World History
Paul Bogus, in his blog, Blogush, guides us through the process of making an RSS Animate style video. Studying the Louisiana Purchase, his class was having trouble digesting the textbook and making important connections. He thought an RSS Animate video might allow the kids to visualize the information, make connections, and retell ?their facts in a story that had a very tight story line that flowed.? Bogus?s post shows us how to make an RSS Animate style video step by step, including the simple tools you?ll need. The process doesn't look that difficult and may be worth trying.
- Screencastomatic Youtube Channel
I am working on a new video on flipping and ran into a Screencastomatic YouTube channel. For example, above is a video on how to write on a Screencastomatic video. For those of you who make lots of flipped class videos, Sreencastomatic is...
- Npr's Planet Money Makes A T-shirt
Show your students how a simple t-shirt is made. They'll be amazed! Click here to go to the NPR site (NPR developed the story), scroll down and click "View" for a video presentation of the story. The video contains different chapters such as "cotton,"...
- Three Great Informal Assessment Tools: Socrative, Wallwisher, Today'smeet
Here are excellent step-by-step directions from Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) on how to use three great informal assessment tools--Socrative--Today's Meet and Wallwisher. Socrative looks especially cool. It's a little like Poll...
- Quest Garden For Webquests
Quest Garden allows you to create web quests with tools and forms to help you through the creation process and then publish it online. You can share your web quest with the Quest Garden community so other teachers can use it. In fact, you can search existing...
- Managing Goggle Docs In The Classroom
I hate to say it, but here is still more on goggle docs! But this, I promise, is very cool and will make your life easier if you collect all your papers through goggle docs. This site shows you how to organize your documents so that you grade them by...
World History
How to make an RSS Animate video
Paul Bogus, in his blog, Blogush, guides us through the process of making an RSS Animate style video. Studying the Louisiana Purchase, his class was having trouble digesting the textbook and making important connections. He thought an RSS Animate video might allow the kids to visualize the information, make connections, and retell ?their facts in a story that had a very tight story line that flowed.? Bogus?s post shows us how to make an RSS Animate style video step by step, including the simple tools you?ll need. The process doesn't look that difficult and may be worth trying.
- Screencastomatic Youtube Channel
I am working on a new video on flipping and ran into a Screencastomatic YouTube channel. For example, above is a video on how to write on a Screencastomatic video. For those of you who make lots of flipped class videos, Sreencastomatic is...
- Npr's Planet Money Makes A T-shirt
Show your students how a simple t-shirt is made. They'll be amazed! Click here to go to the NPR site (NPR developed the story), scroll down and click "View" for a video presentation of the story. The video contains different chapters such as "cotton,"...
- Three Great Informal Assessment Tools: Socrative, Wallwisher, Today'smeet
Here are excellent step-by-step directions from Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) on how to use three great informal assessment tools--Socrative--Today's Meet and Wallwisher. Socrative looks especially cool. It's a little like Poll...
- Quest Garden For Webquests
Quest Garden allows you to create web quests with tools and forms to help you through the creation process and then publish it online. You can share your web quest with the Quest Garden community so other teachers can use it. In fact, you can search existing...
- Managing Goggle Docs In The Classroom
I hate to say it, but here is still more on goggle docs! But this, I promise, is very cool and will make your life easier if you collect all your papers through goggle docs. This site shows you how to organize your documents so that you grade them by...