it’s something that any teacher can access and use. The site personalizes online learning content for each student according to his or her needs. Kerpoof: On Kerpoof, students can get creative with their learning with games, interactive activities, drawing tools, and more that are both fun and educational. StudySync: With a digital library, weekly writing practice, online writing and peer reviews, Common Core assignments, and multimedia lessons available, this site is a fully-featured tool for teaching and learning that can be a big help in the classroom. CarrotSticks: On this site, teachers can take advantage of a wide range of math learning games, giving students practice while they have fun.
  • These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools. Evernote: Capture great ideas, photos, recordings, or just about anything else on your Evernote account, access it anywhere, and keep it organized. A must-have tool for lesson planning. Twitter: There are so many ways Twitter can be used in education. Teachers can connect with other educators, take part in chats, share their ideas, or even use it in the classroom to reach out to students. Google Education: Google offers a number of great edtech resources for teachers, including email and collaborative apps, videos, lesson plan search, professional development, and even educational grants. Dropbox: Easily store, share, and access any kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to-use and free Dropbox service. Diigo: Diigo lets you treat the web like paper-based reading material, making it simple to highlight, bookmark, take notes, or even add sticky notes. Apple iPad: One of the most widely used, though expensive, tech tools being used in today’s classroom is the Apple iPad. With a host of educational apps being developed for the device, it’s become a favorite of teachers and students alike across the nation. Aviary: Aviary is a suite of tools that make it easy to edit images, effects, swatches, music, and audio or to create and modify screen captures. Jing: If you’re teaching kids about tech or just about anything else, a great screenshot program is essential. Jing is one great option that allows teachers to take screenshots as images, record up to five minutes or videos then edit and share the results. Popplet: You and your students can use Popplet to brainstorm ideas, create mindmaps, share, and collaborate. Google Earth: From geography projects to learning about geological processes, Google Earth can be an amazing and fast way to show students anywhere in the world. DonorsChoose: Need funding for a classroom project? You can get it through this site that hooks up needy teachers with willing donors. SlideShare: With SlideShare, you can upload your presentations, documents, and videos and share them with students and colleagues. Even better, you can take advantage of materials that other have uploaded as well. LiveBinders: Like a real-life three ring binder, this tech tool allows you to collect and organize resources. Much better than a binder, however, the site also comes with tools to connect and collaborate and a virtual whiteboard. AudioBoo: Through this tool, you can record and share audio for your students or anyone else.
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  • Use these tech tools to pull together great lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects. Teachers Pay Teachers: Have great lessons to share? Looking for something to add to your classes? On this site you can do both, selling your own class materials and buying high-quality resources from other teachers. Planboard: Make sure your lessons are organized and that your day runs smoothly with the help of this amazing online tool designed just for teachers. Timetoast: Timetoast is a pretty cool for student projects, allowing them to build sleek, interactive timelines in minutes. Capzles: There are so many different ways that Capzles can be used in the classroom, there’s bound to be an application that fits your needs. What does it do? Capzles makes it simple to gather media like photos, videos, documents, and even blog posts into one place, making it perfect for teaching, learning, or online projects. Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers. Wordle: Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind. QR Codes: QR codes (or quick response codes) are showing up with greater frequency in education. If you’d like to get in on the trend, you’ll need a tool to create and manage the codes like Delivr and one to read codes, like any of those listed on this site. Quizlet: Quizlet makes it easy for teachers to create study tools for students, especially flashcards that can make memorizing important information a snap. MasteryConnect: How are your students performing with regard to state and common core standards? MasterConnect makes it simple to track and analyze both, as well as other elements of student performance. Google Docs: Through Google Docs, teachers can create and share documents, presentations, or spreadsheets with students and colleagues as well as give feedback on student-created projects. YouTube: Not all schools allow YouTube, but they are missing out as the site contains a wealth of great learning materials for the classroom. There’s even a special education-focused channel just for teachers and students. TED-Ed: TED isn’t just a great place to find inspiration anymore, the site also contains numerous videos that are organized by subject and can help you to teach everything from how pain relievers work to Shakespearean insults. Glogster:Glogster is a social site that lets users mash up music, photos, videos, and pretty much anything else you’d like. It’s a great way to create learning materials and a handy tool for creative student projects. Creaza: Want to bring your student projects into the 21st century? Creaza can make that possible, offering tools to brainstorm, create cartoons, and edit audio and video. Mentor Mob: On Mentor Mob, you or your students can create a learning playlist, which is essentially a collection of high-quality materials that can be used to study a specific concept.
