RCET January Presentation: The Flipped Classroom and Edmodo

Using Edmodo to Flip Your Classroom

There has been a new push for educational learning.....The Flipped Classroom. What is the Flipped Classroom? Is this something that can be done in your classroom? HOW do you start? There is one key component to any Flipped Classroom....a place to post your videos and information, Edmodo! How do these two things work hand and hand? Let's find out how you can flip your classroom for learning by using Edmodo in your classroom.

Edmodo


Flipped Classroom Resources
You Tube

Edudemic....8 Resources for the Flipped Classroom

Scholastic Study Jams

Watch Know Learn

Learn Zillion

Discovery Education

Simple K-12 Teacher Community

Flipped Presentation by Tracy Orr Harris

RCET January Presentation: Pinterest

Becoming a Pinning Fanatic with Pinterest!

 

Pinterest is a GREAT place to find just about anything you could use: organization help, fun recipes and drinks, and EDUCATION! You can redesign your room and make an anchor chart by the click of a "pin." Let's learn how you can become a pinning fanatic on Pinterest, and take a fluff piece and turn it into a great teaching moment!

 

 

Pinterest

RCET January Presentation by Tracy Orr Harris

Using Poll Everywhere for Math Lessons

I know that a lot of us know about Poll Everywhere, but have you used it to make your power points interactive? I have just recently been incorporating this great webtool into my Math lessons in class, but have not been brave enough to use the pptx feature. I have so ho hum lessons, and have now jazzed up an improper fractions power point lesson for more engagement and more learning!

It's pretty easy to create a Poll Everywhere power point lesson:
1. Create your polls you want for the lesson. You can create multiple polls from the first original poll question.

2. Check the questions you want to put into the power point and then choose Download the pptx at the top center of the page.



3. This will open a power point generated by Poll Everywhere. I added slides into this for notes and examples I wanted the students to write into their Math journals.

4. The Poll Everywhere questions will then show the generated graph information when the students text in their anwers or join the PollEv.com site.

 

I am excited to use this Monday in the class to see the level of student engagement. I am ready for the back-up lesson if needed and have the website ready. Always have to be prepared I must say!

 

Wish me luck!! 

Happy Thanksgiving

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone out there! I have been sooooo busy back into the classroom, but I have been really pouring myself into providing quality lessons utilizing technology! In the coming weeks, I will try to post some of the sites we have been using and lessons incorporating these great Web 2.0 tools! Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and safe surfing out there!

Pinterest.... Educational Uses of Pinterest?

Pinterest is a great site to find just about ANYTHING you need, but it is a great site to find educational needs for the classroom. I was asked to present on a project my students created from Pinterest finds that were not necessarily educational for 6th graders, but I was determined to tie it to my grade level expectations! So....here is the presentation of my inspiration and a little help from International Dot Day!



Pinterest PDF

Check out our Video for eInstruction!

My 6th grade class is competing in this year's eInstruction "Flip Your Classroom" music video contest. We would love to have your support, likes and VOTES!! Go to flipyourclassroom.einstruction.com and look for our video, "With eInstruction....Learning's Easy." we would appreciate your support!!

Back to School Kickoff: 40 Sites in 50 Minutes

40 Sites in 50 Minutes!

Tools for Teachers:

Remind 101



Class Dojo

Live Binders

Pinterest

Cool Tools:

Animation Libraries

Simon

Build Your Wild Self

Button Beats

Game Design

Jig Saw Planet

Free Poster Maker

Other Fun Tools:

Wonderopolis

Poll Everywhere

Screencast o matic

Socrative

Pic Lits

Free Foto

Organizer Tools:

Tagxedo

Wordle

Popplet

Sweet Search

Jog the Web

Game Tools:

Game Classroom

ABC Ya

Manga High

Grammar Gremlins

Alphabots

Tools for the Core Subject Areas:

Grammaropolis

Watch Know Learn

ReadWorks

Storybird

Boomwriter

Word Tamer

Word Central

Internet 4 Classrooms

Edutech Database Wiki

Go Social Studies Go

Interactive Tools:

Voki for Educators

Glogster Edu

Animoto for Educators

Blabberize

Vocaroo

Thinking About the New School Year?

Since deciding to go back to the 6th grade classroom next year, I have been in work mode! I want to switch things up a little, using some of the ideas I shared as Technology Integration Specialist. Using technology will definitely make my life easier these next few months and I want to thank Lori Elliott at Lori's Latest Links for sharing this classroom setup tool from Scholastic. You can design your classroom, add student's names to desks and print out your classroom map! No more drawing!! This is great for me in the fact that I can create my layout, print it out for the custodians and they can put the furniture back in place after the summer cleaning. Thank You Scholastic and thanks Lori for posting this link!!

Link for Scholastic Classroom Setup Tool

GoClass App Adds New Features for Teaching with iPads

GoClass is a free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option to ask questions and poll their students. After the students' response have been gathered teachers can project those responses without showing individual student's names.

GoClass that allows you to create and deliver learning activities to your students that are using iPads. GoClass just released some useful updates to their free app.

There are two new features of the GoClass app that you should note. First is an option to allow students to "favorite" items that you share. You can see students' favorite items as a way to see what students think are important aspects of a lesson. The second feature of note is the option to control the sleep mode on students' iPads.

Like Pinterest? Try Educlipper!

The purpose of EduClipper is to give educators a place to pin resources that they can share with other teachers and share with their students. Yes, it's a bit Pinterest-like, but it's focused on discovering and sharing educational materials. Learn more about EduClipper in the new explanatory video embedded below.




EduClipper isn't open to the public yet, but you can sign-up for beta access now.