Wonderful Weekend Websites 11-21-14

Technology Tools

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1. Here are a couple of web tools to create story maps. These are stories that use maps to support the story. Students could create stories about historical events or current events that involve multiple locations. Here is an example.

• Odyssey - a simple way for journalists, designers, and creators to weave interactive stories.
• Story Maps - use story maps to inform and inspire your audience

2. The Power of We - 3-D collaboration - Discussions, Debates and Decisions Around any Topic. Instant and Effective.

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1. This link will help you create a collaborative spreadsheet to use with your students to allow students to easily participate in class discussions. Never used Google Sheets -- don't worry, this site will explain it and if you need more information, contact me. 

2. Looking for ideas on how to use Google Drive in your classroom, here are 38 of them. 

Teaching Tip

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Click here for ideas on how to avoid the trap of Q & A Teaching. 

Tuesday Tech Tips 11-18-14

When you become a YouTube member and we all are members because we have a Google account you are assigned a YouTube Channel. Your channel contains videos you’ve uploaded, and shows channels to whom you’ve subscribed. You can visit another member's personal channel by clicking on his or her user name. Personal channels let you explore YouTube as a social network rather than as a simple video database. To access your YouTube Channel make sure you are logged into to your Google account and then go youtube.com and click My Channel on the left hand side of the screen. From here you can update the look of your channel. To find subscriptions to follow Click Browse Channels on the lower left side of the screen or check out one of these:

C.G. P. Grey -  Covers a broad scope of topics

Vsauce - answers rhetorical questions about our amazing world

Smarter Every Day - tackles the mysteries of the physical world around us

Crash Course - brief explanation on complex topics mostly related to history

Numberphile - a series of eye-opening and tactile math and science videos

ASAP Science  - shows the practical use of science in everyday life

MinutePhysics - makes physics fun and interesting to learn

Ted - Ed  & Lessons -

Spangler Effect - awesome experiments that you can do at home

All time 10s  - informative lists on pretty much everything

When you find one you want to follow - click the red subscribe button on the right side of the screen. Then whenever a new video is uploaded to that channel, you will see it in your subscription list.

If you are hoping to infuse multimedia into your classrooms, YouTube makes an excellent starting point, click here for a list of 100 incredibly useful YouTube Channels for teachers.

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All Your State Standards in One App - These apps are designed to help teachers identify the standards (and the language of the standards) for the grades and subjects that they teach. Each app is different for each of the 50 states.

Tuesday Tech Tips

Unite For Literacy  has over 100 early readers with audio! Matt B  Gomez took the first 50 of the books and created a Symbaloo webmix. Find the Webmix here Unite For Literacy Books #1

Poetica will allow you to edit documents almost as if you were writing on paper.  Groups will allow you to share drafts of documents with reader that you invite to your group.

11 Things You Need to Know About the Redesigned Google Drive - Google Drive, has a brand-new look, or it will have  - soon. Google also added some new functions. Check out the video for our quick walkthrough, along with a list of some of our favorite changes!

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Sketchnoting FOR Learning  - Sketchnoting helps process and digest a talk, wrap your mind around a large amount of information and organize your thoughts better.Try using sketchnoting as part of your learning process.

Ever think to attach a PARENT GUIDE to tests? Check out this idea here.

5 Tools for Adding Questions and Notes to Videos

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1. On VideoANT anyone can add annotations to any publicly accessible YouTube video.
2. eduCanon is an excellent service for creating, assigning, and tracking your students' progress on flipped lessons.
3. VideoNotes is a neat tool for taking notes while watching videos.
4. With Blubbr you can create interactive quizzes that are based on YouTube clips.

5 Ways to Collect Digital Exit Tickets

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1. Google Forms can be used to simply ask students to respond to "what did you learn today?" and "what questions do you have for next class?"
2. Padlet enables you to have students not only share exit responses as text, but to also share exit responses as hyperlinks.
3. Socrative actually has an exit ticket activity pre-made for teachers to distribute to students.
4. Poll Everywhere allows you to collect responses from an audience via text messaging or through the web.
5. Plickers - If not every student in your classroom has a laptop or tablet to use, then you need to check out as a student response system