Super Teacher Tools 7 Excellent Tools to Publish Students Work There is nothing much rewarding for students than to see their accomplished work being published and celebrated with others. This is very much motivating and is a strong impetus for them to achieve more and work harder. Can you imagine how happy a student would be to share his classroom work with his parents in a neat and clean online platform that they access anywhere and anytime ? There are several online tools that you as a teacher can use to host your students work and share them with the whole class and as well as parents .Below are some tools that can help you do that. 1- Flipsnack Fipsnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications ideal for publishing students work. 2- Issuu This is another populat website where you can upload and share your students work very easily and for free.3- Tikatok Tikatok lets you easily create an unlimited books online . 4- Mixbook 6- Lulu 7- Other tools
eLearning to Learn | A great WordPress.com site The Best Tools and Apps for Flipped Learning Classroom July 25, 2014 Following the posting of "Managing iPad Videos in Schools" somebody emailed me asking about some suggestions for tools and apps to create instructional videos to use in a flipped learning setting. In fact, over the last couple of years I have reviewed several web tools and iPad apps that can be used in flipped classroom but the ones I am featuring below are among the best out there. 1- Educlipper Educlipper is a wonderful tool for creating video tutorials and guides to share with students. As a teacher you can create an Educlipper board for your class and share the link with them. Pixiclip is another wonderful tool to create step by step instructional videos to use in your flipped classroom. 3- Explain Everything Explain Everything is a great interactive whiteboard that allows you to create screencasts and video tutorials using annotation, animation, narration, importing, and exporting almost anything to and from almost anywhere. 4- Knowmia 6- Educreations
7 Essential Tools for a Flipped Classroom - Getting Smart by Guest Author - classrooms, EdTech, flipped classroom By: Erin Palmer The flipped classroom uses technology to allow students more time to apply knowledge and teachers more time for hands-on education. It’s a continually changing strategy that evolves with technology. Innovative educators are usually on the lookout for the latest technology breakthroughs that will help them better organize and conduct flipped classrooms. The following tools are listed from most basic to most sophisticated and can be used alone or in tandem to make flipped classrooms more engaging. Google Docs Google Docs have many advantages over traditional word processing programs, including real-time automatic updates visible to all users, a feature that enables robust discussion and sharing. YouTube Ideal for first-time flippers, YouTube offers a user-friendly, universally understood platform for taped lectures and other educational videos. Teachem The Flipped Learning Network Camtasia Studio Edmodo or Schoology This guest post was provided by Erin Palmer.
Beautiful web-based timeline software Create A Classroom Poster Using Google Docs I have been sharing a great deal of educational posters here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. I love using posters with my students and I know many of you love them too. Sometimes it seems like we can not find the exact poster we want for our class and this is when we need to use our techy skills to craft our own posters. The process is not very hard and anybody with the rudimentary tech knowledge can do it in a matter of minutes. I have already featured a post containing several web tools to help you create your posters. However, I recently got some requests from some of my readers asking me about the tool I used in creating the posters I shared in my Freebies section. Click on each image to see it in full view 1- Open Google Docs, click on create, then on drawing 2- Give your poster a title and enlarge the drawing canvas 3- Customize the background of your poster 4- Insert lines, arrows, and text 5- Click on Insert menu to choose among many actions as shown in the screenshot
The 25 best education apps for connected classrooms Figuring out which tool is right for the job is something we all struggle with every day. Whether you’re a contractor, plumber, or teacher, there’s a lot of options to choose from. Teachers managing connected classrooms have it quite rough, though. About The Methodology To help answer your question, we polled the Daily Genius community via social media and then curated a list of the most popular apps being used in classrooms right now. What follows is the result of this effort. The 25 Best Education Apps For Connected Classrooms The following list is meant to be a useful snapshot at the top 25 apps for iOS and Android that are actually in use in many classrooms around the world. About The Badge The badge you see in this post is awarded to the creators of each app you see below. ClassDojo ClassDojo helps teachers improve behavior in their classrooms quickly and easily. Socrative Engage, assess and personalize your class with Socrative! Twitter Diigo Book marking tool. Evernote Remind Nearpod
100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School – Eternal Code [via onlinecolleges.net] With classes, homework, and projects–not to mention your social life–time is truly at a premium for you, so why not latch onto the wide world that Google has to offer? From super-effective search tricks to Google hacks specifically for education to tricks and tips for using Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar, these tricks will surely save you some precious time. Search Tricks These search tricks can save you time when researching online for your next project or just to find out what time it is across the world, so start using these right away. Convert units. Google Specifically for Education From Google Scholar that returns only results from scholarly literature to learning more about computer science, these Google items will help you at school. Google Scholar. Google Docs Google Docs is a great replacement for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint, so learn how to use this product even more efficiently. Use premade templates. Gmail Use the Tasks as a to-do list.
Use Google Forms to create a self-grading quiz Andy Wolber shows us how to use Google Forms to build an automated quiz using the survey tool. Google Forms provides a free tool to create and gather survey data. Web based forms can save a lot of time. A Google Form stores each respondent's answers in spreadsheet cells, with each answer in its own cell. To a spreadsheet whiz, these survey responses are fodder for calculations. Create a quiz Survey data can even be used to create a "self-grading" quiz. 1. Follow the basic steps in our earlier TechRepublic post, "Use Google Forms to create a survey" to create your form. 2. Make sure the form is active and set to accept responses. Make sure your form is set to accept responses 3. Create a second Sheet within your spreadsheet document. Add a second Sheet to use for grading 4. The simplest way I've found to create an "answer key" is to take the quiz myself. Create the answer key by filling out the form with the correct responses The correct answers should now be displayed in your spreadsheet.
How to create a self-marking quiz using Google Forms | Web of Notes This guide will show you how to create a quiz which automatically grades answers using a Google Form and Spreadsheet. We will be adding an image, a video and the following question types: Text Multiple Choice Checkboxes Choose from a list Creating Your Quiz 1. 2. 3. 4a. 4b. Important Notes: Your quiz can be updated/changed at any time.For Text questions which ask participants to type their answers, lower/upper case will not affect the marks (as we will see in the Automatic Grading section), but spelling and spaces will impact the marks. From here, you have two options regarding how your quiz is organised. Option 1 – One Page In a one page Form, participants are brought to a page with all the questions on it. On single page Forms, participants do not have to navigate between pages for questions. You may add multiple images/videos by clicking ‘Add Item’ at the end of the page. Here is how to create the one page quiz above, continuing from step 4: 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15a. 15b. 15c. 6.
Two Ways to Create Online Whiteboards Online whiteboards can be a fantastic aid to students when they’re trying to help each other work through problems or tutor each other. Online whiteboards are also helpful to teachers who are crafting visual explanations for students. Sketchlot and Stoodle are excellent online whiteboard tools. Both will work in the web browser on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad, and Android tablet. Here are this week’s most popular posts from FreeTech4Teachers.com: 1. Would you like to have me visit your school?