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FINAL ASSIGNMENT of learning story MODUL 5

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MAKING a BOOK TRAILER for a RESPECTED WORK of AMERICAN LITERATURE
Hello,

I am an English teacher in a grammar school in the Czech Republic. Our students are selected based on their study skills, they usually go to university. They have study potential and are smart, so some things are easier for me as a teacher, some more difficult.

The plan is for 18/19 year old students of the last grade. I have prepared a learning story for a seminar 'Realie' where intermediate/upper-intermediate students of the final year of the grammar school study also American literature. It is an elective seminar. But I cannot say that they all love reading..

The story is MAKING A BOOK TRAILER FOR A RESPECTED WORK OF AMERICAN LITERATURE. The story should take app. FIVE 45-minute lessons. I want them to do most of the work at school so that I can observe them working.

The goal is

1) to attract the students for reading making the books attractive through book trailers

2) to make them study and revise a respected work of American literature in detail

3) to develop students' 21st century skills - mainly CREATIVITY and TECHNOLOGY SKILLS. Collaboration among students will not be the case, mainly for peer informal assessment of the 1st draft, because my students have recently made a collaborative project in groups. So this time they will create the book trailers individually.

An important part of the story is a collaboration with another group of the same seminar that my colleague teaches in a way that the groups will watch the book trailers of the other group and vote for the best 3 book trailers. So there will be award ceremony included. However, all the trailers will be assesses with the help of assessment grid created in the first lesson my my students and me.

TOOLS and sorces: computers, the Internet, EDMODO, Popplet, Word Document, Animoto, QR maker online, printer, earphones.

We will display QR codes of the book trailers in the school corridors so hopefully we will affect other students too and they will read an American literature book.

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Kind regards,

Šárka Opatová

Gymnázium Děčín, the Czech Republic,

My diary: https://padlet.com/sarka_opatova/futureclassroomscenarioscourse

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Their book, The Nature of Learning: Using Research to Inspire Practice and the accompanying practitioner's guide, lay out the key principles for designing learning environments that will help students build skills useful in a world where jobs are increasingly information and knowledge-based. The principles are not job-specific - no one knows what the future economy will demand. Instead, the main goal is to develop self-directed learners, students with "adaptive expertise."

"Adaptive expertise tries to push beyond the idea of mastery," said Jennifer Groff, an educational engineer and co-founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign. "You may be proficient, but without adaptive expertise you can get stuck very quickly as the world shifts."

[RELATED READING: How Can Teachers Prepare Kids for a Connected World]

Groff doesn't dispute that mastery is important and that students need to learn age-appropriate content, but she also argues it's equally important to develop students' ability to go beyond that, to question and apply learning in new situations.

To that end, these are their identified principles for innovative learning.

1. Learners have to be at the center of what happens in the classroom with activities focused on their cognition and growth. They have to actively engage in learning in order to become self-regulated learners who are able to control their emotions and motivations during the study process, set goals, and monitor their own learning process.

2. Learning is a social practice and can't happen alone. "By our nature we are social beings and we learn by interacting," Groff said. "We learn by pushing and pulling on concepts with one another." Structured, collaborative group work can be good for all learners; it pushes people in different ways.

3. . Students understand ideas better when there's interplay between emotions, motivation and cognition, so positive beliefs about oneself are a core part of reaching a more profound understanding. The Emotions are an integral part of learning power of emotions and motivation in the classroom are well documented, but often overlooked because they are "soft." Still most teachers know that if a student is upset about something that happened at home or in school, he won't learn well. Similarly, keeping students motivated should be the starting point of learning. If students understand why it matters, learning becomes more important to them.

4. Learners are different and innovative learning environments reflect the various experiences and prior knowledge that each student brings to class. "You really want practices and processes that help teachers engage each student where they are," said Groff. This principle is understood by every frustrated educator teaching to a "middle" that doesn't exist.

