Google for Educators: The Best Features for Busy Teachers Google Search Google Search is at the heart of it all. It’s where many of us go multiple times a day to locate information. Google CS First This is a big favorite of mine among Google's offerings for teachers and students! Google Keep Keep is definitely one of my "use it every day" apps. Google Drive Google Drive is particularly handy for teachers when revising students' work and providing feedback. Google Sites Google Sites is your place to create a digital classroom on the web. Google Maps Google Maps helps students explore the world around them. Google Classroom Google Classroom is Google's newest product (August 2014) available to Google Apps for Education users. YouTube YouTube can be an excellent tool for teaching and learning. Additional Google Resources:
7 Ways Teachers Can Create Videos without Installing any Software 1- Wevideo WeVideo is a collaborative, cloud-based online video editor that is free to use, with affordable options to export in HD and store additional videos 2- Google Story Builder This Story Builder allows you to create mini-movies or video stories with the feel of Google Docs. 3- Pixorial Rather than spending valuable classroom time learning a complicated video editing program, you and your students can now get straight to the project. 4- Powtoon Here is what you can do with PowToon :Create Engaging and Captivating ContentAnimate Your Flipped ClassroomInspire Reluctant Students to be CreativeLet Your Students Express Themselves 4- Intervue Intervue is a quick and easy tool for publishers who are looking to gather short video responses online from anyone with a webcam. 5- Web of Stories It allows you to either record direct to your computer with a webcam or upload a video you have filmed on your handycam or phone. 6- Flixtime
Teaching With YouTube Teaching With Video: 9 Tips For Teaching With YouTube by Marlon Gallano Let’s face it, times have changed. The way we learned in school by sitting at a desk with a book, notebook and pencil are no longer the norm. Textbooks and notebooks are being replaced with tablets. The pencil is being replaced by the stylus. Although this sounds like doom and gloom, it’s actually a very good thing. Enter YouTube. If learning, rather than teaching, is the goal, you’ll need to have the attention of the students–and few things commands their attention better than a compelling video. Students are changing, and education must keep up with those changes. Ed note: Most of these appear in the graphic below, but we’ve revised and exchanged a few in hopes of having the best list possible. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Teaching With Video: 9 Tips For Teaching With YouTube; image attribution youtubedownload
Insuf-FLE... Ateneu - Materials i recursos per a la formació - Departament d'Ensenyament - Programar és prendre decisions Recull de materials que faciliten el debat pedagògic dels equips docents de l'escola per a la millora dels aprenentatges dels seus alumnes Per a què serveix la programació? La programació d'una escola és el conjunt de decisions que prenen els equips docents per aconseguir uns objectius. Aquestes decisions afecten els diferents elements que intervenen en el procés d’ensenyament-aprenentatge. La programació és fruit de la reflexió pedagògica dels equips docents i respon bàsicament a 4 preguntes que fan referència als alumnes: Què han d'aprendre? Segons el tipus i la naturalesa d'aquestes decisions faran referència a tota l'etapa, a cada cicle o nivell o a cada unitat didàctica o projecte. La programació es pot recollir en diferents suports, però sempre haurà de ser un instrument flexible i obert, en constant construcció i revisió. Materials per a la formalització de la programació Cada escola ha de disposar dels seus propis models de programació.
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Teachers Guide to Google Photos Google Photos is a powerful application from Google that helps you store, organize and share photos and videos. It provides you with an unlimited free storage so you can back up and save as many photos and videos as you like. Google Photos is also available on Android and iOS devices enabling you to access your photos across different platforms. In today’s post, we are sharing with you some useful tips to help you make the best of your Google Photos. 1-Create albums You can easily create albums to help you organize your photos and easily share them with others. Go to photos.google.com.Place your cursor over a photo or video and select it .Select other items you want to include.At the top right, click Create .Select Album. 2- Edit your albums You can use Google Photos editing features to edit your photo albums : You can change the order of photos and videos, change the cover photo of your album, and edit the title of your photo albums and many more. To change the order of photos and videos:
Uso de Recursos Educativos Abiertos para AICLE 50 Free Animation Tools And Resources For Digital Learners 50 Animation Tools & Resources For Digital Learners by Lisa Chesser, opencolleges.edu.au A purple monster with wild curls spiraling out of control explains the economics of oil production in the Sudan to students in Los Angeles, Sydney, Berlin, Jerusalem, and Riyadh. That is education and animation working together to teach students everywhere, everything they ever wanted to know. Some of the animation links catalogued here will give educators very basic tools and histories of animation while others have the animation already created and set in motion, it’s just a matter of sharing it with students. Educators need to decide which tool is best for them. One of the easiest ways to animate, however, isn’t with your own camera and modeling clay, it’s with your links to sites that hand you everything within their own forums. Use the first part of this list for creating original animation or using animation tools to create lessons. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18.
