Wonderful Weekend Websites 12/12/14

Here are 3 tools for creating multimedia year-in-review collages. Check out this link with embedded how-to videos.

The best way for students to avoid copyright infringement when creating multimedia projects is to create their own audio. Soundtrap is a website that will allow students to collaboratively create music or vocal recordings on almost any device. Students should sign up with their school Google accounts.

This new Google feature that will make it easier to share in Google Drive.

Google Classroom allows you to view, grade and return an assignment, here’s how.

Everyone uses Google Search, here are 11 tricks that will change the way you search. Pass them on to students. Custom search engines can narrow down your searches, this one is the education search engine.

Wonderful Weekend Websites

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HSTRY is a multimedia timeline creation tool that will work on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad, or tablet. With a HSTRY account you can build timelines in a vertical scroll format similar to that of a Facebook feed.

Last month Storyboard That offered a tool for creating Thanksgiving cards. This month they're offering a tool for creating holiday cards (Christmas, Hanukkah, New Year, Kwanza, and generic "season's greetings"). To create one of these cards simply select "make a folding" card after creating and saving a storyboard. A video of the process can be found here.

Creating holiday cards on Storyboard That could be a good way for students to practice writing short stories.

Continuing from Tuesday’s Tech Tip and Eric Sheninger’s TED talk about creating schools that work better for kids, here are 7 ways to become a digital leader with the help of Google Apps

Tuesday Tech Tips

#EdCampAwesome coming to Royse City, TX on February 21st, 2015. EdCamps are UNconference events organized by groups of educators, specifically designed to create a participant-driven, fun-filled day of professional development. Educators can connect with like-minded individuals, collaborate ideas, brainstorm solutions to common education problems, have group discussions, and receive information that can immediately be applied in the classroom. Click here to register.

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Are all teachers extroverts? Read the Confessions of an Introvert Teacher. Where teachers fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum is something that should be considered when we plan staff development.

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Eric Sheninger, author of the book Digital Leadership recently gave a TED talk about Schools that work for kids. It is definitely worth listening too. Like what you hear -- then check out his Blog.

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According to Carl Hooker, " Part of being a teacher in the 21st century is being creative in integrating academics and learning into students' digital lives." He lists 21 things every 21st Century Teacher should do this year. 

Let me help you accomplish one of these things.