21st century teaching. Sessions. 100 Teaching Tools You Should Know About. 5 Ways To Be A Better Public Speaker 7.15K Views 0 Likes If you've been asked to speak at a conference or host a seminar, you may be shaking in your boots. Not only is the thought of speaking in public nerve-wracking, but being in charge of a seminar that no one wants to at... Edudemic Is Giving Away 30 Free Citelighter Pro Accounts! 576 Views 0 Likes We think Citelighter is a great tool for both students and teachers, and what better way to try it out than for free? The folks over at Citelighter have offered a special deal for Edudemic readers to check out the new Pro product. Clearinghouse. E-Newsletter SignUp Show all resources sorted by most popular most recent most popular first containing Join to rate and submit resources ← Previous Page 1 of 58 Next → (1 ratings) interactive programs for making and analyzing art.
Posted by cweihe, last updated on July 21, 2012 Categories: Art (3 ratings) Heidi's presentation slides showing the importance of bringing curriculum21 into every classroom. Posted by Heidi, last updated on February 12, 2011 Categories: Professional Development Presentation by Dr. Posted by Heidi, last updated on May 22, 2012 Categories: English/Language Arts Professional Development We’re asking the children of the world to introduce us to the people of the world. Posted by Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, last updated on July 16, 2012 Categories: Global Global Education (2 ratings) Symbaloo, a tool for differentiated instruction. The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. Design Your Digital Classroom. Free Apps to Create Digital Portfolios for Students and Teachers. Have you or your students ever considered creating digital portfolios on the go?
Well now with the new mobile technology everything is possbile. There are a variety of apps that can help you create and organize portfolios and sketchbooks and some don't cost you even a penny. Apps in Education has compiled an awesome list of such apps though they are not 100% perfect but they can help you alot. I have picked out the free apps and reviewed them down . 1- Evernote Evernote is quite popular and probably many of you are already familiar with it. 2- Paper This is a great free app for iPad users. 3- Three Ring This app allows teachers to easily organize and present their students work from written assignments to classroom presentations. 4- Coolibah This is a free digital scrapbooking app that can be easily used to do the same work a digital portfolio normally does: presenting students work in an organized and neat way. 5- VoiceThread.
Collecting student work using Dropbox. Most of us have heard of DropBox, the great service that gives you 2 GB of free storage space in the “cloud.” If you do not already have a DropBox account, you can easily sign up for one HERE. Did you also know that DropBox can be a great way to collect students’ digital work? This post will focus on 3 great tools that will make collecting student work a breeze. All three of these services are free (as of this writing) and all are dead simple to use. Ever wish you could easily receive big files from anyone? Now you can! Ever wish you could email files to your Dropbox? The only one I can think of is that not all of our students have an email address This free service is the most intriguing to me. Bottom Line:All three services offer a fantastic way to allow your students to send their digital work directly to your Dropbox folder for collection.If you’re looking for something incredibly quick and simple, DropItTo.me would be the way to go.
Free File Conversions. 10 ways to eliminate the distractions around YouTube videos. Posted by admin | Posted in Character Education, Middle/High School, Primary Elementary, Secondary Elementary, Teacher Resources, video | Posted on 13-06-2012 Tags: classroom, clea.nr, clean video search, distractions, dragontape, education, kick youtube, learning, movavi, safeshare tv, saveyoutube, videos, viewpure, youtube, youtube for schools, youtubexl, zamzar What it is: YouTube is a truly wonderful learning resource. What isn’t so great: all of the garbage that can come along with it (i.e. advertising, comments, related videos…in short-distractions). Luckily, schools have some great options for using YouTube differently. Some of these tools I have written about before and some are new additions…hence the new post! YouTube for Schools- This is a YouTube that has been created just for schools. How to integrate less distracting YouTube videos into the classroom: This one is really a no brainer: want to use YouTube?
Tips: Always try these tools out at school BEFORE using with students. Cyberman Tech Pages. 10 Things You Can Do To Make Yourself an Ed Tech Star This Summer. As I watch Twitter at this time of year I see a mix of sadness, relief, and excitement that the school year is ending for many teachers. The summer is a great time to tackle some of that personal learning that got pushed to the back burner during the school year.
