40+ Resources for Teaching Using Animation and Comics
January 27, 2014 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. If you want to create your own animation from scratch, then you want to go to sites such as Animwork. If you want to select from animation that’s already set up for you then perhaps Explainia makes more sense. 1.
9 Great Animation and Video Creation Tools Integrated with YouTube for Teachers
You might have wondered how those beautiful animated videos you see on YouTube are made. Sometimes you think people use expensive software ( well some do especially advertising companies ) but most of them are created using simple and free tools but with so much of creativity. Today I am introducing you to an awesome set of tools that are integrated into youTube and that will allow you to easily create videos without needing cameras or having to upload files or do any editing. They are very self explanatory and you can have a great video to share with your students in less than 10 minutes.
27 Best Copywriting Formulas: How to Tell a Captivating Story Online
628 Flares Filament.io 628 Flares × You’ve heard it said that storytelling is an essential element to drawing the reader into your content and driving more engagement. So how can you add this element to the blogposts you write? Can you fit a captivating story into a social media update, even one that’s 140 characters long? Here’s the great news: There’s a formula for that.
The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning
Welcome to the official guide to technology and learning by Edudemic! This part of Edudemic is meant to offer you, the teacher, some of the best and most popular resources available today. We’ve combed through hundreds of resources in order to narrow down our guides into something easy to read, easy to use, and easy to share. Below are links to the guides we have made so far. They’re always a work in progress so be sure to let us know if we missed something or if you have more resources you want us to call out in the guides. We’re always looking for the best and most useful resources so don’t be shy, share!
8 Engaging Ways to use Technology in the Classroom to Create Lessons That Are...
Are you tired of delivering the same old lectures on the same subjects year after year? Are you using the same lesson materials over and over and wishing you could make learning in your classroom more interactive? While lectures and lessons can be informative and even “edutaining” when delivered with passion and good materials by knowledgeable experts, sadly many traditional lectures and lessons are boring, and even worse often ineffective. The good news is that the Web is loaded with great free tools that can enable teachers to bring a sense of fun and engagement to their lessons.
Classroom Timers - Fun Timers
We've decided to put our new fun timers, and timers for classrooms into a nice sub-section. These are great timers for children, or maybe meetings, or anything really. They just add some extra fun to the usual countdown timers :-) Classic Classroom Timers: Explosive Fun Timers: Sports Themed Timers:
On-demand Personalized Learning: Strategic and Agile by Dawn Poulos
“This moves us closer to the holy grail of personalization: where analytics drive the right content to the learner, rather than the learner finding the content all by themselves.” Training content is moving beyond large courses, to semantically rich nuggets of information. Developers have created a whole host of specialized, next-generation performance-support apps that deliver personalized, bite-sized learning to employees at the moment-of-need on the device of their choice. But getting there is not easy. Adjusting our expectations: Amazon and Yelp
Online Technology Training Video Tutorials for Schools - Atomic Learning
Is technology fully utilized in your district, or does the lack of basic skills prohibit use? Help is just a few clicks away! With an online training library of over 60,000 short, show-and-tell video training tutorials on over 250 of the most commonly-used technology devices and software applications, Atomic Learning provides answers to how-to technology questions anytime, anywhere.
Free printable Sudoku puzzles for children and all you want to know about Sudoku, the rules, the different games and great links to Sudoku websites. Great for maths skills.
Printable Sudoku for kids We have sudoku puzzles in different formats and difficulty levels. We have the 4 by 4 and 6 by 6 grids for beginners and younger students and we have 4 difficulty levels of the famous 9 by 9 format: level 1, level 2, level 3 and level 4. Easier 4 by 4 and 6 by 6 Sudoku Puzzles Level 1 Sudoku Puzzles (9 by 9)
The Single Source for Single Sourcing by Sarah Danzl & Dawn Poulos
“Single sourcing creates an environment where content changes are made instantaneously, across all learning delivery formats, to eliminate this unnecessary redundancy.” You and your development team have created the perfect content for the instructor-led training class, or perhaps a stunning eLearning course, only to find out you need to make it available on a mobile app. What now?
20 Free Educational Tools: Videos, Guides, and Printables!
Free educational tools—what could be better? Anytime, anywhere, teachers like to have plenty of resources to pick from to help them create great classroom experiences to engage their students. We’ve got some wonderful content-packed free educational tools for teachers to explore.
Voice Over Scripts: Writing Style Tips
Instructional designers often need to write voice over scripts, but many of us have never received any formal training on how writing for voice over is different from other writing. I recently completed a project with Jill Goldman of Goldivox. She did a terrific job and brought energy and life to my script (as a great voice over professional can).
Top 100 Free Education Sites
Last year, Help Teaching brought you our Top 100 Free Education Sites. Since technology and new websites are always being discovered we decided to update our list with some awesome new websites and new categories. Oh, and did we mention that they’re all free? No time to go through the whole list?
