How to Use Animoto in the Classroom: Create Stunning Student Slideshows. Creating Your First Video Once logged in to the site, you are ready to create your first video slide show.
This is a simple 3-step process: Step 1: Select your pictures and/or video. You can upload images and videos of you own, select from the Animoto stock gallery, or import them from sites like Facebook, Smugmug, Flickr, Picasa, and Photobucket. Once selected, your photos and videos can be reordered simply by dragging and dropping them. Step 2: Choose your slide show music. Step 3: Finalize your video. Build Your ThingLink Classroom. The start of the New Year seems like the perfect time to review teacher management features to make it simpler for students to signup, create and collaborate with ThingLink.
We hope you will find these quick video tutorials with accompanying written directions to be helpful. In addition, we invite you to attend our upcoming webinar, Build Your ThingLink Classroom, on January 13th at 8:00 PM EDT for a comprehensie overview of features with ideas for integration. Create a ThingLink If you are new to ThingLink, watch this video to help you create your first ThingLink. Teacher Signup If you are a teacher, you should be working in our ThingLink EDU space. Student Signup. Podcasting - Technology Tutorials for Teachers. How To Use Wiki In The Classroom - eLearning Industry. What is Wiki?
Wiki is an online application that allows users to contribute to or edit its content. Meaning “quick” in the Hawaiian language, wiki is a creative and open environment where everyone has a voice. The significance of wiki lies in the fact that there is no assigned “leader” or “head writer”. The founder of wiki, Ward Cunningham, described his creation as “the simplest online database that could possibly work”. And it did. Yet what makes wiki so unique (in most cases anyone can add or change content on a wiki website) has also given it a bad reputation among most educators. How to Use Padlet in the Classroom: A Fantastic Teaching Tool.
Padlet is a versatile, easy to use tool for every teacher’s toolkit.
Let’s learn the basics. At the bottom of this post, I have a Padlet that is temporarily open for you to post and share your favorite edtech tools. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers, spent some time teaching the teachers at my school about Padlet. I’ve got some notes in this article that he mentioned in the workshop to give him due credit. Richard has a fantastic blog, and I highly recommend it. www.padlet.com. Student Blogging Activity 1 (Beginner): Setting Up Your Class Blog. Classroom Collaboration Using Social Bookmarking Service Diigo. Key Takeaways Social bookmarking websites enhance and improve the learning experience by encouraging group collaboration and making organizing and saving web resources faster and easier for students.
Social bookmarking services offer greater scope for research, integration, and collaboration compared to the more traditional bookmarking applications such as browsers, which offer limited functionality. Among social bookmarking services, Diigo has features and functions that make it useful for the classroom, giving instructors tools for setting up groups of students, highlighting key information, and commenting.
Classroom collaboration is an area that benefits directly from today's Internet experience in that students can develop their potential for learning by becoming more actively involved. Social Constructivism / Tools and Tutorials. Web 2.0 Tools In the table below you will find a group of Web 2.0 tools that we have selected to profile on this wiki.
Creating A Classroom Blog in 3 Steps! ⋆ TeachersTuts.com. Creating A Classroom Blog is a lot easier than you may think!
TeachersTuts.com show you how in 3 simple steps. Practical Technology Guides. Everything Teachers Need to Know about Explore for Google Docs and Sheets. November 3, 2016 Explore is a new interesting feature that Google introduced few weeks ago to empower Drive users with a wide variety of new functionalities.
In today’s post we are sharing with you (especially those who haven’t seen them yet) a review of the main things you can do with Explore on both Google Docs and Google Sheets. 3 Minute Teaching TOOL-torials. Be sure to share these great resources with your friends and colleagues!
Access all of these videos in this YouTube Playlist How to Add “Time Tags” to Youtube Vids (so Viewers can Jump to Tagged Sections)It’s Super Easy to Create These Simple ‘Bookmarks’ so Viewers Can Pop to Different Section of Your EdPuzzle 3 Minute TOOL-torial Add Questions to Videos, Monitor Progress, etc. EdPuzzle is an awesome free tool that makes it a breeze to embed questions in YouTube and Vimeo videos. When students log in and watch the videos on EdPuzzle, you can then see their progress. Create Top Notch Graphics With Ease, for Little or no Cost with Canva (fun for Students too!) Share Videos With no Distractions or Inappropriate Content, Fast & Easy with SafeShareA quick overview of the SafeShare.TV application that makes it easy to safely share YouTube and Vimeo videos without the distractions of ads and other extraneous content, or inappropriate content!
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Help is just a few clicks away! With an online training library of over 60,000 short, show-and-tell video training tutorials on over 250 of the most commonly-used technology devices and software applications, Atomic Learning provides answers to how-to technology questions anytime, anywhere. Educational Technology Training and Tutorials.