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  • Social Learning
  • Grockit
  • Learning
  • Useful Tools
  • Lesson Planning and Tool
  • These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools. Evernote: Capture great ideas, photos, recordings, or just about anything else on your Evernote account, access it anywhere, and keep it organized. A must-have tool for lesson planning. Twitter: There are so many ways Twitter can be used in education. Teachers can connect with other educators, take part in chats, share their ideas, or even use it in the classroom to reach out to students. Google Education: Google offers a number of great edtech resources for teachers, including email and collaborative apps, videos, lesson plan search, professional development, and even educational grants. Dropbox: Easily store, share, and access any kind of data from anywhere with the easy-to-use and free Dropbox service. Diigo: Diigo lets you treat the web like paper-based reading material, making it simple to highlight, bookmark, take notes, or even add sticky notes. Apple iPad: One of the most widely used, though expensive, tech tools being used in today’s classroom is the Apple iPad. With a host of educational apps being developed for the device, it’s become a favorite of teachers and students alike across the nation. Aviary: Aviary is a suite of tools that make it easy to edit images, effects, swatches, music, and audio or to create and modify screen captures. Jing: If you’re teaching kids about tech or just about anything else, a great screenshot program is essential. Jing is one great option that allows teachers to take screenshots as images, record up to five minutes or videos then edit and share the results. Popplet: You and your students can use Popplet to brainstorm ideas, create mindmaps, share, and collaborate. Google Earth: From geography projects to learning about geological processes, Google Earth can be an amazing and fast way to show students anywhere in the world. DonorsChoose: Need funding for a classroom project? You can get it through this site that hooks up needy teachers with willing donors. SlideShare: With SlideShare, you can upload your presentations, documents, and videos and share them with students and colleagues. Even better, you can take advantage of materials that other have uploaded as well. LiveBinders: Like a real-life three ring binder, this tech tool allows you to collect and organize resources. Much better than a binder, however, the site also comes with tools to connect and collaborate and a virtual whiteboard. AudioBoo: Through this tool, you can record and share audio for your students or anyone else.
  • Learning These educational tools can help you to make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective. Khan Academy: Many teachers use this excellent collection of math, science, and finance lectures and quizzes to supplement their classroom materials. MangaHigh: MangaHigh offers teachers a wealth of resources for game-based learning in mathematics. FunBrain: If you’re looking for a great collection of educational games, look no further than FunBrain. On it, teachers can take advantage of fun tools for math and reading. Educreations: Educreations is an amazing online tool for the iPad that lets teachers (or students) create videos that teach a given topic. Perfect for studying or getting students to show off their knowledge. Animoto: Animoto makes it simple to create video-based lessons or presentations for the classroom and to share them with students or anyone else. Socrative: Available for computers, mobile devices, and tablets, this student response system engages students through games and exercises on any device they have on hand. Even better, teachers can easily assess student progress and track grades. Knewton: Adaptive learning has been a hot topic in recent months, and with Knewton it’s something that any teacher can access and use. The site personalizes online learning content for each student according to his or her needs. Kerpoof: On Kerpoof, students can get creative with their learning with games, interactive activities, drawing tools, and more that are both fun and educational. StudySync: With a digital library, weekly writing practice, online writing and peer reviews, Common Core assignments, and multimedia lessons available, this site is a fully-featured tool for teaching and learning that can be a big help in the classroom. CarrotSticks: On this site, teachers can take advantage of a wide range of math learning games, giving students practice while they have fun.
