Scribblar: Online Whiteboard & Collaboration Tool. Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. Basic ideas for using visualiser. Visualisers are becoming increasingly common in classrooms. These tools are like a webcam which is permanently connected to your whiteboard / projector and lets you show things to the whole class using the large screen display in your room. Here are some ideas for using a visualiser in the classroom: Demonstrate a close-up technique which would otherwise be difficult to show to the whole class: Using a ruler accurately, Using a protractor to measure angles accurately, Demonstrating an art technique.
Sharing children’s work with the whole class. This lets everyone see their work in lots of detail and gives the child a chance to have their work displayed to all. Showing objects and artefacts in close detail. Reviewing / evaluating other children’s work... put an example of a child’s work under the visualiser and ask the other children to comment on it... which parts are strengths? There's a useful video about visualisers at teachers.tv. Ideas to Inspire.
Web 2.0 teaching tools to enhance education and learning — Edjudo. Toolkit A-Z for Education - PTCweb2. 5 Fake Facebook templates and pages for student projects. April 16, 2011 by mrkaiser208 Facebook is the place that kids hang out after school. Heck, it’s the place many of them hang out during school. It is definitely a platform they are comfortable with communicating on. Why not use student enthusiasm for Facebook to generate learning opportunities in the classroom? I have seen several classes in the past few weeks work on Facebook projects. Science might be a little harder, but imagine students pretend that they are a part of a chemical reaction.
There are several different platforms for doing Facebook projects in the classroom. Fakebook: This online app is the best I have seen. My Fake Wall (no longer functional) This is a cool template, much like Fakebook. PowerPoint template: This page template opens in PowerPoint, but functions surprisingly as a Facebook page. MS Word template: This template is a little harder to use and doesn’t look quite as good as the others, but it is another option.