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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Global Educators Toolbox: Belouga
Belouga is an educational website that’s based around bringing together classrooms around the world with a primary goal of encouraging global communication with interactive content. One thing to note about Belouga is that there is a free version as well as a paid version. The paid version is $15 per month and has much more…
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Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children
The tool that I would use in my own classroom would be a 5 minute talking circle. In the article New Course Aids Early Childhood Educators in Understanding the Impact of Trauma on Children, it mentions a 4-5 hour course that teachers take with one of the subjects being strategies to help identify a child’s…