Create your own comic strips - Bitstrips. 15+ Pinterest Boards Teachers Should Be Following #edchat. Via Pinterest seems to be taking the teaching world by storm.
If you haven’t had a chance to check out this visual virtual playground, you have got to take a moment to check it out – even if you don’t decide to start an account yet. There are some absolutely amazing boards out there that provide links to fabulous teaching ideas, products, freebies, giveaways, classroom organizational ideas, and more! There are boards separated by grade level, subject area, subject within a subject (for example, I have a board on Reading/Literary Analysis), and more. Simply click on a picture, and it will take you to the blog post or product page instantly! So, I have done some research (by spending most of my evenings pinning away) and would like to recommend some amazing boards and Pinners you should be following!
#1: Charity Preston from The Organized Classroom Blog – Charity currently has nearly 8000 followers of her 3343 pins on boards. Happy Pinning! P.S. Using an iPad in History teaching. Kerry ⋅ History, iPads ⋅ apps, History, iPad ⋅ 8 comments Image by s. yume When the iPad first came out in April 2010 (was it really just over 18 months ago?)
I wasn’t blown away. Here was an Apple device (as opposed to a very familiar Windoze one) which was unable to sit comfortably on a school network. It lacked USB ports or a camera, it had no compatibility with Flash and a complete absence of multitasking. What has been useful about the iPad: Size and weight: at approximately 240 x 185 mm, it’s only slightly bigger than an A5 exercise book – something I carry around most of the time. At the moment, I’m struggling to find many visually engaging apps for History, similar to the ones we have for Biology. However, we have a comprehensive set of Productivity Tools which I have found very useful. We started our Year 8 lessons this week with the topic, ‘England in the 1500′s’. The students were then split up into groups in order to discuss images on life in England from their text books.
12 Moodle tools to interact with your students online. Effective elearning requires participation and collaboration from students; and teachers are continuously looking to leverage technology to support their objectives and create an environment conducive to interactive learning.
More and more educationists and teachers worldwide are turning to Moodle for their online education programs. The reasons are simple a) it’s open source b) provides tools that promote active learning, interaction, and collaboration. The focus of the Moodle project is on giving educators the best tools to manage and promote learning From learning logs that aid in reflection on essential questions, sharing and communicating via live chat and forums, creating and giving quizzes, producing book-like content, and teaching via podcasts and virtual classrooms, the use of Moodle for e-learning is exemplary. Download this free whitepaper to -Learn 12 awesome tools for your MOODLE class or course.