Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Vokis in the Classroom
Summer is a time for constructive play. You might want to have a bit of fun and try creating a talking avatar with My Voki. Once you see how easy it is to create one, you have the rest of the summer to figure out how to use them in your teaching.
Using Vokis with Students:
- Record a welcome message for incoming students and embed it into your blog, wiki or website.
- Kick off a contest of some sort, the winner can win the opportunity to create and publish a Voki.
- Teach students how to communicate efficiently through oral messages or talking text.
- Use voki's to build and reinforce vocabulary.
- Use Voki's in your projects, allowing students the option to communicate a message through a Voki instead of typing bullet points. again
Please press the play button to hear a message.
Watch the voki's eyes follow your mouse.
Try it for yourself at voki.comVisit the My Voki website to view lesson plans submitted by teachers and create your own Voki.
Friday, June 15, 2012
A Day of Learning
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| Multimedia Tools to Support All Learners |
Learn to use free and friendly digital tools to design learning experiences that effectively provide students with the flexible learning paths they need to succeed. Develop a tech toolkit of resources and instructional strategies to support the diverse needs of all learners through multimedia.
Thursday, June 14, 2012
An Interactive ThingLink Launcher Unveiled
Check out this fantastic interactive graphic created by the folks at ThingLink featuring contributions from real users. Keep creating and sharing!
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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
A Playlist of Search Engines
Create your own Playlist on MentorMob!
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
InstaGrok - Visual Search Engine & Interactive Learning Tool
Just enter a search term in the box to generate a word cloud and instaGrok collects an assortment of useful and related content that is categorized and displayed on the screen. As users sift the information they can use the push pin to add relevant content directly to the word cloud, allowing for the construction of a personalized web of knowledge about a concept.
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| Search Results - Graph View |
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| Journal View for Notetaking |
Wish List
InstaGrok is a relatively new tool and it is truly amazing right out of the box, but here is my wish list of features that could improve the tool:
- Integrate it with Google Apps, allowing students to click a button, authenticate their login and save the information directly to their list of Docs.
- Add an EasyBib button so students can jump to EasyBib to easily create citations and store them all in one convenient spot.
Many thanks to Grace at SimpleK12 for introducing me to this tool yesterday, what a great find!
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