EDTECH Tools in Classroom
Date : 8th Aug 2017
Its always a blessing traveling and meeting exceptionally talented people from different cultures, whether be it my learning experience in UK with mentors from Reading university or my visit to Cairo back in 2007 to attend an iEARN conference sharing students work, or my recent visit to Marrakesh, Morocco in July 2017 to attend and present one of my projects "Technology for a Cause - Empowering Kids Enhancing Skills" that I had been working for the past few months with kids at SOS children Village Peshawar at the iEARN 2017 conference.
Burt Robertson says and I completely agree, " the more places I travel to the more I see, the more I learn, the less I know and I love it". I believe every journey far or near opens doors to newer learning experiences, at times erasing past memories and giving birth to newer ones, yet ready to be explored. My blog below is a reflection of my journey into an unknown land and some insight into the learning experiences.
Just to begin with some interesting projects and technology tools that I came across through out the conference. Radio Garden is beautiful tool which brings different voices from distant places together on one platform. One can listen to live radio being broadcasted any where in the world, once you log in to Radio Garden it connects you to live radio stations around the world and you could choose to listen to any. Second, if you click on the history section, you could listen to stories of different people of how radio has crossed borders. I still need to explore the jingles and stories link. But what is important is that this tool could be effectively used in History, Geography, social studies and language classes for middle school, would help exploring different cultures. Sharing work across trans national borders. Details in link below.
The second tool I real
y liked and could be very useful in classrooms is the Flip Grid tool. Flip Grid was shared by Karen Kirsch in her session on ED TECH Tools. Flip Grid is a video discussion community, you can start by posting a short 2 min video on a particular topic, students share their responses in a video form. It gives voice to students who otherwise will not share openly, students could listen to each others perspective and freely comment, they could use it both inside and outside classroom, it could be easily embedded with edmodo, schoology, wordpress, GoogleClassroom, Blackboard and many other tools. The teacher can make it public or keep the discussion restricted or private. Could be used in almost all subjects, where discussion , sharing and reasoning is required, could be helpful for teachers to give feedback to students, could be helpful in evaluating lessons by asking students to share feedback etc and the list is endless. Worth exploring!
Third tool that I liked and want to share is Padlet. Padlet is a software people use to create and share content with others. Somewhere between a document and website builder, it lets you make the content you want whether its a blog, bulletin board or portfolio. You could use it for a number of purposes, keeping your research notes at one place, making presentations (include audio, video, images text etc), could be used for resource sharing or used as an online community where colleagues come together and share their resources, it could be used for creating timelines with dates, texts, images and even videos, could be used for writing a book review or story analysis etc. Worth a try with kids!
Another interesting tool that I came across was the the TeacherTube and SchoolTube. Both very useful for a number of activities and topics. One can get videos on almost all topics, listen to audio, view documents and even upload own work. The only concern was a number of ads on the screen blocking content, which is an area that needs to be explored a little.
One last tool that id like to add to this list is Popplet, which is an online mind mapping tool. One
could easily add in new popples, change text color, change text size, draw in the popple, easy to use, colorful etc. Could be used for taking immediate feedback, note taking, organize ideas, plan projects, analyze a topic, character analysis, comparing and contrasting, making timelines etc
These were just some of the many technology resources shared by different participants in different sessions. I found these pretty useful. They are freely available, but do require a login. Though still some exploration is required.
Hope you enjoy reading and exploring these till my next blog, where ill share some very interesting online projects that could be done with kids in schools.
Happy Reading :)
Sheeba Ajmal
8th Aug 2017
References:
1. Radio Garden
Weblink: http://radio.garden/stories/cyprus/siobhan-stevenson/
Accessed Online on 7th Aug 2017
2. Flip Grid
Weblink: https://info.flipgrid.com/
https://info.flipgrid.com/images/Flipgrid_2017.pdf
Acessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
3.Padlet
Weblink:https: https://padlet.com/my/dashboard
https://padlet.com/support/whatispadlet
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
4. SchoolTube
Weblink: http://www.schooltube.com/
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
5. TeacherTube
Weblink: https://www.teachertube.com/
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
6. Popplet
Weblink : https://popplet.com/
http://blog.popplet.com/ten-great-ways-to-use-popplet-in-the-kindergarten-classroom/
http://blog.popplet.com/category/popplets-in-education/
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
Date : 8th Aug 2017
Its always a blessing traveling and meeting exceptionally talented people from different cultures, whether be it my learning experience in UK with mentors from Reading university or my visit to Cairo back in 2007 to attend an iEARN conference sharing students work, or my recent visit to Marrakesh, Morocco in July 2017 to attend and present one of my projects "Technology for a Cause - Empowering Kids Enhancing Skills" that I had been working for the past few months with kids at SOS children Village Peshawar at the iEARN 2017 conference.Burt Robertson says and I completely agree, " the more places I travel to the more I see, the more I learn, the less I know and I love it". I believe every journey far or near opens doors to newer learning experiences, at times erasing past memories and giving birth to newer ones, yet ready to be explored. My blog below is a reflection of my journey into an unknown land and some insight into the learning experiences.
