Think outside the app: 3 outstanding examples of app-smashing - Innovation: Education. What-smash? Despite sounding like a weird potato-fruit dish, app-smashing gets your students thinking less about apps and more about tasks. Hopefully with a minimum of actual smashing. App-smashing is when you give students a specific assignment that can best be solved using more than one app. iPads4Teachers has a fantastic overview of app-smashing here.
Sounds good, but I need examples You got ‘em! 1. Sylvia Duckworth, an elementary grades French teacher in Canada, created Mother’s Day video cards by taking screenshots with HaikuDeck, then importing those into iMovie to add voice and music. 2. A group of students at the Cabot School in Vermont tackled a cultural anthropology project by using iPhones to record audio interviews they did with community members, editing the audio in GarageBand, then embedding the results in a map with Thinglink. 3. Susan Hennessey put together the above video as part of an assignment for the MOOC Creativity: Music to My Ears. Like this: Like Loading... Related. Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Young Learners : February 2009 : THE Journal. Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Young Learners By Chris Riedel02/02/09 ##AUTHORSPLIT## <---> Gail Lovely is adamant about the nature and potential of Web-based learning tools.
"Web 2.0 is about trust," she said at a recent talk. "It's about sharing and collaborating. " And, she insisted, it's about putting the power to learn and create in the hands of the students. Technology needs to trickle up, she said, not down. We need to give the most powerful tools to the most vulnerable populations because they are the ones who need it. According to Lovely, and education technology consultant and speaker at the FETC 2009 conference in Orlando, FL in January, it was the recognition of those needs that led her to develop a "top 10 list" of go-to technology tools to help inspire young students and empower under-funded teachers. 10. 9. The site offers a high level of customization ranging from the overall look of the Voki to the sound of its voice. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
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Simulations. Ani and Graphics. Open source e-portfolio and social networking software - Mahara ePortfolio System. Maps and Such. Content Curation Tools. Content Mapping. PicLits.com - Create a PicLit. Presentation. Over 20 Free Digital Classroom Tools… Customize… Plus No Log In! This is a site that you are bound to find useful in your classroom. The tools are incredible and may even include items you have used on paper in the past… but can now bring digitally into the 21st century! Before this informative journey encompassing some engaging resources please take a moment and sign up by email or RSS. I enjoy sharing and I am also motivated by knowing that I am making a difference for you. Your subscription, retweet, and comments means a lot to me. I thank you in advance. What amazed me most about Classtools.net was not the valuable tools provided, but the ability for teachers to easily customize these tools and use them in any subject area.
Classtools.net is the work of educator, Russel Tarr, Head of History at the International School of Toulouse, France. The Listing Of Over 20 Digital Tools For Your Classroom The tools that you can even customize are included below. PDF Annotation, Online Highlighter and Sticky Note Tool | WebNotes. Semantic Aware Apps Rising. Author: By Silvia Tolisano October 13,2014 Globally connected students NEED globally connected teachers. Let’s explore examples and ideas to connect to experts, mentors, and peers from around the world as a way of teaching and learning.
Author: By Patricia Brown October 13,2014 The National Fire Prevention Association (NFPA) provides a variety of fun free apps and other resources for teachers to use in the classroom. Author: By Lisa Nielsen October 13,2014 It's hard to believe that one of the top tools for learning as recognized by the Center for Learning &Performance Technologies is blocked in many schools today. Author: By Patrick Larkin October 12,2014 The Twitteraholic’s Ultimate Guide to tweets, hashtags, and all things Twitter - The Edublogger Author: By Lisa Nielsen October 10,2014 There is a new tool called Microsoft Office Mix which brings lectures and lessons to life by turning PowerPoints into interactive lessons called “Mixes” that are very simple to create.