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Comics. Step 8: Cools tools to embed. 12 must-have apps for supply teachers. What are the essential resources for the supply teacher?

12 must-have apps for supply teachers

Sharon Wood, founder of National Supply Teacher Week, takes a look at her absolute favourites. On supply, normal rules don’t apply. You may be left a set of plans, fully resourced, for the day. Or you may turn up with five minutes (10 minutes after you received the call to go) before the children arrive, to an empty desk, a missing laptop, and no password for the photocopier. You don’t know that the children have some work to finish off in any spare five minutes. ClassBreak Class Break features over 200 different activities and games that are outside the traditional PE class games of kickball and volleyball. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Simple Tool to Create Stunning Video Animations for Your Class. September 19, 2015 Biteable is a web-based tool that allows you to create beautiful explainer videos to share with your students.

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: A Simple Tool to Create Stunning Video Animations for Your Class

Explainer videos are short animated clips that make use of a wide variety of visuals and multimedia materials to communicate a message in a concise and comprehensible way. You probably have already seen some examples of Explainer videos on ads played on YouTube, several companies use this kind of videos to advertise their products. Zaption - Interact & Learn with Video Lessons. 4 Important Google Docs' Features for Student Researchers.

October 14, 2014 Google Drive is absolutely one of the best cloud tools out there.

4 Important Google Docs' Features for Student Researchers

Tools for conducting lesson study. 321 Free Tools for Teachers - Free Educational Technology. Online voice recorder. Scratch - Imagine, Program, Share. Random Name / Random Item / Person selector / Generator fruit machine. Mimio Interactive Teaching Technologies. TextIT. Fake Captcha - Generate Fake Captchas instantly for free. ITG Webtools 1.0.

Graphic Organizers. Quiz Revolution - Most Popular Quiz Maker, Make a Quiz or Survey, Create a Fast Quiz or Survey. Enhance your Website to Retain Visitors Longer From quizzes and surveys, to tutorials and training or selling, unflattened addictive content created with QuizRevolution generates, on average, over 10 minutes of sticky user engagement which translates into the kind of meaningful interactions—conversions and leads—that websites need to achieve their goals.

Quiz Revolution - Most Popular Quiz Maker, Make a Quiz or Survey, Create a Fast Quiz or Survey

Jeopardy Rocks - Jeopardy game creator for teachers. Brainstorming and Voting Amazingly Easy. Free Online Tool  AnswerGarden - Plant a Question, Grow Answers. Crossword Puzzle Maker. You must have an OLD browser.

The old crossword maker doesn't allow all of the new features like cool fonts, adding images, shadows, special colors, and much more coming in the furture like saving, and being playable online. You can upgrade your browser to IE 9+ or better yet, get the Google Chrome browser and enjoy all of those great features. Not convinced? You can go to the old version by clicking choosing it below. 2 reasons crosswords will not generate: 1. 1. 5 Features of Google Docs you Are Probably Missing Out On. While just about EVERYBODY’S using Google Docs these days, there may be some important features you’re missing out on, so if you’re having GDocs FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out), read on...

5 Features of Google Docs you Are Probably Missing Out On

Suggesting ModeThis relatively new feature allows you to highlight a mistake in a document, type a suggestion on top, then lets other document editors choose whether or not to accept your suggestion. Writing teachers and peer editors: Don’t miss this feature! 321 Free Tools for Teachers - Free Educational Technology. 21 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Do This Year. The Past mixing with the Future #selfie A new school year always brings about new ideas and hopeful ambition for teachers.

21 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Do This Year

However, it’s almost 2015. Gone are the days when we can use the excuse that “we don’t do technology”. Part of being a teacher in the 21st century is being creative in integrating academics and learning into student’s digital lives. With access to content being ubiquitous and instant in student’s out of school lives, we can either reject their world for our more traditional one, or embrace it.

Boyinaband Tutorials. #1 Free Timeline Maker and Timeline Creator for PowerPoint - Office Timeline. 什麼是歷史? (What is History for?) - VoiceTube《看影片學英語》25,000 部英文學習影片,每天更新. Parents’ Guide to Technology. Copyright Kids! Digital Glossary. 60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom.

Social media offers some great opportunities for learning in the classroom, bringing together the ability to collaborate, access worldwide resources, and find new and interesting ways to communicate in one easily accessible place.

60 Inspiring Examples of Twitter in the Classroom

Teachers and educators around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool, and we’ve shared many of these great ideas here with you. Read on, and we’ll explore 60 inspiring ways that teachers and students can put Twitter to work in the classroom. Communication. Rogō. Rogō OSS. GeoGebra. Home. Collaborize Classroom. Connexions. Xerte. Welcome to The Xerte Project!

Xerte

The Xerte Project is an initiative to provide high quality free software to educators all over the world, and to build a global community of users and developers around our tools. The project began in 2004 at the University of Nottingham, when work began to create a Flash-based runtime engine that would help the in-house multimedia development team speed up the development of interactive learning materials, and provide a platform for re-using good solutions to common problems that developers were typically solving every time they began a new project.

