Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 10 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers March 20, 2015 Here are some very useful educational web tools we have curated over the last few weeks. These are EdTech tools we came across through posts from other edubloggers. As is the case with previous posts in New EdTech Web Tools for Teachers, we only feature the recent trending tools which we think would be a valued addition to teachers technology toolkit. Check out the ones we have for you today and share with us if you have other suggestions to add to the list: 1- iClicker iClicker is a powerful formative assessment tool and intuitive student response system that allows for dynamic student-teacher interaction. 2- ThinkBinder ThinkBinder is an excellent web tool for creating study and discussion groups. 3- EverySlide EverySlide is a web tool that allows you to create interaction around your presentations. 4- RabbleBrowser "RabbleBrowser is a curated, collaborative Web browsing and file sharing tool to help with learning and sharing in a group setting. 5- Flocabulary 6- Tricider
Graduate School of Education and Psychology | Pepperdine University ClassroomDeskArrangement.com Looking for new ideas for how to set up student classroom desks? You have come to the right place! This site is designed to give you some new ideas and fresh perspective for our classroom set up! This site has several pages of possible student desk arrangements for class sizes from 16-24. Stop back often as the site will be updated weekly with new ideas. Here are some other great resource websites to check out as well! TeacherspayTeachers - A wonderful resource site that includes free resources, as well as paid. Bulletin Board Website - If you need a new bulletin board idea. The Organized Classroom Blog - Find new ways to spruce up your classroom and gain productivity Teacher Shopping Network - a site to find new and used teaching resources at up to 55% off! Teaching Blog Traffic School - Take your blog from 0 to 1 million facebook fan page views (for just 1 month!) Classroom Freebies - All freebies listed all day long! Classroom Freebies Too - Even more freebies!
Five Formative Assessment Tools Recommended by Teacher Experts - The Startup Blog: Ed Tech From the Ground Up - Education Week By Swaroop Raju, co-founder of eduCanon You just asked a question to your classroom of 30 students. One student raises her hand and gives the correct answer. It would be easy to assume that your class has gotten a grasp of the concept is ready to move on to the next learning objective. The reality, however, is that one student's response does not reflect the overall level of understanding in your classroom. One possible solution is that you could deliver a quiz to each student. Fortunately, there are a handful of tools that make formative assessments a fast and fun process. Mike Voth, AP physics teacher, McKinney, Tex. "Socrative provides quick and easy formative assessments. 2.
52 Of The Best Apps For Your Classroom In 2015 52 Of The Best Apps For Your Classroom In 2015 by TeachThought Staff This post was sponsored by CK-12, a non-profit foundation that creates and aggregates high quality curated STEM content. What are the best apps for your classroom? This is, strangely, not a frequent topic for us. But what if that’s not your bag? This is the reality that, if statistics don’t mislead, most of you face on a daily basis. Let us know in the comments any that were what-were-they-thinking-missing-that-one? 52 Of The Best Apps For Your Classroom In 2015
Two Good Ways to Create Custom Word Clouds Word cloud generators provide students with a nice way to visualize the most frequently used words in a passage of text. There are plenty of word cloud creation tools on the web. There is even a Google Docs Add-on for making word clouds. One relatively newer tool for making word clouds is found at WordClouds.com. In my video embedded below I demonstrate the features of WordClouds.com Watch my video embedded below to learn how to make word clouds in Google Documents. Here are this week’s most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com: 1. Bring Me To Your School or Conference Click here to learn about my professional development services.
