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3 Simple Tools to Create Quote Posters for Your Class

3 Simple Tools to Create Quote Posters for Your Class
May 29, 2015 Below are three of our favourite web tools for creating picture quotes. You can use these tools with your students to create beautiful quote posters for your class. These picture quotes can be used as warm-up activities or entry events to project based learning. 1- PixTeller “PixTeller is a new and simple way to make beautiful posters and to share them with your friends and family. 2-QuotesCover

4 Good Chrome Apps for Sketching and Doodling May 3, 2015 Below are four Chrome apps kids and students can use to unleash their creativity through drawing doodling and sketching. The apps are easy to use and do not require any software installation. They are all web based. 1- Google Draw Google Draw allows you to easily create beautiful drawings, charts, diagrams, flow charts and many more. 2- Inspiration- Sketch & Draw “Open you creativity with this easy to use painting application. 3- Sketch Toy “Remember those old cartoons where hand drawn lines appeared to vibrate because of slight variance between frames? 4- Sketchboard “Sketchboard is made for collaboration.

10 Web Tools to Help you Integrate Technology into your Classroom It has been three weeks now since my last post in The Educational Web Tools section. However, I have saved several titles to include in today's post and I hope you will find them useful in your plans to integrate technology into education.The purpose behind such lists is to empower those teachers who are short of time to go online and look for web tools to use in their teaching and provide them some educational resources in their plates. The titles I have for you today are not necessarily all new but they are definitely all great for classroom inclusion and also for your professional development. Check them below and let us know what you think of them: 1- Read Write Think I don't know how many times I have included this website in my previous lists but I just cant stop recommending it to my fellow teachers and educators. 2- Equizzer This is a free web tool that allows you to easily create quizzes. 3- Brainy Betty 4- Class Tools This is an awesome tool that is very easy and simple to use.

Useful Tips on Using Evernote to Improve Visual Thinking June 22, 2014 Evernote is a great tool for capturing and organizing your notes. Evernote supports all types of notes including, text, image, video and audio notes. To better tap into the full potential of Evernote, you need to use the Evernote Web clipper. I am pretty sure the majority of you are or have already used Evernote for note taking but what about using it to improve your visual thinking? Educational Technology Guy: Android for Education (updated often) Android is a great operating system with a lot of great features and apps for education. Most of my students have Android phones, with a few having iPhones. Comparison to iOSEvery app I want or need is available on Android. Google - search, Gmail, Calendar, Reader, Google Plus, Docs, Google Tasks, Blogger, Maps, Google Voice, Voice Search, Translate, Music, goo.gl, YouTube, and much more. yasp! QuickOffice - access, view, and edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel files.Free version comes with phone and can view documents. Cloud Storage apps - Dropbox, SugarSync, - access, upload, download all your files and data from your computer to the cloud and your device. 10 Great, Free Apps for Students for Notetaking and Class Pl (Splashtop Remote is also great for Android phones and tablets -

7 Excellent Pinterest Boards for Elementary Math Teachers September 19, 2014 Today I spent some time sifting through my bookmarks to compile for you the list below. This is a collection of some awesome Pinterest boards for math teachers. The resources and other materials you will find in these boards are all ideal for elementary students. I am also preparing another list for high school math students. Browse through the pages below and I am pretty sure you will find tons of resources to use with your students in class. 1-Classroom Math Classroom Math has almost two thousands pins featuring a wide variety of math materials such as printables, charts, math websites, games and many more. 2- 1st Grade As its name indicate, 1st Grade is a Pinterest board devoted to everything related to the teaching of math for the first graders. 3- Learning Math Learning Math is another excellent board packed full of materials to help you teach math to your primary students 4- 1/2 Grade This board features math resources for first and second grades. 5- Math Ideas 6-Math

MindMeister Academy 3 Awesome Apps for Teachers to Create their Own Apps I have been doing a lot of apps review here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning but I have never posted about the tools you as teachers and educators can use to create your own apps. Just lower your eyebrows down, you can do it without any coding knowledge. Of course Android and Apple do provide tech savyy guys with the tools necessary to create their own apps but for us who know nothing about SDK and app development skills, platforms like the ones below will serve the purpose. You can create your app in less than a minute and the process is completely free. Here are some of the apps I learned from Steven Anderson and which you can use to create your customizable apps. This is a cool web tool that enables users to easily and instantly build a rich content based app. iBuildApp is the established “do it yourself” platform to make iPhone/Android apps, with no coding required. This is a Google supported platform where you can get to create awesome apps using just drag and drop.

10 sites where you can read books online To read ebooks, you don’t need a tablet or e-reader. You can read books online, in your internet browser. Most popular sites are listed below. Nowadays, the internet is a major tool to find products we need. With more and more content going digital, you don’t have to go to a bookstore to preview the book before buying it. But what “read books online” means exactly? a special device, like an Kindle e-reader or Samsung tablet,a special application or browser extension. All you need is a computer connected to the internet, and the application you use most: the internet browser like Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Internet Explorer. You can also read the books entirely, if their digital versions is available online for free. Institutions like Project Gutenberg or Internet Archive digitize public domain books, and make them available for free through their online catalogs. You can read approximately 10% of the paid book – long enough to make a decision whether to order a book or not. 1. 1. 2. 2. 3.

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