Cool Tools
Linoit - www.linoit.com
Google or URL shortener - bitly
Interactive multimedia timeline (*$5/month) - tiki-toki.com
MyFakeWall.com
Creating a Dynamic Learning Space
*Play with your physical space, so that the teacher is not the center of attention and students are looking at each other for engagement and answers and practice the following:
Collaboration
Leverage the online space for academic work (Ex. Linoit, a multimedia post-it note board to create groups and share notes; Online discussions via Collaboriz to provide content online and embed video and for students to select answers in a short objective quiz in group experiences and to give everyone an equal voice by engaging quiet, shy kids; Google Docs for group collaboration
Interesting
Use a tool like Prezi to show relationships between ideas and make lectures more interesting; Use media, audio, graphs, photographs, videoclips as a springboard for writing like National Geographic, Khan Academy, TED talks, History.com, MIT World, PBS.org, YouTube for School, School Tube)
Artistic (Creative and Fun)
Collages can be done online with such tools like PicMonkey (Fearless Photo embellishment where students can upload photos with bubbles), Animoto (free 30 second videos where students can upload images and add text, music to make a movie), Glogster (students create multimedia posters), storybird.com (when students do work that they know other students will see, they want it to be good; when students do work that they know the teacher will see, they want it to be good enough--this site lets the student pair the writing with artwork and then publish); storyjumper. Get students up off their feet and let them enact plays (acting, dramatic readings, and reenactment); blabberize; voki; socrative (create a quiz, copy & paste and play in teams with mobile devices--have students make them for each chapter of a book for example and then they participate in randomly chosen teams); pixton.com (students create comics to show what happened in a chapter)
Relevant or Project-based Learning (have to sacrifice curriculum to collaborate on real-world issues and create real-world solutions)
Challenge Based Learning Project (developed by Apple)
1. start with a big idea
2. student groups then work together to brainstorm questions about their topic online
3. identify a challenge associated with their topic
4. research the problem or challenge
5. design a real world solution
6. preeent challenge, solution, evidence of implementation & reflection in a multimedia project (dynamic informational website, powerpoint or prezi presentation
QR Codes in Class to
* link students to a helpful video
* go on a virtual fieldtrip
* design an in-class web quest
* direct students to quizzing site
* make a textbook interactive
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