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Microsoft’s Immersive Reader
Immersive Reader was a tool created by Microsoft to assist students with reading. According to our textbook, Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education, “Any user can turn it (Immersive Reader) on at any time and benefit from whichever of the following capabilities they may need to adjust or enable: text size, spacing, or font;…
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Educational Blog Post #4: Communication with Skype
Reading the chapter I found that educators are able to bring skype into the classroom and bring their students to multiple stops all around the world. It gives the students a chance to talk to other students and educators from all around the world and learn from their experiences and perspectives. So students will be…
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Practice Your Speech Before You Speak
I enjoyed reading chapter two of Sail the 7 Cs with Microsoft Education by Becky Keene and Kathi Kersznowski. This chapter is filled with wonderful testimonies of educators across the world and the programs they use to engage students in their classrooms. One program caught my eye: Presenter Coach. Presenter Coach is used alongside PowerPoint…
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Communicating using Flipgrid
After reading Chapter 2 (Communicators) within the “Sail the 7 Cs” Textbook, something that I learned and found not only interesting but also very beneficial would be communicating through a tool called Flipgrid. Flipgrid is a tool where educators and students can communicate with one another through videos. I found Flipgrid to be such a…
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Teen Screen
https://filmpittsburgh.org/pages/teen-screen by: Lisa Weck Teen Screen is a tool that teachers can use to teach about the Holocaust, Genocide, STEM, Environmentalism, and Social Justice/Human Rights themes. Teachers can schedule screening in theater or virtual. It would be a wonderful experience for the students to see in a theater but I would have to schedule virtual…
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The Impact of Empatico
By: Kiera Deschin Empatico is an amazing tool that gives students the ability to connect with other classes around the world. I wanted to discuss the global tool Empatico because it is so fascinating that we are able to take the benefits of technology and allow our students to see what life is like for…
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Explorer Classroom
WOW! Explorer Classroom by national geographic is a rich free, open to the public source that allows live interaction sessions with National Geographic explorers. A tool like this is so useful in the classroom, it brings a new dimension to learner and can add seriously in the classroom. This tool can not only bring interest…
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Using Empatico
The tool I chose is called Empatico. Empatico his a free platform that matches one K-8 classroom to another from all over the world. Through Empatico, these classrooms can write to each other as well as exchange pictures and videos. It is a virtual pen pal in order to connect people in various parts of…
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National Geographic Explorer Classroom: Educational Technology
After reviewing these tools, I found that one tool I would like to use in my future classroom is National Geographic Explorer Classroom. I remember when I was in elementary school, my teacher would put on live videos for us to watch in the background, while we did our classwork. I think National Geographic is…
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Teaching about Social Justice By: Emily Faragher
In my Web Tools: Global Learning course, I decided to investigate a tool called “Learning for Justice“. I believe that it’s important to instruct students about the discrimination that exists in the world and things that they can do to help make a change. This program seems especially useful, because it gives teachers the ability…