Rockin' Technology
HEB ISD Staff Development August 15, 2016
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Padlet is more than just post it notes!
Great for communication, collaboration, critical thinking
Padlet is a place where students can collaborate and communicate by posting images, documents, text, audio and other content on a virtual wall with anyone anywhere and from any device.Your Assignment: Create and Post: "What's Your Quote" for 2016?
- What will be your quote or motto for this school year?
- Navigate to recite.com and create your visual quote
- Download your image
- Upload your image to this padlet
Sample Padlets
Think About It...
Discuss in your groups how your students could use Padlet in your classroom to meet your assignment objectives and to increase the 4 C's
Try it
- Review Padlet in the Classroom and look at the video tutorials here
- Create a Padlet account
- Create and customize a padlet you might could use
- Customize your background and settings
- Generate and save the link to give to your students
Let's Collaborate and Communicate with Quizlet Live
Let's Take a Quiz
- Navigate to quizlet.live
- Join the session with the join code provided
- You will be assigned a group
- You must find your group and answer the questions correctly
- All will have the same question, but only one will have the right answer
- Choose the correct answer, but be careful. If you miss, you have to start over!
- The first team to get 12 in a row correct WINS!
Think about it...
Discuss in your groups how your students could use Quizlet in your classroom to meet your assignment objectives and to increase the 4 C's.
Try It
- Create a Quizlet account if you don't have one already
- Search the quizzes already available
- Make some flash cards or...
- Create a live quiz with your group
- Check out the Quizlet Live Tutorial
Thinglink
Thinglink makes any image interactive.
You can add links to sites, videos, text, documents, and more. There is an app and a web based version.
Sample ThingLinks
Think about it...
Discuss in your groups how your students could use Thinglink in your classroom to meet the 4C's.
Try It
- Explore some samples above
- Open Thinglink from the App or on the web
- Create a Thinglink for your students to use the first week of school. You could include links to a video of your class, audio files, documents and more.
Plickers to the Rescue in the 1iPad Classroom
Think about it...
Discuss in your groups how your students could use Plickers in your classroom to meet your assignment objectives and to increase the 4 C's.
Try it
- Navigate to plickers.com and create an account
- Add a couple of question sets
- Set up a classroom
- Download a card set
- Explore options
What is Go Noodle?
GoNoodle is a free website that gives teachers a library of brain break and activity videos to use in their classrooms. The short videos are two to ten minutes in length. They are geared towards students in kindergarten through sixth grade, but check out the dance videos for all ages!
Fun Ones
Think about it...
Discuss what GoNoodle Can do for your students, especially when they are all hyper, too tired or just need a little break.
Try it
Sign up for a GoNoodle Account. Search through the resources and find a noodle that will work for your class.
Video is for All Grades and Subjects!
Video Covers All the 4C's!
iMovie is one of the easiest tools to use. You can create movie trailers, photo stories and more.
Samples
- Movie Trailer - Welcome to My Class
- A Doodle Video
Think about it...
Discuss how can video allow your students to demonstrate mastery of the lesson goals and objectives?
Resources for Using Video
- Guide for the classroom
- 30 Ideas
- Ideas for Using Green Screen
- Keep Vid - Download YouTube videos
Try it...
It's Movie Time!
Work in groups or pairs to help each other. Pick a task to try. You can't mess it up. Choose one
- Use iMovie and make a movie trailer introducing yourself, your school, department, or your class procedures.
- Create a couple of "doodles." Create screenshots and then bring them into iMovie to create a doodle video.
- Have a little green screen fun
A Little Audio Goes a Long Way
Ways to Use Audio in the Classroom
Audio is a great way for students to improve their listening skills. Students who are engaged in listening improve their processing and application skills. Here is a creative idea from a teacher incorporating Voki in her classroom. More
- Create a podcast or radio show
- Narrate a story
- Create a soundtrack
- Create a QR Voice code
- Reading – Younger students can record their reading practice and listen back to hear their voice
- Poetry – Students can be asked to comment on certain aspects of a reading
- Public speaking – students perform public speaking with a virtual audience
- Storytelling – Older students or teachers can record short stories for younger students to listen to
- Create recordings to place on your ThingLink interactive photo.
