Powered by Google Docs Socrative Student Response System My name is Dennis Villano and I am the Director of Technology Integration for Burlington (MA) Public Schools. Thank you to Richard for this great opportunity to guest post about the Socrative student response system. Socrative is a rapidly evolving free web application that provides the easiest and most user-friendly experience I've seen from any student response system. Socrative will ultimately provide full-featured apps for iOS and Android devices. The system was developed by MIT graduates. Socrative provides a similar end user experience to that of the SMART Response System or Promethean Activote. Teachers can register for a free account. The system is appropriate for almost any grade level.
ISSUU - You Publish The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about. Procrastination is an alluring siren taunting you to google the country where Balki from Perfect Strangers was from, and to arrange sticky notes on your dog in the shape of hilarious dog shorts. The blank white page. Mark Twain once said, “Show, don’t tell.” Finding a really good muse these days isn’t easy, so plan on going through quite a few before landing on a winner. There are two things more difficult than writing. It’s no secret that great writers are great readers, and that if you can’t read, your writing will often suffer.
How to use Padlet (and why) EdTech Published on October 4th, 2013 | by Mark Anderson About 6 years ago, a web 2.0 tool came along called ‘Wallwisher’ which everyone raved about and it really was the belle of the edtech ball. It was very popular indeed, but over time, it became more unpredictable and thus unreliable. As time rolled on so less and less teachers used it in the classroom. Move forward to 2013 and Wallwisher got a rebrand. to brainstorm ideas from a classto collate research on a topicto gauge understanding on a topicto test student knowledgeto curate website linksto share information to an audience How to use Padlet? If you have a Google account, then good news, you can use your Google account for SSO (single sign-on) so you can be logged on quickly without having to create a brand new account (again). Once loaded up you have a variety of options but you’re going to want to choose to ‘Build a wall’. Once you’ve done that you’re wall is ready straight away. Next up is your layout. About the Author
7 Indispensable Apps for Creating Books with your Students Today in this post, I am updating a list of iPad apps ideal for creating books with your students and which I have published a year ago. The list comprises some really practical apps every teacher intent on using iPads in classroom should consider trying them. 1- Book Writer You can use it anywhere, including at work, school or home. 2- Book Creator The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. 3- Creative Book Builder Creative Book Builder enables everyone to create, edit and publish ebooks in a few minutes on the go. 4- Little Story maker Little Story Maker offers a magical way to enjoy your personal pictures and stories with your child. 5- Picturebook Picturebook: School Edition includes over 250 illustrations in 12 complete picture sets and all available add-on features. 6- Writer's Studio Anyone can Write! 7- Scribble My Story
60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category 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. Teachers around the world have found innovative ways to use Twitter as a teaching tool (including TeachThought’s favorite), 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 Twitter makes staying in touch and sharing announcements super simple and even fun. These ideas offer a great way to put the tool to good use. Organization Twitter’s hashtags and other tools share a great way to organize information for your classroom. Resources Use these ideas to take advantage of the vast resources that Twitter has to offer. Writing Skills
The Flipped Classroom: Tips for Integrating Moments of Reflection February 17, 2014 By: Barbi Honeycutt, PhD and Sarah Egan Warren in Instructional Design “Students in inverted classrooms need to have more space to reflect on their learning activities so that they can make necessary connections to course content” (Strayer, 2012). If you were to observe a flipped classroom, what do you think would it look like? The flipped classroom is a busy, collaborative, and social place. But what does this mean for students who don’t excel in this collaborative space? In the flipped classroom, the instructor’s challenge is to design learning experiences that engage students in higher level thinking and problem solving during the class time. But, are we missing a whole segment of our student population and minimizing the importance of reflective engagement in favor of active engagement by only defining the flip in terms of collaborative learning? So what does this mean for the flipped class? So, what can we do? Think, Write, Share. Cain, S. (2012). Chesborough, S.