Technology+Resources


 * Technology Resources **

=Google Doc Resources= toc Using Voice Comments with Google Docs from the website TeacherCast, by Caitlin Tucker, June 2013

3 Ways to Organize Google Folders From the website Free Technology for Teachers, June 2013 "One of the great things about technology is that it can help use do things more efficiently which in turn means we get to spend more time on the more enjoyable parts of teaching, like working with students instead of working with paperwork. If you're a Google Apps user there are three Google Sheets (spreadsheets) scripts that I recommend trying. These scripts can help you save time on on sorting, grading, and assessing students' work." Flubaroo, gClassFolders, and Doctopus

22 Useful Google Forms for Teachers from Kern Kelley's website

30 Ways to use Chrome Books in Education Google Slide presentation from the website Free Technology for Teachers, July 2013

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There are at least three main reasons for integrating video segments into your lessons: []
 * __Teaching Strategy: “Frame, Focus, Follow up”__ **
 * 1) To introduce a new topic
 * 2) To reinforce your current lessons through an additional experience
 * 3) To help assess the extent to which your students have mastered the material
 * Follow the link below, then click on “Teaching Tips” and read about “Effective Video-based Lessons” and how to use the video lesson strategy, "Frame, Focus, Follow-up" (some of which is reproduced at the bottom of this page)


 * __Frame:__ Provide a context that helps students pay attention to the main content of the video. Ask students questions about the topic explored in the video to activate prior knowledge. When necessary, tell your students enough about the part of the story preceding the segment, so they can follow along.
 * __Focus:__ Help students notice the important moments in the video by providing them with a specific focus, something to look for while they watch. Without a focus for viewing, students see all sorts of interesting details - but not necessarily the idea or information you want them to focus on.
 * __Follow-up:__ Provide an opportunity for students to summarize what they saw - because they will see different things, and not always what you expected them to see! Re-telling what they saw helps students consolidate their understanding and remember it.

= = =Edorigami= "Educational Origami is a [|blog] and a wiki, about 21st Century Teaching and Learning. This wiki is not just about the integration of technology into the classroom, though this is certainly a critical area, it is about shifting our educational paradigm. The world is not as simple as saying teachers are digital immigrants and students digital natives. In fact, we know that exposure to technology changes the brains of those exposed to it. The longer and stronger the exposure and the more intense the emotions the use of the technology or its content evokes, the more profound the change. This technology is increasingly ubiquitous. We have to change how we teach, how we assess, what we teach, when we teach it, where we are teaching it, and with what." =DocsTeach= from the Library of Congress, offers seven free tools that teachers can use to create interactive learning activities based on primary source documents and images. The seven tools are Finding a Sequence, Focusing on Details, Making Connections, Mapping History, Seeing the Big Picture, Weighing the Evidence, and Interpreting Data. Each activity-creation tool helps students develop historical thinking skills and gets them thinking like historians. Choose one of the tools below to begin. Then find and insert primary sources and customize the activity to fit your unique students. Examples - Find and Use examples sorted into American history eras and by thinking skill =Word Clouds - Tools for Teaching and Learning=

Move over Wordle - this website offer a whole bunch of alternative word cloud Web 2.0 programs/sites that could be used as alternatives to Wordle. Here are some of the alternatives:

ABCYa! - Simple Word Clouds without bells and whistles. Just paste or type text and make a cloud. Ideally suited for elementary and middle school students Tagxedo - Can fit word clouds into JPEGs forming pictures out of words Tagul - Word cloud generator with lots of customization options Word It Out - Has the ability to create word clouds based on large amounts of input like student written stories and tables of data to help look for trends.

=Tech Resources for Use in School=

10 Great Tools for Creating MindMaps

7 Student Response Systems that Work on All Devices

National Archives Digital Vault Students can create posters and movies using the National Archives collection

Remind101 Safe and easy way for teachers to text reminders to students and parents media type="custom" key="10747006"
 * Using YouTube**