Accessibility, in particular, can be a difficult issue for content developers, and an early goal was to provide the very best support for high levels of native accessibility. To begin with, the tools were aimed at technical users: essentially the engine provided a library of useful classes that developers could access by writing XML to structure content, and writing code to develop interactivity. Core Values. Fixoodle. EdTech: 100 Tech Tools for Teachers and Students. This post is #12 in DailyTekk’s famous Top 100 series which explores the best startups, gadgets, apps, websites and services in a given category.

EdTech: 100 Tech Tools for Teachers and Students

Total items listed: 104. Time to compile: 8+ hours. Follow @DailyTekk on Twitter to make sure you don’t miss a week! This post is quite a departure from last week’s subject: 100 Tools to Develop the Next Killer iOS or Android App. Our normal audience may not get much out of this week’s roundup but don’t worry, I’ll be back with something you can use next week! Telegram Messenger. Educational Technology and Mobile Learning.

46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom. Infographics are interesting–a mash of (hopefully) easily-consumed visuals (so, symbols, shapes, and images) and added relevant character-based data (so, numbers, words, and brief sentences).

46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom

The learning application for them is clear, with many academic standards–including the Common Core standards–requiring teachers to use a variety of media forms, charts, and other data for both information reading as well as general fluency. It’s curious they haven’t really “caught on” in schools considering how well they bridge both the old-form textbook habit of cramming tons of information into a small space, while also neatly overlapping with the dynamic and digital world. 10 Excellent Social Bookmarking Tools for Teachers. February, 2014 Social bookmarking is a new concept that has seen the light with the emergence of bookmarking services like the ones I cited below.Semantically speaking, ' social bookmarking' is made up of the the term " social " which is related to society and general interactions between people, and the verb " to bookmark " (used here as a gerund ending in ing) which has to do with recording and/or saving content for both later use and quick access.

Weaving the semantic reference of the two words results in social bookmarking as we know it today : a collaborative and collective saving and sharing of web content.' Below are some of the best social bookmarking websites I would recommend to teachers and students. Have a look and let us know what you think of them on our Facebook page. 10 New Educational Web Tools to Try Out. March 8, 2014 Once every two weeks I feature here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning a list of some of the new educational web tools I have been bookmarking. 8 (free) websites to create cool student projects online.

Creating an online project is a great way to help students to demonstrate that they have learned something. Below you will find 8 websites that offer great options for any teacher and all are free to use. The first five have screenshots of examples that I created. Fake Movie Poster Creating a movie poster is a great school project. With this simple website, the task is that much easier. Students simply upload an image, add a few details for the text and then share their completed poster with the teacher. Instant Grammar Check - Plagiarism Checker - Online Proofreader. 100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers.

YouTube has earned a reputation for featuring brain cell-slaughtering fare such as the truly abysmal Fred and playing host to the some of the most depressingly stupid comments this side of Yahoo! Jane's Pick of the Day: 25 places to find instructional videos. Recently I have received a number of emails asking about places that offer free instructional videos (on all subjects), so I thought I would put together a posting of the main ones that I know about:

Zaption - Learn with Video. EDpuzzle. Insights- A New Educational Tool for Creating Paperless Interactive Lessons. June 25, 2015 The popular educational app TinyTap has recently released a new tool called Insights. WebQuest Maker. 53 – Explain Everything. Class fb. How to Download APK Files from Google Play Store - Android Apps. Android apps and games are packed as APK files. Learn how to easily download any APK file from the Google Play Store. Android apps are packaged as APK files. You can use any File Manager app to copy these files from the computer to your Android device and then touch the .apk file to install, or sideload, the corresponding app on your device. Create Digital Learning Content Combine Video Images Text Audio.

What Is Metta? The Best Tools and Apps for Flipped Learning Classroom. Scavenger Hunts: Searching for Treasure on the Internet! Movenote. 101 Free (or Free-to-Try) Online Collaborative Learning Tools. Have You Ever Considered Making Money Online? Kelly Richards of New York was tired of worrying all the time where the next dollar would come from. DIVII English Dictionary-Smart English Video Dictionary app. Learning, made joyful - Memrise. Making a List from the Dictionary. 53 – Explain Everything. Remove the background of a picture. In Word 2010, PowerPoint 2010 and Excel 2010 you can remove a background from a picture to accent or highlight the subject of the picture or to remove distracting detail. Original picture Same picture with the background removed.

#1 Free Timeline Maker and Timeline Creator for PowerPoint - Office Timeline. 6 Good Tools to Generate Writing Prompts. Quill.org — Interactive Writing and Grammar. Excellent Tool to Enhance Students' Reading Comprehension. 6 Powerful Google Docs Features to Support the Collaborative Writing Process via @soxnevad @Getting_Smart #DigLN #EdTech, #IOLchat. Find, create and share lesson plans and teaching tools to empower your classroom. Knowmia - Technology for Teaching. Made Simple. 100 Incredibly Useful YouTube Channels for Teachers. Jane's Pick of the Day: 25 places to find instructional videos.

WebQuest Maker. 5 Excellent Tools to Convert Photos to Cartoons. Keeping Up with New Tools. Insights- A New Educational Tool for Creating Paperless Interactive Lessons. 5 Important Tips on How to Better Annotate YouTube Videos to Use with Your Students.