Why is my answer wrong?

Who are the students that we MOST need to teach to?  The ones who don't know the answer!  Why is it then, that teachers ask a question, students miss it, we tell them the correct answer and often just move on assuming they understand.

When students collaborate with each other they are able to see a variety of correct answers and ideas, compare their answer, and gain a deeper understanding.



Google Docs:  

• Free 
• Quick and Easy
• Can have no login, or students can create an account
• Collaborative Notes

Padlet  http://padlet.com   -- online cork board to add sticky notes

• Free
• Quick and Easy 
• No Student login (so they post anonymously)
• Students can reply to each other's post
• Posts can be monitored
• Argument and Claim
• Parent Collaboration   - parents shared issues they feel has 2 sides
• Vocabulary Study Page
• 6 Word Memoir  -- students quickly share 6 words about a picture
• Ways to use Padlet in the classroom
• My post about Padlet (formerly known as Wall Wisher)

Today's Meet:  https://todaysmeet.com  (Answer Garden)  Stream of comments-- back channeling

• Free
• Quick and Easy
• No Student login (so they post anonymously)
• $5 month Teacher Tools

Socrative  http://socrative.com  Room:  688530 - Quiz system

• Free
• Can be quick or create a quiz in advance
• In a Quick Question, students can see and evaluate other answers
• Training Videos
• Training Pack

Actively Learn - http://www.activelylearn.com/ --

To create an assignment in your Actively Learn classroom you can select from thousands of articles arranged by topic, grade level, reading level, and length. Some articles have comprehension questions built into them while others do not. You can add reading comprehension and or discussion questions to any article that you select from the Actively Learn library. You can also upload your own articles as PDFs.

Once you have selected an article and added questions to it, distribute it to your students through your Actively Learn classroom. Students can read and respond to questions directly within the Actively Learn platform. You can require students to answer questions before the next section of an article is revealed to them. In addition to responding to your questions, students can flag sections of an article with "I don't understand." As the teacher you can see those flags and respond to them in your Actively Learn classroom.

• Free
• Students need accounts
• Grades the questions
• Teachers can interact 
• embed videos and hyperlinks
• To create a PDF:  Open a Google Doc > File > Download as > PDF.
• It is now saved in your "Downloads" in your Google Files
• Tutorial

EdPuzzle - https://edpuzzle.com  -  Another video platform -  Zaption

EdPuzzle allows you to add your voice and questions to educational videos. On EdPuzzle you can search for educational videos from Khan Academy and Learn Zillion. Once you've found a video you can insert your own voice comments. You can also create a series of questions to go along with your chosen video. Questions are inserted along a timeline that matches the video. That means that your students don't have to wait until the end of a video in order to answer the questions.

EdPuzzle could be a good tool to use to create short review videos or flipped lessons for your students. You could also have students use EdPuzzle to annotate videos by pointing out important aspects of videos by using the voice comments option and or the question building option.

• Free 
• Students need accounts
• Grades the  MC questions
• Teachers can interact by grading questions with Basic, Proficient, or Advanced
• Use Keepvid  http://keepvid.com/  to download a video.  Especially if YouTube is blocked.
• EdPuzzle Tutorial
• Flipped lessons through Edpuzzle
• What do the students see  Tutorial
• EDpuzzle offers a Chrome extension. EDpuzzle's Chrome extension enables you to save YouTube videos directly to your EDpuzzle account. This means that instead of having to search within EDpuzzle for videos you can simply browse YouTube like you normally do then just click the EDpuzzle extension to save the video. Once a video is saved you build your questions around it.

Collaboration 4/13/16

Agenda

Memes in the Classroom

Memes are a great tool in the classroom.  They can be used to introduce a lesson, as a discussion starter, or just for fun.  This website has some great meme examples and ideas for the classroom.

Memes in the Classroom

Using Blogs with Students

Use the following tutorials to create your first blog.





This video is for teacher use to link student blogs to the teacher blog.

Vocabulary, boring???

Twitter hashtag:  #bergvocab

No matter what your content area is, you have vocabulary the students need to know to be successful in your class.  Teaching vocabulary words and definitions takes up valuable class time that can be used for other higher level activities, and quite frankly, it is boring for the student AND the teacher.

With so many technology tools available, introducing, practicing and/or testing on vocabulary can be quick and entertaining while often adding another level of thinking to the lesson.

1.  Online Dictionary:

• Rewordify --change words and text to easy to read and understand.
• Lit2Go
• Visuwords --Online graphical dictionary
• Vocabulary.com

2. Padlet   padlet.com (formerly WallWisher)

• My Honors English class worked on this Padlet Wall (password is sat2.1).  Using a list of 9 SAT vocabulary words they were to choose 3 words and do one of the following with each word:  write the definition, write synonyms, write antonyms, use it in a sentence, or write the other word forms.  They were to try to not repeat what someone else had done.
• OERI Padlet wall

Animoto animoto.com

• My Honors students created an Animoto video using their SAT vocab words then uploaded it onto a Padlet wall.

