Lidia Ristea from Romania shares her story of how she got involved and what she is doing with her students now that she has the resources from TakingITGlobal, check out this link to read her story as well as many others. https://members.tigweb.org/lydya0103 This video is from founder Michael Furdyk, who explains the goals of TakingITGlobal…
Month: February 2021
Virtual Field Trips while Staying in the Classroom
I chose to work with the K-8 resource category and focus on the Discovery Education resource website that primarily targets virtual field trips for students. Virtual field trips allows students to stay in the classroom, while experiencing different places and opportunities. Due to the pandemic, many schools are either closed or open. If schools are…
Kahoot; Learning benefits in and out of the Classroom
In the classroom, the website Kahoot is used as a great review and study tool. Students are able to collaborate by forming questions and providing multiple choice as well as true and false answers. This can then be used a study tool for the class. Kahoot is used in over 200 countries, and studies have…
The Advantages of Socrative
This article outlines the uses and advantages of the education tool, Socrative. Much like Kahoot, this is a question-giving/answering platform. However, Socrative is slightly more sophisticated in that a teacher can create a room for each class, give assignments, quizzes, etc. Students can access the platform from any device: smartphone, laptop, desktop computer, or tablet….
Pics4Learning image library Tool
Pics4Learning has an image library tool that can be used in the classroom in many ways. Teachers and students can use copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for: Classroom projects Web sites Videos Portfolios Or any other projects in an educational setting As a future teacher I would use the image library for collaborative classroom projects. A…
Global Educator’s Toolbox
GlobalSchoolNet.org is true to it’s slogan- “Linking Kids Around the World!” Its mission is to combine all levels of education and technology to help strengthen relationships within communities and benefit humanity as a whole. The website’s programs unites teachers and students all around the world to complete projects that develop academic skills, along with character…
International Children’s Digital Library
This is a great tool to use in an Elementary classroom. This tool provides free books, in various languages. According to the PACIE Global Educator Toolkit, this online tool’s targeted audience is K-8. The books that this website provides concentrate on global communities and display understanding and respect for diverse cultures, languages, and ideas. This…
Students Form Teams
Microsoft has rolled out its program known as Teams. Its goal is to bring people together. With its endless possibilities, lets focus on its applications in the scholastic setting. Teachers can create multiple choice exams or quizzes, and push instant feedback to students. Students working in groups, or teams, can all share documents and chats…
Wakelets NEW feature!!
On February 10th, Wakelet tweeted about their new feature, Reactions. This lets collaborators react and express themselves better. In their tweet they stated that this new feature is “More visual, More engaging, and more interactive”. Wakelet was super excited to release this feature to their users and i’m sure this will also draw in more!!…
Collaboration
One of the most important collaborations a teacher needs to make is one with each students parents. @MicrosoftEDU on twitter asks how parents and teachers can work together to advance student’s learning. Instantly after I read that question I thought of Class Notebook. In order for parents and teachers to know how to help a…