If one of your goals for the summer is to improve your knowledge and skills in educational technology, here are ten things that you can do to work toward that goal. 1. Create a framework for your use of educational technology. Use that framework for evaluating technology and how it will help you reach your instructional goals. My framework is discovery, discussion, and demonstration. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 5 Ways Apps Fit Into Curriculum and Learning Strategies. As the recently released "2012 Horizon Report: K-12 Edition" suggests, mobile devices and apps will become mainstream in a year or less. But apps aren't all about playing games. Converge asked three instructional technology coordinators and teachers to share how they're using apps to help students achieve learning goals. 1. Meeting state standards With the Common Core State Standards making their way into most U.S. states, educators are lining up their instruction with the standards their students are supposed to meet.
Ladue School District in Missouri chooses apps that support learning and introduce new concepts, said Carol Kliesen, elementary instructional technology coordinator. The district picks apps that go along with Missouri's grade level expectations for K-5 students. When first-grade teacher Patti Anderson from Sam Houston Elementary School in Tennessee looks for apps, her first criterion is that they meet the state's first-grade standards. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Your turn. Flipped Classroom. The Foundations of Flipping. Best Practices for Teaching Today "Kids don't show up to learn new stuff. They show up to apply the things they've learned at home. " Aaron Sams As a new teacher, I often seek advice from other mentors. Because of the strong mentors I've been fortunate to have, I feel like I've grown so much over the past few years. Both my public and private school experiences have provided me with master teacher mentors within the building, opportunities to learn from district leaders and trainers, chances to travel across the country to attend workshops given by some of the most sought after educational consultants, and they've provided me with tools to enhance my classroom instruction. Research indicates that students learn best by doing (the higher levels of Bloom's Taxonomy: applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating). Become the Guide on the Side - not the Sage on the Stage What is The Flipped Classroom?
Examples of The Flipped Classroom: Just Click Play to Watch... KylePace. Some help to get you started flipping your classroom #flipclass #edchat #mathchat « techieMusings. After Valerie Strauss’ article in The Washington Post featuring my class: “The Flip: Turning a classroom upside down”, I got a lot of positive tweets, emails, facebook messages, etc! And I also got quite a few questions from interested teachers who weren’t quite sure where to begin… I wanted to share a bit of an email exchange with a fellow AP Calculus teacher (her blog has some really nice reflections) because her questions were spot-on and I thought our exchange might be helpful to others.
Her questions are in red and my response in blue: I was intrigued when I read about your experience with flipping. Thanks! Here are my concerns and ramblings: * I’m teaching 4 preps next year, so I realistically don’t see myself creating the online versions of lessons where I have to have extra time to create slides. . * I like your guided notes idea. . * I’m sure there’ll always be kids that don’t watch a video occasionally. Here are my questions: * From something I read, you have daily classes, right? Flipped learning: A response to five common criticisms. One of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what “flipped learning” is. Over the past few years, the Flipped Learning method has created quite a stir. Some argue that this teaching method will completely transform education, while others say it is simply an opportunity for boring lectures to be viewed in new locations.
While the debate goes on, the concept of Flipped Learning is not entirely new. Dr. Eric Mazur of Harvard University has been researching this type of learning since the early ’90s, and other educators have been applying pieces of the Flipped Learning method for even longer. It’s our opinion that one of the reasons this debate exists is because there is no true definition of what Flipped Learning is. The method is often simplified to videos being watched at home and homework being done at school. Dr. UDL and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture. In response to all of the attention given to the flipped classroom, I proposed The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture and The Flipped Classroom: The Full Picture for Higher Education in which the viewing of videos (often discussed on the primary focus of the flipped classroom) becomes a part of a larger cycle of learning based on an experiential cycle of learning.
Universal Design for Learning has also been in the news lately as a new report Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Initiatives on the Move was released by the National Center on UDL, May, 2012. This post describes the principles of Universal Design for Learning and how they naturally occur when a full cycle of learning, including ideas related to the flipped classroom, are used within the instructional process.
