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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

In a flipped classroom, students watch lectures and other lesson content on video. When video conferencing with your students, your engagement time is more limited, and therefore more valuable. So … now is a great time to flip your classroom and have students watch videos for their “homework” and asynchronous learning.

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New to Competency-Based Learning? Here're Five Ways to Assess It

Edsurge

Formative assessments support competency-based education by making sure teachers understand students’ needs, so that they can modify instruction as it is happening. Tasking students with submitting a video essay, for example, provides teachers with the opportunity to assess students’ understanding of a topic.

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2018

Technology Tidbits

Dystopia 2153 - An innovative new site that teaches programming/coding through the use of game based learning and graphic novels. Hippo Video - One of my favorite sites around for creating digital videos that can be used to "flip" a classroom or create explainer videos.

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50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

50 Of The Best Video Games For Learning in 2015. We’ve discussed the merits and utility of video games in the classroom before, so we won’t beleaguer the point. We’ve discussed before the logistics of how to teach with video games (especially for non-mobile games). Innovation.

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Edtech and Social Emotional Learning #sel

The CoolCatTeacher

Even if you don’t have multiple ages on campus, this can be accomplished through Skype or other video conferencing tools. And one of the beautiful things in that story is how Scout learns to see the world through someone else’s eyes. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom. Vicki: Cool.

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How to Use Metaverse: Awesome Augmented Reality and New Features

The CoolCatTeacher

Getting Started in Metaverse: Use this Metaverse Studio tour video to get started whenever you’re ready. The instant feedback, ability to create multiple paths (or branches), embed videos, 3D characters, websites, and even 360 experiences make this tool immediately interactive and usable for students.

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Strategies and Tools to Improve Student Behavior and Engagement – SULS0175

Shake Up Learning

Most kids have discovered by now that they can learn to do pretty much anything from a YouTube video. . Creating schools that are safe physically and emotionally is the only way to ensure learning is truly taking place. Why Use a Game. Shawn shares how playing video games cater to several human fundamental needs.