Screencastify Directions - Recording your screen or yourself (2018)
Screencastify Setup
Screencastify - making a video of yourself
Screencastify - making a video of your screen
Free Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for your presentations
https://www.slidescarnival.com/ Here is a wealth of information for elementary school teachers.
http://tushwebsites.pbworks.com/w/page/22540252/FrontPage Google News Archive lets you virtually thumb through thousands of old newspapers dating back to the 18th century and search for key phrases.
Here's how to effectively use video in Google Slides—and combine both YouTube and slide sharing. Unlike when you use YouTube alone, putting a video in Slides enables you to play just part of a video clip, letting you set both a start and an end time. And since videos can be shrunk down to just a few pixels and set on autoplay, you can use it to automatically play background music or play an intro for each slide.
New tools are making it even easier to create quality tutorial videos without leaving your browser. Iorad is a one-click extension for recording browser activity. You can record a voice over or turn the resulting video into step-by-step directions that you can print out as a PDF. For students who dream of YouTube stardom, instructional technology coach Alex Mitts suggested Loom, a tutorial creator students can use for just about anything. “Have students explain their thinking to you and take the guesswork out of who the work belongs to,” he said. Or, “allow students to comment on each others’ work to foster discussion.” And unlike Screencastify, another popular tool, there are no monthly limits for free users.
Bitmoji is an emoji-avatar creator popular with kids and teachers alike to create a cartoon likeness of a real person. (Hot tip: “Ask someone else to design it for you. It will look like more like you,” suggests Nancy Minicozzi, a media specialist at Las Virgenes School District, who had students create hers.) Using the Bitmoji Chrome extension, Minicozzi plopped it into a Google Doc, added word art—“Great Work,” “A+,” “Good Thinking”—to create feedback posters. When finished, you can save each one to Google Keep as a .png file (to preserve transparency) and pepper them into student essays or assignments on Google Docs.
Looking for a way to introduce music to young learners? Chrome Music Labis a visual way to plot musical notes and create songs, punctuated with simple percussion, said technology director Bill Selak. It’s also a great way to teach AB patterns. “Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab,” he added.
For students with dyslexia, the OpenDyslexic extension converts web page text into a special font designed to make reading simpler, said Monica M. Daniel, an instructional technology coach for McFarland Unified School District. Read Aloud is a rather self-explanatory extension for listening to websites or text selections in spoken form.
To help make things easier for struggling students, Tracy Sneed, a teacher and technology specialist for Kern County, Calif. showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties. Auto Highlightautomatically searches a webpage and highlights what it thinks is the most important content in bright yellow, drawing students’ eyes to that information quickly. Internet Abridged is a summarization extension that sums up any website in a few paragraphs (perfect for long Wikipedia articles, Sneed said). This is an amazing and FREE online resource for writing and ELA. Each day a picture is posted. That picture is the bases for a daily writing prompt and other ELA activities. It is amazing that there is a gallery full of photos and activities for everyday of the year. There motto is “One picture. One teaching resource. Every day.”.”O
Once you go to the site www.pobble365.com, you can go to the calendar and choose any day. Here is where it gets really cool. Scroll to find a plethora of activities! Here are the activities that are present EACH AND EVERYDAY! Collaborative and cooperative learning structures are beneficial for many reasons. Here are a few:
Hyperdocs are a student-centered lesson plan that includes great lesson pedagogy. Here is a nice resource that someone created in a Live Binder.
www.livebinders.com/play/play?id=2209620#anchor Presentation:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1x4JW-qG-qOfbLl0Mow6nB7-OYHha5NiKon6glS-tIRA/edit?usp=sharing Also, I've had a couple of folks ask how I was walking around with my phone. Once you open the session on your projected device, go to the website www.peardeck.com/dash on a different device and log-in. Once you have done that, it will take you to the session in progress. This worked on any device. Thanks again for attending and please don't hesitate to contact me with questions or issues. By D. Klaassen |
Dawn TushInstructional Facilitator @ Pauline Central, Topeka, KS Archives
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