Video Games Can Teach Your Students. Video Games Can Teach Your Students by Andrew Ross, Language Teacher in Japan Ed note: The post below is part 1 in a 3-part series on the reality of teaching with video games.
Learning a new language isn’t easy. Untitled. HippoCampus Algebra & Geometry - Homework and Study Help - Free help with your Algebra homework. Edsby: "What You Should Know About Our 'New-School' Learning Management System" Edsby: “What You Should Know About Our ‘New-School’ Learning Management System” by edsby.com Ed note: This is a sponsored post from Edsby Ask five educators what an LMS is, and you’ll likely get five different answers.
Viewed by some as an effective tool for teaching and learning and by others as a necessary evil, the LMS is ingrained in K-12 education. But the LMS, as we’ve come to know it, is changing. Modern systems, such as Edsby, are improving user-interfaces with social features that mimic platforms teachers and students are familiar with outside the school environment, such as Facebook. The Google Glass Experiment. In March 2014, I was selected as a Google Glass Explorer to beta test the product in my class.
It was exciting, because we are already in our third year of a 1 to 1 iPad initiative with over 2,000 students. Immediately, I began my experiment 60 Days of Google Glass in the Class. Here are five important take-a ways or “glassroom” tips that my students and I have learned about in the first 20 days of implementation. Glassroom Tip #1 Google Glass allows you to differentiate work process + it changes classroom workflow My classes generally begin with the students using their iPads to research a higher order-thinking question.
Glassroom Tip #2 Give Up Control to the Students When I first gave the device to a student, I was full of instructions such as “to wake up the screen, you need to turn your head up at a thirty-degree angle and quickly bring it back down.” Glassroom Tip #3. The Google Glass Experiment. Projeqt - dynamic presentations for a real-time world. 70 Tools And 4 Reasons To Make Your Own Infographics. Infographics are everywhere.
Some love them. Some hate them. But however you feel, it’s fun to learn a little bit in a short period of time. Most are made so you can quickly grasp the key concepts behind them. Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions That Enhance Student Learning. This post was co-authored by Beth Holland and Tracy Sockalosky. Being 1:1 is fantastic, and if you are fortunate enough to have constant access to your own device in the classroom, then the benefits – especially in terms of efficiency – are tremendous: stored passwords, saved bookmarks, familiar file structure, and more.
However, even if you don’t have the advantage of always being in possession of your own device, thanks to the versatility of Google Chrome extensions available through the Chrome Store, the web experience has become customizable and productive in completely new ways. What are Chrome Extensions? Chrome Extensions are tools that live inside of your Chrome Browser and provide additional functionality by connecting to other web utilities. As illustrated in the image below, these extensions can be accessed by clicking on icons near your address bar – similar to clicking on a bookmark. Storytelling. 101 Recommended Educational Web Tools. Classrooms are fundamentally changing right now.
You may not see it or even feel like it’s happening anytime soon. But the simple amount of web tools out there designed to genuinely improve education is astounding. 50 Education Technology Tools You Can Start Using Today. 6 Time-Saving Writing Apps For Students 8.22K Views 0 Likes For anyone who has ever had to write a paper, you know that getting the ideas down when they come to you is important. These mobile apps will get you started and keep you going. 5 Useful iPhone Apps For Student Bloggers. 4 Ways To Bring PowerPoint Presentations Online. Every day in offices, schools and cafeterias all around the globe, zillions of PowerPoint presentations are built to present, convince, inform and sell.
Most of these presentations are presented live to an audience and then… Then what? Most of the time, nothing. SCVNGR. The 5 Best Alternatives To YouTube Teachers Should Know About. Arguably, YouTube is one of the greatest resources when it comes to video marketing as well as providing educational content for the numerous students pursuing media-related courses. It is essential to appreciate the fact that having a wide selection of resources in the classroom boosts the learning culture in the classroom. Besides, having various alternatives brings forth a variety of platforms through which video marketing objectives can be achieved. See Also: The 100 Best Video Sites For Educators.
Voki Home. PowerSearching with Google. 7 Little-Known Tech Tools Teachers Should Try Out. There are hundreds of thousands of apps, tools, and websites that teachers could learn from.
But, well, teachers don’t have that kinda time. In fact, the lack of time is a big issue when it comes to education technology integration. Handing off an iPad to a teacher and saying ‘there now you have an iPad, go revolutionize learning!’ Is how most districts still approach integration. So in an effort to boil down the most effective (even if they’re not the most popular) education technology tools, many people like myself test out and recommend just a small fraction of the many offerings out there. 7 Technology Tools Every Educator Should Use. A big part of my job as technology teacher is IT coordinator, which means I must keep up with tech ed widgets and tools so I know what to recommend to the teachers at my school.
I have a robust PLN that constantly shares what they are using in their classrooms, programs like PowToon, Dipity, Tikatok, Yacapaca, Glittertools, Chart Gizmo, Noteflight--you get the idea. Still, there are more than any one teacher can test properly. In a perfect world, here’s how I determine which of these hundreds (thousands?) Of tools are student-ready: • I try it myself. The 5 Best Alternatives To YouTube Teachers Should Know About. Live Hangout Schedule - EducationOnAir.