Kelly Walsh shares ’10 highly engaging uses of technology in the classroom, along with dozens of tools and resources for implementation’ in 10 of the Most Engaging Uses of Instructional Technology (with Dozens of Resources and Tools). This is a great place to explore for new ideas as the new school year begins.
Category Archives: Tools
A tool for everything
This chart found on David Andrade’ blog Educational technology Guy covers most educational activities and provides relevant tools to assist in making or sharing. As new tools pop up all the time this updates many lists I have collected before.
Pinterest for teachers
Pinterest is a useful curation tool and this Teachers on Pinterest has 30 Boards of links to many relevant sites for all age groups.
Digital Citizenship survival toolkit
Every Teacher Librarian needs a kit like this. Craig Badura demonstrates, in an ed tech blog post, how to use everyday household items to practically and visually guide students on aspects of digital citizenship of which they need to be aware. This kit could be expanded or altered to suit.
Digital Fluency – Where to begin…
The sheer number of tools available can be overwhelming. Learning a new tool can be a steep learning curve but usually only for a short time before its use becomes indispensable. Every tool has a different purpose and every user has immediate and personal needs. Matching these is what can be difficult.
TeachThought has listed 9 Digital Learning Tools every 21st Century teacher should be able to use. Useful tools come… and are then superseded by something better whilst others stand the test of time. This list is a good place to start – to find readily accessible and practical ways to implement technology and become fluent in its application.
Using Glogster in the classroom
The following blog post shares many examples of using Glogster in creative ways.
This should be our goal as educators: To provide tools to discovery and allow creativity and independence in the learning process.
Make your own quizes – Quizdini
Make your own mix and match activities for online devices in the classroom – Quizdini is easy to use and is free.
Cibebite – tool for online teaching and learning
At Broughton we use Moodle for lesson storage and delivery and I see great potential for this tool to include online ‘reading links’ in lessons or for use in presentation of these lessons via Interactive Whiteboards.The text highlight feature makes it easy to quickly see the passage needed.
