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Video makes it easy to tell your story. Move over paper, video is here to stay.
Since JayCut is NO longer accessible to us for free, it left many students scrambling for a video editor that is cloud based. WeVideo is making video editing and storytelling accessible to everyone for free. With WeVideo editing capabilities give you everything you’d want and are easy to use. WeVideo is also the first to make video editing a social community. The online, collaborative editing environment means a lot of people can upload their clips to your video library. The group can create their own videos from the same clips or you can actually edit the videos together…all at your own locations. How cool it that! Perfect for collaborative classroom projects! Continue reading
QR Code Periodic Table of Elements
The elements of this Periodical Table have been replaced with QR Codes that link to a YouTube video about the element! Visit the link, http://goo.gl/qlAQ3E, on Flickr to print your poster size copy courtesy of Periodic Videos, http://goo.gl/HNQVqc!
You don’t need to be a science teacher to hang this in your classroom! Way cool!
QR Codes in the Library
How can you include QR Codes in your classroom? I am looking for teachers to collaborate with me on the project outlined below:
I would like to use QR Codes in the library to showcase the reading students did this summer and will continue to do throughout the 2013-2014 school year. The QR Codes created for the books should include but are not limited to:
*Student created book reviews
*Links to additional authoritative reviews
*Official book trailers or trailers made by the students
*Additional resources and information. For example, if the student read Paper Towns by John Green additional links might include nonfiction topics mentioned, Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman, or perhaps an interview with the author.
The QR Codes will then be printed onto stickers and placed on the inside of the dust jacket of the print copies in the library. This is a fantastic way for students to interact using technology AND have their work reach a broad and diverse audience.
If the middle school owns the book, I will happily accept QR Codes from all buildings or any location! Please let me know if you are interested in adding my QR Code Project to the “activity list” of your Learner-Active Technology-Infused Classroom!
Embracing the Cell Phone
Inspiration Nokia – Fourth Screen
Padlet is a Web 2.0 free online tool where anyone can build a “wall”. Students can then go onto the internet and stick post-it notes electronically onto the wall,which can include linked Pictures, YouTube videos, PowerPoints, PDFdocuments, Excel Spreadsheets, or web page links. You can read about Padlet here. Continue reading
Padlet
What once was WallWisher is now known as Padlet. Padlet is a virtual sticky note board. Gone are the days of finding a marker that is not dried out, struggling to bring out the easel and charting all the class thoughts.Padlet allows you to type 160 characters, add a link, video or image. You can share Padlet by link, embed it in your blog or by share it via email. Think about using it as an assessment tool or as a springboard to flush out a class topic. An added benefit would be to share this tool as a place to collect content specific resources. I think Padlet is exceptionally cool and worth checking out. Post your Padlet and see what kind of ideas you can inspire in others.
Need inspiration? Visit Sean Banville’s Blog: WallWisher-105 Classroom Ideas
Although the name has changed, Padlet works the same. Click on the document below to enlarge and read how to use WallWisher.
Storybird
Hard to believe but I read about Storybird in School Library Journal in 2010! Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are intriguingly fun to make, share, and read. Storybird has tremendous potential for collaborative formal as well as informal learning …producing, prose and poetry writing, new media literacy and digital citizenship, etc
Read my story…..
Annie by somsmediacenter on Storybird
While most of the artwork seems to be geared for elementary students, Storybird conducts competitions that push students to be creative. I shared Storybird with the foreign language teachers who found it to be a useful tool for students to practice writing and practice speaking in Spanish, French, and Italian etc…..
Storybird is so easy to use that anyone can make this work for their class. Just show it to your kids and see what they come up with—you’ll be amazed. Sign up today for an individual or free class account!
You can watch how to create class accounts here…
Using Flickr
I attended a conference on with Lisa Nielsen co-author of Teaching Generation Text. Lisa also has a fabulous blog titled, The Innovative Educator where she shares tech tools and openly speaks her mind about how and why using technology in the classroom enhances learning. Her opening activity Friday was to have the audience take a picture of themselves using their SmartPhone or Smart Device and send the picture to an specific email address associated with Flickr. With Flickr you can get an email address where you or anyone you share the email address with can send pictures. When emailing the picture, the subject line becomes the caption and the body of the email becomes the description. You can add tags to your photo simply by typing “tags:” and adding your tag list. Continue reading
Vocabulary: 21st Century Style
Wordia is a free games-based learning platform – built on the foundations of a dictionary – that blends word-based learning games with interactive video vocabulary. Wordia encourages students to learn through play – building subject ‘Word Banks’ as they compete with classmates and other schools in a fun, competition-led, learning environment. The Wordia team is building a way for educators to measure a student’s progress and performance through games-based learning. Add Wordia to your “Activity List, ” Give it a try!
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