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8 Digital tools for engaging classroom presentations

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Google Slides allows you to open, edit, and save Microsoft PowerPoint files. Read more: 4 Ways to promote collaboration in digital spaces. Microsoft’s Sway has a user-friendly interface compatible with any device to help users create striking presentations.

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Model Teaching–How Today’s Educators Learn

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Topics include but not limited to: Flipped Classrooms. Student-led Classroom Management. Transforming Traditional Classroom Lessons to Online Learning. A PDF program (like Adobe Reader) and Microsoft Word or Google Docs will satisfy most (all?) Elementary Math. Writing Prompts. Blended Learning.

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What is Actively Learn and Why Should I Try it?

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Once teachers create an account, they set up their classrooms either by importing student lists from Google Classroom, Microsoft, Clever, or Edmodo, or by providing the class join code to students. in a flipped classroom to upload texts, articles, and multimedia resources. How do you get started.

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10 Great PowerPoint Changes You Probably Don’t Know About

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This isn’t new to PowerPoint 2016, but if you haven’t upgraded in a while or simply didn’t know add-ins are available to Microsoft Office, you’ll love these. This is great for flipped classrooms or auto-generated lesson plans that students can play, pause, and rewind as needed for their learning style.

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7 Apps That Inspire Students

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From Flipped Classroom Tutorials, here’s a quick video on using Edpuzzle in class. Favorites range from a minimalist approach like Google Keep to an all-encompassing program like Microsoft’s OneNote. It’s available on iOS, Android, or Chrome. Free (with some restrictions).

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Being ‘The Guide on the Side’ is not Enough. Become The COO.

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We need to become the COO of our classrooms, the Chief Opportunity Orchestrator. I first heard ‘sage on the stage’ and ‘guide on the side’ early in my teaching career when I decided to try The Flipped Classroom™. Through my flipped classroom failure, though, I did learn how to create a student-centered classroom.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

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You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.