background preloader

Tech-e

Facebook Twitter

Flubaroo for dummies. How to automatically grade forms using “Flubaroo” (as Add-on in Sheets) If you haven’t experienced automatic grading with Flubaroo yet, you’re in for a treat. Just imagine marking a class set of tests with the press of a button! And then sending the results to your students within seconds, showing their grade with correct answers and wrong answers! Yes, it can be done with Google forms, Google Sheets, and Flubaroo. How would I use this as a language teacher? If you have some experience with Google forms, you will already know that once responses to a form are submitted, an associated spreadsheet is automatically created. 1. 2. Click “OK”. 3. NOTE: You only have to do this once. 4. 5. 6. While still in your spreadsheet, go to “Tools > Create a form”: 7. I would recommend that you change the name, to prevent confusion from the spreadsheet. 8. 9.

Click on “Multiple Choice”: Then click on “Text”: 10. Help Text, keep blank. 7. 8. 9. 10. Decide what option you want your students to have. 11. 12. Everything Google. InstaGrok.com. Samr3.jpg (825×511) Search Education – Google. Twitter URL Shorteners You Should Try As Soon As Possible | Official .ME Registry blog. How many times have you wanted to share a link with your Twitter followers but it was too long? Sometimes when you’re chatting with a friend and he’ll send you a link that takes up a whole chat window. Has that ever happened to you? Probably. To help us in these kinds of situations, “the good people of the Internet” created a tool called an URL shortener. URL or link shorteners will take your long web addresses and give you a simple short URL that will fit into any tweet, won’t break comments or blog posts. The logic behind URL shorteners is simple; take the long URL, process it through a hash function of some kind and generate a short URL which is paired with the long one.

Once you request the short URL, the system will look it up in its database and redirect you to the corresponding long URL. Long and short URL pairs are kept in these databases forever, because you never know when you’re going to need the same link, right? Is.gd is.gd URL Shortener Ow.ly ow.ly URL Shortener Fwd4.me Bit.ly. YOURLS: Your Own URL Shortener. Stephen Colbert Explains Why It’s Important To Be “Data-Informed” & Not “Data-Driven” Youpd. Course-builder - Course Builder. How to Add Voice Comments to Google Documents. Mashable. Terry's Tales of Learning » Blog Archive » Fostering the Spirit of Inquiry. In our water inquiry unit, we worked on weaving together a number of subjects: reading, writing, science and social studies, as well as embedding technology at the same time. We started by creating burning questions about water, related to the main theme: ‘Water is Precious’. We then synthesized and organized our questions to choose one which we wanted to focus on.

After that we refined our questions to create three smaller questions which were easier to research. Our next step was to begin our inquiry. Once we’d answered our three smaller questions, we synthesized the information again to find the main idea. It was amazing to see how well everyone used their information and created attention grabbing questions and statements to hook their viewers. Take a look for yourself and see what you think: Was the message in this video clear? Were the images and words provocative? Four-dimensional storytelling - New Meograph 1. Digital badges show students' skills along with degree. September 11, 2012 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Digital badges, icons that represent academic achievements or skills smaller than a college degree, are an increasingly popular way for universities to acknowledge the breadth of student learning. Now Purdue University has developed a pair of mobile apps that make creating, awarding and displaying badges much easier.

The apps, available online, are called Passport and Passport Profile . A video explaining how Passport works is available on YouTube. Kyle Bowen, director of informatics in Information Technology at Purdue, says badges are an exciting new concept that is being adopted across higher education. "Badges become a way to recognize learning in all of its forms," Bowen says. "Passport provides a platform for anyone who wants to deliver learning credentials. "Many instructors are moving to new models of instruction, and Passport is a technology that supports many of those new models. " The second part of the platform is Passport Profile. Dipity - Find, Create, and Embed Interactive Timelines. Ok.gov/sde/sites/ok.gov.sde/files/C3 PASS gr6_10teched.pdf. MrCrossDude. Hello friends! My name is Jason Cross and I am an educator. I have spent years developing new ideas to help bring the digital age into the analog classroom.

Currently I am Principal of Legacy Academy iSchool in Elizabeth Colorado, where I have been able to enjoy the blessing of bringing iPad technology to 450 well deserving students. I have seen this technology in the hands of students transform lives. It has brought adaptive technology to help students who struggle to keep up, and has allowed all other students to grow and prosper at their own pace. It is important that the next generation not be limited to using technology, but to adapt and create with all of the tools that they will have the opportunity to utilize. Education needs to change. I hope you enjoy visiting my website. With best wishes, -Jason Cross-

7 Places to Find & Watch Documentaries Online. It was in the fifth grade while watching a film (yes, a film with two reels) about Plymouth Plantation that I first realized I enjoy watching documentaries. 20+ years later I still enjoy documentaries. As a teacher I think that a good documentary video when used in the right setting can be valuable to students. Quality documentary videos can provide students with useful explanations or demonstrations of concepts. Unfortunately, documentary DVDs can be expensive acquisitions for some school departments.

Here are seven places where you can find and watch documentaries online for free. PBS Video is currently my favorite place to find high quality documentaries. Snag Learning and Snag Films offers access to hundreds of high quality documentary videos. Documentary Heaven is a free site that has organized more than 1600 documentary films found across the Internet. Folk Streams is a good website featuring documentary films of American life. Tech4Teachers. Google Testing Center. Tech Three. Google In the Classroom | Educational Technology. EducationOnAir. Learning with iPads. QR codes are being used more across the world and especially in learning. There is a great opportunity for students to create and use QR codes on the iPad to extend learning across a range of curriculum subjects and specifically for demonstrating understanding of their own work or extending their understanding of a topic. I particularly like the ideas in the following video which links the use of QR codes with digital storytelling to engage, inform and promote.

Have a look at 'Sukiennice "Secrets Behind Paintings"' : Using QR codes in learning Download our QR codes in Learning document (click on the image opposite) for an overview of QR codes and ideas to use them in learning Download our QR Code Learning Quest document to look at a sample QR code hunt using clues to books to inform, orientate and engage users in locating and sourcing resources for their learning. See how Parramatta Marist Br Ludovic Learning Centre is using QR codes. Creating Qr codes. The 8 Characteristics Of A 21st Century Teacher. Some call them ‘connected educators’ while other use the phrase ‘digital teacher’ and many prefer the term ’21st century teacher.’

Whatever terms you use to describe modern teachers, it’s important to know what the terms actually mean. There’s a fabulous wiki devoted to just this topic here which houses some incredible bits of information. It’s by Andrew Churches who has curated quite a treasure trove of useful information for any teacher looking to outline what he or she actually does as a modern educator. See Also: The 10 Skills Modern Teachers Must Have So what are the 8 characteristics of a 21st century teacher? So does this mean a 21st century teacher must embody every single one of these characteristics in order to be considered for the lofty and esteemed title? Man, that’d be exhausting. What you do need to do, though, is be able to pull from experience and be a leader, a collaborator, a communicator at a moment’s notice.

What other characteristics would you name? Welcome to feedly. Storify · Make the web tell a story. Shareist: Content Marketing Platform. Shine on the web | Scoop.it. Black belt tech | when a tech ninja just isn't enough…