The Best Interactive Web Tools for Educators Most of us are working at full capacity, and keeping up with technology can feel like one more chore on the to-do list. Still, learning your way around a few of the best Web tools is worth your time. Innovative teachers are frequently using intuitive programs and websites that are easy to learn. Sharing and Collaborating The Internet was invented to foster communication. Google Docs First of all, you never have to hit “save” in Google Docs. Google Forms Whether you want to send a quiz to your students or organize a field trip, Google forms can help you distribute and gather information. WordPress Create a class website or blog on this free, easy-to-use site. EduBlogs Set up blogs here for yourself or your students, and you can control the safety settings. WikiSpaces This is a great place for group or classroom projects because multiple users can edit documents. Classroom Innovation Khan Academy This site has helped revolutionize education. EdX MIT Opencourseware TED-Ed Edmodo Evernote DropBox
Storehouse - Visual Storytelling 10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking - 10 Strategies To Help Students Use Social Media For Critical Thinking by Terry Heick Social media is here to stay. No matter how much we lament a loss of privacy, too much screen time, superficial identity, or countless other worries, media has been around since language was invented, and we have always sought to make that media as social as locally available technology would allow. From chisels and tablets to the printing press to radio and television to twitter and Facebook, as long as we continue to have thoughts and ideas, we will continue to seek to publish and socialize them with others. Technology & ‘Social Emotion’ It would make sense that as technology becomes more integrated, more accessible to all socioeconomic classes, and “smarter” itself, those connections will only deepen as we our priorities–and the tools we use to express them–change. Scientific American published an article discussing why being ‘connected’ matters. See also ‘Stop Worrying About Screen Time’ 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Les capsules de profs c’est bien… Les capsules d’élèves c’est mieux Cet article fait suite à celui-ci (d’où son titre). On voit fleurir de plus en plus de capsules vidéos d’enseignants (je m’inclus dans le lot) et c’est une très bonne chose ! Comme vous le savez sûrement, je regroupe d’ailleurs les miennes sur L’idée est vraiment chouette et nous vient de nos amis Canadiens. Pour ma part je propose des vidéos de révisions à mes élèves depuis un an (à ne pas confondre avec de la pédagogie inversée, je ne me positionne pas dans cette méthode) et ça marche plutôt bien. Je ne compte pas arrêter, néanmoins, j’ai l’impression d’avoir mis le doigt sur autre chose. La capsule du prof est ludique, visuelle, simple à comprendre, donc un plus pour l’élève mais, on en revient toujours à la même chose : les élèves auteurs, les apprentissages au travers de tâches complexes mais surtout concrètes ! Ils le font en groupe et discutent et argumentent sur leurs choix de présentation. Voici quelques capsules réalisées par les élèves. J'aime :
Create Killer Presentations with Explain Everything Explain Everything is a whiteboard and screencasting app that makes creating interactive lessons a simple proposition. Its full-featured editing options and its import/export functions allow it to stand apart from the other competitors I tested. Read on to find out why the Explain Everything app’s educational focus, adaptability, and user engagement make it the best its kind. Explain Everything Review Background: According to MorrisCooke, the force behind Explain Everything, the app is a “unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool used by over 1.5 million students and educators.” The app is recommended for grades 7-12, but teachers of lower grades may still benefit from the app by using it to liven up lessons. Methodology: I began the evaluation process by downloading several popular interactive whiteboard tools for tablets, including Explain Everything V. 2.55. Pros: Integrate content from myriad sources and incorporate social media for easy sharing. Scores How Do You Use It?
