Create Augmented Reality Layers Without Coding. Vimeo Music Store - Find Free Music for Your Videos. Beautiful Teenage Brains. Convert and Resize Images With Just One Click. Vocabulary Widgets for Your Blog or Website. Last week, in response to one of my new teaching assignments, I posted a list of seven resources for teaching and learning vocabulary. Today, I went searching for some vocabulary widgets that could be added to classroom blogs and websites.
In my search I found a jackpot of vocabulary widgets at Widget Box. Widget Box currently hosts 48 vocabulary widgets that you can place on your classroom blog or website. To use the widgets just copy the embed code provided for you and paste it into one of the side bars on your blog. If you're a Blogger user, you can do this by going to your Design panel, selecting "add a gadget," choosing the "HTML/Javascript" gadget, then pasting the code into the gadget. I've placed the Vocab Ahead widget below. Applications for Education If you're looking for an easy way to display a "vocabulary word of the day" to your students, Widget Box probably has something for you. Google Tutorials. This page contains tutorials for using Google tools. The tutorials that I've created you are welcome to use in your own blog, website, or professional development session.
Before using the tutorials created by others, please contact their creators. Google Docs for Teachers 2012 Google for Teachers Google for Teachers II - Google Earth Across the Curriculum - How to remove the Navigation Bar from Blogger Blogs. Google Voice. VoiceMail Transcription. Number porting in Google Voice. SMS to Email. Conference Calls. Make calls from your computer. Creating a blog using Blogger. Adding Static Pages to Blogger. Posting to your Blogger blog from your phone. Creating Blogs and Websites. This page is where you can find resources related to my presentations about creating effective blogs and websites to complement instruction.
How to create a Blogger blog. How to turn on comment moderation in Blogger. How to add or subtract contributors to your Blogger blog. How to create an Edublogs blog. How to create a Wordpress.com blog. How to create a Posterous blog. The Basics of Creating and Editing a Wikispaces Wiki.More, including a video tutorial, about using Wikispaces. Creating a Google Sites website. Ten Options for Creating Websites. Yola (formerly Synthasite) is the tool that I am currently using to build websites for my department and other departments in my high school. Webs (formerly Free Webs) is another service that I have first-hand experience with in a school setting because my girlfriend (a teacher in another school district) uses it for her classes. Snap Pages provides a free service as well as a premium service for creating your custom website. Video Creation Resources. This page is designed to introduce and show you how to use various free video creation resources. The process of creating and publishing videos can be a great way to get students excited about researching, storytelling, and sharing their work with an audience.
For teachers who have never facilitated video creation projects in their classrooms, choosing the right style of video and the right tools can be a bit confusing at first. To help bring clarity to the styles and tools, I have a rather simple outline that I use in my video creation workshops. That outline with suggested tools for creating videos in each style is included in the PDF embedded below. The playlist embedded below demonstrates many of the tools featured in the PDF above. The playlist embedded below demonstrates how to create flipped video lessons.
Click here to learn how to create choose your own adventure videos in YouTube. Shadow Puppet Edu makes it easy to create a video on an iPad. Sharing Videos. Free Downloads. QRPedia - QR Codes for Wikipedia Entries. QRPedia is a neat website that was featured on Read Write Web this morning. RWW called it "the coolest QR thingy ever made. " I don't think it's the coolest ever, but it is pretty neat.
QRPedia is a tool for creating QR codes for any Wikipedia page in any language. When scanned the codes generated by QRPedia will automatically recognize the language of your phone and delivers the corresponding Wikipedia page in that language. Watch the video below to see how QRPedia is being used in museums. Applications for Education One way that you might use QRPedia in your school is to have students add QRPedia codes to collage-type assignments to enable the sharing of more information in the same amount of space as before. Concept Board Comes to Google+ GeoGebraTube - Shared Resources for GeoGebra Users.
Video - The Last U.S. Veteran of WWI. Pronunciator - Lessons for Learning 60 Languages. My Open Letter - A Simple Way to Share Letters to the World. Vocalyze - Listen to the Web. TenMarks - A Free Math Program for Your Class. "Classic" Educational Videos. Aww App - A Collaborative Whiteboard that You Can Add to Your Site. 7 Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers. Introducing new technology tools to your students or to your colleagues can become a frustrating exercise if you end up repeating the same step-by-step directions over and over again. Not only is it frustrating for you to repeat those directions, it can also be frustrating for the students who want to go ahead but can't because you're waiting until everyone is on the same page.
One way to avoid that is to create annotated screen captures of the tools you're introducing. Another way to avoid repeating directions over and over again is to creating screencast videos in which you explain each step of the process. Here are seven tools that you can use to create annotated screen capture images and screencast videos. The tool that I use most often of creating annotated screen capture images is Jing. To use Jing you must download and install the free software for your Mac or PC. Show Me What's Wrong is a free service offered by Screencast-O-Matic.
Google Search Lesson Plans and Webinars. Doodlers Unite! The Positives in Doodling. In the TED Talk embedded below Sunni Brown, author of Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers , presents the case for encouraging rather than discouraging doodling in the classroom and in the boardroom. Her talk might give you some new ideas about why your students are doodling in your classroom. Warning: Ms. Brown does use one analogy in her talk that is not appropriate for the classroom.
If you're interested in learning more about using sketches and doodles as thinking exercises, I also recommend Dan Roam's The Back of the Napkin. Food for Thought - Schools for Tomorrow. The Nature of Things: Man and Dog. We Video - Collaborative Online Video Editor. For the last two months since my favorite online video editing service JayCut got bought out by Blackberry, I've been looking for a new online video editing service that is equally robust. I think I have found that in We Video. We Video is a collaborative online video creation tool. In the video editor you can upload your own media clips or use stock media clips to produce your video.
The video editor provides tools for trimming the length of display and or sound of each element you add to your video project. What makes We Video collaborative is that you can invite other people to create and edit with you. We Video offers four different user plans. The free plan allows you to upload your videos to YouTube and Vimeo but does not allow local downloads. Because I will be introducing We Video to my students, I'll be writing up detailed directions on how to use it soon.
Reel App - Share Your Slides and Get Feedback Online. YouTube Teachers - Ideas for Using Videos in Your Classroom. Where Did My Tax Dollars Go? - An Interactive Visualization. Last Saturday I spent about six hours sorting through receipts and 1099 forms as I put together my 1040 for the IRS. As I watched Turbo Tax count up how much I was going to have to shell out on Monday, I couldn't help but grumble and wonder just how my money will be spent. The answer to my question about how US tax revenue is spent can be found in the entries to the latest Data Viz Challenge sponsored in part by Google and the Gray Area Foundation for the Arts.
The challenge was to create visualizations about tax revenue expenditures. The winner of the challenge is Where Did My Tax Dollars Go? At Where Did My Tax Dollars Go? Applications for EducationWhere Did My Tax Dollars Go? Thinglink - Make Your Blog Images Interactive. Youngzine - News & More for Young Students. Go Virtual - Essentials for online synchronous programs. Pages Saturday, May 14, 2011 Go Virtual - Essentials for online synchronous programs In August 2009, I went from being a principal in a classroom-based high performing school in Chula Vista, California to launching a start-up charter school for K-8 students. Backtrack to two years before August 2009 and I’m sitting in a principal’s meeting when I had an epiphany. “Why not deliver public education online?” Adobe Connect. 2. At 2:20 PM Email ThisBlogThis! Links to this post Create a Link Newer PostOlder PostHome LinkWithin.