R U Engaging Your Students? Strategies and Tools for the Texting Generation Students and Smart Phones Go Together Like Reading and Writing. Let’s Put Them to Use in the Service of Learning! In the U.S., and increasingly abroad, students of high school and college age require a smart phone as a standard part of their lifestyles. In fact, the pervasiveness of these devices can be a real distraction for teachers, who often have to ban the use of them in classrooms. Of course, it is also possible to embrace these ubiquitous gadgets, and put students to work on them! There are many types of assignments and tools that can be used to engage students using their beloved devices. Research – Access to the Internet means that countless research opportunities are at your student’s fingertips. Another great way to put those phones to use is to use Remind to make sure they know about upcoming quizzes, tests, or assignment due dates. So let’s go put those smart phones to use in the service of teaching, learning, and student engagement! About Kelly Walsh Print This Post
60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom 60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom by TeachThought Staff Google Classroom is quietly becoming the most powerful tool in education technology. It may lack the visual appeal of iPads, or the student credibility of a BYOD program. It may not be as forward-thinking as we’d like here at TeachThought, but Google Classroom excels in providing solutions for a broad swath of teachers who have a variety of expertise and comfort level with education technology. It also uses Google’s familiar template that many teachers have used for years. So below are (at least) 60 thing you can do with Google Classroom. 60 Smarter Ways To Use Google Classroom 5 Great Educational Resources for Modern Classrooms In the digital age, many innovative organizations have branched off into educational initiatives, and their timing couldn’t be better. Recognizing the need for visual literacy, digital citizenship practices, and guided ed-tech implementation, many of these organizations strive to offer our students and teachers versatile tools and the most rewarding experiences possible with them. Such educational resources are designed to appeal to both the teachers and students of modern digital classrooms. They make terrific use of design tools, social media applications, and a healthy dose of the tech our students love to work and connect with. The following 5 educational resources in this article represent exactly the types of learning environments that are meant for today’s students. Canva Educational On March 24 2015, the web-based design startup Canva announced the launch of its new visual communication support program for teachers called Canva Educational. iPad in Education Skype in the Classroom
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 22 Chrome Apps Every Teacher Should Know about March 23, 2015 Over the last weekend, we spent sometime curating what we think are some of the best Chrome apps and extensions for teachers and students.Our selection is based on the reviews we have been posting here over the last couple of years and is also based on criteria such as popularity of the apps, its ratings...etc. Of course the list is no way comprehensive and there are tons of other apps to be included here but for brevity and practicality purposes we limited our list to the titles featured below. Have a look and share with your colleagues. 1- Google Classroom “Classroom is a new tool in Google Apps for Education that helps teachers create and organize assignments quickly, provide feedback efficiently, and easily communicate with their classes. 2- ClassDojo “ ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. 3- Google Keep “Quickly capture what's on your mind and share those thoughts with friends and family. 4- Glogster Edu 5- Sketchpad 9- Any.do
Cognitive Neuroscience Society » Blog Archive » Babies Learn Language Socially “It has to be social.” That’s the advice Patricia Kuhl gave to me and another CNS 2015 attendee following her riveting talk about language development. It doesn’t matter exactly when you introduce a new language to a child under 7, she said, as much as it matters that the learning is in a social setting. Co-director of the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences, Kuhl is the an expert in baby talk – having pioneered the use of new tools for measuring and understanding how language unfolds in a child’s mind. On the occasion of her receiving the George A. Here are some highlights from her talk today (hint: it’s mostly about the social brain): Most us know, many firsthand, how hard it is to learn a language past childhood. The early change in phonetic ability, starting around 12 months old comes down to two types of learning, Kuhl explained: computational and social. Even how a mother speaks to a child helps in this computational learning. -Lisa M.P.
A Collection of Some of The Best Chromebook Apps for Teachers August, 2015 One the occasion of the start of a new school year, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning is working on a series of posts aiming at providing teachers with a variety of educational resources specifically curated for teachers keen on effectively integrating technology in their instruction. In this context and after we have covered some of the best educational Chrome apps, we are sharing with you today some excellent Chromebook apps to use with your students in class. Enjoy 1- Chromebook Apps for recording and editing audio 2- Chromebook apps for digital storytelling 3- Chromebook apps for drawing 4- Chromebook apps for note taking 5- Science apps for Chromebook 6- Task management apps for Chromebook 7- Chromebook apps for editing videos
A Wonderful App for Students to Showcase Their Learning August 21, 2015 30hands is an excellent app to use with students in class. You can use it for a wide variety of purposes from creating demos and tutorials to crafting visually appealing presentations and videos. Students can use it to create multimedia productions showcasing their learning in the form of a slideshow with audio narration, or through an audio-enhanced image portfolios to mention but a few examples. 30hands is also great for digital storytelling. ‘For teachers Flipping the Classroom or older students creating presentations in Slides, PPT, Keynote: - Bring all slides into 30hands in 1 step then narrate + annotate to create a flipped video or project video - It takes < 1 minute in 30hands PRO vs. ~15 min in 30hands FREE vs. 30+ min in other apps - This can save huge amounts of time and obstacles to flipping the classroom - Output for flipped videos can be published at High Res for easier reading when text is used ’ 30hands is available in two versions: free and pro.