How Google Is Secretly Building Its Facebook Killer Learn How to Use Piktochart! - Piktochart Infographics Become an expert Piktocharter by watching our videos, and you’ll be making infographics in no time! Our video tutorials are live on our Piktochart Youtube page, and you can also check out additional user-created guide on our Video Tutorial page here. Ready to get started with Piktochart right now? Check out our free guide to the Untapped Potential of Infographics! Subscribe to the Piktochart Blog below and immediately receive your free copy of "The Untapped Potential of Infographics". Editing Blocks and Arranging Content What is a block? How to Add Items like Icons, Images, and Text Add icons, upload your own image or photo, resize an item, add and edit text, and change the background. Customizing Charts and Data Visualization Add a chart to your infographic, input data, and customize your chart. Adding Videos and Map Visualizations Insert a video, insert a map, and customize them. Sharing, Publishing, and Downloading Infographics Download and share your infographic. Looking for something?
20 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom - Teacher Tech Google Classroom ( is available to schools with a Google Apps for Education (GAfE) domain. Classroom is a way to get all of your students in one place and allows you to easily assign work and for students to turn it in. Book: “50 Things You Can Do With Google Classroom” now available on Amazon. For a tour of Google Classroom visit 50thingsbook.com. Sharing Resources: Google Classroom allows you to take a document, video or link and push it out to your students.Create a Lesson: More than simply assigning work to students, Google Classroom allows you to build an assignment. Link to my follow up blog post: 15 MORE things you can do with Google Classroom. Link to my follow up blog post: 10 additional things you can do with Google Classroom. Thank you to Sean Junkins for creating a nice poster infographic based on this blog post.
#Angry Birds is now in beta in #google #chrome #edtools4chrome #edools | #edtools4chromeTHENEXTWEBby@web20education How to flip the classroom | Flipped Institute Flipping is easy – and with a little thought and planning, teachers can use the flipped model to create engaging learning experiences for their students. This section covers the nuts and bolts of flipping – from creating videos, to introducing the flipped concept, to practical ideas for using class time differently. What are teachers saying? As an English teacher, I have several teaching concepts going at once, so flipping works well for me. The flipped classroom is about making sure that the "voice" most often heard in the classroom is that of the student, not the teacher.
How to Use Piktochart in Any (and Every) Classroom This post is part of our guide to using infographics in education. For more information, check out the guide here. I’m the instructional tech coordinator in a rural school district in Michigan. The teachers I work with want simple, somewhat different, and effective. So this year, I put aside the plans I had to redefine school. One of those Packs focuses on Piktochart as a tool for creating infographics. Infographics are my go-to option when I’m asked for “something easy, but that’s more than a PowerPoint.” Whether the class just finished a traditional unit on The U.S. And Piktochart is my favorite tool for making these. My Tech Project Packs are sort of like FAQs for tech tools. What is an infographic? Infographics are those (usually tall and skinny) pictures we see on blogs or in our email that summarize complex topics in short phrases, stats and icons. What are infographics best for? If you normally would assign a “PowerPoint”, these can be a more contemporary format. Examples:
#Google is unbelievable and soon launch +1 your website . Now you can subscribe for it :) #edtech20 | GOOGLETOOLSANDAPPSBY@web20education The Google Classroom Quick-Start Guide + tips and tricks! Google Classroom makes organizing and managing all of your Google Apps activities streamlined and easy. Set it up in minutes. (Sketch by Matt Miller) Google Classroom was created to focus less time on tech and more time on teaching. Classroom has streamlined the classroom workflow and makes communication easier between teaches and students. It creates a central home for class activities.It lets teachers create assignments (and other class activities).It collects assignments from students.It helps teachers grade assignments and provide feedback.It returns assignments to students. Have you set up Google Classroom in your classroom? This guide will show you how to set Google Classroom up in a matter of minutes and perform the main tasks. Consider keeping this post open in one tab in your browser and Classroom in another so you can refer back. Let’s get started! Set up your class in Google Classroom 1. 2. 3. You must add a name for your class. 4. 5. Using Google Classroom in everyday class 1.
3 Ways to Use Blogging in ELA | Kidblog We’ve all heard about exciting and different ways to motivate and engage our students. If you’re like me, my first question is always, “how would this look in MY class with MY students?” As a language arts teacher, I am always looking for ways to foster the love of reading and writing in my students. Luckily, in my class with my students, blogging is the answer Literary Response Blogging is a great outlet for literary response, and the possibilities endless. Creative Writing Blogging also supports and encourages creative writing. Book Reviews Finally, I have found that a class blog can promote student reading. I hope you give blogging a try in your language arts instruction.