Classroom Strategies
The tactician must know what to do whenever something needs doing;
the strategist must know what to do when nothing needs doing.
(Savielly Tartakover)
Hwa is thet mei thet hors wettrien the him self nule drinken
[Who can give water to the horse that will not drink of its own accord?]
(175 Old English Homilies)
Some days the dragon wins.
(Unknown)
OBJECTIVE
Student will create a Jamboard (a digital interactive whiteboard).
ASSIGNMENT
Create a Jamboard accessible from your website.
INSTRUCTION
Technologies:
Productivity Tools
communications (texting, email, website, social media, video chat, audio chat, interactive whiteboards, videos, etc.)
word processing
presentation
spreadsheet
database
Accessibility
speech recognition
text to speech (Windows Narrator, Adobe Read Out Loud)
Other Teaching Tools
Document camera
Digital Video (capture and download to local machine)
Social Networking (Facebook)
Form (Google Drive/Docs)
YouTube (upload)
Texting
Comic Life
MineCraft
iTune U - "a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours — is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students."
WebQuest - Some Thoughts About WebQuests by Bernie Dodge, San Diego State University
Copyright-free photographs - (Flickr - Creative Commons section) Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through content under each type of license.
Pixenate (online photo editor)
Downloading and installing software (MS SharePoint Designer)
Twitter (social networking and microblogging service)
Animoto - "is a web application that produces videos from user-selected photos, video clips and music."
Moodle - "is a free source e-learning software platform, also known as a Course Management System (CMS), Learning Management System (LMS), or Virtual Learning Environment (VLE)."
Interactive Whiteboard
SMART Exchange - "Explore the SMART Exchange website at exchange.smarttech.com to find, preview and download over 50,000 classroom-ready resources that can be used with a variety of classroom technology products. By joining this online community, you can quickly access subject-specific, standards-correlated content that can be modified to suit the needs of any classroom. You’ll also be able to connect with colleagues locally or around the world to exchange lessons, ideas, insights and classroom success stories. Membership is free..."
SMART Notebook Express software - "SMART Notebook Express is a web application that enables educators everywhere to open, interact with and share SMART Notebook collaborative learning software files. This lightweight version of SMART Notebook software is accessible online anytime at no charge. You don't need to log in and there's no software to download. All you need is access to the Internet" The user can create .notebook files online which can be saved locally. There is also a link to download a standalone version of the SMART Notebook Express software.
SMART Notebook Interactive Viewer software ( Mac version) - "SMART Notebook Interactive Viewer software is a lightweight version of SMART Notebook collaborative learning software. It's a free download that enables you to view and interact with SMART Notebook files. "
SMART Boards Why are they so easy to use?
Smart Notebook Math Tools
ECSLP Promo Video Summer2014
ECU Early College Second Life Program
RESOURCES
OPTIONAL CONTENT
NBC Nightly News Education Nation - We use technology when it is effective. :-) (Dated but...)