TechieMusings. Teaching Secrets: Get to Know Students Through Seating Challenges. By Sandy Merz Where do I sit? It's the universal first question, at the top of students' minds as they cross the threshold of my room on the first day of class. Many teachers start the semester with students seated alphabetically: It's easy and aids in learning names. Others may wait to make a seating chart until they get to know their students. I've tried both of these approaches with my 8th graders. Until recently, I usually seated students alphabetically while paying attention to gender. However, these practices don't demand anything from students. I've found that by engaging students in seating challenges, I set a positive collaborative tone from the first day. On the first five days of class, my students determine where they sit based on team problem-solving activities.
In return, students learn to expect me to be prepared, organized, and supportive—as opposed to being authoritative and having all the answers. Each activity takes 10 to 15 minutes but there is some preparation. Popplet. Popplet. Cindy L. Meester's Blog. Research Tools. Skip to main content Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web or iPad! Guest Join | Help | Sign In cooltoolsforschools Home guest| Join | Help | Sign In Home Presentation Tools Collaborative Tools Research Tools Video Tools Slideshow Tools Audio Tools Image Tools Drawing Tools Writing Tools Music Tools Organising Tools Converting Tools Mapping Tools Quiz and Poll Tools Graphing Tools Creativity Tools Widgets File Storage & Web Pages Other Helpful Sites Creative Commons Teacher Resources Apps for Mobile Devices (NEW - Under Construction) Tools index for this site A-Z email Lenva <a href=" Live Blog Stats</a> Actions Help · About · Blog · Pricing · Privacy · Terms · Support · Upgrade Contributions to are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike Non-Commercial 3.0 License.
Turn off "Getting Started" Loading... Storybird - Artful storytelling. 10 Ways to Create Comics Online. Creating cartoons and comic strips can be a good way to get reluctant writers writing. While creating comics you and your students can work through the elements of fiction in a context that is fun and familiar to them. Witty Comics provides a simple platform that students can use to create two character dialogues. To use Witty Comics students just need to select the pre-drawn background scenes and the pre-drawn characters they want to feature in their comics. Writing the dialogues is the creative element that is left to the students.
Artisan Cam is more than just a comic creator, it is a comprehensive collection of online art activities. On Artisan Cam students can use the Super Action Comic Maker to build a six frame comic. The Super Hero Squad invites kids to create their own super hero comic strips and comic books. Pixton is a drag-and-drop cartoon creation tool which allows anyone regardless of artistic ability to create comics. ToonDoo - World's fastest way to create cartoons! Cartoon Story Maker. A quick look at the Cartoon Story Maker back to top... Features Features list character and background librariesimport your own imagestext bubbles and information boxesaccent key panelimport voice recordingsbuilt in recorder to add your own voice recordingsunlimited number of framescopy and paste framespreviewprint functionsaved stories can be opened and editedcopy and paste text from other documentshelp files (available online and included in the program) See the for more details. back to top...
Cartoon Story Maker in the classroom Teachers can make cartoon stories to model language and cultural conventions.Students can make them as a stimulating and engaging way to practice their language skills. The Cartoon Story Maker has been designed with a focus on applying language learning. Students can: Teachers can: Cartoon Stories can be used: Installation and operation Installation To install and run the Cartoon Story Maker the computer must have the following: Operation Further Information and help. Bring Your Own Device 10 Commandments | MaaS360 by Fiberlink. STORIEWERF: index. Awesome Stories. CTL Events - Award-Winning Teachers on Teaching. TED-Ed | Lessons Worth Sharing. How Discovery Education Streaming Works" In the 1980s, not long after computers started playing a role in American schools, a computer station in a classroom was a haven.
It was a place for one or two kids to play educational games like "Lemonade Stand" and "The Oregon Trail. " Students could also learn the nuts and bolts of programming with languages like Logo and BASIC. For people who were used to the world of books and blackboards with an occasional filmstrip to liven things up, a new Apple IIe could be the most exciting thing in the room.
Today, classroom computers do more than just sit in the corner waiting for a student to be rewarded with some educational game time. One such tool is Discovery Education streaming. The word "streaming" probably brings to mind streaming audio and video files that people can play on demand. So how does Discovery Education streaming work within a classroom? Lots and Lots and Lots of Illusions. If your eyes follow the movement of the rotating pink dot, the dots will remain only one color, pink.
However if you stare at the black " +" in the center, the moving dots turns to green . Now, concentrate on the black " + " in the center of the picture. After a short period, all the pink dots will slowly disappear, and you will only see only a single green dot rotating. It's amazing how our brain works. Now let's play with some words...what do you see below? In black you can read the word GOOD; but the word EVIL also appears in white letters inside each black letter. Now what do you see? You may not see it at first, but the white spaces create the word OPTICAL, while the blue landscape spells out ILLUSION.
And what do you see below? This one is quite tricky! Last one of these -- what do you see? You probably read the word ME in brown, but... when you look through ME you will see YOU! The Man in the Coffee Beans The "illusion" is that this is just a picture of coffee beans; but it is not. Next > What happened in my birth year? Infographic: Get More Out Of Google. Remember the War - Remembering our heroes - 13th November 2011.