ActivTable - Multi touch interactive surface for schools The ActivTable encourages project-based activities where students interact and collaborate, sharing knowledge and working towards a common goal together. This multi-user interactive table allows up to six learners to simultaneously use individual tools, web browsers and resources as their personal efforts move the group toward accomplishing a common goal. Many ActivTable activities are aligned to US and UK national standards, and many can be modified by teachers to suit their learning objectives. Not only is the ActivTable a uniquely powerful tool for learning through small-group collaboration, but it is also a vehicle for building essential 21st century skills such as communication, creativity and critical thinking. With Promethean’s ActivTable Key Features Join the Conversation Models/SizesActivTable 46” (active area) Works WithActivBoard, ActivInspire and ActiView Connectivity Four USB-A portsOne 3.5mm mic in socketFour 3.5 mm stereo headphone socketsOne DVIOne Ethernet port and WiFi
Reading with Purpose in the Content Areas Home › Professional Development › Strategy Guides Strategy Guide Content area teachers in middle and high schools face sometimes misguided pressure from administrators to include more reading in their instructional activities. While it’s likely that being asked to read (with reasonable support) in every classroom would improve standardized test scores, that’s a side benefit to the real reasons to make sure that reading is a part of students’ content area learning. Reading is a way to gain exposure to and develop tentative understandings of content. Students are unlikely to be convinced or adequately motivated by these pedagogical reasons for reading in every content area classroom. Offer students the chance to read beyond the textbook. Grades 4 – 6 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Guided Comprehension: Making Connections Using a Double-Entry Journal Grades 3 – 7 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson Strategic Reading and Writing: Summarizing Antislavery Biographies
Welcome to skoool.co.uk Office Online Improves with Tons of New Features | Office 365 content from Paul Thurrott Microsoft this week announced various improvements to Office Online, its free web-based office productivity experience. The firm has added new features to Excel Online, Word Online, PowerPoint Online, and OneNote Online. And it has added Office Online—gasp! Here's what's new. Excel Online Excel picks up a wide range of new functionality: Authoring comments. Edit a workbook that contains VBA. Hide and unhide rows and columns. Tell Me support. New and customizable status bar aggregates. GoTo. Word Online Word Online also picks up a long list of new features. Comments. List improvements. Footnotes and endnotes. Simpler document export. Improved tables. PowerPoint Online PowerPoint Online picks up a number of changes. Text editing improvements. Tell Me support. Other improvements. OneNote Online OneNote Online gets exactly two updates in this release, but they're both big. Printing. Multi-column section and page navigation. Office Online in the Chrome Web Store No, Hell hasn't frozen over.
Le « App Smashing » pour optimiser le potentiel créatif du iPad Le App Smashing est un concept popularisé par Gregory Kulowiec qui est un ancien enseignant d’histoire du Plymouth South High School et du Virtual High School. Il est maintenant associé sénior au EdTechTeacher. J’ai eu l’opportunité de le rencontrer et d’assister à sa conférence au iPad Summit de Boston 2013. Le concept du App Smashing est simple.Créer du contenu avec une application;Créer du contenu avec une autre application;Fusionner les contenus ensemble (Smashing);Publier le résultat sur Internet. La plupart du temps on demande aux élèves de réaliser quelque chose sur le iPad avec seulement une application. La grande majorité des applications de création de contenu offre la possibilité d’enregistrer dans le iPad. Les possibilités sont énormes. Vous pourriez aussi utiliser l’application Explain Everything si vous voulez ajouter de l’animation comme dans l’exemple suivant. 1) Trouver les fonds d’écran En premier lieu, il a trouvé deux fonds d’écran de couleurs bleu et vert.
LearningApps.org - modules d'Apprentissage Interactifs et multimédia Visual Thinking A few years ago, my center brought in a graphic facilitator to lead a strategic planning session for our staff. Since then, I’ve been interested in the power of visual thinking, particularly in teaching and learning. Here are a few resources on this topic I’ve put together. The Big Picture Below are two Prezis I used in workshops on visual thinking in September 2012. (To navigate these Prezis, either click the forward button to move through them linearly, or use your mouse to pan and zoom freely about the canvas.) The second, presented at Carleton College’s Visual Learning Conference, argues that visual thinking tools can be used to help students develop more complex and useful “knowledge organizations” (Ambrose et al., 2010) as they arrange information spatially according to particular heuristics. Further Resources Visual Engagement Techniques I’m starting to blog more about particular visual engagement techniques.
Livres photo - Créez des livres photo personnalisés de qualité professionnelle Si vous pouvez appuyer sur un bouton de votre téléphone ou de votre appareil photo et si vous êtes capable de suivre quelques étapes simples, alors vous pouvez créer un livre photo avec Blurb, que vous n'ayez que quelques minutes à y accorder (pour la création d'un livre photo instantané) ou que vous soyez prêt à tout faire vous-même. Le livre photo est le cadeau idéal. Un livre de photos de bébé ou un livre d'anniversaire : pour toutes les circonstances, le livre photo est un bon moyen de montrer que vous pensez à un être cher (et qu'il ou elle est photogénique). Nous avons justement quelques images pour vous montrer à quel point il est facile de créer un livre photo avec Blurb.
Part 2 If you are using the Google Chrome browser here are 5 more extensions that may be useful to you as a teacher. If you are fortunate enough to not have YouTube blocked in your school district you may want to try this chrome extension. When you watch videos on YouTube an ad will sometimes cover part of the screen. Adblock removes these. Students do not need to be exposed to ads if we can help it. Install the extension and when you are on YouTube you will notice the icon in the omnibox address bar. Click Here to get Adblock for YouTube extension. Clearly is an extension that shows up as desk lamp icon next to the omnibox. After: Click Here to get Clearly extension. Ruul creates a floating on screen ruler to help you line up material when creating online content. Even if I do not use it as ruler, I can use it to bring students attention to where I am looking at on the screen. Click Here to get Ruul extension. Most likely your gradebook is web based. Click Here to get the Split Screen extension.
Apps That Rise to the Top: Tested and Approved By Teachers Michelle Luhtala/Edshelf With the thousands of educational apps vying for the attention of busy teachers, it can be hard to sift for the gold. Michelle Luhtala, a savvy librarian from New Canaan High School in Connecticut has crowd-sourced the best, most extensive list of apps voted on by educators around the country. “I wanted to make sure we had some flexibility because there’s no one app that’s better than all the others,” Luhtala said. 30Hands allows a user to make pictures, annotate them, record a voice explainer and then packages it all into a video. Adobe Voice is a recently released education product from Adobe that allows students to narrate a story over an array of digital images. Book Creator is only available for iPads, allowing kids to easily create their own iBook by importing images, multimedia, text, and audio. Tellagami is a tool to share quick animated messages. ExplainEverything is another tool for creating video like tutorials. Symphonizer is great for music classes.
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