9 Great New Web Tools for Teachers Everyday new web 2.0 tools emerge and some others die. It is thanks to the existence of such tools that internet became interactive and users shifted from the basic role of just passive consumers of digital input to active participant in the creation of the digital knowledge. The fact that this information revolution has radically transfomed education is no novel news to teachers and educators. The use of technology in education has become pervasive and the more we continue to invest in this field the better our instrction become. As I said before to keep track of the new web tools that are created almost every day is not an easy task for a teacher who already has several other peocupations. 1- Socrative This is a great web platform for teachers and students . 2- Late Nite Labs This is another website which has a great potential in education. 3- Three Ring Three Ring allows teachers to quickly and easily create digital portfolios of student work. 4- Global Scholar 5- ClassDoJo 7- Lore
Museum Box Teachers' Area: Guidance for Teachers - registration and creating student accounts Registering as a new school If your school is not already registered you should register here: Your details will be checked by an E2BN administrator, this may involve phoning your school so please make sure you provide your school's contact details. DO NOT GIVE YOUR PASSWORD TO STUDENTS, it allows them teacher access to moderate and PUBLISH student work! To create student user accounts: NB: Passwords must contain letters and numbers only and must be 6 characters or more. Watch the Video or follow the instructions below Go to: or click the link to the Teachers Administration page Click the ‘Students' tabs and then click ‘Add students' To create a single student account: Click the ‘Add a single student' button and complete the required fields. Click ‘Add Student' button Note: display name will be displayed when work is published. Passwords must be six characters or more. To create accounts for lots of students Login
Most Popular Posts of the Year - #25, Useful YouTube Accessories for Teachers Like a lot of other people are, I'm taking this week to relax a bit and do some things that I haven't had time for lately. Therefore, all this week I'm rewinding the year by republishing the 25 most-read posts of the year. I hope that those of you who are also on vacation this week, enjoy every moment of it. See you (virtually) in the New Year. If you can access it in your school, YouTube has a ton of useful educational content. Removing Related Content and Banner Advertisements. A Cleaner YouTube is a browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. View Pure is a simple little tool that strips way all of the distractions of related videos, comments, and promoted videos. SafeShare.tv makes it possible to view YouTube videos without displaying the related videos and associated comments. Quietube is a handy little browser extension that removes all the clutter from YouTube allowing you to view only your selected video.
16 Classroom Tools Teachers should Know about Integrating technology into our classrooms is a must in todays education. Our students are digitally focused and unless we speak digital with them our communication will be a complete fiasco. I know some of you are new to the concept of digitising a classroom and others are well experienced and have already been using some technology with their students, be it a beginner or advanced user , the following tools are of great help and , if you are not going to use all of them now, you should at least know about them. 1- Engrade It is the number one online gradebook in class management system with more than 2,410,506 members . 2- Collaborize Classroom This is a free online collaborative education platform that allows students and teachers to transcend the boundaries of their physical classroom to engage in an online collaborative learning environment. 3- Signup Genius This is a great web tool that allows users to create a sign up page and organize their events. 4- Testmoz 5- Quiz Station
Take typing lessons, test your typing speed and practice typing for free! This is keybr.com, a web application that will help you teach touch typing. Touch typing is typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys. A person possessing touch typing skills will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory. This is a short tutorial that will explain how does this application work. You can use the left and right arrow keys to navigate through these slides. This tutorial is based on these few principles: No boring, repetitive exercises. Initially it starts generating words from a small subset of the most frequent letters of the alphabet. When you are typing these words, keybr measures time to type a key for every letter in that subset. Once you familiarize yourself with the current subset of letters, the algorithm expands it, including more and more letters to it. The algorithm can also artificially rearrange letter frequencies, putting emphasis on the letters with the worst time to type measure. This is the text board. This is virtual keyboard.
10 Video Websites That Are Like YouTube for Kids The following list is ten of the best online video websites that offer entertaining and educational videos that kids will love. If you are a parent looking for an alternative to television for your kids, or you're a teacher looking for appropriate content for the classroom, this list can help. National Geographic Kids Videos National Geographic is very popular for its content for children, with a section for games, activities and stories, but one of the most popular sections of all is the comprehensive "videos" section that features lots of original programming from National Geographic Kids. Browse National Geographic Videos Videos include cartoons, educational nature videos and lots more. Kid Mango Videos KidMango is probably one of the most comprehensive kids video sites because it covers more than one genre and a wide age range. Videos on KidMango neoK12 neoK12 is an excellent alternative to YouTube for parents that prefer their kids watch more educational videos. Videos at neoK12 WB Videos
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. 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. Check them out : 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 popular 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 Mixbook lets you make completely customizable photo books, yearbooks, cards, and calendars and many more. 5- ePub Bud 6- Lulu Lulu is a website that lets you publish print books and ebooks for free.
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