Socrative .... Edcanvas ...... Quiz Taking

Socrative is a student response system that allows teachers to create games and quizzes.  "Students interact real time with the content."  Socrative runs on laptops, smartphones and laptops.  Very easy to register and login.

(Thanks John and Mario)

Edcanvas now allows a teacher to "Add Quiz" on an empty canvas tile, and add questions and answers.  Then it automatically grades the quizzes for you.  I mentioned what Edcanvas is in my March 22nd post.

Socrative and this section of Edcanvas create, "Formative assessments and it helps you guage student understanding after a lesson."

Infographs ..... easel.ly

Easel.ly is a free online tool that allows you to create and share visual ideas.  All that it entails is to create a canvas, drag and drop a theme, edit and customize.  Then save and share your work.  http://www.easel.ly/
(Thanks Sandra)

Wordmover for Poem Creation

Wordmover allows students to manipulate words on their ipad. It is a Read Write Think app created by the National Council of Teachers of English. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/word-mover/id572997152?mt=8

Read Write Think has some lesson plans on using this app. http://www.readwritethink.org/search/?sort_order=relevance&q=using+word+mover+app&srchgo.x=-323&srchgo.y=-484&old_q=

Evolution of Music... video mashup

This youtube video is called Evolution of Music.  It has a medley of songs throughout history.  It begins with an 11th Century song right through to 2010.

What a great idea to use as part of a biography lesson, demonstrating music through the ages or asking the kids to do their own video mashup as a project.

Text students with ...... Remind101

My daughter knows that I am always looking for free web tools, so she brought Remind101 to my attention because her teachers are using it as well.  Remind101 is a safe way for teachers to text students, keep in touch with parents and keep phone numbers anonymous. If there is something school related that you wish to remind your students to complete, just text them the information.  (Click on image.)

Thanks Sandra M. for verifying that this is the site.

Kodu Game Lab...... Game Creation

What I found interesting about Kodu Game Lab is that students can create games without the worry of having design or programming skills.  This is good for creativity, collaboration and problem solving.

Teachers and students can take part in a Skype Lesson
labshttps://education.skype.com/projects/2428-microsoft-kodu-game-labs

Unfortunately it is not a web based program but a download.
http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=10056

This is a Youtube video that demonstrates how to use program in 1 of 4 tutorials. You can go to youtube to  view all 4 tutorials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg_jeN5AcPs

Skype in the Classroom

Post revisited from Dec/12:

Bring the outside world to your classroom using technology!! You can request to invite an organization, author, classroom.... to visit your class through Skype. This virtual technology brings experiences to the classroom where perhaps some students may not be able to experience otherwise.

Connect your classroom with teachers from around the world.  Post a request for someone to visit on a certain topic.

https://education.skype.com/

BBC Teachers Teaching Resources

I  have many times visited BBC Teacher for games, videos,and  lesson ideas. I had posted this link on my student blog back in April, 2011 and forgetting to add it here.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/teachers/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/

BBC Bitesize ....... video clips

There is a  link within BBC Teachers called Bitesize with videos, activities and lessons.

 It is a section for teachers on various topics from ages 5 - 11 that have very short video clips.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/index_flash.shtml

This Bitesize link shows topics on Science,  Math and English.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks2/

Class Dojo....... Real time behaviour management tracker

An AQ colleague uses Class Dojo for his class.  It is a behaviour management program to make it easier for teachers to keep students alert and on task. It awards and records real-time feed back. Parents can keep track of their children's progress for the day and month.  This encourages student ownership of behaviour.
Click on picture for link.
You can view video on how to set an account up.
Thanks Jamie.

Dogo news

Dogo news is an American kids site that empowers students to safely work with  digital media.   Teachers create a class page and invite students to work on lessons created using current events, news and non-fictional articles written for kids from this site.

Click on picture.....

Powerpoint games

Two more sites that have powerpoint activities.

http://teach.fcps.net/trt10/PowerPoint.htm

http://teach.fcps.net/trt14/Power%20Point%20Games/power_point_games.htm

Thanks Mario.

Citation Machine

Citation Machine is an interactive on line tool to help create reference information for school essays. It will help students cite any of their sources without difficulty.
Evelyn from my AQ course introduced this site to me.
http://citationmachine.net/index2.php