EDU621 Session 8

Last set of tools for the classroom - some are really fun!

Agenda• All blog entries due next by last day of class.

• While you look at a few sites, I’ll check in with people.

• Real examples of technology use in classroom

• More tools for the classroom

• bookmark those that interest you

• schoology, word clouds, pinterest

• Course Evaluations

• Four Presentations: Kristen, Shannon, Carly, Brittany

Project Presentations

• Please save your powerpoint to slideshare, then post to your blog on the ning.

• 15 minute presentation

• Detailed written plan on classroom use - about a page and a half.

First a ning used with 7th grader students

from the ELA teacher: It is most commonly used for sharing my

flipped classroom videos as well as a platform for students to blog and get

feedback on their writing. Right now many kids are posting on the peers' Defining

Moment Personal Narrative blogs and in the next few weeks we'd like to add a

multimedia piece and start working on digital portfolios.

 We, as a teachers, have also tried to use the

site to model effective feedback and the important role that collaboration plays in the

writing process. The kids very much enjoy that their writing can be made public and it's built a nice community within the room too.

A few blogs by 8th grade students

• Ada

• Harry

• Alex

• Tim

• Jessica

Tell a story with pictures

• Photopeach

• Upload pictures

• Make a slide show

• Students can upload projects

• Easy way to share work

Pinterest• An online visual bookmarking tool called a board

• Pins

• can add descriptions

• A blog post: Pinterest for Educators

• includes description of what it is

• links to several educator boards

• 16 ways Educators use Pinterest

More on pinterest

• Pinterest - teaching

• a board dedicated for teaching

• And of course... Cybraryman’s page on pinterest

The Flipped Classroom

• lectures/ instruction on video

• “work” in class with support

• Flipped Classroom network

• A three part article by “inventors”

Word Clouds

• Analyze writing pieces

• Fun display

• Wordle

• simple

More Word Clouds

• Tagxedo

• a little fancier

• A blog post about 9 more word cloud generators

• Try a few!

Animation from words

• voki

• text to audio

• voki for education