5. Students need to be stretched, but not too much. "It's really critical to find that student's sweet spot," Groff Said. Educators should try to prevent both coasting and overloading. Students need to experience both academic success and the challenge of discovery. In a diverse classroom group work can help achieve this as students at different levels help one another.

6. Assessment should be for learning, not of learning. Assessments are important, but only to gauge how to structure the next lesson for maximum effectiveness. It should be meaningful, substantial, and shape the learning environment itself. "Good teachers do this informally most of the time," Groff said. "But when it's done well and more formally it's a whole structure and methodology where you collect feedback on the learning pathway and it drives the next step that you take."

7. Learning needs to be connected across disciplines and reach out into the real world. Learning can't be meaningful if students don't understand why the knowledge will be useful to them, how it can be applied in life. Understanding the connections between subjects and ideas is essential for the ability to transfer skills and adapt. "We can't just have things remain in silos that never interact," Groff said.

IMPLEMENTING THE PRINCIPLES
Many of the seven principles Groff outlines are second nature to good teachers, but they can feel hard to achieve within education systems that are slow-moving, bureaucratic and resistant to change. Still Groff says there are ways for teachers who want to create an innovative learning environment to begin down the path, even without the full support of their colleagues and administration. Groff also hopes shifting to the Common Core could offer openings for building in these practices. "It's designed in a way that condones a lot of the principles that we've been talking about," she said.

Everyone knows the common barriers educators face: the school culture, the students and themselves. Groff says with some reflection and problem solving, teachers can often begin to work around these barriers. An educator might think she's open to innovation without realizing that there are preconceived notions about how one should teach that are deeply ingrained.

"You may be proficient, but without adaptive expertise you can get stuck very quickly as the world shifts."

What's more, if the school culture does not encourage experimentation, educators can mitigate negative reaction by framing the ideas in a way that will be accepted, or by bringing in outside resources to try and convince naysayers. Even finding one colleague in or outside of the school to bounce ideas with can make the process much smoother.

Educators can also test ideas with students before implementing them. Students have been indoctrinated into the same educational mindset about what makes a "useful" education as everyone else, and some might be resistant to new teaching methodologies. Without their enthusiasm it can be hard to persevere through other obstacles.
CASE STUDY
The darling of the Innovative Learning Environment case studies is the Jenaplan School in Germany. It's one of the few schools embodying all the principles fluidly. The school has about 450 students that range three to 20 years old. Students aren't broken up into grade levels, instead they learn in mixed-age groups as well as in groups of roughly the same age. Learning is directed by students, often project-based, evaluated primarily through writing and projects, self-assessments and peer-assessment. The schedule is periodic, focusing on a topic like geography or history for three to four weeks and crossing into multiple disciplines. The teacher is seen as an active mentor and coordinator and the school has active parental involvement.

The Jenaplan School has won awards for its model and in the eyes of the Innovative Learning Environment researchers is doing an excellent job at preparing students to be adaptive and nimble thinkers in a knowledge-based world.

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With Sutori, teachers can assign a pre-created story to students for studying and working. They can also assign students to work on their own stories by themselves or with a partner.
the scrolling top-to-bottom style of learning is engaging and easy

it features lots of options for adding items to a story
it’s web-based, which means that students can access Sutori stories from any web-enabled device (tablet, smartphone, laptop, Chromebook, etc.)
PRO TIP: Create your own video with Screencastify for Google Chrome (screencastify.com). Record your screen or with your webcam. You can include audio from your microphone. Save your recording to YouTube to add to a Sutori story. (This post has ideas for creating videos with Screencastify in class.) Here are some ideas for using Sutori in class:
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1. Class discussions: Provide some information with text, images, videos, etc. Then ask a few questions with the forum tool and let students discuss.

2. Timelines: Sutori is set up like a timeline. If you’re studying anything across history, you can create amazing multimedia timelines.

3. Student self-assessment: Provide some content for students to learn, but include multiple choice and matching questions along the way. Sure, you can’t grade them and put them in the gradebook. But giving students some self-assessment puts responsibility for checking their learning in their own hands.

