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Taking Your Teaching into the 21st Century

Taking Your Teaching into the 21st Century. By Larry Kling. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year. Distance Learning – Connecting with live video and audio to a remote site in real time. Skype – Free – Limited number on a webcam at one time.

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Taking Your Teaching into the 21st Century

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  1. Taking Your Teaching into the 21st Century By Larry Kling

  2. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • Distance Learning – Connecting with live video and audio to a remote site in real time. • Skype – Free – Limited number on a webcam at one time. • Skype in the Classroom – Connect with classes around the world. • Distance Learning Equipment – Allows real time connections of large groups.

  3. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • WikiSpaces.com- Building pages on a wiki is a great way for students to record and share knowledge about topics they've researched. http://crbookpicks.wikispaces.com/

  4. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • Edublogs.org - Create a running journal of classroom activities and lessons throughout the year. Blogs can be used by students to record and reflect on their own learning. Make your students contributing authors on a class blog and have them write a weekly reflection on their own learning.

  5. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year

  6. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • Glogster - A Glog is an interactive visual platform in which users create a “poster or web page” containing multimedia elements including: text, audio, video, images, graphics, drawings, and data.

  7. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year Glogster

  8. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • GoogleMaps- Google Maps and Google Earth can both be used to create a multimedia story. Try having your students write the biography of a famous person by plotting points on a map and adding text, images, and videos about that person to each placemark. http://maps.google.com/

  9. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • GoogleDocs – Create share and collaborate on line with students. • WindowsLive SkyDrive - Create share and collaborate on line with students. Word, PowerPoint, Excel

  10. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • TodaysMeet - A backchannel is another name for a chat room in which your students type their questions and comments whenever they have them. You can then address those questions and comments immediately, have students reply to each other, or address the questions when time permits.

  11. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • Join a Social Network for • Professional Development • Use these connections to gather ideas for improving your lesson plans, share and find great web resources, and perhaps virtually connect your classroom to another classroom.

  12. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • Join a Social Network for • Professional Development • TwitterClassroom 2.0 • Educators PLNFlat Classroom Project • EPals

  13. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • Podcasts - Creating podcasts is a great way for students to preserve oral histories or to hear themselves practicing a foreign language. • Audacity – Installed on all CR computers. • Aviary Myna – Free online recording

  14. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year • Video Without Equipment - Video is a powerful form of communication. Today, anyone with access to the web can make a high-quality video production. • JayCut– Free Online Video Editor • ScreenCast-O-Matic – Record you on screen lesson.

  15. Techy Things Teachers Should Try This Year 77 Free Web 2.0 Sites to Try in 2011 + Super Book of Web Tools for Educators

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