I had a great time at EdCamp PDX this weekend. I have some new resources I am excited to try out in the classroom.
-Integrating Google Voice into classroom projects: What a fun way to get students communicating and working on career related skills. I hope to have students all use google voice in content related projects this semester. I’m really excited!
– Encourage students to use something other than powerpoint:
- http://www.smore.com/ : Create Flyers
- http://www.toondoo.com/ : Create Graphic Novels
- http://prezi.com/ : A new look to power points
- http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html: Create Word Clouds
- http://www.weebly.com/ : create a website
- http://better.at/about : Online planning tools
- http://www.voki.com/ : create speaking avatars
- http://worldmap.harvard.edu/: Collaborative Mapping
- http://www.zinepal.com/who/educators : Create zines
- http://docsteach.org/: Innovative primary source document use
-Use Technology to encourage creative discussion, perhaps using these tools will encourage all students to participate:
- http://todaysmeet.com/ : Collaborative Chat
- http://corkboard.me/9BR0DUxcbk : Collaborative Bulletin Boards
- http://en.linoit.com/ : Collaborative Bulletin Boards
- http://www.stixy.com/ : Collaborative Bulletin Boards
- http://www.polleverywhere.com/ : Collaborative polling, surveys, questions
- http://www.socrative.com/ : Collaborative polling, surveys, questions
- http://cel.ly/ : Collaborative polling, surveys, questions
-Use technology as a pre-unit brainstorm or to share inspiration
- http://delicious.com/ :Create a delicious stack
- http://www.livebinders.com/ : Create a live binder
- google docs