4. Progression: Timelines are time/date-based. Sutori stories are great for showing the order in which something happens, with the first item at the top and the last item at the bottom. Images (screenshots, photos taken with a mobile device or webcam) can show steps visually.

5. Interactive poster projects: Mash up information, images, videos and more. Throw out the posterboard and glue sticks. Let students create with a Sutori story instead.

6. Storyboarding/storytelling: Sutori is well suited to storytelling. (So much that they call creations in Sutori “stories.”) Start with the first details at the top of a Sutori story. Progress through and end the story at the bottom. Multimedia lets you add a new dynamic to stories.

7. Current events: Pull in links to news articles, opinion pieces and blog posts. Add news photos. Then add a forum to let students digitally discuss what they’ve read and seen. The best discussions in the forums can lead to in-class, face to face discussions. Here’s a student-created story about the Dakota Access Pipeline

8. Class routines: This works great for younger students who need some guidance in getting their day started. Here’s a teacher example of a morning routine Sutori story.

9. Note taking: Students can take notes with Sutori — or transform their notes into interactive notes with images, videos, audio and more. It works great for teacher note-taking, too! Here’s one educator’s notes from a conference.

10. Travel documentation: Going on a field trip? Have a student traveling to a cool destination? Pull photos, text, videos, links and more into a Sutori story to show the class. Here’s a Sutori user that traveled to Brussels and shared her experiences.

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I have signed up to EDMODO and created my first group of students in it. It looks great, we have had a quiz and poll in it, I also uploaded to it study materials so absent students can study at home. I also added an assignment for next week.

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I have signed up to EDMODO and created my first group of students in it. It looks great, we have had a quiz and poll in it, I also uploaded to it study materials so absent students can study at home. I also added an assignment for next week.

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I have learnt that there is a bank if sources for teachers for Edmodo, some free, some paid and you can also upload your sources in it and sell them or put them there for free.
I have clicked on one source - NEXT LESSON.

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I have tried to make a piktochart about The Canterbury Tales. It was my first piktochart. I have enjoyed it and would like my students to do it since it is creative, fun and develops knowledge and critical thinking.
link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EegJRt1xwJk&index=15&list=PL3CH75hm28nIjs2C4Mx5FHc4UqRc58DwT

I struggled with changing the size of the text blocks, but otherwise it is quite easy to disvover how it works. The basic version is for FREE and it is enough to work with. But you cannot download it as a PDF (paid), only as a picture or have  a link.

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We bought glogster for one year, now the 2nd time. I use it with my students and some of my colleagues to make posters in English classes or eTwinning.
I like padlet because it is easy but the layout can get messy if there are too many things, then you must have a flow.
I will try to make an infographics I have never done one but read about it.
TODAY I just had a lesson of peer assessment of school pol. party leaflets. SS made it in pairs or groups. It took 3 lessons of 45 minutes. They had to learn how to make a good leaflet, then make up the party, programme, leaflet.

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The key benefit of such a process is, that it does not only benefit the person receiving the feedback but also the person providing the feedback. Reviewing or assessing someone else's work requires a reflection of one's own work as well as a reflection of what works and what doesn't. Peer review is therefore an effective form of professional development for both sides taking part in the review.
Peer review is of course also an effective activity for students that promotes collaboration, critical thinking and self-reflection. Take a look at the video below from MIT where professors and students tell of their experiences of using peer-review in teaching and in academia. It introduces a lot of interesting ideas about the value of peer-review.

