Soundbites for the Classroom In a time-stressed world, it seems that soundbites are all we have time to pay attention to. On public transport, in the media, and yes, even in the classroom. One of my regular routines is to project soundbites (or more commonly referred to as quotations) on the board as students walk into the classroom and settle down to a lesson. In other contexts I have used music, these days however, I tend to use visual images to indicate a different space, a change of pace, a moment to transit from the outside world into the rhythms of practice and learning.
65 Free Interactive Whiteboard Resources Interactive whiteboard resources are a great way for teachers to engage classrooms in learning. While many teachers are spending hours a day creating their own activities for their interactive whiteboards, there are tons of free sources to help teachers learn about and use IWBs with students to further their use of technology in the classroom. Here is a list of some great interactive whiteboard resources and activities guaranteed to stimulate learning: General Interactive Whiteboard Resources for Teachers
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Here Is A Great Tool to Help You Create Beautiful Classroom Visuals October 25, 2017 Over the last few years we reviewed and shared a wide variety of educational web tools and mobile apps teachers can use to create educational visuals, classroom posters, flyers, booklets and several other graphic types. One of the best tools that kept making it into each selection we create in this regard is Piktochart. This is a great web tool that allows you to design beautiful visuals to include in your instruction. Piktochart has recently added a number of interesting features such as extra text fonts, colours, more editing tools and most important of all, the ability to create long-form print-optimized graphics using a number of new templates designed specifically for this purpose. PiktoChart is simple and easy to use.
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