MVCR Tech Tools

#TT1931: This is an interesting article about integrating social media into a classroom setting.

If we are talking about tech tools, thought It would be important to understand the effects of technology on our attention span.

How timely! The NY Times is seeking input from educators on how smartphones have added or detracted from their classrooms in an occasional special report series called "Learning". While it's for high schools, I'm certain that community college faculty could share input.

This tool helps a teacher track who participates in classroom discussions (i.e. how often, how long....)

Know your students! We can better serve our students if we understand them better. This article gives a great list of facts about online students.

This a great podcast of Grammar tips! And it is actually interesting!

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#TT1931: Really interesting, true experience!

This website provides teaching resources which include some student activities and links to other helpful educational sites.

2018 research on the impact of cell phones and learning

This is a 3 minute intro on what exactly Diigo is and how it can be used to help keep track of sources and information while researching and writing papers. This video helped me to better understand how Diggo can be used by individual learners. Very neat!

Although I don't teach math, this resource looks great for free and open interactive math assignments.

This is a great resource for free case studies.

How G Suite was implemented in Chicago Public Schools and NY Times' article about it. Read this a few years ago and it has stuck with me since. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/technology/google-education-chromebooks-schools.html

A way to communicate (Google Voice) with students and/or parents in lieu of personal number.

Great free tool to get ALL students engaged in class! Saves answers online to allow graded attendance and participation too!

Great tool for helping students to collaborate in curating resources on a group project!

Great lists of Web apps for the classroom - categorized!

Considered using Instagram in the classroom? Here are some tips for the same. (Posted by TT1921 student, Zockoll, 3.28.19).

Another social media platform to use in the classroom. This article explains how to set up Instagram and gives ideas for using it.

#TT1921: Awesome weblink for a podcast on writing supports for students https://library.purdueglobal.edu/writingcenter/effectivewritingpodcastseries

I like this list of podcasts and am grateful for the transcripts. This will help some of my students.