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ClassDojo: Tips to Get Started as a Teacher Here's some really helpful advice written by Meghan B., a teacher in Philadelphia: ClassDojo has been a part of my classroom over the last few years, and I will continue using it because it's SO easy, and families love it. I'd highly recommend you watch ClassDojo's Getting Started video, but I've also shared my top 5 tips and how to introduce ClassDojo to your students! My top 5 tips for getting started: Web 2.0 Design Guide In this tutorial, I describe various common graphic design elements in modern web “2.0” design style. I then attempt to explain why they work (i.e. why they have become common), as well as how, when and where you might use each element in your designs. It follows on from my Current Style article, and analyses in greater depth the design features of the current “Web 2.0” design style.

Techie Teachers' Tricks Kahoot Blog Post Agenda:1. What is Kahoot? Thinglink – Online Tools for Teaching & Learning ThingLink is a tool for creating interactive images by tagging content to a photo or drawing. Tags can link to websites, Facebook or Twitter pages, videos, maps, other images, audio, or google resources. Users can also create interactive videos with a professional or premium account. Interactive images can be shared on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. There is an option to embed the Thinglink image on other websites as well. Another feature that Thinglink offers is 360 degrees tours with tags.

Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Young Learners Top 10 Web 2.0 Tools for Young Learners By Chris Riedel02/02/09 ##AUTHORSPLIT## <---> Gail Lovely is adamant about the nature and potential of Web-based learning tools. "Web 2.0 is about trust," she said at a recent talk. "It's about sharing and collaborating." Teacher Quick-start Guide New to Quizlet? Follow these easy steps to get started: 1. 11 Digital Education Tools For Teachers And Students Hundreds of digital education tools have been created with the purpose of giving autonomy to the student, improving the administration of academic processes, encouraging collaboration, and facilitating communication between teachers and learners. Here we present 11 of the most popular. 1. Edmodo

Teachers' Favored Web 2.0 Tools At 14.2 tweets/minute, #EdTechChat was moving on Monday, August 19. (When school’s in session, #EdTechChat can log up to 2,000 tweets during the hour with several hundred participants.) Susan Bearden, Sharon Plante, and I co-moderated this week’s discussion on Web 2.0 tools, asking tweeps to share the benefits and challenges of using Web 2.0 tools, which ones are their favorites, and where they go to find new resources. One of the most retweeted tweets captures why educators incorporate Web 2.0 tools into their classrooms: “@julnilsmith: Web 2.0 tools make students MAKERS - not just MEMORIZERS. “ Many other participants echoed that these kinds of tools can expand opportunities for students-- particularly by providing them with an authentic audience and allowing them to collaborate with peers worldwide. When choosing which tools to try, @MrStaubSTEM summed it up best: “The best edtech is the one you can use effectively that meets the needs in your classroom.” · Animoto

How to Use Padlet in the Classroom: A Fantastic Teaching Tool Padlet is a versatile, easy to use tool for every teacher’s toolkit. Let’s learn the basics. At the bottom of this post, I have a Padlet that is temporarily open for you to post and share your favorite edtech tools. Richard Byrne, author of Free Technology for Teachers, spent some time teaching the teachers at my school about Padlet.

How to Assign Assignments on CK-12 Are you tired of lugging piles of papers home at night to grade? What would you do with your free time if it wasn’t filled with scoring assignments? CK-12 recently announced a brand new feature to the CK-12 STEM toolkit that promises to make grading easier than ever! Whether you’d like your students to review a concept recently taught in class or take a stab at something brand new to them, CK-12 assignments are the way to go. Using CK-12 Assignments you can easily choose one or more concepts you’d like your students to practice and assign them with just a few clicks. The system will generate a list of questions for you and send the assignment to your students’ CK-12 dashboard.

Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students Earlier today, Richard took a look at the state of e-learning 2.0, which got me to thinking about how school might be different if I were in college today because of the influx of new Web 2.0 apps aimed and students. I went to a school that utilized a Virtual Learning Environment called WebCT (since absorbed by the Blackboard company), and it really wasn’t very fun to use. Note taking meant writing on paper, study groups meant face-to-face meetings, and if you were struggling through Shakespeare, your best bet was to turn to the library, not the Internet. When I was in college most of the tools in this round up didn’t exist.