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How to Integrate Technology When technology integration in the classroom is seamless and thoughtful, students not only become more engaged, they begin to take more control over their own learning, too. Effective tech integration changes classroom dynamics, encouraging student-centered project-based learning. Think about how you are using technology with your students. Are they employing technology daily in the classroom, using a variety of tools to complete assignments and create projects that show a deep understanding of content? If your answer is "No," is it because you lack enough access to technology? This article contains the following sections: Handhelds Go to Class: Teacher Josh Barron and one of his students go through the strange-looking rite of "beaming" information to each other. Getting Started The first step in successful tech integration is recognizing the change that may need to happen inside of yourself and in your approach to teaching. Back to Top Integrating Technology Across the Access Spectrum
ClassDojo: Tips to Get Started as a Teacher Here's some really helpful advice written by Meghan B., a teacher in Philadelphia: ClassDojo has been a part of my classroom over the last few years, and I will continue using it because it's SO easy, and families love it. I'd highly recommend you watch ClassDojo's Getting Started video, but I've also shared my top 5 tips and how to introduce ClassDojo to your students! My top 5 tips for getting started: Make ClassDojo a regular part of the school day: Record attendance, give homework points, points for being on time, etc. Consistency is key.Allow students to take ownership: Let students vote on rewards, encourage them to customize their avatars, check their reports, and make time on the class computer for kids that don't have computers at home.Focus on positive reinforcement: Communicate that ClassDojo is in your classroom to help the team. The first day of school: An introduction to ClassDojo "Now, you know how much I'm looking forward to having a successful, but very fun, school year.
A Not-At-All Comprehensive Review of Socrative At the start of the school year, our Assistant Principal introduced me to a student clicker-type program called Socrative. It's free and can be used in your web browser or downloaded as an app to a mobile device (available for iOS and Android devices). I've been testing this out in my class for the past couple of weeks and have been rather impressed by the results. There are essentially two modes for using Socrative: you can administer a pre-written quiz to your students with multiple-choice questions and free response questions, or you can administer a quick one-question activity on the fly. I've been using the pre-built quiz feature for the past few days as a warm-up activity for my students when they get to my classroom. I was asked to demonstrate Socrative to my colleagues at today's staff meeting, so I wrote a sample quiz for them. You can set the quiz to give instant feedback when an answer is selected. Free-response questions can also be built into a Socrative quiz. But wait!
3 Minute Teaching TOOL-torials | Emerging Education Technologies Be sure to share these great resources with your friends and colleagues! Access all of these videos in this YouTube Playlist How to Add “Time Tags†to Youtube Vids (so Viewers can Jump to Tagged Sections)It’s Super Easy to Create These Simple ‘Bookmarks’ so Viewers Can Pop to Different Section of Your EdPuzzle 3 Minute TOOL-torial Add Questions to Videos, Monitor Progress, etc. Create Top Notch Graphics With Ease, for Little or no Cost with Canva (fun for Students too!) Share Videos With no Distractions or Inappropriate Content, Fast & Easy with SafeShareA quick overview of the SafeShare.TV application that makes it easy to safely share YouTube and Vimeo videos without the distractions of ads and other extraneous content, or inappropriate content! ThingLink: Creating fun interactive learning content with ThingLink is a blast. Easily overlay interactive links anywhere on an image, or insert them in a video.
