These are the links we will use during the workshop.These are tools you can use with students in your classrooom, depending on your circumstances. You can download this comparison of computers, laptops, Chromebooks, & iPads: Affordances of Major Computing Devices table
Mentimeter (https://www.mentimeter.com/app): You will not need to go to the site because I will activate the poll, but this is a polling site you can use for free for up to 2 polls per presentation and 5 quizzes. You can delete polls and add new ones.
Poll Everywhere (https://www.polleverywhere.com/): This is embeddable in Powerpoint or Keynote.
Dotstorm voting: https://dotstorming.com/b/5ba6ae123dbc632706cf02de. Vote on the three least necessary skills in your classroom.
Padlet resource gathering: https://padlet.com/engmaven/7rqa1j55a6ja. Add resources in the three skills categories of technical, digital citizenship, and information literacy.
RESOURCES THAT DON’T RESTRICT COPYRIGHT
Pictures:
- Photos for Class (http://www.photosforclass.com/)
- Pics4Learning (http://www.pics4learning.com/)
- Pixabay (pixabay.com)
- Arkive Education (wildlife pictures and videos) (http://www.arkive.org/education/
Music and Sounds
- SoundGator (http://www.soundgator.com/)
- Free Stock Music (https://www.freestockmusic.com/) – requires registration
- YouTube Audio Library (youtube.com/audiolibrary/music)
Active Prompt survey: http://activeprompt.org/poll/GYDIM. Move the red button to your level of confidence in teaching the skills students need.
TEACHER TOOLS
Timesavers: Resource Banks, such as TeachersFirst (teachersfirst.com); Student Management Systems, such as Edmodo (https://www.edmodo.com/) ; Free Content, such as CK-12 (CK12.org).
Instruction Improvement: Feedback Tools, such as Kaizena (https://www.kaizena.com/); Video Conferencing, such as Skype (https://education.microsoft.com/skype-in-the-classroom/overview); Group Annotation Tools, such as Now Comment (https://nowcomment.com/documents/113967).
STUDENT TOOLS
- [Creativity] Storytelling, such as Adobe Spark (https://spark.adobe.com/edu/)
- [Creativity] Animated Video, such as Animoto (https://animoto.com/education/classroom) with free teacher accounts
- [Visuals] Photo Comics, such as Super Lame (http://www.superlame.com/)
- [Visuals] Comics, such as Canva (https://www.canva.com/) and Make Beliefs Comix (https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/)
- [In-class Collaboration] Chat Rooms, such as Chatzy (http://www.chatzy.com/)
- [In-class Collaboration] Peer Feedback Spaces, such as PeerGrade (https://www.peergrade.io/)
- [Global Collaboration] Online Partners such as ePals (https://www.epals.com/#/connections) and Empatico (https://empatico.org/)
Final Activity: Boardthing (free for 29 whiteboards with stickies) https://boardthing.com/board/5ba9118a6ca9da4f88336196. Use stickies to tell what you learned in today’s workshop.
RESOURCES NOT IN PRESENTATION BUT WORTH NOTING
- TET-SAT (http://mentep.eun.org/tet-sat): a self-assessment tool for teachers to assess technology competency. Developed for the EU and available in 17 languages.
- Be Strong Online Modules (https://bestrongonline.antibullyingpro.com/modules/): Lesson plans on digital safety in six languages (British, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, & Romanian)
- Media Information Literacy for Teachers (http://unesco.mil-for-teachers.unaoc.org/): sponsored by the United Nations, multiple languages
- Phishing Quiz (https://www.opendns.com/phishing-quiz/): good quiz to check your phishing “smarts”; English only