Another very useful Teacher tool to teach History or even Science by uploading images, later you can tag different parts of the images to link out to further explanations.
Applications for Education
Tools like Record MP3 are great for posting short reminder messages on your blog for your students to hear. If you're going to be out of your classroom for a day, record a message with that day's directions for student and post it on your blog. Then your substitute teacher can hear the directions and your students can too and nothing gets lost in the chain of communication.
Innovation requires educators to think about incorporating creative thinking and critical, making it possible to include disruptive innovation. In this case the new technology.
etting students know about last minute news like canceled classes.
: Instead of emailing each other or waiting to meet in class, students can collaborate on projects and keep track of changes by using a Twitter hashtag.
allow them to instantly tweet their blurts silently instead of out loud.
Parents can sign up to receive tweets from teachers, learning about activities, tests, projects, and more.
Send out quick quizzes on Twitter, and have them count for bonus points in the classroom.
Students can tweet sentences using a particular word to build vocabulary learning.
As long as students are held accountable for their grammar, using Twitter offers a great opportunity for improving writing and punctuation.
Ask students to unscramble anagrams, contribute synonyms, or give vocabulary definitions on Twitt
When students participate in Twitter discussions in class, there’s a great opportunity for conversations to continue to develop even after the lecture is over.
60 Ways to use Twitter in the classroom. Students can follow the class if they are absent and be in contact with the teacher, also for last minute notices.
While you will never prevent all interruptions, a second, more subtle solution is to embrace this disruptive technology and incorporate it into your teaching. Here’s how.
QR codes can link the physical and virtual worlds by allowing students to link to more information about an object or historically significant building or area
Bringing learning into the physical world and out of the classroom
Allowing students whose native language is one other than the dominant language of their school to connect to information about objects or ideas in their native languages
link to specific information on the internet quickly and easily.
a flipped classroom is a classroom where the instructional time and student activity time are reversed.
Teachers record their lesson or lecture and post their recording online for students to access for homework. As the student works through a video in their own time and in their own space, they can pause to think about what the teacher discussed, to take notes, or can replay a section they did not understand.
combine the best that elearning and face-to-face learning have to offer.