  • new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
  • echnology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorit
  • Edmodo: Teachers and students can take advantage of this great tech tool, as it offers a Facebook-like environment where classes can connect online. Grockit: Get your students connected with each other in study sessions that take place on this great social site. EduBlogs: EduBlogs offers a safe and secure place to set up blogs for yourself or your classroom. Skype: Skype can be a great tool for keeping in touch with other educators or even attending meetings online. Even cooler, it can help teachers to connect with other classrooms, even those in other countries.
  • Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect. Edmodo: Teachers and students can take advantage of this great tech tool, as it offers a Facebook-like environment where classes can connect online. Grockit: Get your students connected with each other in study sessions that take place on this great social site. EduBlogs: EduBlogs offers a safe and secure place to set up blogs for yourself or your classroom. Skype: Skype can be a great tool for keeping in touch with other educators or even attending meetings online. Even cooler, it can help teachers to connect with other classrooms, even those in other countries. Wikispaces: Share lessons, media, and other materials online with your students, or let them collaborate to build their own educational wiki on Wikispaces. Pinterest: You can pin just about any image you find interesting on this site, but many teachers are using it as a place to collect great lesson plans, projects, and inspirational materials. Schoology: Through this social site, teachers can manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators. Quora: While Quora is used for a wide range of purposes, it can be a great tool for educators. It can be used to connect with other professionals or to engage students in discussion after class. Ning: Ning allows anyone to create a personalized social network, which can be great for both teachers and students alike. OpenStudy:Encourage your students to work together to learn class material by using a social study site like OpenStudy. ePals: One of the coolest benefits of the Web is being able to connect with anyone, anywhere. ePals does just that, but focuses on students, helping them to learn languages and understand cultures different from their own.
  • new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education,
  • Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved.
  • new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education
  • ew tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education
  • These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
  • Teachers Pay Teachers: Have great lessons to share? Looking for something to add to your classes? On this site you can do both, selling your own class materials and buying high-quality resources from other teachers. Planboard: Make sure your lessons are organized and that your day runs smoothly with the help of this amazing online tool designed just for teachers. Timetoast: Timetoast is a pretty cool for student projects, allowing them to build sleek, interactive timelines in minutes. Capzles: There are so many different ways that Capzles can be used in the classroom, there’s bound to be an application that fits your needs. What does it do? Capzles makes it simple to gather media like photos, videos, documents, and even blog posts into one place, making it perfect for teaching, learning, or online projects. Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers. Wordle: Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind.
  • Technology and education are pretty intertwined these days and nearly every teacher has a few favorite tech tools that make doing his or her job and connecting with students a little bit easier and more fun for all involved. Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
  • Yet as with anything related to technology, new tools are hitting the market constantly and older ones rising to prominence, broadening their scope, or just adding new features that make them better matches for education, which can make it hard to keep up with the newest and most useful tools even for the most tech-savvy teachers.
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      I didn't know there were so many different ways to incoorporate and use technology in your classroom! super useful!
  • Lesson Planning and Tools Use these tech tools to pull together great lessons and design amazing and memorable student projects.
  • Social Learning These tools use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
  • Learning These educational tools can help you to make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective.
  • Useful Tools These tools can help you to stay connected, organized, and increase the ease of building multimedia lessons and learning tools.
  • social media to help students learn and teachers connect.
  • make lessons fun, interesting, and more effective.
