I'll be presenting at the Fall CUE Conference in Napa this weekend. The session is titled "Build Your Own PLN...Right Now!" My goal is to help educators find new ways to receive a steady drip of resources without becoming overwhelmed. Check out the slides here.
Showing posts with label Diigo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Diigo. Show all posts
Monday, October 20, 2014
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/29/2014
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These are great tech tools that can really enhance a classroom. GAFE could certainly replace some of them, but I believe many of them hold up well against comparable Google tools.
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Think of this as a "make your own Wheel of Fortune". It would be great for creating a review game or choosing what to read next.
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This site offers data files from UNdata to overlay on Google Earth. Imagine looking at statistics laid out on a globe.
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Find tons of great museums from all over the world listed here.
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- Many teachers I encounter have decided that they need to crack down on — if not entirely eradicate — screen distractions in their classrooms. (A minority of teachers accept it as a form of 21st century doodling.)
- If the activity is engaging and challenging, there is an authentic audience, and prescribed time limits, students won’t mess around.
- The more time I spend “teaching” teachers something from the front of the room, the more inclined they are to check email, Facebook, or whatever.
- Add in the possibility that they they’ll have to present to the entire class, or post their creation online, and they’re even more focused
- the activities are challenging and expectations high
- it’s more like: “This is hard. And I’m not going to show you how to do it. But I expect what you create will be excellent.
- Tell students you’re going to present their work at a conference, or submit it to a state publication, and then watch the heightened focus in their eyes
- Teacher lectures impart useful information and explanations, and they can be lively and engaging.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/28/2014
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Use this tool to create a lesson plan in a creative manner than can be easily understood by other teachers.
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This article offers up suggestions on how to use Evernote, Three Ring, Google Sites, and Kidblog to create digital portfolios.
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- Did I refer to the class as our class or my class?
- 8. If our class were a company, would it be out-of-business now?
- 9. Did students create and experience a great class or simply take a class and get credit?
- 15. Did I take advantage of spontaneous learning opportunities when students’ interests had obviously shifted, or did I maintain an inflexible mindset and vow to never deviate from an archaic lesson plan?
- 17. Was our class set up to promote creativity and collaboration or memorization and silence?
- 19. Were 21st Century skills embedded within daily assignments?
- 22. Did I gain professional wisdom by speaking to my collegial mentor?
- 24. Was the technology in my classroom used in an authentic manner? (Shannon Reed)
- 25. Did I avoid professional negativity by declining to gossip at work?
- 26. Did I manage my stress level by enjoying time with my family and friends, by exercising several times a week, by zoning out while engaged in a hobby, and by simply chilling out every once in a while?
- 28. Did I laugh often with students and colleagues?
- 31. Did I allow students to co-write their own project-based, learning contracts?
- 34. How many colleagues did I observe in-action in their classrooms this past school year?
- did I remember the names of all co-workers?
- 39. How balanced were the assignments this year in terms of requiring creativity, practical thinking, and analysis? (Adam Johnson)
- 40. Did I participate in a professional learning community outside of my school via Twitter?
- 46. Did I consistently blog as a form of professional self-reflection?
- 47. Am I a stronger teacher today than when I first stepped into the classroom at the beginning of the school year?
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This article provides three good tech tools for teachers who want to try a back channel chat and nearly a half dozen ideas for incorporating this type of technology into the curriculum. There are even suggestions for how to use it with students as young as 6 years old.
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- Diigo provides a free, efficient, effective and reliable way to save and organize your favorite websites, online articles, blog posts, images and other media found online.
- Diigo provides a lists feature that allows you to share carefully selected bookmarked websites with your students.
- Adding bookmarks to lists is easy. When you save the bookmark, you are able to allocate it to any list you have already created, or create a new list as you go.
- Diigo has tools that encourage students to collaborate with others to analyze, critique, and evaluate websites.
- Diigo provides opportunities for students to apply higher level thinking skills while researching and gathering information.
- Diigo allows you to gain access to the ‘collective intelligence’ of the internet.
- Use Diigo to provide visual access to websites you have collected using the built-in program ‘webslides’.
