The Amazing Human Body
The Amazing Human Body – Winner of the 2015 Prezi Awards – Best Educational Prezi
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More on effective presentations, rules for presentations and free visual resources in this IMS blog:
Digital Literacy for St. Cloud State University
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More on effective presentations, rules for presentations and free visual resources in this IMS blog:
HSTRY Timeline Creator.
HSTRY is a multimedia timeline creation tool that will work on your laptop, Chromebook, iPad, or tablet. With a HSTRY account you can build timelines in a vertical scroll format similar to that of a Facebook feed. To start the process pick a topic and upload a cover photo. To add events to the timeline just click the “+” symbol and select the type of media that you want to add to your timeline. You can add videos, images, audio, and text to the events on your timeline.
There are two features of HSTRY that make it stand-out from the crowd. First, as a teacher you can create an online classroom in which you can view all of your students’ timelines. Second, as a teacher you can build questions into timelines that you share with your students. You can even build-in explanations of the answers to your questions.
For other timeline creation tools, check out this chart.
My note: HSTRY could be a great tool, if the organizers were not that greedy. Their plan + kicks in way to early and does not allow participants to collaborate. E.g., Zaption allows teachers / students to “share” their presentations, but HSTRY asks right away to upgrade. Thumb down!
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http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2014/12/5-timeline-creation-tools-compared-chart.html
Free Online Tools for Creating Timelines – Richard Byrne – FreeTech4Teachers.com
Multimedia options | Collaboration options | Registration required | iPad/ tablet compatibility | Output/ publishing | |
Timeline JS | Text Images Videos | Yes, if you collaborate through Google Spreadsheets*** | Google Account required. | Display: yes Creation: no | Embed code for posting on blog / website. |
RWT Timeline | Text Images | No. | No. | iPad app bitly.com/1vMTI7C Android app bitly.com/1vOcZEB Web app bitly.com/1ym46nY | PDF.
Image saved on camera roll. |
TimeGlider* | Text Images | Yes. | Yes. | Display: yes Creation: yes | Embed code for posting on blog / website. Direct link to TG page. |
Dipity** | Text Images Videos | Yes. | Yes. | Display: yes Creation: no | Embed code for posting on blog / website. |
MyHistro | Text Images Videos | No. | Yes. | Display: yes Creation: iOS | PDF.
Embed code. |
*TimeGlider’s basic plan is free for students. A paid subscription is required to activate collaboration tools.
**Dipity’s basic plan is free for students. The basic account is limited to three timelines.
***Timeline JS utilizes Google Spreadsheets as the basis of timeline event creation. Students collaborate on a spreadsheet to build timelines. A video of the process is available at http://bitly.com/1zRLdr5
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More on the use of technology in history in this IMS blog:
http://www.edutopia.org/blog/start-class-poem-each-day-brett-vogelsinge
I get a few sideways glances and furrowed brows when I explain our daily opening routine for class.
1. Poems Are Short
2. Poems Are Intense
3. Poems Connect (to Other Reading)
4. Poems Inspire (Writing)
More on digital storytelling in this IMS blog:
https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=digital+storytelling&submit=Search
Murakami, Haruki. “1q84.”
CHAPTER 8
His father was a good storyteller. There was no way for Tengo to ascertain how much was based on fact, but the stories were at least coherent and consistent. They were not exactly pregnant with deep meaning, but the details were lively and his father’s narrative was strongly colored. There were funny stories, touching stories, and violent stories. There were astounding, preposterous stories and stories that Tengo had trouble following no matter how many times he heard them. If a life was to be measured by the color and variety of its episodes, his father’s life could be said to have been rich in its own way, perhaps.
how to subscribe to a podcast:
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2016/02/blooms-digital-taxonomy-cheat-sheet-for-teachers.html
Resources for Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy |
iPad Apps | Android Apps | Web Tools | |
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Evaluating |
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Remembering |
Follow the discussion on the LinkedIn ISTE discussion group:
https://www.linkedin.com/groups/2811/2811-6107212405878566913
Similar visual representation in this IMS blog entry:
http://www.freetech4teachers.com/2015/01/history-in-motion-create-multimedia.html
History in Motion is a promising service that allows teachers and students to build multimedia history stories.
yet another cool mashup
From Google+: https://plus.google.com/115588461205112273931/posts/85ZaCJgPbb9
think about what has been your traditional way of having the students create something. Do you feel, when you look at their final product, that they are mostly all the same? If so, then using one of the digital tools available is your answer.
Keep the same requirements but give the students some choices by offering a variety a presentation tools and let them teach you some new things about technology. Also, let them drive their learning, become more engaged and as a result inspire others to do the same.
use to create screencasts, montages and slideshows.
Mari Smith December 7, 2015
http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com/14-video-tools-for-social-media-marketers
Facebook gives priority to native videos (as opposed to video links to external sources) to encourage this type of content. Videos that are directly uploaded to Facebook perform better and provide a better experience. They receive 30% more video views than videos posted from other websites, and have images up to 11 times larger in the news feed.
More about lecture capture in this blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=capture&submit=Search
More about video in this blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=video&submit=Search
More about effective presentations and slideshows in this blog: https://blog.stcloudstate.edu/ims/?s=presentations&submit=Search
Saint Leo University uses a game-based storyline to invigorate professional learning.
By Dennis Pierce, 01/27/16
Borden and his colleagues teamed up with Edchat Interactive, a company that is working to transform online professional development into a more interactive experience that reflects how people learn best, and Games4Ed, a nonprofit organization that brings together educators, researchers, game developers, and publishers to advance the use of games and other immersive learning strategies in education.
“People don’t learn by watching somebody discuss a series of slides; they learn best by interacting with others and reflecting. Great teachers always have people break into groups to accomplish a task, and then the different groups all report back to the group as a whole. That should be replicable online.”
Adult Learning Through Play
Using simulations for professional development is fairly common. For instance, in SimSchool, a program developed by educational scientists at the University of North Texas and the University of Vermont, new and pre-service teachers can try out their craft in a simulated classroom environment, doing the same activities as actual teachers but getting real-time feedback from the simulated program and their instructors.
Christopher Like, a science teacher and STEAM coordinator for the Bettendorf Community School District in Iowa, developed a game-based model for ed tech professional development that has been adapted by K-12 school districts across the nation. His game, Mission Possible, has teachers complete 15-minute “missions” in which they learn technology skills and advance to successively higher levels. “It engages teachers’ competitive nature just like Call of Duty does with my eldest son,” he wrote in a blog post.