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- It helps me think about the approach to education, meaning and purpose of my work, school.
-I makes me more motivated to work on myself as a teacher.
-I am aware that changes must be done in teams and collaboration among colleagues, teachers is as important as among students.
Thanks to the course I have used for the first time Popplet, Sound Cloud and Animoto. I have made my first Book Trailer.
-I have searched for Microsoft Picture Story and have learnt from our school's IT that it is old and used just for XP Windows. So I have not tried this one.
-Thanks to the course I will enrich my lessons and I am thinking of experimenting with the seating arrangement.
I suppose that some things will come up later. It is not done with the end of the course.
-I will share with colleagues.
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You've applied for your free Animoto Classroom account and received your educator code. The next step is to set up Animoto accounts for your students. We've created a step-by-step guide to show you how we recommend you set up student accounts, but before you dive in, be sure to review our Education Terms of Service.

Step 1: Register for a free Gmail account

First things first, create a Gmail account. This email account is important because it's where you'll get all emails related to your students' Animoto accounts. These accounts will not be linked in Animoto itself.

In your new Gmail account, you'll get communications from Animoto, including notifications when videos are complete and password reset notifications. In that way, you can see what videos students have completed and keep an eye on their activity.

Step 2: Create alias emails for your students

The next step is to make alias email addresses for each student. You won't actually be creating an email address for each student - just a variation on your master email address. And if this sounds complicated, don't worry - it's actually pretty simple.

Gmail ignores any letters and numbers you add after a plus sign. But Animoto's system thinks each of these aliases is a unique email. So if you add a plus sign to your Gmail address (like this: yourusername+alias@gmail.com), you'll be able to create up to 50 student accounts without checking 50 different email addresses.

Any Animoto account set up with the emailaddress+alias@gmail.com format will send messages to the original "master" Gmail address. That means messages sent to mrssmithenglishclass+student1@gmail.com, mrssmithenglishclass+student2@gmail.com, and so on, are all delivered to mrssmithenglishclass@gmail.com.

These new alias emails will be the email addresses your students use to log into their Animoto accounts. We recommend you keep track of these email addresses in spreadsheet.

Step 3: Create Animoto accounts for your students

Now that your students have email accounts to let them log into Animoto, it's time to create their student accounts. Register each student from the signup link. Be sure not to provide any personally identifiable information about the student to Animoto at any time, including when you set up student accounts. (When you're asked for a name, write Student 1, Student 2, etc.)

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YOUTUBE VIDEO of the BOOK TRAILER, I have found sadder melody.

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YOUTUBE VIDEO of the BOOK TRAILER, I have found sadder melody.

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BOOK TRAILER - The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe - SADDER MELODY

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It is a book trailer for the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. All pictures under CREATIVE COMMONS.

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NEWS! You can apply for a free account for you and students. It is very easy, just fill in the EDUCATION request.
The email confirmation contains a free 6-month subscription code to create up to 50 Animoto accounts for your students, along with a link for creating your student accounts.

Please note: you are responsible for supervising the use of your students’ accounts in the classroom and ensuring it complies with the Animoto for Education Terms of Use.

Somehow I uploaded two melodies so it really is crazy lke The Raven.

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It is a book trailer for the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

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ANIMOTO - my free trial to make BOOK TRAILER

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ANIMOTO - my free trial to make BOOK TRAILER

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Popplet about The Raven by E.A. Poe as a preparation for a BOOK REVIEW.

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Popplet about The Raven by E.A. Poe as a preparation for a BOOK REVIEW.

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I am going to create my own BOOK REVIEW to show students in the seminar I am going to try the learning scenario with.

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Popplet about BOOK TRAILERS I have made.

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Popplet about BOOK TRAILERS I have made.

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321 Free Tools for Teachers - Free Educational Technology

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Free Educational Technology for Teachers

Do you support Free Technology for Teachers? If Yes, I highly encourage you to share this Free Educational Technology Resource with fellow teachers interested in implementing Free Technology in Classroom.

I am a great supporter of Free Educational Technology. This is why I created a list of 321 Free Tools for Teachers separated in the following 18 categories:

19 Free Tools To Create Infographics For Teachers

19 Free Text To Speech Tools For Teachers

21 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers

15 Free Podcast Tools For Teachers

28 Free Survey, Polls, and Quizzes Tools For Teachers

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19 Free Tools To Create Infographics For Teachers

1. amCharts Visual Editor This editor allows you to use amCharts as a web service. This means that all you need to do is to configure the chart and paste the generated HTML code to your HTML page.