  • pull together great lessons
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  • stay connected, organized
  • ncrease the ease of building multimedia lessons
  • Teachers Pay Teachers: Have great lessons to share? Looking for something to add to your classes? On this site you can do both, selling your own class materials and buying high-quality resources from other teachers. Planboard: Make sure your lessons are organized and that your day runs smoothly with the help of this amazing online tool designed just for teachers. Timetoast: Timetoast is a pretty cool for student projects, allowing them to build sleek, interactive timelines in minutes. Capzles: There are so many different ways that Capzles can be used in the classroom, there’s bound to be an application that fits your needs. What does it do? Capzles makes it simple to gather media like photos, videos, documents, and even blog posts into one place, making it perfect for teaching, learning, or online projects. Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers. Wordle: Create stunning word clouds using Wordle, a great complement to language lessons of any kind. QR Codes: QR codes (or quick response codes) are showing up with greater frequency in education. If you’d like to get in on the trend, you’ll need a tool to create and manage the codes like Delivr and one to read codes, like any of those listed on this site. Quizlet: Quizlet makes it easy for teachers to create study tools for students, especially flashcards that can make memorizing important information a snap. MasteryConnect: How are your students performing with regard to state and common core standards? MasterConnect makes it simple to track and analyze both, as well as other elements of student performance. Google Docs: Through Google Docs, teachers can create and share documents, presentations, or spreadsheets with students and colleagues as well as give feedback on student-created projects. YouTube: Not all schools allow YouTube, but they are missing out as the site contains a wealth of great learning materials for the classroom. There’s even a special education-focused channel just for teachers and students. TED-Ed: TED isn’t just a great place to find inspiration anymore, the site also contains numerous videos that are organized by subject and can help you to teach everything from how pain relievers work to Shakespearean insults. Glogster:Glogster is a social site that lets users mash up music, photos, videos, and pretty much anything else you’d like. It’s a great way to create learning materials and a handy tool for creative student projects. Creaza: Want to bring your student projects into the 21st century? Creaza can make that possible, offering tools to brainstorm, create cartoons, and edit audio and video. Mentor Mob: On Mentor Mob, you or your students can create a learning playlist, which is essentially a collection of high-quality materials that can be used to study a specific concept. Useful Tools
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    This website offers different technology tools in areas of social media, learning, and other useful tools that may help with lessons.
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    Lots of different sites and blogs that you can use to be able to teach your students any way you would like to.
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    This site gives information and tools on things all teachers should know about technology.
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    This site has some good resources for learning that make a lesson more interesting.
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    This website will be useful because it shows 50 different technology tools teachers should know
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    Explains all the different technology that a teacher should know how to use in the classroom
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    50 useful technology websites for teachers
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    This site contains different social media and other websites and a small description on how they can be used for learning. It gives several sites people use daily and some that no one has really heard of.
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    This site will be useful for teachers because it gives 50 education technology tools that can be used in various aspects. This site links teachers to the technology to help in social learning, educational learning, lesson planning and tools, and organization tools for lessons.
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    This site has many ways to use technology in the classroom. It has 50 different tools for teachers to use to interact with students in learning.
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    Allows teachers to prepare organized lessons and share their lessons with other teachers. Provides useful tips for what technology they can involve their students with.
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    "Prezi: Want to build presentations that will wow your students? Make use of this online tool that makes it simple to do all kinds of cool things with your lessons, even allowing collaboration between teachers."
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    "This website has sites or tools that are found online that can help a teacher teach his or her students. It has tools that I have never heard of before and would like to know what they are about."
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    Basic technology tools that will help teachers better connect their students with education and technology.
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    This website gives teachers information in every area.  There are various ways to get students connected, engage learning and think about lesson planning and the tools you can use during lesson planning.
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    This shows many different tools to help teachers use technology in their classrooms. Between social learning  and lesson planning and tools, this helps the students and the teachers.
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    The website gives many different resources for teachers to use with their students. The many websites are links for games students can play to help understand different topics. Such include social learning, learning, lesson planning and tools, and useful tools. 
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    A website that shows different tools for teachers to use to enhance learning for students. It shows different social media sites, educational tools to make learning fun and effective, and lesson planning tools.
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    Has many different new types of technology that would be useful for teachers. Also explains what each site is and why it's good to use. Names very popular sites that most people know and can be beneficial to use in the classroom.
