Sketchnoting. The Complete Guide to Snapchat for Teachers and Parents – A.J. JULIANI. Snapchat grew to develop a larger focus on its “Stories” functionality, which allows you to combine multiple snaps into a “story” that can be viewed by all of your friends/followers in chronological order, with each snap available for 24 hours after its posting. This feature has taken the social platform to the next level with people like DJ Khaled and Gary Vaynerchuk having huge followings just to see their stories.
Not only do they have individual stories, Snapchat also features curated “live stories”, with pictures and videos from many users focusing on a specific theme or event, as well as channels of short-form content from major publishers (think Super Bowl or a Concert series). From the Snapchat blog, the founders have shared three beliefs that drive the growth of their product: We believe in sharing authentic moments with friends. It’s not all about fancy vacations, sushi dinners, or beautiful sunsets. Yea, but… Remember when you said you’d never get on Facebook? On Snapchat Use. Prism | About. A Note to Teachers Prism was created by novice student developers in the Praxis Program. It has been recently discovered by the K-12 community, and is seeing heavy use right now. Prism is an experimental tool. It may break. If you have questions about how to use Prism or if you want to share ideas for doing so, please visit our community forum.
. – The Praxis Team Prism is a tool for "crowdsourcing interpretation. " The concept emerged from a decade-long conversation on categories of textual interpretation which took place at the University of Virginia, and specifically from transparency mark-up games played by UVa Media Studies students and at SpecLab: the original game involved shared, Xeroxed page images, transparent overlays, dry-erase markers, a common interpretive prompt, and a moment in which somebody yelled ‘Stop!’ The 2012-2013 cohort of Praxis fellows (listed below) retained the vision set by the original team.
Future Directions 2012-13 Contributors Shane Lin Claire Maiers Gwen Nally. Verso Learning | Activate Learning. What's next for educators after Twitter? – A.J. JULIANI. Ahh Twitter. You have a place in my heart. But if you were on the platform this weekend and saw the #RIPTwitter hashtag trending, it has never been more apparent that Twitter is losing market share, eyeballs, and users. Not only that, it’s losing educators. It’s losing conversations. It’s losing connections. I’m not saying that Twitter is a useless social platform for educators. The problem is that by all accounts, Twitter (as a platform) is slowly fading away. I get why Twitter is doing this: They aren’t making enough money to be a sustainable platform.
Look at the Top Charts in the App Store: Meanwhile, Twitter sits at #29 and dropping. I’ll continue using Twitter as a social and professional platform. That being said, the writing is on the wall (for now) that Twitter is going the way of MySpace. Do your own kids or younger siblings/cousins/nephews/nieces use Twitter? I want to continue having these rich conversations and connections in the post-twitter future. Google + Haha. Instagram. Create timelines, share them on the web. Brainstorm and mind map online. KOMA KOMA Apps | KOMA KOMA LAB. Make a stunning animated video. In minutes. | Adobe Voice. Adobe Slate. Adobe Slate: New App for Creating Beautiful Sites Is Almost Too Simple. Adobe Slate: New App for Creating Beautiful Sites Is Almost Too Simple Adobe, as you’re probably aware, is the huge software company best known for Photoshop and other high-end design programs.
They’re complex, they’re for professionals, and most of them require you to pay a subscription fee instead of buying them outright. So it’s eye-popping to see Adobe unveiling apps that are free and aimed at normal people: students, teachers, photographers, small business owners, just folks of every kind. A few months back, Adobe’s first stab in this direction was a free iPad app called Adobe Voice. It’s a clean, lovely, incredibly easy-to-use program that lets you make “explainer videos” — a popular kind of online narrated persuasion videos. Now there’s a second app in this line: Adobe Slate. It’s hard to explain this special Web effect in words; you really need to see my video above.
Parallax sites are great for telling stories. Photos and formatting A primitive slate. Google Slides - create and edit presentations online, for free. Drive: spazio di archiviazione cloud e backup dei file per foto, documenti e altro ancora. Witty Comics - Make a Comic. Fastest Way to Create Comic Strips and Cartoons - Toondoo. Free Unstuck app for iPhone, Android, iPad, and Web. How to Create a Zaption Tour - Google Docs. Mind Mapping Software: Mind Maps | MindMeister. Quizizz: Fun Multiplayer Classroom Quizzes.
Popplet. Random Picker. EduCanon. Show-what-you-know-fi.jpg (JPEG Image, 756 × 567 pixels) Hilliard U 2015. Emaze - Online Presentation Software – Create Amazing Presentations. Create your own animated video - Explee. App Suggestions for Learning Activities in BYOD Classrooms | Making things... Learning Things. Messaging, Walkie Talkie app for Team communication | Voxer.
The 10 best classroom tools for gathering feedback. Getting feedback from your students can serve multiple purposes: it can help you understand your students’ comprehension of the material, it can give you insight into what teaching methods work or don’t work, and it can help engage students in their learning process by knowing they have a voice that is heard. Not only can feedback offer insight for both teachers and students, it can be an integral part of group work and classroom time, given the plethora of connected devices in the hands of our students these days. That said, there are a lot of classroom tools available for gathering feedback. You can poll students or have them create a survey for a project, use clickers and other classroom response type tools in real time, get feedback on teaching methods, and more.
But which tools are best? We’ve collected a few of our favorites and listed them below, along with some of the activities they’re best for. Twitter Socrative Verso Plickers Doodle Polldaddy Poll Everywhere Google Forms Kahoot. Create Killer Presentations with Explain Everything. Explain Everything is a whiteboard and screencasting app that makes creating interactive lessons a simple proposition.
