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Glean…an Educational Video Search Engine!
I came across this site while I was checking out the GEDB (if you haven’t yet, look at this site!), and it is simply amazing!
This site includes TONS of educational videos for specific subjects in the math and science realm…sorry humanities friends, nothing specifically for us! Hopefully new videos relating to the humanities will come soon!
If you’re interested in flipping your classroom, but aren’t totally comfortable with making your own videos, this is a great site for you! Glean has great videos in Algebra, Geometry, Chemistry, and Biology, with more resources coming for Physics, Organic Chemistry, and Calculus!
Glean’s videos would be great to use as an opening activity, or a Bellringer. Maybe a student is absent and needs to catch up? Perhaps a student is struggling in a specific area…check out a Glean video!
A REALLY neat feature of Glean is that viewers are alerted if someone else is viewing the same video. If there is another viewer, users can ask questions about the video and interact with other viewers…WOW!
If you’re a Math or Science teacher, definitely check out www.glean.co …you won’t be disappointed. English and Social Studies teachers…hopefully they’ll include something for us soon!
Thanks for reading 🙂
MORE Awesome APPS!
Word Collage
Looking for a word cloud generator on your iPad? Check this out! Copy and paste information from nearly any source into this app, and voila! Well worth the .99!
Explain a Website
This wonderful app comes from the genius minds of the creators of Explain Everything. I love Explain Everything, and I love Explain a Website! Simply enter an active website into the address bar, and hit enter. Your website appears! You can draw, highlight, and direct your audience with a “pointer” tool. The only downside to this app is that the creator cannot include a PIP (picture in picture) like is possible on Explain Everything. Still an awesome app, though!
This wonderful app comes from the genius minds of the creators of Explain Everything. I love Explain Everything, and I love Explain a Website! Simply enter an active website into the address bar, and hit enter. Your website appears! You can draw, highlight, and direct your audience with a “pointer” tool. The only downside to this app is that the creator cannot include a PIP (picture in picture) like is possible on Explain Everything. Still an awesome app, though!
Codeacademy
Coding is all the buzz lately. This FREE app (at least it was free at the time of this writing!) teaches you the basics of coding. Check out the Chrome app, too! Think of the classroom applications!!
Coding is all the buzz lately. This FREE app (at least it was free at the time of this writing!) teaches you the basics of coding. Check out the Chrome app, too! Think of the classroom applications!!
Pocket
While you’re browsing the web, do you ever come across an article that looks like it will be really helpful or informative, but you just don’t have time to read it! Then, put it in your Pocket! The Pocket app allows you to add articles to your list to read later! You can add articles through email, Facebook, Twitter (this will be really useful for me, since I ALWAYS find TONS of great articles on Twitter!), Flipboard, or by simply copying a URL. It’s great and FREE! Check it out!
While you’re browsing the web, do you ever come across an article that looks like it will be really helpful or informative, but you just don’t have time to read it! Then, put it in your Pocket! The Pocket app allows you to add articles to your list to read later! You can add articles through email, Facebook, Twitter (this will be really useful for me, since I ALWAYS find TONS of great articles on Twitter!), Flipboard, or by simply copying a URL. It’s great and FREE! Check it out!
If you haven’t set up Remind101 for your class, what are you waiting for? This FREE Twitter-like service is perfect for teachers and students. If you are unable to use social media in your district, or your students do not have access to email, this is a perfect service for you! Check out my post on Remind101 in the classroom for more information!
A searchable database of important quotes from world leaders. A GREAT tool!
To the Brink.. JFK and the Cuban Missile Crisis
Any American History teachers out there? What an awesome app to download for your class! This app takes you and your students through the tense days that comprised the Cuban Missile Crisis, complete with actual pictures, video, and primary source documents. Check it out!
Any American History teachers out there? What an awesome app to download for your class! This app takes you and your students through the tense days that comprised the Cuban Missile Crisis, complete with actual pictures, video, and primary source documents. Check it out!
If you ever need to convert a Word document to a PDF, or vice versa, this is the iPad app for you! Easily access your files and convert them…seriously, it is that easy!
Check back soon for more great apps to use in your classroom, and just for you!
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Thanks for reading 🙂
Using Google Spreadsheets
For many users, Spreadsheets is the most intimidating of the Google Suite, and for good reason. The formulas and the functions and the cell formatting…oh my!
My goal with this tutorial, will be to demystify the not-so-scary world of Google Spreadsheets! Here it goes!
So, why should you use Google Spreadsheets? How can it help in your classroom?
- Create lists with Google Spreadsheets
- Collect Google Form Responses with Google Spreadsheets
- Enter information from your students scores on tests…broken down by learning objective
- Create charts and graphs
- And so much more!
If you’re looking for basic directions for creating a Google Spreadsheet, please click here.
Now that you’re able to create a Google Spreadsheet, how can it help you most in your classroom?
Click here for an example of how I would use Google Spreadsheet to chart student scores.
Click here for an example of how I would chart and display responses from a Google Form.
Google Spreadsheets and Forms can be used together to create self-grading quizzes…so if you’d rather use this format than a Learning Management System like Edmodo, then you can!
Below are some more resources for using Google Spreadsheets! Enjoy!
Thanks for reading 🙂
Classroom Management in a BYOD Environment
When my school allowed students to bring their own devices to the classroom…and use those devices for educational purposes, I was ecstatic! All of the neat things I’d wanted to do with technology, but couldn’t because my students couldn’t access technology…I could implement those activities! So exciting!
Typically, when I get excited about trying a new strategy in my classroom, I only think about the positives. I envision my classroom full of “little Bethany’s” who are excited to learn and will only do what the teacher says (for fear of getting in trouble!) However, I don’t teach a class of robots programmed to do exactly what I say and not think about anything else, and neither do you!
So, how do we manage a classroom in which students can utilize electronic devices….BE MOBILE!
In my high school class, I can’t sit behind my desk and expect my students to only go to the website I provide for them. I have to MOVE around the classroom!
I try to create activities that are engaging and a little more exciting than listening to me drone on about my favorite historical topics. However, sometimes the kids would rather text their BFF than actively read a primary source.
How do I discourage this behavior? I move about the room! I ask students what they think about a specific section of the text. I consistently remind my students that using their electronic device in class is a privilege that I am giving them, and it is not a right. Their devices can still be confiscated if they are being used inappropriately.
Here are some tips for implementing a BYOD policy in your classroom…
- Establish clear guidelines
- if students use their devices inappopriately, those devices can still be confiscated and those students are still subject to disciplinary action. Students must know this!
- Provide students with a list of apps that you think are beneficial for their learning
- BE MOBILE! This is so important, it could have easily tied for the number 1 slot
- Encourage students to use their devices for educational purposes. They have access to so much information literally at their fingertips…that’s a good thing!
- just last week during a lecture, a student asked a question about an historical figure. Believe it or not, teachers do not know everything :), so I told the student to Google the person and report back to the class. I don’t have to stop class, and students get valuable information…PERFECT!
Will teachers catch every single infraction? No. Do we catch everything even if we don’t use electronic devices in our classroom? Nope!
Our students have access to wonderful technology in their pockets. Why not let them use it?
Thinking about a BYOD policy? Check out these resources!
Thanks for reading 🙂
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