- Use Diigo’s advanced tools to link its power to blogs and RSS. Lists of similar websites that you have created can easily be posted onto a blog by using the ‘post to blog’ button.
- Use Diigo tools to enhance professional reading and save time creating summaries of online posts.
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- Access your information from any computer, or even your iPhone or iPad!
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Friday, May 16, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/17/2014
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Chrome extension that would likely support English teachers as they develop curriculum based on literature and writing.
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Million Dollar Scholar is an open online platform that teaches high school and college students how to find and win scholarships for school.
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Animated science mysteries for middle school students.
Monday, May 12, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/13/2014
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Rubrics for collaborative projects as well as digital projects.
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Tech tool for creating infographics.
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- Article details how to get students to design quality infographics and offers up a few suggestions on which apps to use.
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- myBrainshark (1) is a superb tool that allows students to add a voiceover to PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, videos, and photo albums -- or to simply produce podcasts
- myBrainshark (1) is a superb tool that allows students to add a voiceover to PowerPoint presentations, Word documents, videos, and photo albums -- or to simply produce podcasts
- If you are looking for a tool that also allows for video narratives along with PowerPoint presentations (instead of basic audio), I would suggest Present.me (3).
- PosterMyWall (4) is a fantastic tool for creating artistic, high-quality posters (5), collages, photo calendars and/or photo cards that can either be shared online or printed out and inexpensively shipped home.
- PosterMyWall is slightly restricted in terms of the amount of options available for customization (mostly pictures and text), but other services, such as Glogster (6), offer a wider range of options.
- But Glogster is very glitchy
- Screencast-o-matic (7) is a powerful screen recorder that allows users to capture anything (8) happening on their screen, as well as voice and video from the webcam for up to 15 minutes in the recorder's free version.
- Some high-quality alternatives to Screencast-o-matic are Jing (9) and Ezvid (10), both of which are very powerful and offer unique features.
- Padlet (11) is another free program that facilitates the creation of virtual walls (12) where students and teachers can post sticky notes with almost anything they want.
- Other similar sites are Linoit (13) or NoteApp (14).
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Tuesday, May 6, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/07/2014
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- According to Code.org, 90 percent of U.S. schools are not teaching any computer science. Eyebrows have been raised this year as the U.K. passed a plan to educate every child how to code (3).
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Monday, May 5, 2014
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/02/2014
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- The 21st Century Fluencies are comprised of six main areas: Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Collaboration Fluency, and Global Digital Citizenship. The main focus of these fluencies is to help instill in today's students a set of unconscious skills to help them survive and thrive in the 21st century and beyond.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/01/2014
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- Find this free five-part Series, Twitter 101: An eCourse for Educators and Parents, here (8). Below is an overview of what participants can expect to learn.
Part 1: The Basics (9)
Part 2: The Language of Twitter (10)
Part 3: Registration & Interface Overview (11)
Part 4: Sending a Tweet (12)
Part 5: Finding People & Resources, Taking Control of Your Own Development
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Monday, April 28, 2014
Friday, April 25, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/23/2014
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Commonly used scripts for Google Drive.
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Three activities you can implement tomorrow.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/18/2014
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A quick visual on how to read a tweet.
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Type in a URL and see how it relates to other sites.
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Professional development courses that span all subjects and grade levels. Courses range from 1.5 hours to 45 hours.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/01/2014
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Great chart for applying Bloom's taxonomy with focuses on key words, actions and outcomes.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/28/2014
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PBL resources from Edutopia!
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The Buck Institute is website that offers an abundance of PBL resources to teachers and administrators at all levels.
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/27/2014
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How to effectively flip PD both before and after meeting with faculty.
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How to make an infographic.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/26/2014
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Online poster creator.
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Flip teaching report indicates a positive learning trend.
- Report: Interest in Flipped Classrooms Surpasses Other Digital Learning Trends -- THE Journal
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/23/2014
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Create a search engine for your students to use by limiting the websites that they can access.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/20/2014
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An approach to organizing research that's an alternative to note cards.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/19/2014
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Become a Google Educator by completing these lessons and passing the exams.
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