Awesome resource for teachers - fun things to do with PowerPoint including ready-made templates.

Awesome resource for teachers - fun things to do with PowerPoint including ready-made templates.

Thinking of doing a PowerPoint for your next classroom presentation? Check out this resource to assist you in creating a more interesting and engaging presentation that your audience will love.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.9-10.5
Make strategic use of digital media (e.g., textual, graphical, audio, visual, and interactive elements) in presentations to enhance understanding of findings, reasoning, and evidence and to add interest.

Can this be eventually used with multiple classrooms from all around?

If you have not checked out Incredibox head over to the website and have fun creating an a cappella group with animated beat box singers.

This version provides new sounds, and you may still access previous versions.

This is a great tool to allow students to create music, and could be used to create a track where students would add words, possibly to teach others in the class about a subject they are learning. .

Verso is a new tool that come to us from teachers in Australia. It provides teachers the ability to create a 'challenge' and provide a prompt, which may be a video, document, website, etc. Add some thought provoking questions and students may answer within Verso. Students must post their own answer before they can respond to others, and all answers are anonymous.

Verso provides a number of resources to help you get started, including:

* Getting Started - This section "shows you how to Verso in 90 seconds", providing a number of examples (and you may choose one to try with your students).

* Strategies to Support Deeper Thinking - This section is very robust, and it is worth the time to check it out. They provide nine strategies to support deeper thinking, including:

     - Ask for more than one type of response from your student

     - Be explicit about how you want your students to respond, model an answer in your instruction

     - Be provocative to promote debate amongst your students

     - Let your students answer the questions. This section has an excellent resource "Asking Googleable vs NonGoogleable Questions"

*Verso Strategies: Building Deeper Collaboration Using Google Drive

* How To - Discover a range of videos and examples to help you get started

* Example Provocations - Find a wide variety of examples that you may choose to use.

They also have a blog that provides additional resources.

Their website uses three key words: Challenge, Engage, Learn. This website will allow your students to be challenged, engaged and learn and is worth taking some time to explore.

cool tool

This appears to be an exciting tool.

Looks interesting!

If you have not checked out Incredibox head over to the website and have fun creating an a cappella group with animated beat box singers.

This version provides new sounds, and you may still access previous versions.

This is a great tool to allow students to create music, and could be used to create a track where students would add words, possibly to teach others in the class about a subject they are learning. .

quite brilliant

Am anxiously awaiting for a response from them; I want this tool!  A cloud-based, easy to use animated video making app...drag 'n drop!  Although not out yet, I have signed up for it.....more exciting than Iphone 6!!!!!

Très tentant ! Je vais ouvrir un compte. A tester pour vos animations pédagogiques.

A nice free tool for creating gamified quizzes.

I re-scooped this from Nik Peachey, and trialled this game for making quizzes and seems like a nice tool. I also like that you could link to a ThingLink page or a blog. Lots of potential to "gamify" a lesson.

Within a lesson instead of making a questionnaire for students I would get every student to make a short quiz of 10 questions relating to what they have just learnt, the options from there are endless, but culminating all the quiz questions (but removing similar questions) would allow learners to get a holistic idea of the learning objectives. Also it would be interesting to get the students to pose one bonus question from there own research to go into a group quiz that could be done collaboratively in an open forum, therefore the question designer can also provide insight effectively leading the class.

Here is a great idea to provide differentiation in homework. The Heat-ometer provides four levels, from mild (not shown in the image above) to medium (also not shown) to hot and extra hot. each level is more complex than the previous level, and 3 options are provided for each level.

The designer of this image also provides links to the original design, which is located at Take Away Homework.

Love this practical suggestion!

Check out this new search engine called Kiddle. It is a visual search engine designed for children. What makes it different?

1. Most search results provide a large thumbnail. This image will help children differentiate some results.

2. The font size. Kiddle uses a large size of Ariel, a font that helps with readability.

3. Sites are filtered and are family friendly.

4. Kiddle is privacy oriented. No data is collected and logs are deleted after 24 hours.

If you work with young students, or have young children at home this search engine is worth checking out.

ajouter votre aperçu ...

A kid friendly search engine complete with pictures. This would be great for young learners and ELLs. 

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These would be great questions for the end of any and all PD sessions we do!

Maybe they should take the place of the surveys we usually do?

Am anxiously awaiting for a response from them; I want this tool!  A cloud-based, easy to use animated video making app...drag 'n drop!  Although not out yet, I have signed up for it.....more exciting than Iphone 6!!!!!

Très tentant ! Je vais ouvrir un compte. A tester pour vos animations pédagogiques.

This article is terrific. However, James says the apple falling is a myth. What say you?

As long as the questions do not circle back to one right answer then critical thinking is used. Too often, questioning is brought back to the one right answer rather than exploring the questions from the many perspectives in the classroom.

@ivon_ehd1

This is great for PBL questioning.

Check out this new infographic from Mia MacMeekin that provides 27 tips on ways you might work with students who are not paying attention. Some of these suggestions may be new to you. Consider sharing this with teachers at your school and beyond!