Instructional Strategies 2018
Apps to Explore
Previewing
What is Nearpod Collaborate?
Nearpod Collaborate How To
Ideas for Classroom Use
Memory
Quizlet Live
- Web Based
- New Game feature of Quizlet
- Automatically groups students
- Provides communication and collaboration skills for students as they work together to "race" to finish first by using vocabulary the teacher has chosen.
- Make sure that you are a "teacher" on your Quizlet Account at Quizlet.com
- Student go to Quizlet.live
- Tutorial
Typorama
- App both ios & android
- Students create visually pleasing pictures with text
- Students sign into free account and can easily add text over backgrounds provided by the program
- Great for quotes, sayings, or phrases
- Tutorial
Visual
Visual - Graphic Organizers
Popplet Lite
- Mobile and Web Based
- Mind Mapping Tool
- Add pictures, text, and drawings in popplets that can be connected in any shape.
- Use for brainstorming, flowcharts, or other processes.
- Students use Lite Version. Only one popplet can be saved at a time, you can save a begin a new one.
- Short Tutorial Video
HOLT + Eduplace + Notability
Holt Interactive Graphic Organizers
Eduplace Interactive Graphic Organizers
- Find a graphic organizer to use
- Tap on the organizer
- Click the More... hyperlink
- Choose "Import with Notability" or Open in Seesaw
- Create New Note
- Import
Notability
Insert
- Text
- Writing
- Highlighting
- Audio
- Photos
- Figures
- Stickies
- Webclips
Visual - Sketchnoting
Sketchnoting for Beginners
Paper 53 app
Drawing Desk app
Interleaved
Google Forms
Mobile Friendly
Web Based
Web Based
- Teacher creates quiz & shares link with students
- Responses are compiled in a spreadsheet on Google Drive
- Tutorial
- Flubaroo Instructions
Socrative
Student Mobile App
Teacher Mobile App
Web Based
Teacher Mobile App
Web Based
- Students join teacher's room number
- Real time questioning
- Instant results with visual
- Tutorial
Multi-sensory
Charades
- Teachers can create custom decks and share them with all of their students.
- Students can create custom decks and share.
- Great for vocabulary, synonyms, antonyms, Greek/Latin Roots, or any other term you want the students to understand or learn.
- Students are interacting, moving, and collaborating with one another.
- Can be used as a study tool at home.
- The POSSIBILITIES are ENDLESS
- Try it- custom deck #2364435
Chunking & Shrinking
Keynote
- Mobile Based
- Teachers can create resources and upload for students to edit or students may create their own presentations
- Slides can be created with video, links, and pictures
- Import anything from your camera roll
- Have students chunk information using different slides or outlines
Google Slides
- Chunk information by topic of your choosing
- Teachers can create slides template for students or let students work at their own pace.
- Students can share their project with each other so they can work together.
- Same features of Keynote but now web-based.
- Tutorial
Padlet
- Teacher can create the board and have students respond.
- Students can respond by pinning notes, links,
photos, & videos. - Students can also create their own boards and share them with the teacher.
- Tutorial
- EXAMPLE :)
Self-explanation/Practice
Explain Everything
- No account/log-in required
- Exports to camera roll
- Simple interface available
- iOS Tutorial
Book Creator
- No account/log-in required
- Exports as ePUb, Movie or PDF
- http://bookcreator.com/education/
Doodlecast Pro
- No account/log-in required
- Exports to camera roll
- Backgrounds (grids, graphs, music, theater, etc.)
- Short Tutorial Video
Draw and Tell
- No account/log-in required
- Exports to camera roll
- Backgrounds, stickers, drawing tools, etc.
Vidra
- No account/log-in required
- Exports to camera roll
- 1000s of pictograms, add images
Goal-setting/Feedback
Numbers
- Free-form canvas style spreadsheet app
- Tables, charts, graphics, text
- Easily modifiable templates
- Goal-setting and self-monitoring for students
- Ms. Hanshew's blog post
- Green star template
- Reading Fluency template
- PE Fitness Gram