Canva

 Canva for education is a free creativity tools for students to use. It allows a simple drag and drop way of creating posters, infographics, flyers, presentations, and so much more. The visual communication is very intuitive. There are many professional layouts to publish on the web or download as a jpeg, png, ppt, video, gif or PDF. Teachers can create a classroom where they can leverage even more creative power for their students, to collaborate and it allows the teacher to easily view student work. It can easily be shared with Google Classroom.

https://www.canva.com/education/

So many endless creative ideas one can create using Canva. Encourage students who feel anxious and frustrated when thinking they would need to draw by hand. It will give every students a space to shine.

Tes Blendspace

On their website you can access a quick start resource that lists 13 ideas for using Tes. A great tool for all types of learners, lesson tool and collaborative tool. Students can create and share work. You have the option of also downloading their app or the extension in Chrome web store.

See below for older post.

Friday, March 22, 2013

Edcanvas

Earlier I posted a lesson using Edcanvas.  Edcanvas allows you to gather information and resources into one place to make lesson delivery easy.  I visited it again and I noticed that there is now improved options in the text editor.  They have also launched a new feature that allows you to add audio to your canvas. Teachers can also set up a class and  Edcanvas can tell you which students viewed your lesson and give you detailed reports about their participation.
View an Edcanvas lesson on an earlier post.....

 For Educators:  
In the Edcanvas Blog post, the Edcanvas team write the following:
Many teachers have asked us to add the ability to annotate their canvases with sound, and others have asked us to give their students the same ability. Now, you can add audio clips anywhere in your canvas! Use audio comments to

1.       Read out material to make it easier for auditory learners to understand concepts.

2.       Add another level of instruction on top of your canvas.

3.       Require students to voice their opinion or speak aloud translations instead of just writing it in a comment.

Story Jumper

Story Jumper is a book writing tool  where students can create and publish their own book independently or collaboratively.  You can use your own photos or the sites art library. Special effects, music and authors voice can be recorded over the work as well.

Kahoot

Kahoot is a free game based learning platform. Students can answer a series of multiple choice problems played in a group setting. These created games promote student understanding and engage peer-led discussions. It is a student response system that allows teachers to create games and quizzes.  

Interactive Whiteboard Lessons-- ShowMe and Educreations

ShowMe is a whiteboard interactive app.  You can record lessons that you create so that students can view them and learn.  It is a global community where you can share with anyone in the world. There is also an online website that you can log into to view and share ShowMe lessons created.
                                           

Educreations is a whiteboard interactive app and website.  You can record lessons that you create so that students can view them and learn. You can import images, documents and webpages.  Videos are cloud synced and can be shared with anyone.  You can create a class where a student can sign in using a class code.                                  
    

Google forms

Google for Education are easy tools built for teachers and students alike that can be used on any device.  Very user friendly.

As a teacher I try to find ways where I can use technology and minimize the amount of paper used in the classroom.  I also looked into ways of using Google apps to assess my students work.

Assessment using Google forms is a neat way to do formative assessment in your classroom.  The video below is very simple to follow on using Google forms for assessment.

Padlet ideas

●     Creating a Virtual Wall &  Engaging Your Students Blog Post http://catlintucker.com/2013/06/padlet-create-a-virtual-wall-engage-your-students/

●     Lesson lhttp://blog.padlet.com/2013/03/how-to-use-padletcom-in-classroom.html

From this website I found a list of ideas on how to use Padlet:
http://saucontech.blogspot.ca/

○     Create a timeline with videos and images

○     KWL activity. Create one wall for what students know, one for what they want to know, and one at the end of the unit for what they learned

○     Students to comment on videos that they are watching in class

○     Assess student understanding at the end of a chapter/unit

○     Use as a way for students to brainstorm in a group on topics

○     A great place to visually collect group research

○     Create posters on people/places/topics.

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."

Google Docs, Google Drive

Five years ago I was introduced to Google Docs.  Just recently I was re-introduced to it and I was impressed at the upgrades made since.  It is offered by Google which is found within Google Drive.  Google Docs offers:  Document, Presentation, Spreadsheet, Forms and Drawing.
Google Docs allows users to create documents online while collaborating in real-time with multiple users. Each person you give permission to can edit or view document. There is a chat box that would allow you to communicate with other collaborators.  A history of work is saved.  You can have access anywhere and store files safely.  Just sign in with a gmail account to Google Drive and begin.

Thanks Mario for reminding me of Google docs.

Padlet

Post Revisited:  On an earlier post I mentioned Wallwisher.  This online tool is now called Padlet.

Padlet can be used for teaching, noticeboards, discussions, quizzes, lists, watching videos, etc.  You can share, export, email and print your wall.
There is an app available for this site.