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Fantastic Classroom Tools that I use in my classroom.
Updated on Jul 11, 21
Created on Nov 06, 11
Category: Schools & Education
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Let's Get it Started
Fun ways to start class or pull together information.
I've used this site before but as we were talking on my FAcebook page the other day about how to start class, teacher, Donna Browne left this message, "Donna Browne Instead of writing the class agenda on the board, I simply send it as a message to Wifitti. It is easy to do when you are the creator of the screen. I send a message for things I would mention anyway, like upcoming due dates, school events, changes in schedule. The Wifitti screen is projected onto a screen and catches kids eye's as they walk in the door. Since Wifitti only flashes one message at a time, they continue paying attention to see what will pop up next. See one of the screens at http://wiffiti.com/screens/timeline/81606" Cool idea.
Here is an example of how Teacher Donna Browne uses Wiffiti to begin class.
Pump Up the Web
Creative commons search has been redone. Great place to find things that you can use.
This plug in is an incredible way to find pictures and graphics on the web. It is in Chrome and Firefox as a plug in and is very cool.
Productivity in the Cloud
Websites that can help students or their teachers and administrators be more productive.
Google docs is a word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation software of choice in the cloud for many that need to be collaborative. But perhaps the most useful thing to me is google forms which let students make the form and put it out on the web for others to answer. Then, examining results is as simple as pasting into a word cloud maker.
Official website of Google apps for education. If you're interested in setting this up for your school or college, here is where you start.
One of my favorite tools is evernote. I email to evernote. I pull it up on my ipad. I take photographs and scan to evernote and can search text. It is on my phone, my ipad, my computers. My notebook that I carry everywhere. Great tool.
Twelve most popular teacher hashtags. From a little while back but I think this analysis is interesting ahd helpful.
Professional Development
The places to go for PD.
Modern Learning Literacies
The things students need to know how to use in an increasingly paperless world.
In the state of Georgia they have the Georgia Download destination for checking out books. I've got this set up on my library account and can check out books to my kindle, ibooks to my ipad (or kindle app there) or audio books to my overdrive account. I LOVE IT. It is time for schools to have their students take their devices down to their libraries and learn how to check out books all over again.
A library of information of all types of sources and documents. AS a suggestion copy out of wikisource and paste into Tagxedo to find meaning and format. This should be a strategy for making meaning out of massive texts by students. You can do this with whole books.
I'm excited to announce a partnership project between my school and Stephen Windwalker of the Kindle Nation Daily blog. Our students are writing reviews for Stephen's Kindle Kids' corner blog as they work on their writing skills and to help us build our ebook library at the school. We're very excited about this project and Dru F - the first reviewer from Westwood!
Catch this blog for the Kindle Nation kid book reviews as we work to start with our students here at Westwood but stay tuned for other plans at a later date! Who knows, but he great thing is that these reviews will be by kids for kids.
Create word clouds with just about anything. (Tip from Tammy Worcester) paste in free answers from Google forms surveys. (Tip from me - paste into MS word first and turn it all into lowercase.)
A word cloud creator that makes things into shapes. Take a popular book or website and convert it into a word cloud that is in a shape. What a cool thing you could do for your school.
Multisensory Learning
Especially good sites for those with learning challenges or to enrich learning for all students.
This site used to be RBF&D. While not free, those with learning disabilities in the US qualify for a membership for this site. For less than $100 a year you can check out audio copies of textbooks and just about everything. I've found that those I work with at school who used to ignore the clunky tape recorders and CD players LOVE the learning ally app and now I'm having kids who don't qualify want it as well. Parents want this app for their kids. I think textbook companies need to look at audio versions for all of their students and learning ally has the system down pat.
So your annual staff needs to make money. Leslie Fischer mentioned last week that some schools are pulling in thousands of dollars off of the photos they take for the annual. Smugmug automates this for you.
Before you can join the project wiki, you must join and be approved for our main project wiki. After you join and are approved here, you will have to take the second step to join the project wiki.
This semester's Flat Classroom project. As people are now discussing global literacy, you can see it happening while these students interact and work together.
This semester's digiteen project with over 500 students collaborating and editing the wiki. They are learning about digital citzienship.
Microblogging service built for students and teachers.
104 items | 91 visits
Fantastic Classroom Tools that I use in my classroom.
Updated on Jul 11, 21
Created on Nov 06, 11
Category: Schools & Education
URL:
on Aug 01, 15