Its full-featured editing options and its import/export functions allow it to stand apart from the other competitors I tested. Read on to find out why the Explain Everything app’s educational focus, adaptability, and user engagement make it the best its kind. Explain Everything Review Background: According to MorrisCooke, the force behind Explain Everything, the app is a “unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool used by over 1.5 million students and educators.”
The app’s tools allow users to create lessons, presentations, and tutorials to share in person or electronically. Users can annotate, narrate, and animate material, importing and exporting information to and from nearly everywhere. The app is recommended for grades 7-12, but teachers of lower grades may still benefit from the app by using it to liven up lessons. Scores How Do You Use It? The 10 best classroom tools for gathering feedback. Storehouse - Visual Storytelling. How to use Popcorn Webmaker - Google Slides. Classroom. Popcorn Maker. How to use Popcorn Webmaker - Prezentacje Google. Instructions_for_Using_VoiceThread.pdf. MixBit. 9 Digital Learning Tools Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Use. The 21st century is a time of rapid change, and while the brain may not be changing (much), the tools we use to feed it are. This puts the 21st century teacher in a critical spot–of mastering constantly evolving technology and digital learning tools–the same tools their students use every day.
So below, we’ve started with 9 such tools, but this is obviously just scratching the surface. This list is not meant to be exhaustive (obviously), or even authoritative (but rather, subjective). This is the 21st century, after all. And incidentally, it pairs nicely with a related post, 36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do. Let us know what we missed on twitter or facebook. 1. While Google Reader is going the way of the dodo, social readers like Pulse and Flipboard continue to surge in popularity because they’re attractive, accessible across devices, and make it easy to skim large amounts of information at once. Why Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Use It 2. 3. 5. 6. 7. EDpuzzle - Home. App Suggestions for Learning Activities in BYOD Classrooms | Making things... Learning Things. Free brain breaks for your classroom - GoNoodle. Team WhiteBoarding with Twiddla - Painless Team Collaboration for the Web.
Bulb | Cathy. 81 Dash - A Nice Backchannel Tool for the Classroom. 81 Dash is a nice backchannel platform that I learned about today during the "Smackdown" at Hack Ed 2014. 81 Dash provides a place for teachers to create chat rooms to use with students to host conversations and share files. Once you are registered you can begin creating rooms.
In your chat room you can exchange messages and files. As the owner of a room you can delete messages written by your students. Students join your 81 Dash room by going to the URL that is assigned to your room. When they arrive at your room for the first time they will be asked to register. There are two registration options. Registering as a "guest user" does not require students to enter email addresses. Applications for Education81 Dash resolves the complaint that teachers have about many backchannel tools. Backchannels in general provide a good way to hear from all of the students in a classroom. EduCanon Sept 3 Release. 10 Word Cloud Generators You Have Probably Never Tried. A few days back, we looked at five great ways to incorporate word cloud generators into your classroom.
There are obviously many more uses out there for them – but that is a discussion for another post. We’ve mentioned most of these before – in a post from way back when – so I won’t go into too much detail about each individual one, but we’ve added a few notable ones to the list. (Of note, the list is in no particular order). The vast majority of them work the same: plug your text into the box, select a few options, and you’ve got yourself a word cloud. Some offer more options than others, some offer word clouds with words going in any and all directions, some offer shapes, others create much simpler word clouds.
If you do a quick search for word cloud, you’ll see so many different types. Do you have a favorite word cloud generator from the list below? Wordle Jason Davies’ Word Cloud Generator WordSift WordItOut Tagul TagCrowd Yippy WordMosaic AbcYa Tagxedo VocabGrabber. 5 Ways To Use Word Cloud Generators In The Classroom. Photo Courtesy of flickr and Sue Waters The popularity of word clouds remains pretty constant in education, and it’s not difficult to see why. They’re a great way for students to distil and summarize information. They help students get to the crux of an issue, sorting through important ideas and concepts quickly in order to see what’s important. And “see” is the operative word here, because word clouds are certainly nice to look at.
They speak fantastically to humans’ affinity for the visual, and are particularly useful for visual learners. However, it’s important to remember that the process of creating word clouds is just as important as the resulting resources. How to Use Word Clouds with Students Far from just an assessment tool, creating word clouds can be useful in promoting critical thinking, relationship building, and even as a great kick-starter. 1. As educators, we’re well aware that words are the building blocks of comprehension and cognition. 2. 3. 4. 5.
What’s Next? The Backchannel: Giving Every Student a Voice in the Blended Mobile Classroom. A backchannel -- a digital conversation that runs concurrently with a face-to-face activity -- provides students with an outlet to engage in conversation. Every time I think about this tool, I remember my student, Charlie (not his real name). Given his learning challenges, he struggled to keep up during class discussions. Long after his classmates grasped a concept, he would light up in acknowledgement and then become crestfallen as he had no way to share his revelation. Charlie needed an alternative means to participate, and a backchannel would have provided him with that outlet. At the time, we did not have mobile devices. If we had, then a number of free tools could have augmented class discussions and supported students like Charlie. TodaysMeet would have let teachers create private chat rooms so that students could ask questions or leave comments during class.
Capturing Curiosity From time travel to stem cells, her students unleashed their ideas. Connecting to the Conversation. 4 Chrome Apps for Student Creation - Getting Smart by Aimee Bartis - #edtech #learning, chromeapps, chromebooks, edapps, EdTech, GAFE, mlearning. 20 Options for Real-Time Collaboration Tools. About ETR Community EdTechReview (ETR) is a community of and for everyone involved in education technology to connect and collaborate both online and offline to discover, learn, utilize and share about the best ways technology can improve learning, teaching, and leading in the 21st century. EdTechReview spreads awareness on education technology and its role in 21st century education through best research and practices of using technology in education, and by facilitating events, training, professional development, and consultation in its adoption and implementation.
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