Friday, November 30, 2012
Edmodo & ThingLink: Extend the Walls of Your Classroom
Teachers and students can extend the learning by posting messages, holding online discussions, picking up work and turning it in. Edmodo supports a variety of multimedia to provide students with flexible learning paths including links, images, video and interactive graphics created with ThingLink.
Perhaps an engaging assignment for students would be to publish an interactive graphic to be explored prior to class. This type of assignment can provide students with background knowledge, front load the learning and level the playing field to prepare students for success in class
The folks at ThingLink have made it very easy to use ThingLink with Edmodo and they've even created some video tutorials to help you learn how.
For more tutorials, Common Core Aligned Lesson Samples and tons of resources for using ThingLink in the classroom, please visit the ThingLink Teacher Toolkit.
Saturday, November 24, 2012
An Interactive Tutorial: Google Presentation
Google Presentation is a great tool for helping students construct knowledge about a topic as they create. Here is an interactive tutorial designed to demonstrate how to use some of the handy built in features.
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If you are interested in learning more about the features in Google Docs Presentation, you might want to check out my recent post on GettingSmart.com.
Google Presentation for Collaborative Learning
Monday, November 19, 2012
A ThingLink Toolkit for Teachers
I am excited to share a ThingLink Teacher Toolkit of Resources.
The toolkit is designed to provide teachers and students with all the resources needed to use ThingLink as an efficient and effective tool for teaching and learning.
- Several samples of Common Core aligned projects by grade level.
- A collection of quick video tutorials to demonstrate how to use ThingLink. The tutorials can be used with students to provide tech support right when needed.
- How to integrate with Edmodo, Flickr and Facebook.
- Resources for creating original artwork to be used as a starting point for a ThingLink image.
- Samples of images used for Professional Development
- A help button for support from a real teacher. (That's me!)
- An opportunity for sharing.
- A brand new blog for sending updates. Sign up!
Saturday, November 17, 2012
An Interactive Thanksgiving Image
I used ThingLink to create an interactive graphic for Thanksgiving.
Feel free to use it, embed it into your own site, and use the comments section of the blog to send me links you feel would be great additions to the graphic.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Edublogs 2012 Nominations
Nominations for 2012 Edublog Awards are open.
The purpose of the Edublog Awards is to
"promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media."
The nomination process supports the goal of the contest because it requires nominations via a blog post with a follow up link to that post submitted to Edublogs. What a great way to share, discover and credit the folks whose work inspires us and contributes to our own success!
My nominations for the 2012 Edublog Awards:
Individual Blog - The Innovative Educator
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