Supporting students in their acquisition of new vocabulary is one of the most critical components of our teaching. Teachers who use Moodle (iLearn) have an advantage in this sense. Creating a glossary and setting it to auto-link vocabulary allows a teacher to enter terms and definitions (even pictures!) to help students make meaning of the…
What is Screencasting? Many of you are aware of a free screencasting tool available to you and your students, called Screencastify. If you aren’t, Screencastify is a user-friendly tool to record your computer screen and allows you to record voiceover as well. Students as Screencasters In above example, a third grader uses screencasting to explain…
Oftentimes, teachers ask if they can lock the background on a Google Slide. Fortunately, not only is the answer yes, but there are a few different options for locking things down in Google Slides. One option is to set the background of the slide to the image you want locked by creating it in Google…
Google Docs’ Version History feature can empower students to engage in rich conversation about their writing [Read time: 2 minutes]
Assessments, just like anything else that happens in our classrooms, are learning experiences. But the way we administer them may cause students to learn false information. [Read time: 2 min]
The key to meaningful technology integration in our classrooms [Read time: 1 min, 36 sec]
There’s a great and relatively simple way for students to create interactive digital timelines using a Google Sheet template and a couple easy steps [Read time: 2 min]
This Monday, I was fortunate enough to be invited to Kelly Cibasek’s third grade classroom at DuVall Elementary, where her class and Liz Morrison’s class took part in an internet Skype interview with a real, live field biologist. Jean Pennycook is currently stationed in Cape Royds, Antarctica, where she studies Adelie penguins. She follows them through their daily lives in the frozen tundra, observing and recording their behaviors such as feeding, breeding and child-rearing.
What happens before and after a Moodle Workshop is just as valuable as what happens during.
We need to invest our time and energy, and that of our students in what is sustainable: in the tools that we can build over time and that will not be swept out from under our feet too easily. But we also need to help students develop habits that can withstand change in online tools, to establish ways of doing things that acknowledge that tomorrow could be entirely different, and to be able to do things in a variety of ways.
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