The Best Ways To Create Online Slideshows Boy, there sure are a lot of web applications that let you make free slideshows. Because of this glut, I thought it would be helpful to my students, readers of this blog, and me to do a quick review of many of them, and identify my picks for the best ones. So, here’s another “The Best…” list. In order to make it on this list (there is one exception), a site had to… * be free. * be simple. * allow you to grab images off the Web, and not just from your computer. * not have content inappropriate for classroom use readily available, at least not during the multiple times I visited the site. * allow for the creation of captions and other writing. I’ve come up with nine web tools that I think are worthy of being on this list. You can also find tools that let you create video-like slideshows at The Best Ways For Students To Create Online Videos (Using Someone Else’s Content). Present Me lets you upload PowerPoint presentations and easily provide audio/video narration. I also like Screencast-o-matic.
Bring Read Alouds to Life with the Novel Effect App Recently I stumbled across a post on TCEA's blog entitled Take Reading to the Next Level with Novel Effect. Apparently lots of educators are already using the Novel Effect app in the classroom! In case you are like me and haven't heard of this, I wanted to write a quick blog post about my experience and recommend that you try it out. It's FUN! About the App Novel Effect is available in the iOS store as well as Google Play. How It Works It is really easy! Using a hard copy of a book or poem: Choose a book inside of the app. Downloading an ebook or poem You also have the option of using Novel Effect with one of their free ebook or poem downloads as well as texts you have purchased in Apple Books that are listed in the app's text selection. Books When I first launched the app I immediately wanted to check out the titles that were available. Example You can also head to THIS Facebook post of mine to see me read a story using Novel Effect. My Experience But wait. Other Posts Sign Up Today! Welcome!
Link do tworzenia gry "Połącz czwórki" You will see a wall of 16 clues. You need to group them into 4 rows of 4 connected items. Simply click four cards to identify a group. After arranging all 4 groups (or when time runs out) the correct groups are shown. This quiz is based on, but is not affiliated with, the 'connect wall' element in the BBC quiz show 'Only Connect' George Red Oranges Scotland +1 Point? Green Ireland Apples Blue +1 Point? Ringo Bananas England Paul Wales Pears John White Web 2.0 Tools For Beginning English Language Learners – “Dustbin” This post is the fifth in a lengthy series where I will be sharing the Web 2.0 tools that I’m using with my Beginning English Language Learners, along with explaining how we’re using and sharing student examples of each one. Previous posts in this series have been: Web 2.0 Tools For Beginning English Language Learners – “Phrase.It” Web 2.0 Tools For Beginning English Language Learners – “Padlet” Web 2.0 Tools For Beginning English Language Learners – “Szoter” Web 2.0 Tools For Beginning English Language Learners – “Clyp.it” Today’s post is highlighting Russel Tarr’s online game called Dustbin. Students can very easily create a game — without registering — that requires players to categorize words. We’ve been studying the theme “Home” and students created a poster where they categorized words relating to different rooms in a typical home. Here’s an example one student created in less than fifteen minutes after she had made her paper poster: Click here for larger version Related February 8, 2015
Using Technology to Promote Summer Reading | Sweet Integrations As teachers we want to ensure that our students continue learning through the summer. Did you know students lose at least two to three months in reading and most students lose two months of math skills in the summer? It's important for us to make sure that all of our children are stimulated. For those who have access to technology, I have a some ideas in using technology to promote summer reading. I'm joining friends with The Reading Crew for an end of the year linkup. 1. Assign a fun book for your students to read over the summer break. 2. One of my favorite current event apps is Newsela. 3. Writing a book review gives your students an opportunity to express their feelings about a book, their favorite character, and if they would recommend the book to a friend. You can easily set up a page on Google Sites for your book reviews. 4. Students can develop their reading and writing skills with fun book creation apps and websites.With Scribble Press, students can write their own books. 5.
Link do przykładowej gry "Połącz czwórki" You will see a wall of 16 clues. You need to group them into 4 rows of 4 connected items. Simply click four cards to identify a group. After arranging all 4 groups (or when time runs out) the correct groups are shown. This quiz is based on, but is not affiliated with, the 'connect wall' element in the BBC quiz show 'Only Connect' wesoły szeroko stół czytać +1 Point? brzydki zimno ciepło słuchać +1 Point? kanapa ładny smutny szafa pisać krzesło mówić ciasno Larry Ferlazzo - Online tools These include The Best Web Tools For English Language Learners (In Other Words, The Ones My Students Regularly Use) and The Best Beginner, Intermediate & Advanced English Language Learner Sites. Now, though, I think it's time to narrow them down to my choices for the "best of the best" or, in other words, an "All-Time Best" list. Here are my choices, and I hope readers will let me know if they agree, disagree, and/or think I've missed some (one key requirement is that they are all free to use). Some of the sites I list could go in multiple categories, but I have placed them in the "domains" I believe they help the most: Obviously, The British Council has tons of great resources. I'm obviously biased, but I think the weekly student interactives I create for The New York Times are very useful to English Language Learners. The Reading and Everyday Life activities from GCF LearnFree are excellent. ESL-Bits has good exercised for Intermediate English Language Learners. Mrs.
An Introduction to Coding Lesson for Kindergarten | The Techie Teacher® Last week I had a chance to work with Mrs. Racine and her kindergarten class to introduce the concept of coding. To be honest, most of my experience with getting students started with coding has been in grades 2nd-5th. I've dabbled with using a Codeapillar and Beebot to introduce coding to young students; however, this school did not have access to these robots. Initial Thoughts I thought about using an unplugged activity for the lesson. Our Resources First I had to look at the resources available that we had to work with for this lesson. Luckily one of the few creation apps they have available on the ipads is Scratch Jr. so I knew that was what we would use for student exploration. I also scoured my Tech Themed Children's Book List to find a book we could use to kick off the lesson and I decided on using Coding a Sand Castle, a book I had just learned about this past summer. Our Lesson Anticipatory Set: I ended up kicking off the lesson with a little discussion. My Thoughts Sign Up Today!