Check out these collections of online tools organized by category through EdShelf. I'm positive you'll find something you can use in your classroom tomorrow! Click on each shelf to see all the featured tools and learn more about each one. Enjoy! |
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Check out Richard Byrne's recent NCTIES presentation to discover a wealth of ed tech resources for teaching, learning, exploring, creating, managing, assessing, and collaborating.
On March 2nd, Discovery Education will host a live online event to celebrate Read Across America 2016. Award-winning authors and illustrators, Peter H. and Paul A. Reynolds, will be participating in a live read aloud of their book, Going Places. As part of the 30-minute event, FableVision Studios will take you behind-the-scenes of their newest projects, share their creative process, and answer student questions. What a fabulous way to celebrate the love of reading! Click here for classroom activities to use before, during, and after viewing the event. Use this Padlet or Twitter to post class reflections and photos and connect with other classrooms. Also, download and use these free reproducible activities from FableVision that complement the book! Enjoy the celebration!
Check out this interactive flash animation by Cary and Michael Huang to explore the scale of the universe and objects within it. Use the scroll bar along the bottom (or the wheel on your mouse) to zoom into the tiniest, microscopic organisms known to man or zoom out to view the largest bodies in our galaxy and beyond. Click on objects within the interactive to learn more about them. For more lessons and videos on this topic, check out Richard Byrne's post entitled, "How Big is the Sun? - And Five Other Lessons on the Size of the Universe" from Free Tech for Teachers. In a recent blog post on Free Technology for Teachers, Richard Byrne highlights two excellent online video tools. For teachers who assign videos for homework or classwork, and especially those who are applying flipped or blended classroom models to their instruction, these tools could definitely prove to be valuable. Video Notes allows the creator to save and share synchronized notes about videos. Notes could include information to highlight or questions for students to answer and are hyperlinked to the part of the video that relates to the note. Video Notes also integrates seamlessly with Google Drive accounts. Vialogues enables teachers to invite users to a discussion about videos. Comments, surveys, and questions may be also be added to the video discussion, and time stamps provide a direct link to the relevant video content. View Byrne's tutorial videos below to see these sites in action and use the links above to start using these resources in your classroom!
Also, be sure to check out the Problem-Based Learning Spectrum from TeachThought for questions to guide your PBL planning. Related Articles:
According to Brenda Doucette of EdTechTeacher, this is how it works... The original PDF remains in your Drive and a new, converted document is created. You can open your new document and rename, edit, annotate, share, etc. just as you can do with any other Google Doc, Slides or Sheets. This works best with PDF documents that are clear and mostly text-based. Tables, images and formatted text can be a bit of a challenge for Google Docs (images and tables tend to end up on one page and text on a separate page), but I am sure it’ll get even better and easier in the next update.
Richard Byrne, from Free Tech for Teachers, highlights how to create video and audio slideshows using YouTube. All steps are covered in the video below. This resource would be excellent for students to use to share basic research they have conducted. |
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