7 Tech Tips for Your Next Read-Aloud Reading aloud to children is an essential part of the school day. Experiencing stories as a whole class or in a small group can help students learn essential reading skills. Educators who read aloud to children understand the importance of modeling thinking, providing opportunities to talk about books, and encouraging students to respond to reading with their own thoughts and opinions. As schools increase the amount of technology available to teachers, educators are presented with unique opportunities to incorporate tech tools into their instruction. Beam in a Guest Reader With free video conferencing technology like Google Hangouts and Skype, it's easy to bring a parent, librarian, or author to your classroom. Use the Big Screen Making sure that all students in your class can see the words and illustration on each page of a read-aloud can be a challenge for teachers in rooms of any size. Set Up an Online Exit Slip Try a Digital Text Sketch a Picture Record a Response Get Social
Educational Technology and Mobile Learning: 6 Things Every Teacher Should Be Able to Do on The New Google Forms September 14, 2015 As you know, Google has recently revamped several of its Drive services including Google Forms. This latter has particularly been redesigned to incorporate several of the features that were missing in the old form. We have already written a step by step guide to help teachers learn more about the different functionalities offered by the new Forms. 1- Create a form from a spreadsheet in Google Sheets You can easily create a form right from Google Sheets. 2- Where to store form responses The new Google Forms allows you to choose between two destinations where you can save your form responses. There are three ways you can view your form’s responses: A- As a summary of responses: This one provides you with quick overview of your respondents answers. As the owner of a form, you can control how often users submit their responses. You can easily turn off the ‘ Accepting responses’ feature so your form will no longer receive any more responses. Source: Google Forms Help page.
A List of 20 Free Tools for Teachers to Create Awesome Presentations and Slideshows Below is a list of some of the best free tools teachers and students can use to create awesome slideshow and presentations. 1- KnovioKnovio gives life to static slides and with a simple click you will be able to turn them into rich video and audio presentations that you can share with your friends and colleagues via email or popular social media websites. Knovio does not require any software installation or download, it is all web based. 2- AheadAhead is a great presentation tool for educators. 3- HelloSlideHelloSlide is a cool web tool that allows its users to create awesome slides together with voice narration. 4- JuxJux is one of the best showcase for your stories. 5- SlidestaxxSlidestaxx is a great presentation tool. 6- Present.meIt allows its users to record and share their presentations using their webcams. 8- SlideboomSlideboom is a slide hosting service where you can store your presentations and share them with the rest of the world. 11- Zoho Show
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14 Web Based Video Tools for Teachers - More Than A Tech Engaging students has become increasingly difficult as technology has continued to shape our culture. Overheads, DVDs, and lecturing just don’t cut it. This is a generation of students growing up with YouTube, Vimeo, and Khan Academy to name a few. So many creative, eye grabbing, funny videos to choose from, and all of them are available on a device that fits in their pocket. Animoto Animoto is not a new tool to the K-12 space. Website: Animoto.com Sample: Biteable Biteable is self described as the easiest way to create a video online. Website: Bitable.com Sample: Cost: Free – $99 per year. Captevate Captevate is a fantastic collection of web based video tools for teachers. Website: Captevate.com Sample: Creaza Video tools for teachers is just one portion of the Creaza toolbox. Website: Creaza.com Sample: Kizoa Website: Kizoa.com Sample: Magisto
How To Actually Delete your Digital Footprint Helping students understand their digital footprint is an integral part of being a good digital citizen. Knowing that you leave behind a little trail of digital breadcrumbs as you conduct your digital life is useful - and can even help you in some scenarios (like when you need to hunt down something you remember seeing online, but don’t remember exactly where…). But what happens when you need to delete your digital footprint (or more likely, a part of your digital footprint)? Perhaps you made a few too many online faux-pas, or you’re finding too much of your personal information out there – a likely scenario for students who may not be well informed enough to not put their personal info into every site that asks! The handy infographic (via) below looks at some ways you can begin to erase yourself from the internet’s memory…at least a little bit.
The Online Learning Teaching Techniques The world of online education is exciting for its potential to reach students individually, but what teaching techniques can do this? Online Learning Strengths Online learning strengths lie in student empowerment, flexibility, accommodation, customization, collaboration, and creation. Students are empowered through online learning in a number of ways. They are free to access materials whenever and wherever they want, using a system they are comfortable with. This flexibility allows students to learn in a way in which they are successful. Often times, students can customize portions of the course management system (CMS) used by their school for their own personal preference, such as including a picture of themselves; changing the background color, font or font size for reading clarity; and even setting notifications. Why the traditional learning theories do not work A student-center approach to learning is often referred to as the teacher being ‘the guide on the side’. What do you think?