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10 Top Cooperative Learning Strategies (and some tech tools that could come in handy) – EDTECH 4 BEGINNERS. Dr Spencer Kagan is a renowned educator who changed the way the world viewed teaching. He is mainly known for his work on cooperative learning strategies (often referred to as Kagan learning structures).

Instead of didactic teaching, in which a teacher stands at the front and tells information to whole class, Kagan thought that there were more effective methods. Watch this excellent video clip, for a useful overview of the Kagan approach: Make Images, Videos and Web Stories for Free in Minutes. Mysimpleshow - create your own explainer video in minutes.

Create Podcasts With Your Students On Chromebooks With These Two Free Applications. One of the questions that I get asked more often than just about any is, “How can I record a podcast using my Chromebook?”

Create Podcasts With Your Students On Chromebooks With These Two Free Applications

There are many limitations to Chromebooks when it comes to recording audio and video. My top 5 Avatar creation sites for students. 10 Things Students (and Teachers) Can Do With Buncee. Buncee is a web- and iPad-based creation tool for both teachers and students.

10 Things Students (and Teachers) Can Do With Buncee

With it, teachers can prepare engaging lessons, newsletters, and how-tos. Students can write interactive digital stories, easy-to build presentations, and more. The drag-and-drop interface makes it simple to put exactly what you want where it fits. If you ever struggle with getting PowerPoint to do what you want, you won’t with Buncee. More Than 40 Alternatives to YouTube. 3 Tips for Using YouTube Videos in Your Classroom was one of the most popular posts of the week on FreeTech4Teachers.com.

More Than 40 Alternatives to YouTube

Those tips are all well and good if you can access YouTube in your classroom. If you cannot access YouTube in your classroom then you will want to consult my list of more than 40 alternatives to YouTube. Over the years I've updated the list as new sites emerged and old ones shut down. 9 Fundamental Digital Skills Every Teacher Should Have. What’s so great about Google Drive? And why should my students use it? I have fallen in love with Google Drive.

What’s so great about Google Drive? And why should my students use it?

But it was not love at first sight. Our relationship was slow to get started. First, Google Drive was like the guy you know for a while as a friend. You think he’s okay looking, but you don’t really pay much attention to him. Then one day he says something funny, and you realize he’s kind of cute. Home. Tech Tools - lbujaki. 5 Tools Students Can Use to Keep Track of Assignments This Year. While I appreciate services like Remind and WhatsDue for sending reminders to students about upcoming assignments, I also think it is important for students to take ownership of keeping track of their assignments.

5 Tools Students Can Use to Keep Track of Assignments This Year

As we start the new school year many students will be looking for tools that can help them keep track of assignments. Here is a selection of tools that I've used and or my students have used over the years. Strike App is a simple to-do list creation and management tool. To use Strike App just title your list of things to do and start typing your list. When you've completed a task just come back and strike it out by clicking on it, dragging it off the screen, or "x-ing" it out.

Fetchnotes is a neat service for creating and keeping notes online. BackchannelInformalAssessmentToolsComparisonChart. Favorite Instructional Webtools. Sign In. Edu.buncee. The My favorite eLearning tools Shelf. Windows Live Movie Maker Video Educast Series : KQED Education. By Sean J.

Windows Live Movie Maker Video Educast Series : KQED Education

O’Neil The following videos are a 9 part series on how to use Windows Live Movie Maker. Live Movie Maker is a proprietary video editing software application which allows Windows operating system users to edit their own videos. This version of Movie Maker is compatible with Windows 7 or more recent operating systems. It is not compatible with earlier versions of Windows OS like Windows XP. There are nine videos in this series although you can only see one player.

Note: This video educast series covers the later version of Windows Movie Maker, not the earliest version. Explore: digital tools, how to, video editing, video tutorials, Windows, Windows Live Movie Maker. Tagxedo - Gallery. Michael Jackson Hardy Leung, July 31, 2010 Paul the Octopus Hardy Leung, July 11, 2010 Frida Kahlo Hardy Leung, July 7, 2010 Dalmatian Hardy Leung, June 8, 2010 Ada Lovelace (Computer Pioneer) Hardy Leung, May 26, 2010 Rosa Parks Hardy Leung, May 26, 2010 Eleanor Roosevelt Hardy Leung, May 26, 2010 Martin Luther King Jr.

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THINGLINK. Teacher Tools for Interactive Whiteboards. ↓ Skip to Main Content Home Resources Teacher Tools Numbers to Ten on the TenFrame Using a two by five array, the TenFrame supports the use of five as an anchor for early number sense.

Teacher Tools for Interactive Whiteboards

View Teacher Tool View Teacher Tool in Spanish Download Sample Lesson Plan. A Beautiful Visual Explanation of Hashtags. March 6, 2015 Hashtags are social networking phenomena par excellence.

A Beautiful Visual Explanation of Hashtags

They originated in Twitter a around 2008 and since then they adopted and integrated into many other popular social platforms such as Facebook, Google Plus, and Instagram. We have already shared several posts covering the educational potential of hashtags, most popular among them all is teachers’ simple guide on the use of hashtags. Today we are sharing with you this beautiful visual we discovered through a tweet from Tom D’Amico. This visual, which is created by Quick Sprout and initially shared on The Seen, provides a very good explanation of what the concept of hashtaging is all about and how it works in different social media websites such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Google Plus. Two Good Google Drive Templates to Create Fake Facebook Pages. Cool Tools for School. Google Earth Pro is Now Free for Everyone.

Google Earth Pro has been available for free to teachers with GAFE email accounts for quite a while.

Google Earth Pro is Now Free for Everyone

Now it is available for free to anyone who wants to upgrade to Google Earth Pro. Google announced this yesterday on the Google Lat Long blog. To get a license key for Google Earth Pro you just need to complete the form found here. Google Earth Pro offers at least nine features that are not available in the standard version of Google Earth. Those features include importing GIS data, mapping multiple points at once, measuring areas of polygons and circles, and automatically geo-locating imported GIS images. Applications for Education While Google Earth is clearly a great fit in social studies classrooms, it can also be used in language arts, math, and science classes. How Can Students Demonstrate their Knowledge in a Fun Way? The magic of QR codes in the classroom - Karen Mensing. Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners. Your Creation and Presentation tool Simplified.

Créer des nuages de mots. Wikis. 15 Netiquette Rules for Students. Cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces. Pictures to use in class. 101FreeTechTools. Digital Dippers Blog.