What is google cardboard? Google Cardboard is a virtual reality headset from Google. This virtual reality headset is built from basic cardboard or plastic that brings the viewer in a video or gives them a 360-degree view of an image. It makes the viewer feel like they are actually in that location when in reality…
Category: Spring 21
Microsoft’s inclusive Translator tool
After reading chapter 2 in Sail the C’s textbook, I learned how inclusive Microsoft Translator is in educator. Translator is a tool that can help address the needs of every student and parent. By using Translator, students who do not speak the dominant language can view content in their native language on their school website….
Virtual Reality in Education
Virtual Reality or VR is a simulated experience for people that can be like day-to-day life or the complete opposite depending on what you are doing on it. Although most people use it for video games or at least that is what I know it for, it has shown to be extremely beneficial for students….
Proven benefits of Skype for a classroom
Growing up using Skype as a way to talk to friends truly took my breath away from all the ways it can be used in a classroom setting. Originally I am from a small and rural town in North Jersey and I believe Skype could have been used back then in the ways it is…
Presenter Coach
Overview The communicators chapter of Sail the 7 C’s has been very informative for me as a future educator. The tool that interested me the most was Presenter Coach. I believe this tool is essential for every teacher to use in their classroom. How Is It Useful? Presenter Coach gives students feedback based on listening…
Virtual Reality in the Classroom
Give your students the experience of a lifetime right from your classroom using Google Cardboards VR and Google Expeditions. Want to show your students what festivals worldwide look like or take them on a virtual field trip to Paris? You can do all of this from the comfort of your classroom using your smartphone, google…
Communicating with Microsoft Translate
Teachers are blessed to live in a world where the number of educational tools is endless. However, when it comes to working with students from different countries that don’t speak or understand English or even students from the deaf or hard of hearing community can become challenging; this is where Microsoft translate comes into action….
Virtual Reality in the Classroom
With technology grossly expanding at the rate it is, it is important we as educators question how this can benefit the classrooms. Children can play and watch video games in a headset to make it look like they’re really there, but how can we use this in the classroom? For one, this idea of looking…
Communication in Education.
After reading chapter two of “Sail the 7 C’s” by Becky Keene and Kathi Kersznowski, I have learned how many different ways it is now possible to communicate and learn/teach from across the globe. One of the many ways we’ve learned to communicate is through Microsoft Translator. In the example used in the text, at…
Microsoft Translator for Education
After reading chapter two of the textbook, Sail the & C’s, I learned much more about Microsoft’s Translators tool. Before reading this chapter I did not know that much about about it, the chapter allowed me to learn some of the basics and understandings of it. The Wakelet that was attached to this chapter also…