Thinking About Syncing? Tools for Digital Storytelling, Presentations, and Collaboration - Catherine Ousselin. Digital Storytelling and Presentation Tools Wall / oral presentation tools Thinglink - Teacher example - Blog post - App and Web-based tool to annotate images with videos, links, text, and other images.
Amazing! Glogster Edu - Student examples - Free and paid options available. Design an interactive poster with pictures, video, text, and appealing art. A Visual Guide To Twitter For Beginners. You may have a Twitter account that you don’t use very often.
You may tweet once in blue moon. You may just use it to ‘lurk’ during hashtag chats you enjoy. ( Check out our list of Twitter hashtags for to get started with that!) But you may not be a full-fledged Twitter user … yet. This dense and highly visual approach to understanding Twitter is just great. Subtitling Tools: Great for eTwinning videos. As web-based video is becoming more and more popular, see how you can use easy online tools to make your eTwinning videos multilingual for everyone to enjoy.
Online videos start to rival television in popular usage worldwide. In case you are making, or interested in making, videos with your pupils, it makes perfect sense to try using online subtitling tools to add a whole new language dimension to your videos. In this article we will examine the rationale for subtitling, some of the processes involved and provide you with a review of some of the existing tools available on the Internet today. 1. TwitterIcon. ClassTools.net: Create interactive flash tools / games for education. What can you do with an iPad in the classroom? It’s a tool, it’s a tool, it’s a tool.
The iPad is not going to replace teachers or ‘fix’ education. There is a cost implication that must be taken into account and only an educator will know if it is right for their students. Indeed the cost-benefit analysis for an establishment must take into account a host of factors when considering iPad use in the classroom. However, if there are iPads in the classroom, there are a number of applications that can enhance learning and assist the educator in developing student skills. In fact, the iPad allows educators to build on existing styles and increase flexibility in their classroom whilst personalising learning. Assessment for Learning The most valuable weapon in an educators arsenal is feedback. Applications such as eclicker, Socrative and Nearpod have the ability to provide instant feedback for every child in the classroom. 7 Fun Ways to Use QR Codes In Education.
QR Codes Quick Response are so fun to integrate in classroom. Quick Response codes are bar codes with information. QR Codes can include contact information, websites, text, SMS, pictures and so much more. Voice dictating reports. Box of Tricks - Technology and Education. Sharing ideas and resources for more effective & relevant teaching. Let the Quizzes begin!
Quizlet.com is amazing! By far the best free website for practising and learning vocabulary that I’ve found so far. I am a big believer in the power of games to transform the way students learn and this is the best website that I have seen for a few reasons: It’s freeIt uses VAK very successfully – you see the word, at the same time listen to it (website automatically adds audio) and then you have to type what you hear. Genius.Teachers get 8 classes free and you can add students to each class.It has all the accents on a button below the text box so you just need to click the one you want to add them, no fiddling with the keyboard.Teacher can see which and how many games students have played, as well as their scores.Students can see top 3 scorers on a score boardYou can print off vocab lists and a variety of tests of the vocab you have madeThere are thousands of sets already created – especially useful for exam board specific vocabulary!
Free online teleprompter. Using Teachers Pet. This is a step by step guide on how to use Teacher’s Pet, a fantastic toolbar for Microsoft Word or Open Office which cleverly uses macros to create language learning exercises in a matter of clicks.
A wonderful timesaver for busy teachers, Teacher’s Pet is ideal for preparing paper worksheets instantly or for using on the interactive whiteboard as a starter or plenary. By simply highlighting some text and clicking one of the exercise types on the toolbar’s dropdown menu, you can produce activities which practice vocabulary revision, grammar, reading comprehension, spelling and dictionary skills. MrMacPE : @TeacherToolkit here is the... Aggregate, Curate and Create Your Own Textbook. One of the latest buzz words in social media is curation.
Some media analysts ponder whether the content curator might be the next big social media job of the future. The job of curator has spread across the digital media world and may already have replaced “editor” and “publisher” in the minds of marketers and social media mavens. What are the implications of curation in education? How will content curation impact the textbook market? Will it make textbooks irrelevant? We are seeing more and more publishers jumping into the digital textbook market but so far the digital editions are mere pdf versions of the hardcover versions. The Journal’s article: 5K-12 Ed Tech Trends for 2012 includes going ‘Beyond the Digital Textbook’ as one of the trends, with the premise of adding interactivity to digital versions of textbooks.