With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country.
When I saw the picture below, by Fionabev, in our member gallery it took me back to the old camera club days when we would sweat blood in the darkroom trying to make our muddy black and white landscapes into dramatic masterpieces.
Deadline: Rolling The Pathway to Financial Success grant program from Discover is designed to help high schools bring financial literacy programs in the classroom. You should consider applying if you have a plan for a financial learning program, strategies to measure learning outcomes, and are willing to share your results.
October 9, 2015 Below are three interesting Google Drive apps to use in your class to remotely present to your students. Check them out and share with us what you think of them. When you present through Pear Deck you are actually creating a live session that students can join from their own devices.
15 Unusual (But Awesome) Websites to Use in the Classroom By Jessica Sanders The Internet offers a seemingly endless amount of websites to explore. A simple Google search for "coolest websites" provides dozens of lists, boasting handfuls of websites that you've never even heard of before.
The Chrome Extension Gradebook Split automatically places your students digital work on the left of your screen and opens up your gradebook on the right hand side of the screen. When grading student work that is digital, the challenge can be efficiently entering feedback and scores into the gradebook.
Around this time last year I shared a neat Google Spreadsheets script called Flippity. Flippity was originally designed to help you create flashcards through Google Spreadsheets. This morning Steve Fortna informed me that you can now use Flippity to create Jeopardy-style gameboards through Google Spreadsheets.
Next month I am leading a short workshop on building digital portfolios. In preparation for that workshop, like every workshop I lead, I created a short PDF summarizing the tools that we will explore. For the benefit of those who cannot attend my workshop I'm making the handout available here on FreeTech4Teachers.com.
One of my favorite ways to get students to attempt to connect pieces of historical evidence is to present the with a challenge or "mystery" that must be solved. I started doing this many years ago when I was teaching about Chinese history. I continued using this method when I began teaching U.S.
October 6, 2015 Over the years, we have reviewed several web tools and mobiles apps that you can use with your students in class to create educational screencasts and video tutorials. Today, we are bringing to the forefront a select few of the tools that have been the most popular among teachers and educators.
When I taught current events to ninth grade students the first unit I taught was about recognizing bias, propaganda, and logical fallacies. The Guide to Common Fallacies is a resource that I wish I had back then. The Guide to Common Fallacies is a series of five short videos from the PBS Idea Channel.
Short videos from YouTube and other sources can be quite helpful in introducing topics to students and or reinforcing concepts that you have taught. Watching the video can be enough for some students, it's better if we can call students' attention to specific sections of videos while they are watching them.
Google Sites Made Easy was designed to help you get started building your Google Site. This site provides step-by-step directions to get your Google Site up and running in no time.
"Diigo In Education" - Phase I just released. More to come.. Share your classroom usecase, ideas, reviews, features, and wishlists for making Diigo a great resource and platform in teaching and learning. Let's explore the full potential of Diigo as an educational tool.
New science resources for teachers and students, especially young learners, is forming the cornerstone of a new partnership between PBS LearningMedia and the Smithsonian Science Education Center. At the center of the partnership: an animated series called Good Thinking!, available online, that features science educator Isabella Reyes as she explores
Web has become pervasive, it influences people's lives and facilitates partnerships. The process of writing blog posts and commenting is the fine example by which the Internet has allowed people to participate and share their ideas in the marketplace.
Whether it is to solve a problem, plan a project, or develop new story ideas there are plenty of occasions in the course of a school year for students to brainstorm together. I still believe that nothing beats getting together in a room to swap ideas in person, but that's not always practical or possible.