3. Kahoot.it

• Teachers go to create.kahoot.it
• Students go to kahoot.it 
• Look up the "Public" Kahoot.it's and favorite the ones you like.
• Kahoot.it is usually used to review words, but I also like to use it to introduce words.  The students get really good at using their reasoning to determine the meaning of words.  I use the words several times in one quiz to give them time to really get the definition down.
• My Honor's students created Kahoot.it's using words from their vocab list.  They were very creative in their question and answer choices.

4. Answer Garden  answergarden.ch

• This is a fairly new site.  You ask one question and everyone puts in their answer.  
• OERI Answer Garden

5. iFakeText  ifaketext.com

 

6. Boom Writer/Word Writer http://www.boomwriter.com/

• Student example

7. Storybird  storybird.com

8.  Comic Strip Creator

• Make Belief Comix  http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/
• Honor's students created a comix using at least 4 of their vocabulary words.
• Storyboard That   http://www.storyboardthat.com/

9.  Quizlet  quizlet.com (works with the iPad app Flashcardlet)

• Quizlet for my Honors class
• I sometimes print off the test as the quiz for my students.
• Students create quizlets for other students

Show Me the Websites

Kahoot.it

• Teachers go to create.kahoot.it
• Students go to kahoot.it

Tips:

• Before you play tell the students about the game nickname.  They need to get an appropriate nickname ready.  It is important that they keep their nickname a secret and not give it away during the game.  It is more fun if they find out who won at the end of the game.
• Students may join the game at any time.  The game pin is at the top of each student screen.
• You can create your own game or search the public games.  If you "favorite" a game, it will then be in the "Me" tab.

Ways to use it:

1. Review:  if you re-teach after the answer is given, the students will be very attentive.
2. Introduce:  play a game on a topic that is new to the students.  You will be amazed at how much they pick up just from playing the game.  
3. Allow students to create a kahoot.it and play the game in class.

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Padlet

padlet.com  used to be wallwisher

http://padlet.com/lisaberg/backtoschool

Tips:

• You do not have to be logged in to create a padlet, but you can not change the background or permissions.,
• Students do not log in to post, which allows for anonymous posts.
• There are posting settings: password protect or you can moderate and approve posts before they are on the wall.
• New Chrome extension:  How to use it video

Ways to use it:

• Exit ticket/formative assessment
• Students collaborate/note taking
• Introduce information to your students by uploading documents, videos and text

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Screen-cast-o-matic

Screen casting is a great way to do a flipped classroom.  When you screencast, you capture your screen and your voice (with the use of a microphone---usually built into new computers).

Tips:

• You can download your video, upload to YouTube.  Then you can link it to Blackboard, Padlet or a blog.
• For free you can create a 5 minute video
• Pro account is $15 per year.  No time limit on video, upload to Vimeo or Google Drive, and you can edit your video.  

Ways to use it in class:

• Create instructional video for students on how to use a website or other technology.
• Create instructional video for your sub to show.
• Add voice to your PowerPoint or other lecture notes.  Upload to Blackboard or a blog.
• Students can create a screencast.

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Remind (101)

OERI Tech Conference Resources

On May 28, 2013 Southwest Missouri Schools came together to offer a free technology conference for their teachers.  The presenters were outstanding and the information had great value to me as a classroom teacher because it was presented by other classroom teachers!  I only got to go to a few sessions so I decided to go back through Twitter #oeri13 and review the resources (I recommend you do this also).  It was so interesting and OVERWHELMING that I knew I better post it so I can reference it later.  So, here is what I have.  If you have a link to a resource not listed here, place it in the comments and I will add it to the post.

Presentation Resources:
Twitter Presentation Resources
@MrPowersCMS 

Screencasting
@lberg6

Evernote and Livebinder
 @vb4mb

Shift2Viral
@jgarton 

Get on the Tech Track
@tracie_joiner

Chrome Apps
@marcallie

eLeaders
@ShannonEllis9

Learn for Life:  21st Century Skills 
@sknight151 

1:1 Few of my Favorite Things
@mrcraigbarr

Chrome: Power up your Desktop


Apps Shootout

Janna Elfrink
@jelfrink

Lisa Berg
@lberg6

Amy Ramsdell

Dr. Brenner's Apps
@vb4mb
Dragon Dictation – FREE – App that allows speech to text
· Slingnote – $2.99 – Great for research – 2 browsers and allows cutting and
pasting along with citations for research. Also highlighting and note-taking
within the app as well
· Photosynth – FREE – allows you to take panoramic pics
· PicCollage – FREE – way to organize pics into collage for exporting
· Qwiki – FREE – allows you to make a short video set to music from pics on
your device
· Slideshark – FREE – presentation app – upload powerpoint presentations into
Slideshark and use for presentation, annotation allowed as well
· Haiku Deck – FREE – presentation app, quick way to make a presentation for
your classroom or have students make a presentation on a topic to check for
understanding
· WifiPhotoTransfer – FREE – simply connect to network and enter URL to get
pics off of ipad
· VoiceDream – $9.99 – app that allows you to upload PDFs, textbooks, etc and
it will read it to you. Lots of customizable features within the app
· WritePad – $9.99 – Advanced handwriting recognition app
· Apps Gone Free – FREE – Lists all apps each day that have ‘gone free’
· Discovr Apps - $1.99 – Way to search for apps that are similar to ones you like.
Enter an app name and see what else comes up (also has Discovr Movies and
Music)