For those of you that were unable to attend Tundra Edtech Toolslam, you can find slides of everything you missed.
The topics include (Click here for the slidedeck):
This tool does not exist (Slide 6)
Kami, Google Slides, Classkick (Slide 19)
Lumio (Slide 28)
Chromebook accessibility features (Slide 30)
Pause Points for BrainPop (Slide 36)
Classroom Screen (Slide 42)
Peardeck (Slide 48)
Google Arts and Culture (Slide 64)
Gimkit (Slide 73)
Shark, Marine and Flight tracker, Jif maker, Tynker Ball Challenge, Super Looper, Dogo news, Icograms, and Megabricks(Slide 84)
My biggest takeaways from the night include:
For ways to add interactivity to your lessons in Google Slidedecks, check out Peardeck. This will give you the opportunity to add in questions, live feedback and get data directly from this Google Slides add on.
For adding interactivity using your old Smart Notebook documents or creating new interactive activities, check out Lumio. Lumio is an online website that has the ability to add questions, interactive activities or upload and use existing Notebook files. You can do the activities with your class or share it with them and have them work on it on their own.
Classroom Screen is a great tool for teachers, but may even be a better tool for students. If your students need help self monitoring, they can set up their own Classroom Screen to have a timer, a to do list and other tools that teachers can pop on there to help them focus.
Check out Chromebook accessibility features! Students who are visually impared have loads of options when it comes to magnification, text to voice and color modification, among others.
Thanks again to Jamie Averbeck for putting together such a great night of learning!
Do you love Read, Write, Google and want your students to be able to access it even on PDF or have you been using Snapverter to do just that, but find it doesn't work anymore?
Either way, this tip is for you!
These great tools are available with Orbit Note. Because this tool is brought to you by Text Help (the company that produces Read, Write, Google) you won't lose any functionality from the original R,W,G and it will look the same to students.
How it works:
Go to https://orbit.texthelp.com/.
Create a free account with Google.
Select your PDF to upload, drag your file up from your computer, or open a PDF from Google Drive (the most useful option for students).
Go ahead and use the R, W, G toolbar.