How to Use Piktochart in Any (and Every) Classroom
This post is part of our guide to using infographics in education. For more information, check out the guide here. I’m the instructional tech coordinator in a rural school district in Michigan.
Educreations – edshelf
Educreations is a unique interactive whiteboard and screencasting tool that’s simple, powerful, and fun to use. Annotate, animate, and narrate nearly any type of content as you explain any concept. Teachers can create short instructional videos and share them instantly with students, or ask students to show what they know and help friends learn something new. Finished lessons are stored securely in your online Educreations account, so they’re available whenever and wherever you need them. You control who sees what. Even if something happens to your iPad, all of your videos are safe.
How to: Make Flickr Work for Your Library - 50+ Resources
Flickr is wildly popular tool for photo addicts, but did you realize that it’s full of possibilities for library use? It’s true, and there are loads of resources out there that can help you fully take advantage of what Flickr has to offer. Read on to discover guides, tools, and so much more. Getting Started Follow these guides to get a crash course in using Flickr in your library.
The Teacher's Guide To Pinterest
Pinterest has quickly become one of the biggest ways for teachers to share resources and information short of Twitter. It lets you build ‘boards’ and easily ‘pin’ parts of the web (text, images, videos, websites, etc.) onto those boards. Simple enough, right? Here’s our Teacher’s Guide To Pinterest that gives you a few more ideas about how to properly use Pinterest in an education setting. Enjoy!
Schoology – edshelf
Schoology is the ultimate way to manage lessons, engage students, share content, and connect with other educators. With Schoology, educators can do things as simple as posting assignments, quizzes and links to additional resources or as sophisticated as conducting online courses, providing one-on-one remediation, or hosting discussions. Schoology connects students and parents to educators and learning resources anytime, anywhere in a safe, secure online environment.
The Google Classroom Quick-Start Guide + tips and tricks!
Google Classroom makes organizing and managing all of your Google Apps activities streamlined and easy. Set it up in minutes. (Sketch by Matt Miller) Google Classroom was created to focus less time on tech and more time on teaching.
Getting started
The basics of getting started include: creating your first poll question, presenting the live results, and customizing the look and feel of your poll. You can also publish the results via email or a website. Types of poll activities
A Great Edmodo Cheat Sheet for Teachers
Edmodo is a social networking website that has a huge potential in education. Thousands of teachers and educators have already started using it with their students and I personally believe that more and more educators will flock to it. Edmodo provides a wide variety of features and services for teachers including the ability to create classroom groups where teachers and students get to share learning materials. The cheat sheet below sheds more light on what Edmodo is and how you can use it to first create your account, then set up your classroom group and finally a few words on how to post stuff on it. related : A Handy Guide to Everything Teachers Need to Know about Edmodo If you are planning to use Edmodo with your students this school year, which I hope you are, the sheet below will definitely be of great help.
Harnessing the Power of YouTube in the Classroom
There are amazing ways to elevate and energize instruction through using technology tools. One resource that's popular with students of all ages -- from the youngest to the oldest -- is the video hosting website YouTube. YouTube lets anyone with a free account upload videos. Many organizations post collections of videos on this site, which is organized into channels.
It's Easier Than You Think
Always wanted to make a WebQuest but not sure where to start? Education World has all the answers and can make the process easy for you. WebQuests are probably the most talked-about and widely used Web-based activities in today's classrooms. What are WebQuests? What accounts for their popularity?
Creating a Classroom Website using Weebly - The Brown Bag Teacher
Connecting families to the classroom and giving them the tools to work with students at home is a huge part of our jobs as teachers. Although I use many modes of parent communication (you can read about them in this blog post), I love having a ‘landing’ where families always have access to the information they need. Emails bounce back, texts are sometimes erased, and paper newsletters reside in a mystical land of lost home/school folders…do you feel me? My classroom Weebly site is always available and contains all of our must-know classroom information – dates, newsletters, photos, videos, and learning resources. Weebly is a free and SIMPLE blogging platform. Unlike Blogger, Snapfish, or WordPress, Weebly is all drag-and-drop.
