Social media can be great tools in education. Yet, many teachers remain reluctant to use them. Blogger Matt Davis has gathered some of the best resources to help teachers use social media with their students.
Social media can be great tools in education. Yet, many teachers remain reluctant to use them. Blogger Matt Davis has gathered some of the best resources to help teachers use social media with their students.
A free website where teachers can create a website for their students and parents. Students can also make an account for free and can use this source to keep track of calendars and assignments.
Record Screencasts for providing onscreen instruction.
three to five computers
library with a pod of computers:
Build a Google Site to house class content
digital stories
Microsoft PowerPoint, LibreOffice, Prezi, or Google Docs.
create cartoons
laptop cart or a computer lab:
Enable students to work through course content at their own pace through the use of screencasts, e-books, and other digital media.
enhanced digital note taking
live class discussions
1:1 laptops or netbooks:
handful of mobile devices
Upload and access course content
Record group discussions
record themselves reading aloud for fluency checks
student-created comics
e-books
Try out a tool like Nearpod to project information onto student devices.
Conduct research.
Collaborate using apps like Whiteboard.
1:1 mobile devices:
multifunction devices
create videos
student polling
Quick Checks:
get a quick snapshot of the class
you can get quick and easy feedback that will help inform your instruction.
Personalized Feedback
All three tools provide the ability for teachers to leave personalized comments and notes on student work, and they provide a messaging service for students who may want to send emails with questions or concerns about the course.
A great resource for teachers who are stumped on how to integrate technology into their existing classroom. Includes how to get started as well as ideas like, "if you have an interactive whiteboard", "if you have computers in your classroom", etc.
Use of this website allows the students in the class to get a little more insight onto what is going to be going on in the class as well as a way to contact the teachers. Updated frequently,at the end of each day the students should be able to access the site for a review of the material.
"weebly" "PLN" "Class board" Use of this website allows the students in the class to get a little more insight onto what is going to be going on in the class as well as a way to contact the teachers. Updated frequently,at the end of each day the students should be able to access the site for a review of the material.
This website talks about what a flipped classroom is and the benefits of it for students and teachers. This is a great website to look at if considering having a flipped classroom.
This site provides great benefits from using the flipped classroom learning environment. It also establishes some benefits for the teachers! The flipped classroom gives teachers more time to spend with individual students.
Having students make video projects is a great way to get them involved and invested in their learning, and this website provides helpful tips for studentst that are creating video projects in the classroom.
We used this website because it mentions tips for students when they are making their own films in the classroom. We thought it would be good to include because teachers can use this to mention to their students some things to remember so they have an easier time filming.
These tips will help everyone film their videos the correct way! The video is a good resource too! Please watch the video if we don't have time in class to do so!
New app promises educators they'll spend less time photocopying and more time teaching. Google Classroom is a great way for students and teachers to communicate, collaborate, share assignments and get graded. Google Classroom brings together many different features of Google; therefore, allowing students to search on student-friendly, custom search engines. Google Classroom will also allow students to continue using many other great Google features that are reliable such as Google scholar.
Social media is quickly invading the classroom but only time will tell if for better or worse. This website examines whether social media can foster inappropriate teacher-student relationships and what to watch out for in your own classroom.
In today's technological times, teachers need to have a professional and useful website to aid both students and parents. This website offers a comparative view of various website builders with teachers in mind.
A website tool used for adjusting reading levels for all students in general. Teacher can assign a reading assignments from an article or news on any website and attach an external link to Newsela. Students then can choose their preferred reading level such as advanced to beginner as students can read an article comfortably.
Weebly is a website creator. Teachers can use this site in order to make their teacher website or to make a classroom website. With the teacher site, teachers can show schools, students, parents, and other teachers what kind of teacher that they are. For the class website the teacher can post information about what is happening in classroom for parents to see.
Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology.
I really liked this website because it organizes applications by subject, grades, and skills. This gives teachers the opportunity to strategically pick applications to engage their students based on where they are individually.
Common Sense Graphite is a site by teachers, for teachers that helps you find the best educational technology resources and learn the best practices for implementing them in your classroom. Brought to you by Common Sense Media: Empowering kids to thrive in a world of media and technology.
With this website teachers and administrators can create their own website for free. You can design your page and share as many pages to interact with teachers and students.
This particular site is for English teachers and gives 101 excellent other sites that English teachers can use in the classroom. Also, students can take part in fun and engaging activities that have to do with English. goedonline.com is a great resource in general because it provides useful sites for all content areas. I used it to select 10 or so sites for each content area to give to my classmates when they are creating their custom search engine.
How Can Teachers Use It? Undoubtedly, Educreations is an excellent tool for creating and sharing multimedia lessons for you and your students. Teachers can invite students to lessons with a link they send to students via the app or with a code; email lessons; embed them within a blog or website; or share via Facebook, Twitter, or on the Educreations website.