Web Tools Fall 22

Tag: Collaboration

  • Using Google Cardboard in the Classroom By:Emily Faragher

    Google Cardboard can be used in classrooms and allow people to be able to collaborate with others. With this virtual reality headset, students could see 360 degree views of videos and pictures. They are not very expensive. The teachers or students could put their phone in the headset and use different virtual reality apps. They…

  • Virtual Reality in the Classroom: Google Cardboard

    Google Cardboard is a virtual reality headset that is used in combination with almost any smartphone in order to give a VR experience. It is a very inexpensive way to experience VR as well. Below is a video showing exactly how Google Cardboard is used. How can this be brought into the classroom? There are…

  • Google Cardboard: Virtual Reality

    In this week’s blog post, we will be discussing Google Cardboard as a virtual reality tool in the classroom. One major benefit to having this in the classroom is that it is affordable, which makes it easier to have in more classrooms. This tool is just cardboard that students can fold and place a smart…

  • Virtual Reality In The Classroom

    VR otherwise known as virtual reality is taking the education world by storm. What started off as just an idea is now a technology advancement that is taking students from the classroom and around the world without even moving! There are even different levels of virtual reality that you can implement from K-12. Focusing on…

  • Virtual Reality in Schools

    Global collaboration will hieghten in schooling with the use of virtual reality. In one of the EdPuzzle videos that we were shown, it explains that virtual reality will eventually allow students experience schooling and any other type of schooling without physically being there. Another augmented reality that was talked about was having the ability to…

  • Accessibility Tools in the Classroom

    Over the course of this Web Tools class, we have examined an array of technological tools. Not all, but some of these tools provide accessibility to students who need extra help or different approaches to coursework. Here, I will discuss seven tools that give students accessibility that have caught my attention over the semester. Above…

  • The Rock Cycle Hyperdoc

    I have chosen to blog about the Hyperdoc I found from the twitter user @TechEdChange. She made a Hyperdoc about the rock cycle. Her hyperdoc is in a google doc that shows links to pictures, videos, texts, games, and clues that explain what exactly the rock cycle is and how it works. She also attached…

  • Extra

    Extra is a Spanish comedy show with English and Spanish subtitles. The show has a comedic “Friends” vibe to it and centers around two girls, Lola and Ana who share an apartment in Spain. They have a downstairs neighbor that they interact with, Pablo who is also a main cast member. In the episode I…

  • Microsoft Translator

    After reading Chapter 2 of our textbook, I learned about Microsoft Translator. This tool is a way for diverse school communities to communicate without the difficulty of finding interpreters for those whose native language is not English. Translator is free, easy to use, and accessible through any mobile device. There are more than one hundred…

  • 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…