Universal Design for Learning The UDL framework: Source: More about UDL can be found at: Some of the key findings of the Universal Design for Learning (UDL): Initiatives on the Move study: Why Flipped Classrooms Are Here to Stay. Published Online: June 12, 2012 First Person By Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams Premium article access courtesy of TeacherMagazine.org. Through much of our respective teaching careers, we had often been frustrated with students not being able to apply the content from our lectures to their work and daily lives.
Then one day, after a combined 26 years in classrooms, we had an insight that would change our world. It was a simple observation: The time when students really need educators to be physically present is when they get stuck on homework questions and need individual help. We asked ourselves, "What if we prerecorded our lectures and students viewed the videos as part of their 'homework,' and then we used the class period to help students with the concepts they didn't understand? " How Our Flipped Classrooms Operate We began using the flipped classroom model in 2006, while we were both teaching chemistry at Woodland Park High School in Colorado. Why Teachers Are Flipping Web Only. Podcasts - Flipped Learning Network Podcast by Unknown. Flipped Classroom Model. Blended Learning. Wordle - educational uses. 7 Tips For Using Social Media in Your Classroom.
Cyberman Blended Learning. Classifying K-12 blended learning. Web 2.0 Resources. 10 Great Tools for Tech Savvy Teachers. Prezi A fantastic tool to liven up presentations, Prezi does away with traditional, crowded slides by allowing you to zoom in and out, so you can create an entire presentation on one slide and guide your audience through it step-by-step. Zoom in to the details, but zoom out to show how your ideas fit together as a whole.
Edmodo Edmodo turns your classroom into an online community by providing you with a secure online social learning environment. Imagine Facebook for the classroom and you’re almost there. That Quiz A great, simple-to-use online tool for creating your own quizzes on the topics your students are working on. Crossword Puzzle Maker A fantastic, fun resource to engage your class; particularly useful with language, vocabulary and spelling or complex definitions for subjects like science. Doink A simple, online program for creating your own animations. Flashcard DB Free online tool for making your own flashcards, which students can then use in an online test format. Simple Booklet. Technology to Promote Thinking. 19Pencils - Quick and Easy Tools for Learning. Quizzes, Games, Websites and More! 8 Great Sites for Reluctant Writers. 8 Great Sites for Reluctant Writers 1.
Storyjumper Storyjumper allows you to create online books using a plethora of characters, scenes, and props. Teachers can, for free, create classes to register students so they each have their own account. As of this writing, there does not seem to be a limit as to how many student accounts you can create. 2. ReadWriteThink creates a lot of great educational resources. 3. Kerpoof is an online story and comic-creator which allows students to create comic scenes and stories, as well as animated movies, cards, drawings, doodles, and pictures. 4. Story Starters is a fun activity to inspire students to write. 5. My Storymaker allows students to create a story book with fun characters and settings. 6. Part of the larger Scholastic site, Writing With Writers provides an excellent resource for writing. 7.
Zoo Burst is a digital storytelling tool that allows you to create lively 3-d pop-up books with sounds and actual pop-up effects when you turn the page. Blog | Failure 101. Today I heard the story of golf player and how he completely came apart in the final hole of the 1999 British Open. He went from having a 3 stroke lead going into the 18th hole to losing the championship because it took him 7 shots to get the ball in the hole. Since 1999, every time his name is mentioned it’s, “Remember, he’s the guy that choked big time at the British Open.” I found myself really enjoying that story because of just how tragic it is. When the failure is that massive its almost impossible to look away. Yet, when I fail in public, like I did a few weeks ago, it makes you want to crawl into a hole and never come out. I keep telling myself that recovery from failure—the ability to get up and try again—is probably THE most important skill anyone can have. Popularity: 8% [ ?
Free Tech 4 Teachers. Storify · Create engaging social stories. Storify your English classroom. Google docs. Google Drive and Docs for Teachers 2012. Google Apps Training. Making the Most of Google Docs: Tips & Lesson Ideas. Working eLearning A-Z List. Collaborize Classroom | Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students. Cyberman's Google Docs page. Five handy Google Docs tools you’re not using.