2. ChartsBinCreate your own interactive map. It's free for now.

3. DipityCreate an interactive, visually engaging timeline in minutes. Use dynamic visualization tools to display photos, videos, news and blogs in chronological order.

4. Easel.lyCreate and share visual ideas online. Vhemes are visual themes. Drag and drop a vheme onto your canvas for easy creation of your visual idea!

5. GapminderGapminder is used in classrooms around the world to build a fact-based world view.

6. GliffyGliffy.com is a free web-based diagram editor. Create and share flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, user interface designs and other drawings online.

7. Google Chart ToolsProvides several tools for making data more comprehensible. Special URLs can be used to embed graph and chart images in users' own web.

8. Hohli Charts Online Charts Builder

9. infogr.am Create infographics and interactive online charts. It's free and super-easy! Follow other users and discover amazing data stories!

10. Inkscape An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

11. Lucidchart With Lucidchart you can create flowcharts, org charts, mind maps, concept maps and many types of helpful visual communication. Lucidchart is completely free for students and teachers (no strings attached).

12. PiktochartPiktochart- Make Information Beautiful. Create infographics. Engaging presentation app.

13. PixlrWelcome to the most popular online photo editor in the world!

14. Stat PlanetStatPlanet (formerly StatPlanet Map Maker) is free, award-winning software for creating interactive maps which are fully customizable. In addition to maps, the software also has the option of including interactive graphs and charts to create feature-rich infographics.

15. Tableau PublicTableau Public is a free tool that brings data to life. Easy to use. Spectacularly powerful. Data In. Brilliance Out.

16. VenngageVenngage is built for people who work with data. From analysts who want to communicate their data better, to the executives who want to understand insights faster and everyone else who uses data to make their decisions, Venngage has been made to make insights easier.

17. visual.lyLike infographics and data visualization? Visual.ly is the world's largest community of infographics and data visualization. Come explore, share, and create.

18. What About Me?Create an infographic of your digital life and become inspired by the people you know, the things you see, and the experiences you have online.

19. WordleWordle is a toy for generating "word clouds" from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes.

19 Free Text To Speech Tools For Teachers

1. AnnouncifyListen to your web. After Announcify conquered Android™ phones, it's now here to announcify your life at Google Chrome. Announcify reads out loud every website you want. For example, if you're too tired but still need to study one more Wikipedia entry, Announcify can help your tired eyes relax.

2. BalabolkaBalabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from AZW, CHM, DjVu, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, LIT, MOBI, ODT, PRC, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background color, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys.

3. Chrome SpeakChrome Speak (App Version), select the text and right-click to speak with offline tts engine, TTS (text to speech). Chrome speak provides native support for speech on Windows (using SAPI 5), Mac OS X, and Chrome OS, using speech synthesis capabilities provided by the operating system. On all platforms, the user can install extensions that register themselves as alternative speech engines.

4. DSpeechDSpeech is a TTS (Text To Speech) program with functionality of ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) integrated. It is able to read aloud the written text and choose the sentences to be pronounced based upon the vocal answers of the user. It is specifically designed to quickly and directly provide the functions and improved practical usefulness that are requested by this kind of program. In the meantime, the evasiveness and resource consumption is minimal.

5. FoxVoxFoxVox will speak any text you highlight in a web page. FoxVox can also create audiobooks in mp3, ogg, and wav formats. You can now easily turn your blogs and articles into podcasts.

6. Free Natural ReaderIt can convert any written text such as Microsoft Word, webpages, PDF files, and E-mails into spoken words.

7. OdiogoOdiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

8. PediaPhonLearning during jogging and driving! E-learning and m-learning with MP3 players and mobile phones! A podcast and a winamp play list will be generated too. MP3 files, play lists and podcast automatically generated from Wikipedia! Let your computer read out the Wikipedia for you!