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    Resources for using technology in the classroom. 
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    This is a great website to use for multiple reasons!! There is social learning that has tools to use the power of social media to help students learn and teachers to connect together. Of course learning objectives that can be fun, interesting and effective. Lesson Planning and Tools and so much more!!
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    This article provides ways for teachers to use technology through lesson plans, and it provides many different useful apps to use in the classroom.
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    This is a webpage with multiple tips for a teacher who isn't sure what to use. It explains that technology is becoming more and more prudent and gives options to the teachers.
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    This website shows tools for lesson planning, social learning (apps). Alot of students will come into class knowing how to do a few of these things. It is good to be prepared and to understand how to work certain tools. 
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    This site would be useful for teachers because it will help teachers get students more involved. Sometimes students learn better when they are able to see different visuals rather than just having a teacher write on the board all the time. Technology is going to be a big thing in the future that every teacher and/or student should be able to use. 
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    This article provides some different tools that can be utilize in the classroom.
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    This article provides some different tools that can be utilize in the classroom.
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    This specific website offers 50 educational technology websites to assist teachers with teaching. This website intertwines technology and education to provide teachers with better teaching skills.
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    50 different examples of technology that could be useful in a classroom
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    These are technology tools that would help a teacher out in different ways.
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    Technology and Education are coexisting more and more these days. This site will help with social learning, lesson planning, and give useful tools in the classroom.
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    This site is really useful. It lists a bunch of technology that is very useful in different aspects of education. I highlighted the lesson planning tools because I utilize a lot of them and they are extremely helpful
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Jessica Nord

How to Keep Kids Engaged in Class | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Eliminating dead time starts with creating an arsenal of routines and activities
  • physical activities that help kids unleash pent-up energy, while others create private thinking time that encourages reflection
  • Developing these activities initially takes time
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  • Start Class with a Mind Warm-U
  • find the mistakes planted in material written on the board
  • Use Movement to Get Kids Focused
  • Teach Students How to Collaborate Before Expecting Success
  • Use Quickwrites When You Want Quiet Time and Student Reflection
  • Run a Tight Ship When Giving Instructions
  • Use a Fairness Cup to Keep Students Thinking
  • Use Signaling to Allow Everyone to Answer Your Question
  • Use Minimal-Supervision Tasks to Squeeze Dead Time out of Regular Routines
  • Mix up Your Teaching Styles
  • Create Teamwork Tactics That Emphasize Accountability
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    This website has useful tips on how to manage your classroom. It also has ten ideas on how to engage students.
Savanna Eisch

How to Adapt Your Teaching Strategies to Student Needs | Reading Rockets - 0 views

  • If the student has difficulty learning by listening, then try…
  • Before the lesson:Pre-teach difficult vocabulary and conceptsState the objective, providing a reason for listeningTeach the mental activities involved in listening — mental note-taking, questioning, reviewingProvide study guides/worksheetsProvide script of filmProvide lecture outlinesDuring the lesson:Provide visuals via the board or overhead Use flash cards Have the student close his eyes and try to visualize the information Have the student take notes and use colored markers to highlight Teach the use of acronyms to help visualize lists (Roy G. Biv for the colors of the spectrum: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet) Give explanations in small, distinct steps Provide written as well as oral directions Have the student repeat directions When giving directions to
  • the class, leave a pause between each step so student can carry out the process in his mind Shorten the listening time required Provide written and manipulative tasksBe concise with verbal information: "Jane, please sit." instead of "Jane, would you please sit down in your chair."
Michael Kelly

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  • The interactive whiteboard acts as both the monitor and input device, allowing you to control any application by touching the screen
  • NOTE: Depending on the model of your SMART Board interactive whiteboard, the Ready Light is either located on the right side of the SMART Pen Tray or the lower-right of the frame bezel.
  • TIP: To clear a large area of digital ink, draw a circle around the area you want to erase with the eraser and tap once inside that area. All digital ink inside that circle will disappear.
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