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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Just remember, there are effective ways to not only assess but provide automated and rapid feedback to students so that assessment becomes a teaching tool in itself. The course I recommend for this topic is ePortfolio Tools for the Classroom.

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4 Amazing Google Tools to Help You Engage Your Students

EdTechTeam

And it’s a huge bonus if we can plan these activities in a reasonable amount of time, with free and simple tools. . In this post, I’m going to show you four awesome tools that will help you engage your students in almost any lesson. What’s even better, all of the tools in this post are 100% free! Tool #1: Google Drawings.

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Seesaw: The ultimate ePortfolio for every classroom!

iLearn Technology

What it is: Seesaw is the first truly student centered/driven digital portfolio tool that I’ve seen. The built in audio recording and drawing tools mean that students can reflect on what they’ve learned or explain how they reached an answer. Teachers can approve peer feedback before it is seen by students or parents.

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What are your edtech resolutions?

eSchool News

Kristina Stratton, principal, Westside Elementary School, Florida. “In Esra Murray, library media specialist, Cider Mill Elementary School, Connecticut. I will use less paper by having students document learning electronically and posting to their FreshGrade eportfolios. “I Celebrate progress. Expand my tech knowledge and usage.

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4 Powerful Ways to Implement Class Blogs – From Jennifer Carey

EdTechTeacher

There are a myriad of platforms to choose from: edublogs , Kidblog (especially good for elementary age children), Blogger , wordpress , and most LMS systems have a blogging platform built in. Blogs as ePortfolio. This makes them a great platform for students to build their own ePortfolio. Blogs as a Showcase for Student Work.

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Adobe Spark: Easily create and share videos, images, and newsletters

iLearn Technology

creative tools available online or as an app download. How to integrate Adobe Spark in the classroom: The collection of tools in Adobe Spark are perfect for students and teachers alike. These tools will help your students take their learning and present it in a way that is both visually powerful, and easy to share.

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Authentic Assessments to Support Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

Technology can be useful for learning when used as a communications tool for activities such as Skyping with a famous author. For example, students can use a blogging tool to post summer book reviews for students, and the librarian can mediate a conversation around their reading and writing. About the Presenter. and Canada.