How To Create Your Own Custom Google Search Engine Have you ever wanted to create a custom Google search engine that searches only specific websites? You can easily do this with Google’s Custom Search Engine tool. You can bookmark your search engine and even share it with other people. This trick works similarly to Google’s site: operator, but you won’t have to type the operator every time you search. Creating a Custom Search Engine To get started, head over to the Google Custom Search Engine page and click the Create a custom search engine button. Enter a name and description for your search engine – these can be anything you like. The Sites to search field is the one that really matters. howtogeek.com/*microsoft.com/* The * character is the wildcard, which can match anything, so the /* characters tell your search engine to search everything on both of these websites. There are more advanced things you can do with this box – we’ll get back to that in a bit. You’re probably not a web developer, so you’ll want to ignore this page. URL Tricks
Thinglink – Online Tools for Teaching & Learning ThingLink is a tool for creating interactive images by tagging content to a photo or drawing. Tags can link to websites, Facebook or Twitter pages, videos, maps, other images, audio, or google resources. Users can also create interactive videos with a professional or premium account. Interactive images can be shared on social networks, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest. Another feature that Thinglink offers is 360 degrees tours with tags. ThingLink & the SAMR Model Substitution: Interactive images can substitute linear PowerPoint presentations, educational videos, presentations, and posters.Augmentation: Creating interactive images can improve the processes of searching and curating online content. Screenshot of the Thinglink database Learning Activities Thinglink can be especially useful for science, geography, history, language, and visual arts. Science: Students can create an interactive image to develop or demonstrate their knowledge about a scientific concept or topic. Step 1 .
Everything Teachers Need to Know about Remind101 April 18, 2014Remind101 is a great web tool that provides teachers with a way to safely text message students and stay in touch with parents. You can send your Remind101 messages from your computer or phone. Remind101 apps for iPad, iPhone and Android are now available. There are 3 simple steps to use Remind 101 : Create a class, share a code, and send messages. Here is how it works: Each class you create is assigned a unique code which is what students and parents use to sign up for your notifications.To sign up, they need to send Remind101 a text message with their unique code The good thing about Remind101 is that it works on any phone and it does not have to be a smartphone. Some of the features that Remind101 provides for teachers include: You can schedule your messages to be sent laterRemind101 is safe because students are identified by name not number. Here are some video tutorials to help you learn more about Remind101 and how to use some of its features: 1- What is Remind101
Learn How to Use Twitter in 15 Minutes This how-to Twitter tutorial is designed to get you up and running on Twitter in 15 minutes or less. You'll learn the basics of how to use Twitter by setting up your Twitter profile, sending your first tweet and deciding how you want to use Twitter. Fill Out the Sign Up Form on Twitter's Home Page First, go to twitter.com and fill out the three sign-up boxes on the right, entering your real name, real email address and a password you'll need to write down and remember. It's generally a good idea to give Twitter your real name because Twitter is all about real people. Be sure to give your real email address, too. After filling out your name, email and password, click "Sign Up." Choose Your Twitter Username After you click "sign up," Twitter will display another page with the three items you just filled out and a suggested Twitter username at the bottom. Twitter's suggested username will be based on your real name, but you are free to change it. Click "create my account" when you are done.
S'More Technology Ideas Beautiful Paperless Creations Tech or Treat? Yes, s'mores are a sweet treat, but Smore.com is a simple way to create an online, beautiful flyer, brochure, or project. With so many design and content options and a finished professional product with multiple privacy options, it is perfect for educational use! Ready to Create an Account? 1. 2. 3. 4. Now Create Your Own Smore Click "Start a new flyer"Select a flyer layout or start from scratch.Personalize the flyer with your information.Remember to update your privacy settings.Save and publish your flyer. Privacy Settings You can change the privacy settings to protect your students or make them public to share a great project. Ten Tech Tips You can duplicate your classroom newsletter each week and just update the information.
11 Digital Education Tools For Teachers And Students Hundreds of digital education tools have been created with the purpose of giving autonomy to the student, improving the administration of academic processes, encouraging collaboration, and facilitating communication between teachers and learners. Here we present 11 of the most popular. 1. Edmodo Edmodo is an educational tool that connects teachers and students, and is assimilated into a social network. In this one, teachers can create online collaborative groups, administer and provide educational materials, measure student performance, and communicate with parents, among other functions. 2. Designed by a group of entrepreneurs and engineers passionate about education, Socrative is a system that allows teachers to create exercises or educational games which students can solve using mobile devices, whether smartphones, laptops, or tablets. 3. 4. Thinglink allows educators to create interactive images with music, sounds, texts, and photographs. 5. 6. cK-12 7. 8. eduClipper 9. 10. 11.