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Sway Life Stories
This week in Web Tools focused on communication in and out of the classroom. I learned about something I found to be an amazing integration of technology and art to help those suffering with dementia. Microsoft Sway allows families to create a digital interactive history at the pace of the viewer. The viewers have the…
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Microsoft Translator
Microsoft Translator is a great tool for teachers around the globe. This tool lets teachers have real-time conversations with people who don’t speak the same language. Microsoft Translator also creates subtitles, captioning, and live transcripts for people who are hard of hearing, deaf, or speak a different language. Microsoft Translator is also a great tool…
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Educational Blog Post 4-Communication
Sheila Godfrey We live in a unique and diverse world, and teachers should be mindful of this in their classroom. One way to make a classroom more inclusive for both students and parents, would be to use the Microsoft Translator for Education site. This site provides free resources and tools for teachers, parents and students.…
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Communication in the Classroom:
Communicating in the classroom has such a positive effect on students and educators. Points throughout lessons are explained thoroughly, leaving kids well informed and understood. A classroom full of young children is filled with the utmost curiosity and excitement. Children need to have direction in the classroom, too. Assigning certain incentives for children to create…
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Communication
I have learned a lot from this chapter of the textbook. It starts off with referring to both teachers and students working together in order to have good communication overall. If both parties do not communicate well, then it causes miscommunication. The book states “Students became more self-directed because they had ownership over their building…
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Microsoft Translator
Microsoft Translator is a great extension for teachers across the country. Microsoft Translator is used for “real-time conversations”. It also helps teachers converse with students who speak a different language, deaf, and hard of hearing students. It helps break the gap between the obstacles teachers and students face. I will definitely be using this tool…
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Microsoft Translator
Throughout my reading of chapter 2 “Communicators”, within the book “Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education” there were many tools that stood out to me. One that by far stood out was Microsoft Translator. Within the chapter this tool was described to break language barriers and provide the ability to communicate with others. I…
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Using Microsoft Sway
What is Microsoft Sway? Microsoft Sway is a design application, much like Power Point and Slides, but a more uniquely multifaceted tool. According to “Sail the 7Cs” Microsoft’s education textbook, “One of Sway’s features that stands out to us is the linear fluidity. There aren’t sections broken up by slides, content presented in pieces, or…
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The Immersive Reader
By:Megan Doyle Immersive Read is a tool that is designed to help people like students. To make them more comfortable and easy for them to read . listening to the text that they need to read or adjusting the text so it can help them read by spacing the text , or coloring it, and…
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Blog post 4
I really liked reading about chapter 2 in our online book. This chapter gave so much information on online tools we can use in our classrooms and opened my eyes up to so much more. One of the online tools mentioned was flip grid and this can be very useful to student’s who are shy…