35 Digital Tools To Create Simple Quizzes And Collect Feedback From Students 35 Digital Tools To Create Simple Quizzes And Collect Feedback From Students by TeachThought Staff Ed note: This post has been updated from a 2013 post If there is one thing teachers lack, it’s time. And while using technology to automate learning has been frowned upon by many, using it to automate time-consuming processes or aggregate data automatically is among the many seamless fits technology can make into any classroom. These sites, tools, and apps can save teachers time by allowing them to create simple quizzes that can be taken asynchronously, and make polls and forms to collect feedback from students (content-based or otherwise). Exist slips, pre-tests, student-created quizzes, course evaluation forms, crowdsourcing student knowledge of apps to use in a future project-based learning unit, and more. Very cool. 35 Digital Tools To Create Simple Quizzes And Collect Feedback From Students
Les outils collaboratifs en ligne pour l'entreprise Le partage d'informations et de travaux professionnels sont essentiels à la communication et à la productivité de l'entreprise . Grâce à certains outils sur internet, les collaborateurs peuvent créer, partager et modifier des fichiers de travail (ex : agenda, fichiers word, excel) en temps réel. Ces applications web et mobiles sont simples d'utilisation. Elles permettent notamment d'améliorer la communication interne dans l'entreprise. Notre vidéo Qu'est-ce qu'un outil de travail collaboratif en ligne ? Un outil ou logiciel collaboratif en ligne permet de partager des fichiers de travail entre les collaborateurs de l'entreprise. - Organisation et suivi d'un planning (agenda partagé) - Suivi budgétaire, organigramme et comptabilité (fichiers Excel) - Création de formulaires (enquêtes, études de marché) - Communiqués internes, règlement intérieur, annonces (fichiers word, pdf) Pourquoi utiliser des outils collaboratifs en ligne ? Les avantages pour l'entreprise sont multiples : Google Agenda
9 Digital Learning Tools Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Use The 21st century is a time of rapid change, and while the brain may not be changing (much), the tools we use to feed it are. This puts the 21st century teacher in a critical spot–of mastering constantly evolving technology and digital learning tools–the same tools their students use every day. So below, we’ve started with 9 such tools, but this is obviously just scratching the surface. This list is not meant to be exhaustive (obviously), or even authoritative (but rather, subjective). This is the 21st century, after all. Months after this post is published 2-3 of these tools could be outdated, and if this turns up in the Google search results of a query in 2018, they may seem downright laughable, but here and now, this is a fairly accurate litmus test of what the kinds of tools the average 21st century teacher can be expected to use and master. And incidentally, it pairs nicely with a related post, 36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do. 1. 2. 3. The formula is simple.
Kaizena · Give Great Feedback 3 outils gratuits d'ecriture collaborative. Les outils TICE transforment la manière d’apprendre et celle d’enseigner. Avec la le foisonnement d’outils en ligne gratuits, les outils TICE ont notamment permis de faciliter et de développer le travail collaboratif en classe ou hors de la classe. Il est ainsi maintenant très facile d’écrire un texte à plusieurs. 1- Zoho Docs. 2 – MixedInk. 3 – Google Docs. Sur le même thème
emaze - Online Presentation Software – Create Amazing Presentations Best Methods and Tools for Online Educators to Give Students Helpful and Meaningful Feedback In last week’s post Tools-of-the-Trade to Make your Online Teaching Even Better I reviewed various tools that help online educators make a connection with students by using media other than text to deliver guidance and instructions to students in online classes. In this post I focus on how educators teaching online [and face-to-face] can use ed-tech tools effectively to provide formative and summative feedback to their students. I’ve included several resources and examples of ed-tech tools in this post in a case study format featuring both online and face-to-face educators describing their methods. The Case for Formative Feedback Formative feedback in some cases is more valuable to student learning than the final assessment. For instance, when a final grade comes later in the course session the student is not as receptive to feedback, and often focuses on the grade not the feedback. Case Study #2 Feedback [formative and summative] via Screen Casts. Other Resources: Like this:
81 Dash - A Nice Backchannel Tool for the Classroom 81 Dash is a nice backchannel platform that I learned about today during the "Smackdown" at Hack Ed 2014. 81 Dash provides a place for teachers to create chat rooms to use with students to host conversations and share files. Once you are registered you can begin creating rooms. In your chat room you can exchange messages and files. As the owner of a room you can delete messages written by your students. Students join your 81 Dash room by going to the URL that is assigned to your room. Applications for Education81 Dash resolves the complaint that teachers have about many backchannel tools. Backchannels in general provide a good way to hear from all of the students in a classroom.
5 Excellent Web Tools For Giving Students Narrative Feedback 5 Web Tools for Giving Students Narrative Feedback by Mark Barnes Teachers may reside in a society driven by standards and high stakes testing, but this doesn’t change the fact that the best way to evaluate learning is with formative assessment and narrative feedback. When evaluation becomes a conversation, students are transformed into critics of their own progress and achievement improves. In decades researching more than 250 million students worldwide, John Hattie, author of Visible Learning, discovered that student self-assessment and teacher feedback impact achievement over the course of a school year far more than traditional assessment techniques. Digital Tools Make Providing Feedback Easy and Engaging Although providing detailed feedback will always consume more time than the simply giving outdated numbers and letters, there are numerous digital tools that make feedback less cumbersome for teachers and more engaging for students. 5 Web Tools for Feedback 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.