Want to get the most out of YouTube? “Using YouTube, from Consumption to Production”, the latest free manual from MakeUseOf. By author Matt Smith, this guide goes over everything you need to know about YouTube, whether you’re an enthusiast or a budding director. There are really two sides to the YouTube coin: consumption and production. This guide deals with both sides of the YouTube coin, teaching you everything you need to know to find quality videos and to upload you’re own. This guide will teach you: Using YouTube: from consumption to production [|YouTube PDF Guide]
 * The history of YouTube, and how active it is
 * How to find videos relevant to your interests
 * Watching YouTube videos beyond the browser, from phones to you TV
 * How to upload videos to YouTube
 * Editing videos online with YouTube’s web-based editor
 * Adding ads to videos, and understanding the stats that can make your videos profitable
 * Building a channel with ideal layout and image
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Want to get the most out of YouTube? “Using YouTube, from Consumption to Production”, the latest free manual from MakeUseOf. By author Matt Smith, this guide goes over everything you need to know about YouTube, whether you’re an enthusiast or a budding director. There are really two sides to the YouTube coin: consumption and production. This guide deals with both sides of the YouTube coin, teaching you everything you need to know to find quality videos and to upload you’re own. This guide will teach you:
 * The history of YouTube, and how active it is
 * How to find videos relevant to your interests
 * Watching YouTube videos beyond the browser, from phones to you TV
 * How to upload videos to YouTube
 * Editing videos online with YouTube’s web-based editor
 * Adding ads to videos, and understanding the stats that can make your videos profitable
 * Building a channel with ideal layout and image

Fake Tweet Builder Create conversations from historical characters on twitter accounts Sample Lesson: What if Paul Revere had a Twitter account

UDL Tech Tools for reading, writing, communication

Great resource site to make sure learning is accessible to all, UDL

Interesting Ways
Blog with lists of many interesting ways to use different types of technology in the classroom, including ipads, eno boards, and cell phones

WatchKnow Free educational videos videos for students, many great,short history clips. Organized by category and topic

Historypin You can pin historical pictures to their current location on Google Maps streetview.

What was there Uses Google maps to show how places used to look

Historvius Explores historic sites from all over the world

Google Tools to Support Bloom's Taxonomy An interactive graphic that lists and links to Google tools that can be used to accomplish the tasks associated with each level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy.

The Whiteboard Blog Site for creating lessons using interactive white boards

http://wikiwhileyouwork.wikispaces.com/malden Useful directions for creating wiki pages by Chris Bell, Wikispace Presenter

Blog for US History Teachers Run by high school history teachers, with a focus on technology

Blog for world History Teachers Run by high school world history teachers, with a focus on technology

Blog for US Government Teachers Run by high school government teachers, with a focus on technology

Teachers' Domain Free digital media service for educational purposes

Thinkfinity Free lessons and educational resources

Thirteen Ed Online Web-based activities designed by teachers

List of 100 Google Search tricks Great list of ways to research and get better results

Sporcle History Games Some fun quizzes

80 Online Tools, References, and Resources
Hubert V. Yee Online Community Assistant @ Edutopia

=Ultimate Web 2.0 Smackdown= = = =Cool Tools for Schools= = = Cool Tools for Schools Links to many types of educational technology tools. Check out the collaborative and research categories
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ICTMagic wiki Winner of Wikispaces' Best Educational Wiki of 2011 - many great tech resources
 * Cool Tools by MHS Social Studies Department || How it can be used || MHS Teacher Annotation ||
 * Crocodoc || Used for online document annotation in real time || GH - I used this to have my students mark up a text which they read electronically - SIMPLE TO USE!!! ||
 * Wordle || Used as pre and post reading strategy || Great for previewing a text, identifying Main Ideas, as a post reading activity to use to compare with pre reading to show what you've learned ||
 * Tagxedo || Same as above, just can put the final product into pictures || Same as above but can use the final product to integrate pictures into your word cloud ||
 * Wall Wisher || Students respond and read each other's responses on prompts || Used in AP classes to respond to a prompt and share ideas in a online environment ||
 * Scribble Maps || To mark up current maps of the world || Used as a way to show historical places and what it looks like today ||
 * How Big Really || To compare size of historical events and places with locations students are familiar || Used to show students the size of the average slave plantation as compared to Malden...for US I ||
 * [|museum box] || Provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can add text, images, video and sound to the side of the cubes. || Could be helpful for debate prep and mock trial ||
 * Photo Show || Turn your photos into a musical //PhotoShow// in just minutes || Can help visual learners use images and music to tell about an event by capturing images and tone (through music) ||
 * Voicethread || Have your voice heard through voiceovers you record to go along with images you select. || Great for sharing opinions, summarizing, presenting. ||
 * Pirate Pad || Allows for both a live chat and collaborative work. || Excellent for group conversation and collaboration on a written assignment, putting together a jigsaw, etc. ||
 * Primary Access || Analyze primary source images through primary access. || Interactive way to work with images and crop pieces for description and analysis. ||
 * Glogster || Posters for the 21st century! || Interactive posters that are great for presentations, end of chapter or unit review, etc. ||
 * Bubbl.us Outlining/Brainstorming || Outlining and brainstorming site. || Easy to use site that allows users to easily manipulate the information they want to add to their outline. ||