Just to begin with some interesting projects and technology tools that I came across through out the conference. Radio Garden is beautiful tool which brings different voices from distant places together on one platform. One can listen to live radio being broadcasted any where in the world, once you log in to Radio Garden it connects you to live radio stations around the world and you could choose to listen to any. Second, if you click on the history section, you could listen to stories of different people of how radio has crossed borders. I still need to explore the jingles and stories link. But what is important is that this tool could be effectively used in History, Geography, social studies and language classes for middle school, would help exploring different cultures. Sharing work across trans national borders. Details in link below.
The second tool I realy liked and could be very useful in classrooms is the Flip Grid tool. Flip Grid was shared by Karen Kirsch in her session on ED TECH Tools. Flip Grid is a video discussion community, you can start by posting a short 2 min video on a particular topic, students share their responses in a video form. It gives voice to students who otherwise will not share openly, students could listen to each others perspective and freely comment, they could use it both inside and outside classroom, it could be easily embedded with edmodo, schoology, wordpress, GoogleClassroom, Blackboard and many other tools. The teacher can make it public or keep the discussion restricted or private. Could be used in almost all subjects, where discussion , sharing and reasoning is required, could be helpful for teachers to give feedback to students, could be helpful in evaluating lessons by asking students to share feedback etc and the list is endless. Worth exploring!
Third tool that I liked and want to share is Padlet. Padlet is a software people use to create and share content with others. Somewhere between a document and website builder, it lets you make the content you want whether its a blog, bulletin board or portfolio. You could use it for a number of purposes, keeping your research notes at one place, making presentations (include audio, video, images text etc), could be used for resource sharing or used as an online community where colleagues come together and share their resources, it could be used for creating timelines with dates, texts, images and even videos, could be used for writing a book review or story analysis etc. Worth a try with kids!
Another interesting tool that I came across was the the TeacherTube and SchoolTube. Both very useful for a number of activities and topics. One can get videos on almost all topics, listen to audio, view documents and even upload own work. The only concern was a number of ads on the screen blocking content, which is an area that needs to be explored a little. One last tool that id like to add to this list is Popplet, which is an online mind mapping tool. One
could easily add in new popples, change text color, change text size, draw in the popple, easy to use, colorful etc. Could be used for taking immediate feedback, note taking, organize ideas, plan projects, analyze a topic, character analysis, comparing and contrasting, making timelines etcThese were just some of the many technology resources shared by different participants in different sessions. I found these pretty useful. They are freely available, but do require a login. Though still some exploration is required.
Hope you enjoy reading and exploring these till my next blog, where ill share some very interesting online projects that could be done with kids in schools.
Happy Reading :)
Sheeba Ajmal
8th Aug 2017
References:
1. Radio Garden
Weblink: http://radio.garden/stories/cyprus/siobhan-stevenson/
Accessed Online on 7th Aug 2017
2. Flip Grid
Weblink: https://info.flipgrid.com/
https://info.flipgrid.com/images/Flipgrid_2017.pdf
Acessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
3.Padlet
Weblink:https: https://padlet.com/my/dashboard
https://padlet.com/support/whatispadlet
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
4. SchoolTube
Weblink: http://www.schooltube.com/
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
5. TeacherTube
Weblink: https://www.teachertube.com/
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
6. Popplet
Weblink : https://popplet.com/
http://blog.popplet.com/ten-great-ways-to-use-popplet-in-the-kindergarten-classroom/
http://blog.popplet.com/category/popplets-in-education/
Accessed Online on 8th Aug 2017
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