Collaborize Classroom | Online Education Technology for Teachers and Students Never Ending Journey Tecnhology Beautiful web-based timeline software Mural.ly Favorite Web Tools Schoology– Learning management system with an online discussion capability perfect for extending conversations beyond the walls of the physical classroom to give every student a voice. Evernote – Capture, index and remember information using a computer, phone, and web. Students can take notes, capture favorite videos, save webpages, and collaborate on projects using Evernote. It is the notebook of the 21st century. Padlet – Virtual post-it note board. Diigo – All-in-one research tool. Google Apps – Make collaborative writing & group work online easy. Animoto – “Automatically produces beautifully orchestrated, completely unique video pieces from your photos, video clips, and music.” Socrative – Student response system for quizzing & gaming in the classroom- use laptops, iPads or smart phones. StudySync – This progressive tool helps students develop 21st century literacy. QR Stuff – Design colorful QR codes and choose from a variety of printing formats. Pen.io – Publish work immediately.
Classroom 2.0 Domo Animate - Make your own Domo Animations and Slideshows with GoAnimate's super easy to use tools. The Reflective Student: A Taxonomy of Reflection Part 2 reflective student Reflection can be a challenging endeavor. It's not something that's fostered in school - typically someone else tells you how you're doing! In an effort to help schools become more reflective learning environments, I've developed this "Taxonomy of Reflection" - modeled on Bloom's approach. 1. See my Prezi tour of the Taxonomy 2. Each level of reflection is structured to parallel Bloom's taxonomy. taxonomy of reflection Bloom's Remembering: What did I do? Bloom's Understanding: What was important about what I did? Bloom's Application: When did I do this before? Bloom's Analysis: Do I see any patterns or relationships in what I did? Bloom's Evaluation: How well did I do? Bloom's Creation: What should I do next? Image credit: flickr/Daveybot Tags: Bloom, Common Core, Critical thinking, Evaluation, Higher-order thinking, Relationships, Relevance, Rigor Trackback URL
The Best YouTube Tools and Tips for Teachers YouTube has been one of our topical themes here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning during this year. We have done a lot of reviewing of third party tools that work on YouTube and enhance the users video watching experience. We have also unearthed several other educational ways to use this video platform with your students as well as for professional development. Today we are providing you with the best posts we have published about YouTube . 1- Add Quizzes to YouTube Videos 2- TeachEm Create Interactive Lesson Plans from YouTube Videos 4- YouTube Official Guide for Educators 5- 10 Ways Teachers Can Use YouTube 8- 9 Great Animation and Video Creation Tools Integrated with YouTube 9- 10 Great YouTube Tips every Educators should Know about
100+ examples of use of social media for learning EmailShare 0EmailShare Note: this page dates back to 2011. More up to date information is to be found in my Social Learning Handbook 2014. Here are over 100 ways that different social technologies (and tools) are being used by learning professionals worldwide – compiled from the comments of those who have contributed to the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 activity. Blogging (1) “Blogs are great for learning from others, reflection, story sharing, facilitating connections among people, philosophizing, and much more” Janice Petosky, Instructional designer,West Chester, Pennsylvania (2) “Writing a blog is a learning activity, of course, but reading the best blogs that are available is one of my most productive learning experiences.” (3) “Blogging is my chief way of making sense of things“ Michele Martin, Freelance Learning Consultant, USA (5) “While everyone seems to get the blog thing now, few are leveraging the technology for what, at its root, it really is: a very quick web page creator.
5 Free Snagit Alternative Snagit is a screen capture program that allows you not only capturing of images, but it also allows you to edit, organize and share instantly to the web. It’s both available for Windows and MAC OS and can be used to take a snapshot of your computer and even long webpages. It can also easily create demo videos, enhanced images with its effects like adding time stamps or callout texts. However, as ideal as it may seem, Snagit is not for free. Let’s look at these 5 Free Snagit Alternatives: Ezvid Ezvid is a screen capture & screen recording program made for Windows which is 100% free. Plus Ezvid is capable of editing your captured image – it allows you to add text slides, allows you to add music so it is more personalized, allows you to rearrange sequence of your captured images, even duplicate or trim images and then share it on the web instantly. It runs in a wide variety of Windows platform including XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. Snipping Tool FastStone Capture
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