8 Ways to Use Edmodo Over the Summer. Tagged with: Professional DevelopmentSummer As the school year ends, many educators are sharing the great ways they plan to use Edmodo over the summer. If you’re looking to stay connected with colleagues and engage students over the summer, here are eight ideas to help you get started, as shared by members of the Edmodo community: 1. Edmodo Summer Camp “We are using Edmodo this summer for our incoming fifth graders. 2. “We are using Edmodo over the summer with rising 6th grade students at one of our middle schools. Looking for book recommendations? 3. “Our English department has decided to do a ‘book study’ of sorts over the summer. 4. “Teaching fifth grade, we end the year with our students moving on to several different middle schools. Here my leaving group can keep in touch with their friends who are now spread around different campuses.
Edmodo makes for a smooth and exciting transition.” – Robert Miller 5. 6. “I plan on keeping in touch with my new students. 7. 8. 5 Video Projects to Try With Your Students. Video creation projects are some of my favorite things to do with students. I like video projects for a number of reasons not the least of which is that students generally enjoy them too. I like video projects because when they're organized properly students have to write, research, produce, and revise just as they would if they were writing a story or research paper. The difference is that shared finished video projects have the potential to reach many more people than a well-written essay does. Another bonus is that I can invite my administrators into my classroom to watch a few short videos and they can quickly see what my students have been doing. Here are five ideas and tools for video projects that you can try with your students this year. 1. 2.
This summer I've been playing with PowToon which allows me to create a Common Craft style video by dragging and dropping pre-drawn elements into each scene. 3. 4. 5. Web 2.0 tools. Flexible Learning Paths by Susan Oxnevad. See on Scoop.it – Educational Discourse TOUCH this image to discover its story. Image tagging powered by ThingLink Kelly Christopherson‘s insight: Thinglink.com – a great tool to create images that link to information. This image has numerous links to information about various tools and other information related to Flexible Learning Paths.
A great resource to share with other educators. See on www.thinglink.com Like this: Like Loading... Five Alternatives to Traditional Book Reports. On Tuesday evening I gave a presentation in Second Life for school librarians and media specialists. One of the topics that I talked about was alternatives to traditional book report assignments. While this post is a follow-up to that presentation, the post on its own should give you some ideas for alternatives to traditional book report assignments. 1. Create book trailers. I ran a post about book trailers during the summer which you can read here. In short, a book trailer is a short video created by students to highlight the key points of a book. 2.
If stop-motion videos are more your speed, Kevin Hodgson's Making Stopmotion Movies is a fantastic resource for directions and advice on making stop-motion movies. 3. 4. 5.