10 of The Best Apps for Motivating Students to Learn iPad provides endless learning possibilities for students. From apps to help with learning math and science to apps for doing 3D anatomy and virtual field trips, you name it, the educational app store has probably an app for it. The theme for our list today is motivation. 1-Book Creator The simple way to create your own beautiful iBooks, right on the iPad. A Gami can be an exciting tweet or status update. 3- Skitch See something that sparks an idea? ReadWriteThink’s Trading Cards app allows kids and teens a unique way to share their understanding of various topics, to build study aids for school, or to create their own fictional world of characters.5-Write about This Write About This is a visual writing prompt & creation platform perfect for classrooms and families! 6- Explain Everything Aurasma is an augmented reality app that’s changing the way millions of people see and interact with the world. Doodle Buddy Gold is the most fun you can have with your finger!
European Schoolnet Academy 400.000 oeuvres d'art du MET à télécharger gratuitement... et légalement Temps de lecture: 2 min Vous rêvez de retrouver les Picasso ou Monet que vous avez admiré au MET? Ou n'y étant jamais allé, vous voulez les contempler depuis chez vous en bonne résolution? Ou vous êtes prof et vous voulez en faire profiter vos élèves? Depuis quelques jours, le Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York propose près de 400.000 œuvres d’art en libre accès et téléchargement. Le célèbre musée, qui abrite des tableaux de Van Gogh à Degas en passant par de l’art aztèque, grec ou chinois, a mis en place une licence OASC. Bien entendu, toutes les œuvres ne sont pas disponibles. En ouvrant ainsi ses données, le MET rejoint d’autres musées qui ont déjà adopté cette démarche: le National Gallery of Art, à Washington, le Getty, à Los Angeles, ou encore le Walters Art Museum, à Baltimore, signale le site Open Culture. «Je suis ravi que la technologie numérique puisse ouvrir les portes de ce trésor d’images qu’est notre collection encyclopédique.»
9 Good Sources of Digital Textbooks to Use in Your Teaching Below is a collection of some very good sources for digital textbooks. These are websites that provide access to a wide range of free and premium e-Textbooks and educational resources to use in your instruction. eTextbooks are especially useful because of the numerous interactive features and tools they provide including things such as highlighting, annotating, note taking, quick in-built searches, easy access and many more. While most of the eTextbooks can be read on any digital device, few of them, however, require special e-readers. Always make sure the eTextbook is compatible with your device before you download, rent or purchase it. 1- CK-12 Felxbook Flexbook provides a wide variety of free textbooks for teachers to use in their lessons. With Chegg, you can rent textbooks for school (or buy them!) 3- iBooks 4- Inkling “Inkling's interactive eBooks are designed to help you learn, study, and discover just about anything, whether it's for school, work, or play.
Teaching Your Students How to Have a Conversation I was recently in a third grade classroom and was struck by the presence of rules that were posted for how to have a conversation. The poster said, "Each person must contribute to the discussion but take turns talking. Ask each other, 'Would you like to add to my idea?' or 'Can you tell us what you are thinking?' Having visited many middle and high schools, I think these same rules could -- and probably should -- be posted there as well. Maybe you have also observed how common it is nowadays for students to not know how to have a conversation. 8 Tips for Speaking and Listening While it is impossible to know all of the reasons, there is no doubt that learning to listen and talk is an extremely important way to broaden knowledge, enhance understanding and build community. 1. Make a point of having one-to-two minute interactions, one-on-one, at least a few times each week with students who struggle conversationally. "Really?"" 2. 3. "What happened to make you feel that way?"" 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.