What is Google Earth? Google Earth is a feature within Google that shows 3D and real visual representation using images collected from satellites. What is especially cool about this feature is that people are able to see any part of the world, just as the name of the tool suggests. This tool is accessible through…
Month: June 2021
Use Google Earth in all school subjects for global collaborations
One of Google’s well known apps is Google Earth. Google Earth is a computer program that enables users to view a 3D representation of the Earth’s surface. The satellite images can show detailed and updated pictures of locations. Both the app and the web version also provides descriptions of each location that is searched. Regarding…
Google Cardboard, the virtual reality tool, can contribute to successful global collaborations
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…
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…