Thursday, October 13, 2016
Glogster
Glogster is a good source to teach students. You can upload a picture and add text bubbles and teach an assignment. It allows you to get creative and makes the students more interested in what your teaching. I enjoyed making mine because it was a lot of fun and I got to make it look really cool.
Google Forms
Google forms is a good place for teachers. You can make tests on there and have the students take them and it grades them and gives you the results instantly. You have the options of making the questions short answer, extended response, drop down, and a few other choices. It gives you a lot of different options to make it look professional and good.
Screencast-o-matic
Screencast-o-matic is a good source to teach students. It's different than normal teaching because it's a lot like a podcast but they get to see a slide show during the podcast. You can make a slide show then you record yourself talking and teach the students with your slide show, You have the option to let them see you or just hear your voice. So this would be good to use in a flipped classroom.
Wordle
Wordle is a source where you type in a bunch of words or you can write a paper and copy and paste it and it turns your words into art basically. The words will turn into a collage and the words you use the most will appear bigger as the ones you use the least are smaller. I really enjoy using wordle and I believe that your students will enjoy it too.
Thursday, October 6, 2016
Zunal
You can use Zunal.com to make WebQuests. WebQuests are good to use in the classroom. You get to design them however you like and make it to be about anything. You can use them to teach your class a new topic in a different way than just writing on the board. I feel it will make them pay attention better because you can make it catch their attention. It helps you explain the steps to an assignment easier and helps you to make sure you get all the step down so that the students understand.
Gmail
Gmail is a good website to use to make an email account. It gives you a ton of storage space plus you have other good sources included into your gmail. In my opinion it is better to use gmail than yahoo. I used to use yahoo but once I started using gmail I don't want to use yahoo if I don't have to anymore. You can do pretty much anything on gmail. You can make blogs or upload pictures. You can customize it with you own pictures or it has pretty pictures for you to choose from. Gmail is awesome!
Google Slides
Google slides is a good source to create slide shows or presentations. You could use them to do lectures so that students can take notes. They allow a lot of editing to make your slides look professional.
Diigo
Diigo.com is used for social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is a Web-based service that allows you to store and create links. You can also network with other educators around the world. Social bookmarking is on an online account so that you can make it publicly or privately viewed. You can share bookmarks with your students to help them on research projects. Another good thing about social bookmarking is you can contact other people for professional networking, based on their bookmarks.
Google Docs
Google Docs is a good resource to help you stay connected with your students. The teacher will give the students an assignment either on google or in person. Then the students get on their google account and upload or do the assignment and share it. Once they share it depending on who they share it with the person or people can comment and edit it for them. It comes in handy because it's way more organized and everything is online. Plus you can communicate with each other about your homework from where ever you are. You don't have to wait until your in the class to turn in your homework and worry about something happening to it. So no more "my dog ate my homework" because it's on your computer!
Twitter is a good tool to use if your an educator. I like to follow other educators and get insight to how they run their classrooms. Some of them post pictures of things they do to make their life in the classroom easier. Other educators post historical pictures and tell about the picture and what was going on around the time. I really enjoy seeing what they all have to say and what advice they have to give. Twitter is a pretty good cite to use, so if you are wanting to get some new ideas for your class go to twitter.
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