Category:

Show Me App

6/5/2012

The other day I had a handful of students in my class who finished an activity in record time, so I gave them a few iPads and asked them to look for apps they thought were educationally sound and then present them to the class (basically so I could buy myself some time to work with some of the other students that needed more time). Anyway, what started as a way to keep some kids busy turned into an incredible experience! I loved how my students shared their rationales for the apps they chose. I am going to blog about them over the next few weeks...starting with SHOW ME.

This is what the two girls wrote on the board and they are so right! Show me is a great way for students to teach each other (and show you, the teacher, what they know). Click below to see the show me they made! Makes for a great activity and/or assessment!

3 Comments

and more 2.0

12/4/2011

0 Comments

Well...I am just thrilled with how many online programs there are that are useful to teachers...here are some more:

Glogster
Great way to share posters and images you’ve made with friends
Edmodo
Social learning environment and one of the best ways to teach with tech
Bubbl.us
Free application to brainstorm online
Twitter
The micro blogging service that many love or hate.
WordPress
Content publishing system. It’s gone way beyond just blogging.
Prezi
Innovative way to share presentations without PowerPoint
Wallwisher
An online notice board maker (or bulletin board if you choose)
Animoto
Make beautiful videos from images in a snap
Blabberize
Make your images talk…that’s right.
Weebly
Create your own website or blog, very easy to use (LOVE wee
Flickr
Popular photo-sharing site now lets you print
Slideshare
Don’t waste your presentation after it’s over, share it with millions!
Audioboo
Easily record and share audio
VoiceThread
GoogleDocs
The top real-time document creating and editing cloud-based system/ tends to slow down A LOT if a whole class is logged on
GoogleSites
Make your own website while knowing nothing about websites!
Diigo
Popular social bookmarking site
GoogleEarth
View anywhere in the world anytime
Wordle
Create a beautiful aggregation of any amount of text
Wikis
Crowdsourcing at its finest. Like Wikipedia, Wikispaces is very helpful
Wix
Easily make your own flash-based website
Primarypad
Web-based word processor
Spicy Nodes
Innovative way to organize your web visits
Delicious
One of the top social bookmarking sites on the web
Myebook
Virtually publish your book and sell it
Voki
Get your own avatar and even have it talk with your voice
DoInk
Create animations using this simple website
Warning Sign Generator
Make your own caution and warning signs in a flash!
Scratch
Create and share stories, games, art, etc.
Kerpoof
Cool way to make a movie, card, picture, and share it all
Tagxedo
Like Wordle but a step farther as text can be used to build bigger images (a better wordle I think)
SmartKiddies
Creative math and other educational problems to help everyone learn
Bitstrips
Make and share your own comic strips with thousands of others
Popplet
An easy way to share visual ideas/ can slow down if too many kids are on at one time
Storyjumper
Easy way to create your own stories for kids and bring them to life
Aviary Myna
Make your own music or remix just about anything else
TimeToast
Fantastic timeline visualization tool to understand history
GoAnimate for schools
State of the art animation tools for schools
PBWorks
Thousands of educational wikis and workspaces (build your own!)
Schoology
Learning management, online education tools, and much more
Google Timeline
A unique way to view the news
Online-Convert
Convert anything to anything (audio, video, text, etc.)
ReadWriteThink
Tons of classroom resources and PD goodies
Storybird
Build your own stories (with images) and share them with others
Word Magnets
Phonics reinforcement and sentence building exercise
Museum Box
Innovative way to understand history/ great for projects!
Atmosphir
A build-your-own video game
Empressr
Rich media presentation tool
Zoho
A great alternative to Google Apps
EasyBib
The free automatic bibliography and citation maker
ToonDooSpaces
Easily publish custom comic strips
Crocodoc
Annotate and edit PDFs

My Favourites are in red
Thank you to whoever started this list...I had it saved to my computer and I am not even sure where it has come from!!!
So thank you mystery person!!!

0 Comments

Loving the web 2.0 tools available to teachers

12/4/2011

0 Comments

Have been thinking a lot about prezi and powerpoint lately and which one I like better....I taught prezi to a colleague's grade 7 class the other day and they really enjoyed it, and so do I...but powerpoint is a little more user friendly (in my opinion).

I like what my colleague, Mr. McDonald, did though...he gave the students the choice. He taught them about ppt and I taught them about prezi and he is going to let the students decide which program they want to use for their presentations.

Giving students choice..always a great thing :)

On a side note, I am still thinking about Museum Box and it can be used in the 5/6 classroom in a useful way.

I recommended it to an LST teacher at my school as she was looking for

0 Comments

Forward>>

Show Me App

and more 2.0

Loving the web 2.0 tools available to teachers

Author

Archives

Categories