9. PowerTalkPowerTalk is a free program that automatically speaks any presentation or slide show running in Microsoft PowerPoint for Windows. You just download and install PowerTalk and while you open and run the presentation as usual it speaks the text on your slides. The advantage over other generic 'Text To Speech' programs is that PowerTalk is able to speak text as it appears and can also speak hidden text attached to images.

10. QR voiceQR Code allows users to converts text-to-speech, generates QR Code for speech URL and Simplifies share text-to-speech files.

11. Select and SpeakSelect and Speak uses iSpeech's human sounding text to speech (TTS) to let you select text from almost any website and make it talk.

12. SpeakingFoxConverts text to audible speech on Mac OS X.

13. SpeakIt!Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read. SpeakIt reads selected text using Text-to-Speech technology with language auto-detection. It can read text in more than 50 languages.

14. SpokenTextSpokenText lets you easily convert text into speech. Record (English, French, Spanish or German) PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, and web pages, and convert them to speech automatically. Download your recordings as .mp3 or .m4b (Audio Book) files (in English, French, Spanish and German) of any text content on your computer or mobile phone.

15. Text to VoiceTTS gives Firefox the power of speech. Select text, click the button on the bottom right of Firefox window and this add-on speaks the selected text for you. Isn't it brilliant? Audio is downloadable.

16. text2speechFree online text to speech converter. Just enter your text, select one of the voices and download the resulting mp3 file to your computer. This service is free and you are allowed to use the speech files for any purpose, including commercial uses.

17. VokiVoki is a FREE service that lets you create customized avatars, add voice to your Voki avatars, post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile, and take advantage of Voki's learning resources.

18. vozMeVozme is an online text to speech program that lets you type-in any English or Spanish text and then play it as an audio stream.

19. WordTalkA free Windows text-to-speech plugin for Microsoft Word. It will speak the text of the document and will highlight it as it goes. It contains a talking dictionary and a text-to-mp3 converter.

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21 Free Digital Storytelling Tools For Teachers

1. AnimotoUnlimited Videos For Educators. Enhance your digital classroom with Animoto, an ideal tool for creating videos and presentations. It takes just minutes to create a video which can bring your lessons to life. Educators can apply for a free Animoto Plus account for use in the classroom. Its powerful features can be used to create stunning presentations incorporating images, video clips, music and text.

2. BubblrBubblr is a tool to create comic strips using photos from flickr.com Begin searching images and add bubble to them.

3. CapzlesAll of your media, your life, your stories together like never before. Create rich multimedia experiences with videos, photos, music, blogs and documents.

4. CartoonistCartoonists is an online tool to create cartoons or personal digital stories, consisting of professional backgrounds, characters, props, images and text. With Cartoonist, you can create multimedia stories. You can use the tool to create comic strips or more personal digital narratives.

5. Comic MasterComic Master allow you to create your own short graphic novel. With Comic Master you can decide how you want the page or your graphic novel to look, to add backgrounds, choose characters and props to appear in your scenes, to add dialogue and captions, and much more

6. Domo animateImport your pictures, select a nice song to accompany the slideshow and you are done! Your pictures will be the hero of your own personalized Domo adventure. You can create your own Domo adventures in minutes with their easy-to-use animation studio.

7. GeneratorGenerator is a creative studio space, a space where you can explore the moving image, be inspired, create your own moving image works and share your creations with the Generator community.Gain a deeper understanding of the context of these inspiring stories through their Education Themes section. Try the Storyboard Generator and either choose a script or build your own storyboard and share it with your friends.

8. MakeBeliefsComixAt MakeBeliefsComix you can create your own comic strip with an easy and fun way. You have to choose a character and emotion. Then you have to add talk or thought balloons and start your character talking. You can add other characters and more conversation. Also, you can add colored backgrounds, objects and panel prompts to keep your viewers interested. Least but not last, you can continue to edit and make more changes, and when you are done you can print or email your comic!

