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Flipping Your Classroom. A way to link to a specific part of a youtube video. Blended Learning PD. Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Flipping Your Classroom #edchat. Produce material for YOUR students to engage them outside the classroom.

Top 10 Do’s and Don’ts When Flipping Your Classroom #edchat

Generic content works as a starting point but students have greater faith in their own teacher’s input.Decide on a workflow solution and stick to it. I use Edmodo to set assignments and annotate responses. Students are happy with this solution as it is cross platform and supports learning with library and backpack resources.Set specific deadlines for your students. If they are given a date then unfortunately that can be construed as midnight!! The old hand-in mantra of next lesson doesn’t fit the ‘flipped‘ class idea and as such can present a problem.Provide access for students who aren’t connected to the internet at home. Expect students to watch/read your material just because you tell them to. This post is in response to the success we have had with workflow and assessment for learning this academic year.

Please contact me if you would like to discuss the ‘flipped’ class as I am very keen to hear any new ideas. How & Why to Flip. EduCanon. Create, Edit, Share Paste video URLs from YouTube, TeacherTube, SchoolTube, Shmoop, and elsewhere.

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Add rich, dynamic questions during the video, making a 'bulb'. Share with colleagues, classes, and students through embed codes or links. Find, Collaborate, Tweak Search tens of thousands of pre-made lessons or master units.* Download a copy. Video Editor. Teaching for Tomorrow: Flipped Learning. Talking Images. Animate Your Life. Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki. Grades 6 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Vote for Me!

Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki

Making Presidential Commercials Using Avatars After researching political platforms of past presidents through primary sources and other resources, students create commercials for these presidents using Voki, an online web tool that produces speaking avatars. Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Dialect Detectives: Exploring Dialect in Great Expectations Great Expectations is rich in dialogue and in the dialect of the working class and the poor of Victorian England. Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Unit Biography Project: Research and Class Presentation Classroom biography study offers high-interest reading with a purpose, as students begin with inquiry and research, summarize and organize their information, and prepare oral presentations to share with the class. Grades 2 – 3 | Lesson Plan | Unit Jazz Up Writing Workshop: Writing Biographies of African American Jazz Musicians. ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education.

Guest Blogger: Carmen Brettel – How to Use Voki in the Classroom. Voki speaking avatars are great tools for the classroom.

Guest Blogger: Carmen Brettel – How to Use Voki in the Classroom

Speak to Me: Teaching with Voki. Animation & Comic Tools. Access your bookmarks anywhere. Digital Storytelling. PowToon, free business presentation software animated video maker and PowerPoint alternative. Access your bookmarks anywhere. Word Clouds, Popplet, ThinkLink. Tagxedo - Word Cloud with Styles.

Popplet. 40 Interesting Ways To Use Word Clouds For Learning. If we’re being honest (and we are), we were of the opinion that the primary use of word clouds for learning–most notably with Wordle and Tagxedo-were to help support the analysis of diction and tone.

40 Interesting Ways To Use Word Clouds For Learning

There were some other “cute” uses, but little that made it stand out above other more versatile tools. But then we saw this list. Slideshare user vreed17 has put together 40 interesting ways to use word clouds for learning, including visualizing a syllabus, using clues to make inferences for literacy practice, or to do simple character analyses. Most of these are literacy and English-Language Arts based, but similar uses could extend to math, science, social studies, and other content areas as well. -Content Overview: How does the past impact the present? -Concept practice: What are 10 characteristics of a circle? -Non-prose response: What is the most important step of the scientific method?

Ways to Curtate Content for Others. The Top 10 Free Web Tools to Curate and Bookmark Online Resources for Teachers. Curating, bookmarking and sharing web content is one of the skills every 21stcentury teacher should have.

The Top 10 Free Web Tools to Curate and Bookmark Online Resources for Teachers

Internet has grown to be, if not the primamry then a great resource of information and knowledge. Students as well as educators are having a free unlimited access to this treasure trove whenever and wherever they are.One of the things we need to pay heed to, howver, is the information load the net exposes us to. This information load if not handled carefully and wisely can have some severe reverse impacts on the way we benefirt from intenet educationally.This is why the need for for using bookmarking and content curating tools has become very important especially for us in the field of education. For Education. For Teachers. Adonit Jot Script Evernote Edition.