Tuesday’s Tech Tips 3/19/13
Hope everyone had a good spring break. I know that getting up for work, at least for me, was brutal with the time change and an extended week to sleep late. Today’s tips have a mix of stuff whether you are teaching or non-teaching member of our SISD family.
How to Block Annoying Political Posts (or Anything Else) on Facebook
Amen to Lifehacker for making this tutorial. I promise I’m not filtering any one of you guys! 😉
A Must Have Classroom Poster (or visual guide) on Facebook Bullying
Since some of you are now on to the fact that I’ve filtered you, it might be appealing to try to bully me or make me cry using social media. But wait! I have this handy guide to help me and my students cope with some of the nefarious behaviors we experience with social media.
The Pedagogy Wheel
One of my PLC peeps from down under shared this with me and since it’s spring, I thought giving a shout out to little Bloom’s might be in order.
This graphic takes a modified Bloom’s taxonomy, lists verbs related to each of the levels, lists potential project types, and last organizes apps that aid in this process. I think it’s way cool, but you might find it useful, too. And I’ll share a secret… the IFD in CSCOPE has verbs in the Performance Indicators… just match them up with the chart to get some techy ideas for class.
Hey, tech dude, we just want cool stuff!
Okay, okay, enough of the pedagogy junk. Below is a list of cool, free resources for you to use and abuse with your students.
20 Terrific Presentation Tools for StudentsTagxedo = Wordle on SteroidsAsk3 – An iPad App for Creating Flipped Classroom Vids Your Students can Actually Respond toBest of Web 2.0 Tools for Education – Prezi by Amy Mayer
Getting Tubed (happens to all of us sooner or later) – YouTube type stuff
YouTube is about much more than just sailing cats or doing the Harlem Shake. It has a ton of useful media that can be used mindfully in the classroom to facilitate learning. Honestly I’m not a big Khan Academy fan because it is so impersonal. But when you add a living, breathing teacher into the equation (a.k.a. us) things improve significantly. Here are some resources that you may find to be totally tubular!
A Teacher’s Guide to Using YouTube – Great Article from EdudemicBlubbr – Create interactive quizzes and games for YouTube vids.Ideas for Teaching Adults & Teens with VideosUsing Videos to Teach Young Learners
Last note, I promise. If you haven’t heard about it, the new TI Nspire app for iPad is TOTALLY AMAZING!!! Way better than the actual TI Nspire calculator. Here is a playlist of video tutorials from TI to show you what this bad mamma jamma can do!