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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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Seesaw: The ultimate ePortfolio for every classroom!

iLearn Technology

Students can log their learning using photos, videos, drawings, text, PDFs, and links. How to integrate Seesaw into the classroom: We’ve long used Evernote as our eportfolio of choice , because it was a simple (enough) entry point and gave students enough flexibility to show what they were working on.

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

iLearn Technology

Produce and share impressive videos for storytelling, projects, or to share to social media. Students can use these tools to create book reviews, to document science experiments, for storytelling, to explain their inquiry process, as an eportfolio, to illustrate math concepts, and so much more!

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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. How to set up a blog will depend on your platform, and is pretty easy to figure out with all of the “how-to” videos and help center collections.

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Make Reading Relevant with Thematic Units

Graphite Blog

The biggest limitation for younger students is finding materials written at an accessible reading level, but this can be overcome by focusing more on videos and finding books with a “read to me” feature. For elementary age students I recommend looking for ebooks at Epic! -- Unlimited Books for Kids and Zing!,

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5 Fun Ways to Start Setting Goals with your Students Today

EdTechTeam

You may have a short video clip that highlights a character setting and achieving a goal, or you may have a video clip that explicitly teaches about goal setting, like these Khan Academy or BrainPOP videos. Do students need to record a video of their progress as they try to learn something?

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It’s Not About Google (Part 4) – SULS047

Shake Up Learning

Then she embeds the video in an email to teachers. . I want these searches to reflect what students have learned and created, not their latest Tik Tok video. Mystery Hangouts are particularly great for elementary grade levels. Check out this post on How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites , by Mike Mohammed.

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