9. MapSkipThe purpose of MapSkip.com is to create a weave of stories about the places in our lives. Users are invited to create a free account and to mark up places in Google Maps with their own stories and photos. Users can browse each other's stories and can rate and discuss them. MapSkip is free to use and free of ads.

10. PicLitsPicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.

11. PixtonPixton empowers the world to communicate graphically with comics. Pixton introduces the world to Click-n-Drag Comics™, a revolutionary new patented technology that gives anyone the power to create amazing comics on the web. From fully posable characters to dynamic panels, props, and speech bubbles, every aspect of a comic can be controlled in an intuitive click-n-drag motion. Pixton is free for fun but has paid version for Schools and Businesses.

12. SlidestoryCombine sharing pictures and narration and what do you get? Slidestory! Slidestory is a new, exciting and FREE way to make presentations and share them on the Internet.

13. SmileboxSmilebox lets you quickly and easily create slideshows, invitations, greetings, collages, scrapbooks and photo albums right on your computer. To get started, download and install the Smilebox application. Then simply, select the photos you want to use, choose a template add comments and music and voila, you've made a Smilebox! With more than 1000 customizable templates to choose from, you'll find inspiration around every corner.

14. Smories.comSmories are original stories for kids, read by kids. The idea behind Smories is to publishes stories for kids read by kids. Also, you will find a lot of stories in various subjects submitted by teachers and authors.

15. StorybirdStorybird lets anyone make visual stories in seconds. They curate artwork from illustrators and animators around the world and inspire writers of any age to turn those images into fresh stories.

16. Zimmer TwinsThe Zimmer Twins is a site devoted to kids and creative storytelling. Since 2005, the Zimmer Twins has invited children to create and share their own animated stories. It is free for Kids & Families to join, make and watch a movie and paid for Educators and Schools.

17. ZooBurstZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. Using ZooBurst, storytellers of any age can create their own rich worlds in which their stories can come to life. ZooBurst books "live" online and can be experienced on your desktop or laptop computer, or on your iPad via the free ZooBurst mobile app. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials. Basic accounts are 100% free and let you get started using ZooBurst right away.Free apps for digital storytelling

18. Puppet PalsCreate your own unique shows with animation and audio in real time! Simply pick out your actors and backdrops, drag them on to the stage, and tap record. Your movements and audio will be recorded in real time for playback later.This app is as fun as your own creativity. Act out a story of Pirates on the high seas, fight as scary monsters, or play the part of a Wild West bandit on the loose. You can even combine any characters however you want!

19. ShowMe Interactive WhiteboardTurn your iPad into your personal interactive whiteboard! ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It's an amazingly simple app that anyone can use, no matter how young or old!

20. Sock PuppetsSock Puppets lets you create your own lip-synched videos and share them on Facebook and YouTube. Add Puppets, props, scenery, and backgrounds and start creating. Hit the record button and the puppets automatically lip-synch to your voice.

21. Toontastic: FREEToontastic is a storytelling and creative learning tool that enables kids to draw, animate, and share their own cartoons with friends and family around the world through simple and fun imaginative play! With over 2 million cartoons created in over 150 countries, parents and teachers rave about the app... and kids can't stop creating!

15 Free Podcast Tools For Teachers

1. Ardour Ardour is a free, fully-featured digital audio workstation, similar to other software like ProTools, Nuendo, Sonar and Logic, and capable of replacing analog or digital tape systems. Available for Mac OS X, Linux.

2. AudacityAudacity is free, open source, cross-platform software for recording and editing sounds. Audacity is available for Windows, Mac, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.

3. BlogAmpBlogamp is a web-based audiocasting solution that combines a rich media on-demand experience with podcasting. Blogamp's robust administration utility and content manager allows site owners and bloggers the ability to customize the on demand presentation as well as utilize the many add-on features depending on who the target audience is.

