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Wordwall - Create better lessons quicker

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Need a fresh teaching resource that fits your class and teaching style? Create a customized pack of interactive and printable activities in just one minute.

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Russel Tarr, International School of Toulouse

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ClassTools.net: Create your own interactive learning resources

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Dozens of templates, quiz generators and learning tools for use in the classroom

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Use Top Hat’s active learning solution to increase engagement and keep students connected inside and outside of virtual class meetings.

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Use Top Hat’s active learning solution to increase engagement and keep students connected inside and outside of virtual class meetings.

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Virtual Classroom Streaming

Recreate the experience of your face-to-face class or lab by engaging students in live lectures. Present slides, connect with students through video streaming and live chat, and ask questions to gauge attention and learning.

Lecture Recordings

Give your students an in-class experience even after the lecture ends. Recordings capture your presentation, pinpointing class discussions and participation as they occur. An interactive lecture playback replicates the experience of a live class meeting.

Digital Textbooks

Adopt or create a customizable interactive textbook to extend active learning outside of class meetings.

Track completion and comprehension of course material with in-line interactive questions.

Browse a full assortment of textbooks in our Marketplace, including titles by Top Hat authors and from partners like Bluedoor Publishing and Fountainhead Press.

Learning Insights

Get up-to-the-minute insights on how students are doing in your course.

Easily identify and reach out to struggling students with actionable progress reports.

Track student performance and sync grades directly from the Top Hat gradebook to your LMS.

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Recreate the experience of your face-to-face class or lab by engaging students in live lectures. Present slides, connect with students through video streaming and live chat, and ask questions to gauge attention and learning. Give your students an in-class experience even after the lecture ends.

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10 Ways to Integrate Nearpod and Google Apps for Edtech Fluidity

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10 Ways to Integrate Nearpod and Google Apps for Edtech Fluidity

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Among the sea of educational apps that seems to grow larger by the day, Nearpod differentiates itself thanks to its versatility and utility for virtually all levels and topics. It's a great home base for teachers because of how seamlessly it integrates with other powerful tools. Nearpod is also integrated with Google Slides, learn more about the Nearpod Add-On for Google Slides.

Here are a few of the ways that Nearpod integrates with Google Apps for education:

1. Single Sign on: Sign into Nearpod using your Google account.

This guide will walk you through getting started if you haven't yet.

2. Access your documents in Google drive: If Google Drive has become the storage place for your online documents, now you can access them directly when creating your Nearpod Presentation in Nearpod's Content Creation tool, and we'll automatically handle the formatting for you.

3. Create new slides using Google Images: When creating your Nearpod presentation, simply click 'Google images' to add an image to your slides. The ease of access to such a vast selection of images means that creating visually engaging presentations happens naturally.

4. Collaborate on Google Documents in real time: You can share a Google document using Nearpod's share web feature ( here is how to do it). This feature is ideal for brainstorming sessions, class notes, or group assignments. As Nearpod allows the teacher to control the overall pace of the classroom, this "activity" will last for as long as you want.

5. Use Google Forms to conduct longer surveys: Nearpod's Poll and Quiz features are ideal in helping you assess and learn important information about your class "on the fly". But if what you need is a longer or more detailed survey, you can then insert a Google Form as part of your Nearpod Presentation (again, you must use the share web feature for this). Their answers will automatically be organized into a spreadsheet that you can then share with your students with a separate slide. Here is a quick guide that will show you how to create a Google form. It's super easy!

6. Share a custom Google Map: No need to waste classroom time looking for the right map and then sending it to your students by e-mail. Google Maps allows for a surprising amount of customization, and your Nearpod Presentation allows you give your students' direct access to it.

This guide will teach you how to create a custom Google map. Once you have it, just share the URL with your students by using Nearpod's share web feature. Everybody will start at the same place!

7. Explore the possibilities of other linkable Google resources: Make your students' devices their portal to the world by giving them virtual tours of museums with the Google Cultural Institute.

So you and your students cannot travel to Brazil for next month's FIFA World Cup? Well, you can use Nearpod and Google Street View to visit the famous Maracana Stadium. You simply need to copy this URL from google street view and paste it in Nearpod as a "Share web page" slide)

8. Personalize your instruction by including interactive Google presentations as part of your Nearpod. You can give options to your students to choose among different contents that you may want to share.
This is an example of how it can look:
This is the "step by step" instruction.

1. i. Create a new Google Presentation.

2. ii. In the first slide, add a few images of different content that you would like your students to choose from.

3. iii. Use hyper links to link each image to an external resources (e.g. youtube video) or to a specific slide in that same presentation.

4. iv. Include the URL of that Google Presentation in Nearpod by following these steps:

In your Google presentation, go to 'file', then 'publish to the web', to find the document link.

Copy the document link and paste it in Nearpod, using the web share

IMPORTANT TIP: be sure to change the sharing settings on the docs you plan to share with your students to "public on the web" or "anyone with the link."

9. Assign Homework using Google Groups: With Google Groups, you can add each of the students in your class to an email list. Send the code for a self paced Nearpod Presentation to this list, and each of your students will have their homework delivered to their inbox. Then, replying to the mail will allow your students to discuss the assignment before they even get back into the classroom.

