Erik Youngman sur Twitter : "Use apps that facilitate analysis, evaluation and creation via Kathy Shrock #satchat #colchat #3rdchat #sblchat #tech. 7 Great Web Tools To Help Students Study Collaboratively. May 23, 2014 Students love to work in groups and every teacher knows this fact by heart. Group work has several pedagogical pluses that includes developing collaborative and co-operative skills, enhancing social skills and interactions, promoting critical thinking skills, and nurturing a learning environment of trust and support. Now with the web 2.0 technologies, the potential of group work is even bigger.
Students can create study groups online and learn collaboratively with others regardless of their geographical locations. Below are some of the best web tools students can use to create online study groups. 1- Examtime Examtime is a platform that allows you to create, share and discover resources, build mind maps, flashcards, quizzes and notes for free. .Examtime also has a feature called "groups" which enables students to create study groups. 2- Thinkbinder Think binder is another platform where students can create and host their study groups. 3- Google+ Circles and Hangouts 6- Wikis. Digital Portfolio Template.
ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education. Games. ePortfolio. Build a Media Gallery With Your Students in 2013. One of the challenges of having students create videos, slideshows, podcasts, and other multimedia productions in your classroom is making sure that they are respectful of copyright. One way to avoid any worry about copyright is by having students use media that they have created from scratch. Of course, building up a gallery of media that is large enough for all of your students to use takes time. To start building up a gallery of images, sounds, and video clips that your students can use in their projects commit to a 365 project for 2013.
This year have your students make daily contributions to a group media gallery. If a daily schedule is too frequent for you try a weekly schedule with your students. Here are some tools that you can use to collect and create your classroom media gallery. Tools for creating a classroom media gallery.Aviary's Mobile image editor is a free app for iOS and Android devices. To capture quick audio recordings try AudioBoo for Android and iOS devices.
Mouse Skills. Coding for Kindergarteners. Last year at this time, I was trying not to think about kindergarteners. I was still teaching ninth grade English and had just accepted a job teaching technology to K-5. I was excited about the challenge, and I knew that I'd bitten off more than I could chew. Developing the tech curriculum challenged me to teach programming or at least computational thinking at each elementary grade level. Our school is mid-pivot in technology -- we're in our second year of a middle school 1:2 iPad program, our first year of having a cart of iPads available for elementary, and our last year of two PC labs for the students to use (next year we'll have only one lab). Knowing this, I wanted to design a program that mostly used tablet-based tools. Challenges and Resources I was really excited when I was introduced to the apps Daisy the Dinosaur and Hopscotch.
With these apps, I was confident that I had a good entry point for grades 1 and 2. Practical Tips for the Early Grades The Power of Pairs.