Why Visuals Are Crucial To Your Classroom Even before online learning, visuals were a common tool in all classrooms. Discover why visuals are the key to student learning comprehension and retention.
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This shows the importance of pictures and graphics to presentations.
Creating multimedia projects like videos, podcasts, and audio slideshows is a great way for students to develop a variety of skills. Some of those skills are technical skills while others are soft skills that they can carry over into all aspects of academic life. Those soft skills include respecting the intellectual property of others. That's why when students create multimedia projects they should try to use media of their own creation, media in the public domain, or media that has a Creative Commons license. Finding images that meet that criteria is easy. Finding audio that fits that criteria is a bit of a challenge for some. That's why I've put together a new video that highlights my three go-to places to find free audio that students can use in their multimedia projects.
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Free music ideas for your presentations and videos.
Why Visuals Are Crucial To Your Classroom Even before online learning, visuals were a common tool in all classrooms. Discover why visuals are the key to student learning comprehension and retention.
Steve Whitmore's insight:
This shows the importance of pictures and graphics to presentations.
Back in 2007 or 2008 I watched a professional development webinar for the first time. I can't remember exactly what the webinar was about (it was something about Second Life), but I do remember thinking that I didn't get "it." After that I watched bunch of free webinars about all kinds of things because that's what I thought I should do to be a modern teacher staying current in his practice. Finally, in late 2011 I paid to join a webinar and something weird happened, I got a lot more out of the experience. Since then almost every webinar I've attended, both free and paid, has been a good learning experience. Here's what I figured out about learning from webinars.
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Good tips on staying engaged in a webinar. Perhaps these should be included in the norms?
Although not required by all school systems, individual growth plans can be an important part of an improvement process. The opportunity to complete such a plan can be leveraged to honor voice and choice of the individual staff member. Use these resources to provide staff members a framework for developing a personal professional learning plan that aligns to the key ideas presented in this book.
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The reflections questions here for owning professional learning are interesting.
Visual learning techniques are a powerful tool that can help students of every learning type. Discover why you should be bringing visuals into your education.
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Good consideration no matter who is our audience..
A couple of years ago I published a short guide to finding media for classroom projects. Since then a couple of resources have been taken offline and I’ve replaced them with new resources. I …
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Interesting templates for Powerpoint/Slide presentations.
Educators are under enormous pressure. Learn how Restorative Circles are a powerful tool for promoting closer relationships, self-care, and healing for school communities and school staff.
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This has some nice questions that can help you connect to purpose and meaning of your work.
Most professional designers crafting PPTs just focus on design and design only. According to them, a design should appeal to the masses and make headlines with its creativity and beauty. Obviously, their prime target is to impress more and more audience. But when it comes to driving maximum audience attention and bringing change, a pretty …
Battle Royale: Mobile App Vs Mobile Website A mobile presence is essential to modern business and startup success. Mobile apps or responsive web design? Which is best for your company?
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A great graphic for understanding the differences.
The ASWB ACE program was created to help licensing boards evaluate a CE provider’s ability to present social workers with effective, relevant continuing education. Today, the program also evaluates individual courses. ACE approval demonstrates that a provider or course has been rigorously reviewed and found to offer quality continuing education according to best practices. To be an ASWB Approved Continuing Education provider or to earn individual course approval, an applicant must demonstrate compliance with the ACE standards contained in the ACE Handbook and remain in compliance throughout the approval period.
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If you are providing Professional Learning for Social Workers, then this guide is helpful.
Last week Google sent out a notice reminding domain administrators that the end of the classic version of Google Sites is near. That prompted me to publish directions for transition from the classic version of Google Sites to the current version. I also shared a set of tutorials for building your first website with the current version of Google Sites. Once you've made the switch to the current version of Google Sites, you might want to go beyond the basics to add some interesting features to your site to make it a one-stop shop for all of your students' and parents' needs. Here are some things you can do to enhance your Google Site with additional features.
Are you tired of looking at the same old view in your Zoom meetings? You're not alone! It appears that even the people who work at Zoom are tired of the same old views. To remedy that problem, on Monday Zoom introduced a new immersive view option for Mac and Windows users. Zoom's immersive view will show your meeting participants on same screen in background of your choosing. Zoom has a bunch of pre-made immersive view backgrounds that you can pick from including an art gallery view, a fireside chat view, board rooms, and even an outdoor setting. You can also upload your own image to use as part of an immersive view.
When 50,000 of Mark Rober's 3 million YouTube subscribers participated in a basic coding challenge, the data all pointed to what Rober has dubbed the Super Mario Effect. The YouTube star and former NASA engineer describes how this data-backed mindset for life gamification has stuck with him along his journey, and how it impacts the ways he helps (or tricks) his viewers into learning science, engineering, and design. Mark Rober has made a career out of engineering, entertainment, and education. After completing degrees in mechanical engineering from Brigham Young University and the University of Southern California, Rober joined NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2004. In his nine years as a NASA engineer, seven of which were on the Mars rover Curiosity team, Rober worked on both the Descent Stage (the jet pack that lowered the Rover to the surface) and some hardware on the Rover top deck for collecting samples. In 2011, Rober’s iPad-based Halloween costume helped launch both his creative costume company, Digital Dudz, and his YouTube channel, which now boasts 3 million subscribers and 400 million views. His videos focus on creative ideas and science- and engineering-based pranks and activities. Rober is a regular guest on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!". Today, he does research and development work for a large technology company in Northern California, where he lives with his wife and son. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx
Do you like giving presentations? Or would you rather never give one? Either way, public speaking is an important skill to have and we could all benefit from learning more.
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In this day and age, any weirdo with a laptop can host and produce a podcast. But how can you set yourself apart and sound (at least) pretty good on your podcast? As the Digital Outreach Lead for the…
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