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Video too long - didn't watch it? How many times have you wanted to show a video but it is too long and you lose the attention of your students while fast forwarding to the next spot to discuss? This site allows you to highlight just specific portions of a video, add comments to the video and share the link with your students. Click here to read about it in more detail as well as see some examples of ways to use this in your classroom - for example, flipping your classroom and prompting with questions for your students while they are viewing the video at home.
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Google What? Here is a great idea for a lesson that incorporates using all of the Google programs between all content areas. In a nutshell, have students use Google Forms to create a survey. The results from the survey will automatically populate a Google Spreadsheet and students can analyze the data. As results come in from around the world, more learning can take place about these areas. Finally, the students can collaborate and use Google Slides to present their findings to the class. Click here for an example of a teacher using these ideas for a recycling unit. Use Google to search for many other survey ideas.
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Want to connect with another classroom? Use the Google Hangout app and doors are opened to classrooms all over the world! Perhaps, students in different schools could collaborate and work on a shared Google Slides presentation. When it comes time to present to the classroom, you could initiate a Google Hangout session between the classrooms and the students could virtually "present together" with screen sharing and simultaneous presenting.
Click here and here for some great articles on other ways to use Google Hangouts in the classroom. |
WebQuest? A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most or all the information that learners work with comes from the web. WebQuests are a way to make good use of the internet while engaging students in the kinds of thinking that the 21st century requires. A real WebQuest....is wrapped around a doable and interesting task; requires higher level thinking, not simply summarizing; makes good use of the web; isn't a research report or a step-by-step science or math procedure; and isn't just a series of web-based experiences. There are oodles of shared WebQuests available for your use in practically any subject area or to enhance learning of content standards.
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Discover something new? Discovery Education is a great app that is available in the Chromebook Webstore or can be accessed straight from your browser. Discovery Education provides high quality, dynamic, digital content, interactive lessons, real time assessment, and virtual experiences with some of Discovery's greatest talent. There is valuable information on this app for all content areas! There also is a free Puzzlemaker portion as well as featured programs in all subject areas - even some contests with prizes!
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Want to Engage Your Students? This website is AWESOME! Browse through a gallery of already created videos that you can customize and use to best fit your needs or create your own interactive video. Create an engaging video that stops along the way to ask questions or emphasize key points with text, images or drawing tools and then view the analysis of your students' responses. A great way to gauge what your students learned from viewing a video. These videos can also be presented to a class in the front of the classroom and each student joins using a code and answers the interactive questions on his/her own device.
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