10. Add YouTube videos with ease: You can paste the URL of a YouTube video while creating your Nearpod Presentation.

UPDATE!

11. Nearpodize this: Turn your Google presentations into interactive Nearpod Presentations with the click of a button. Check out this blog post to explore more on Nearpodizing your Google Slides.

Open your GDrive on a Google Chrome browser and look for a Google Presentation.

Voilà! Your NPP is ready 🙂 Share the PIN with your students to get started!

Great apps make great experiences! Lots of educators from all around the globe have already shared their Nearpod stories. We'd love to hear yours!
Are you new in our community? Check this out: Meet Nearpod 🙂

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10 Ways to integrate Nearpod and Google Apps for edtech fluidity

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Among the sea of educational apps that seems to grow larger by the day, Nearpod differentiates itself thanks to its versatility and utility for virtually all levels and topics. It's a great home base for teachers because of how seamlessly it integrates with other powerful tools.

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SPEAKING
CHARACTERS
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Voki | Speaking Characters For Education

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Plickers lets you poll your class for free, without the need for student devices.

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Formative assessment has never been faster.

Plickers is the free card activity your students will love.

Join millions and play in your next lesson.
Sign up for free
Used by K-12 teachers in over 100 countries

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Formative assessment has never been faster. Plickers is the free card activity your students will love. Join millions and play in your next lesson. Sign up for free Used by K-12 teachers in over 100 countries

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Learn by giving feedback! Peergrade is a free online platform to facilitate peer feedback sessions with students.

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Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for elementary, middle, and high school students.

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Set up your classroom, without IT

You can quickly and easily set up your classroom in Quill by inputting student names or providing students with a unique code. If you use Google Classroom or Clever, you can automatically set up your classroom with one click.

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Quill.org | Interactive Writing and Grammar

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Quill provides free writing and grammar activities for middle and high school students.

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Free self-paced quizzes to review, assess, and engage—in class and at home.

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The Learning Journal is a student-driven digital portfolio that inspires students to best work and saves time.

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Seesaw | Elementary Learning Experience Platform

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Elementary Learning Experience Platform | Seesaw

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Seesaw is a Learning Experience Platform with 25M+ users, enhancing elementary education, engagement, and school culture while improving academic success.

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Used as a mind-map, Popplet helps students think and learn visually.

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Create videos that encourage viewer engagement. Imagine a video that lets your students touch the screen and find out more on the areas they are interested in.

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Must-Have Apps for 2017

As an instructor for Eduspire, I teach the "iPads in Education" course. I've taught it 35 times already to teachers from all around the state. And, from the very beginning, I've been showcasing some apps that are still listed on the various "Top 25 Apps for Education" posts that you see from time to time. Ones like Book Creator, Educreations, Explain Everything, and Nearpod have withstood the flood of educational apps to remain as "must-have" apps.

Touchcast: An App That Does it All

But, my absolute favorite app is Touchcast, which is part of Eduspire's "iPads in Education 2" course (you can only do so much in one course. This one HAD to be moved to the second course). See the original video that introduced Touchcast here (I think it's MUCH better than the current demo video). This app does it all, from green screen to whiteboard to interactive applications, and more.

Unlike ANY other presentation tool where the viewers of the presentation are just passively watching the presentations ('Lean Back' tools), Touchcast is an example of a 'Lean Forward' tool ( here's a nice working definition of the two) where users are compelled to interact with the presentation. Using any device, they tap (or click) a picture to enlarge it as the presenter talks about it, or respond to a poll as part of the presentation, or refresh a Twitter feed to see the current tweets on a topic, or tap to zoom into a map - and all of those interactive video applications (or Vapps, as they're called in the app) are built right into the video. And, with its built-in teleprompter, it's the perfect tool for kids.

Get Connected with TouchCast

There are many great examples of Touchcast presentations that were created by students and teachers. Follow @touchcastedu on Twitter for ideas of how others are using it with their students. Or, check out some of the examples and tutorials on YouTube. And here are the tutorials made by the Touchcast team, which will help you learn the basics.

I know that Touchcast isn't new; it's three years old. But, it may be new to you or to your peers. It's too good to NOT know about it. My example ( here) was made to show newcomers some of the Vapps. I really like the idea of building in a link to your Google Drive folder that stores your handouts for the lesson. Everything is right there! It's perfect for the Flipped Classroom and perfect as a tool for students. After all, ultimately, we want THEM to use the tools, not us. We've got enough to do as educators already, thank you very much!

Bottom line: if you've not heard of Touchcast before now, it is a MUST-KNOW app.

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Link to Durham College Student Engagement Ideas

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Link to Durham College Student Engagement Ideas

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The Jumpstart model is a structured approach to lesson/unit planning that integrates a reliable and valid theory of learning styles. Its use ensures that your unit of study will include activities that appeal to a variety of learners, will make use of active learning approaches, and will present a coherent and well-organized experience for the students.

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Site for copyright free images, used in presentation

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4.5 million+ Stunning Free Images to Use Anywhere - Pixabay - Pixabay

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Find your perfect royalty-free image or video to download and use. ✓ Royalty-free ✓ No attribution required ✓ High quality images.

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