Audio Resources
- Voice Recorder
- Record Mp3
- Speak Pipe
- Audio Recorder
- Fotobabble and the App
- Voki and the App
- Vocaroo (no app available)
Reflect
Discuss in your groups how your students could create sound files to meet the 4C's.
Try It
Free Audio for Projects - Explore and see how easy it is to create your own audio for projects. Try one of the sites below or one of the audio resources above.
- BenSound - Royalty free soundtracs for use in projects
- Incredibox - Create your own beats
- UJam - Create your own music
- YouTube Audio Library
Quizziz
Quizizz is very similar to Kahoot, except the questions appear on the students' devices.
Let's try it out!
- On your device or laptop, open quizizz.com.
- Click Join a Game.
- Enter the Game Code the teacher provides and click Go.
- Type in your name and click Join Game.
- Wait for the teacher to begin the game.
Good Luck!
EdPuzzle
Check out this EDpuzzle quiz on the Flipped Classroom!
All About EdPuzzle
Think about it...
How could using EdPuzzle in your curriculum enhance student learning?
Try it
- Create an EdPuzzle teacher account
- Explore videos and find one to use
- Trim and add different questions types
- Setup a class
Assign a video to the class
Nearpod
- Open www.nearpod.com.
- Click on the Join Session button.
- Type in the Pin Number the teacher gives you.
- Wait for the teacher to begin.
Think about it...
Is Nearpod something you could use in your classes? How could your students benefit?
Try it
- Set up a Nearpod account and search through the free presentations already created or create your own.
- Make the session live and try it out.
QR Codes
Great for communication, collaboration, critical thinking
Make sure that you have a QR reader downloaded on your device. A QR Code, which stands for Quick Response, is an image that when scanned, will go directly to a web site. You can make QR codes that link to text, images, videos, and any web content.
Collaborate and Communicate - States and Capitals QR Matching
- You will be given HALF of a QR Code and a 3 Facts sheet.
- Your mission is to find the person who has your matching half then put your codes together. Line them up carefully!
- Using your QR reader, scan the code to see if you are correct. If you are correct, then you will be given a message. If you are incorrect, no message will be given so you will need to try again.
- Once you have your match, that person will be your partner. Together, discover 3 unique facts about your city and 3 unique facts about your state. Write them on your 3 Facts Sheet
Reflect
Discuss in your groups how your students could use QR Codes in your classroom to meet the 4C's.
Try It
- Create a QR code on QR Stuff, QR Monkey or a QR Voice code and save the code image. Share it with one of your table group members
- Explore Sample QR Code Activities
Let's Play Bingo!
Click the Free space.
Click the answers to the problems as they are called out.
Shout Bingo if you win!
Trading Cards
Think allows students to share their understanding of various topics. Available on the Web and as an app for IOS and Android.
Create trading cards for any number of categories, including:
- Fictional person
- Real person
- Fictional place
- Real place
- Object
- Event
- Vocabulary word
Allows students to share information via an interactive cube that they can print. The premade cubes are mystery, biography, story, or you can create your own. They come with planning sheets as well.
Read Write Think Student Interactives
The Read Write Think website includes over 50 student interactives to be used on computers. Many of the interactives are also available as apps.
- Student Interactives - online literacy learning tools
- Timeline - create a graphical representation of an event or process by displaying items sequentially along a line
Think about it...
How could the trading card or create a cube increase student critical thinking and creativity?
Try it
- Explore the Read Write Think website
- Create a your own trading card or cube for yourself
- Think about the possibilities for open house!
Tools To Explore
High Tech Verbs
InstaGrok
InstaGrok is a visual search engine that collects accurate educational content and displays it in a concept map/word cloud. From there, students can find videos, images, weblinks and text. Students can use the slider tool in the top, left corner to access information by reading difficulty.
Tips and Tricks You Need to Know
- These sites allow you to share YouTube Videos without the clutter.
- Copy the URL (web address) of the YouTube video.
- Open the site and paste the URL into blank
- Generate a new link
- The new link contains the YouTube video without ads
Shorten long URL's
goo.gl (easily create a short url with the goo.gl url chrome extension!
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