Tech Trends from Ed Tech Taylor
March 2016
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YouTube, Now What?
- Hook your students into a lesson
- Bring real-world context for lessons
Help provide cultural relevance for your students.
Provide remediation for concepts not yet mastered.
Provide alternative viewpoints.
Provide visual context (chemical reactions, primary source videos).
- Review previously taught content.
There are a few requirement that must be met before having this opened at your site ask your sites Ed Tech Specialist for more information on this.
Checking for Understanding Tools This tool offers quick and easy pre-made check for understanding assessments that students can access with just a code. Takes seconds for a teacher to create a code. Super easy, quick and useful! It works with both Chromebook or iPads. Upload a PDF and add questions or videos to a worksheet to make worksheets interactive. Check it out at http://goformative.com/. I have used it with students and was able to have frequent formal and informal checks in order to achieve student growth. Also allowed me to see immediate feedback on what was taught and was able to intervene. | Engage Your Students with EdPuzzle An easy way to engage your students with videos. Add a video, add some question, and track your students understanding of the concept you are trying to teach. If you do not have YouTube opened at your site, you can still download a clip of the video and use it with all the features from EdPuzzle.com. | Classroom, Doctopus & Goobric-Grading Digitally If you would like to learn how to grade papers with a digital rubric that sends immediate feedback to students without ever collecting a stack of papers then I have the solution for you. I can show you how to add these add-ons and seamlessley make it all work together in order to streamline grading in a digital world. |
Checking for Understanding Tools
Engage Your Students with EdPuzzle
Classroom, Doctopus & Goobric-Grading Digitally
Changing the Language Settings on a Chromebook for EL Students
Did you know that you can change the language setting on any Chromebook? By changing the language students can do research in their own native language by changing the setting on the Chromebook. I was in a middle school classroom with a student who only spoke Spanish and once she was able to read everything in Spanish, she was able to participate with the activity that the teacher had assigned via Google Classroom. You also have features that allow students to switch between languages on your keyboard, for those students in the Dual Immersion Program that need to write in Spanish and use accents, this is a useful tool.