PowToon animated video presentations

A great tool to have students create a presentation.  Could you have students create a conversation between to famous people in history?  How about a conversation between two characters in a book?

Think about how you could use this to take their learning to the next level.

Lucidchart a better Inspiration

Video Link

If you have ever used the program Inspiration to create mind maps, concept maps, or flow charts you know how powerful these things can be to help solidify student learning.  Now there is Lucidcart.

Lucid chart allows you do to everything that you could do in Inspiration and then some.

If you have ever done a paper mind map give some thought to having your students create their own digital versions.

Using comic strips to demonstrate content knowledge

Watch this video introduction and think about the ways that you could use this with your students. I quickly came up with this to demonstrate a concept that is taught in 8th grade and then again in 10th and 12th grade science classes.

Sample Gravity Comic

Here is a more detailed webinar on how to create these comic strips:

Webinar by Eric Curts (This is a bit long but if you fast forward to about 20:00 he gets into the step-by-step process of creating these comic strips)
Even more resources from the webinar: Resources

Socrative.com

Watch the video and give it a try.

Don't forget to post a comment below.

Online Tech Training

I would like to try something totally new to help with technology training.  The idea behind this is to help give you some flexibility in when and how you participate in your technology education.   Below you will find links to a number of trainings (also found on the tech.candorcs.org website).

Follow these steps:

1. Pick a topic that you think might be interesting.
2. Watch the video and think about how this might be able to impact your teaching in terms of streamlining administrative tasks or adding value to the content you are presenting. 
3. Play with the tool-Sign up for the service, experiment in your account, create an activity to use with your students, or just get familiar with how the service/tool works. 
4. Write a review-Give us some feedback on the particular service/tool and how you think it might work or what you think it is lacking.  I am as interested in why you would not use it as how you will. 
5. (Optional)-Read some other reviews of things you may have already used and give people feedback or answer questions.

This is meant to be a way to start an online discussion among the staff to see how we could utilize these electronic tools.  I don't want this to be onerous, but I do want you to push your comfort level in terms of technology. 

The best part-Because this is online you can do this whenever or where ever you want.