Tuesday, April 28, 2015

TCC 5-5 Cindy's Links

Classmill describes its course creation site curated learning. It is another site which allows you to gather all the multimedia for your lesson/course for viewing from one site. MIT’s Future of Education report says, "The next generation of student life and learning, supporting the faculty with new instructional roles, introducing flexibility to the curriculum and in time to degree by modularizing course content"
Intel has some terrific Project Based Learning courses. During the one we facilitate with teachers yearly in our school district we look not only at self/formative assessment but we also look at technology to infuse. This Edudemic post, 5 Ways to Use Wordcloud Generators in the Classroom, has teacher contributed ideas including one which marries KWL charts and word clouds. Another Edudemic post, The Ultimate Twitter Guidebook, this with 100 sites giving lots of ideas and links for using Twitter from beginner tips and educator uses to cautions and student apps. Or 30 Innovative Ways to Use Twitter in the Classroom  if that seems too much.

Promethean is making changes with ClassFlow, I happened upon these while viewing a webinar. The first was a recommended blog, Promethean is making changes with ClassFlow, I happened upon these while viewing a webinar. The first was a recommended blog, WhiteboardBlog. Danny Nicholson provides lots of tools and tips from the British point of view. (Not restricted to Promethean) One of his posts is about a program which is a free download (probably an at home item) for an activity maker called WordWall. He has directions for use on his blog post and says the activities can be used with just a projector..
Morfo app is a Blabberize-like talking head producer...only iOs...sorry.
Enjoy!