4. EasypodcastEasypodcast is a GUI tool for easy podcast publication. Easypodcast is multi-language (english and spanish) and cross-platform: tested on Windows and Linux (kde). This is possible thanks to wxPython.

5. EvocaCreate and Share Digital Voice Recordings Using mobile, landline, Skype & smartphones, tablets and computers.

6. HuffDufferCreate your own podcast. Find links to audio files on the Web. Huffduff the links-add them to your podcast. Subscribe to podcasts of other found sounds.

7. MP3myMP3 RecorderSaves any audio you hear on your computer straight to mp3 or wav.

8. OdiogoOdiogo's media-shifting technology expands the reach of your content: It transforms news sites and blog posts into high fidelity, near human quality audio files ready to download and play anywhere, anytime, on any device.

9. PodbeanPodbean.com is an easy and powerful way to start podcasting. Easy to publish your podcast in 3 steps. No tech to learn. Powerful promoting tools, iTunes Preview, Statistics. Wonderful income chances with ads, paid subscriptions.

10. PodOmaticRecord video and audio podcasts. Receive in-line calls from listeners.

11. SoundCloudShare Your Sounds. Capture a voice, moment or music in seconds or upload audio you've already created. Everyone has sounds to share. Now you can share yours. Publish to social networks or embed your sounds on your site.

12. StudioRackStudioRack is a modular live audio and video production system for the Windows O.S., intended for the more demanding podcaster, audio and video producers, DJ's, radio stations, tv stations etc.

13. TalkShoeCreate, schedule and run a live show. Integrate the recording on your website.

14. VozMeConvert text to MP3.

15. YAKiToMe!Uses the world's best text to speech (TTS) software. Upload documents, cut and paste text or link to feeds. Text reader converts text to speech automatically.

28 Free Survey, Polls, and Quizzes Tools For Teachers

1. addpollThe easiest way to create polls, surveys and html forms... on the web. Find out why we're the greatest online survey and poll software in the world with integrated form builder.

2. AnswerGardenAnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it as a tool for online brainstorming or embed it on your website or blog as a poll or guestbook.

3. Boo rooCreate online polls in minutes with our free polling tool. Use our comprehensive poll builder in order to create beautiful polling solutions in your browser, for free.

4. Jotform Quiz Maker - Our no-code tool lets you use custom conditional logic, tons of templates, and form analytics features to grade your quizzes automatically and efficiently. Share your quizzes with a link or embed them in your site.

5. DoculiciousEasily create embeddable web forms that generate PDF documents.

6. FluidSurveysOnline Survey Software & Form Tools at their best! Create forms & questionnaires with the best online survey software. Get started in seconds!

7. Forms on the FlyAmazing online forms made simple. Quickly create quizzes, tests, surveys, diagnostics & assessments for your website.

8. formsiteOur Drag & Drop editor, combined with over 40 question types, enables you to easily create almost any type of form or survey. Once you begin collecting results, we provide the functionality to email, analyze, share, and download your data.

9. FormspringFormspring is the place where you can share your perspective on anything. Members express their point of view and personality through engaging conversations and interact with friends, followers, and people they just find cool.

10. FoSpaceThe ability to publish self-calculating order forms, online surveys, contact forms, employment applications, rental applications or any type of online form imaginable, without having to hire a programmer, has finally been realized.

11. Freeonlinesurveys.comCreate your own Free Online Survey. Over 1 million users!

12. GFXPOLL.comThe best website to create free graphical polls for your website, forum or even email.

13. Google Forms (part of Google Drive)Collect RSVPs, run a survey, or quickly create a team roster with a simple online form. Then check out the results, neatly organized in a spreadsheet.

14. Kwik SurveysKwik Surveys makes your job easy. Design surveys,forms, polls and feedback forms. It's free!

15. MySurveyLabProfessional online surveys. Fastest online survey tool on the market. Beautiful yet simple color themes.

16. Orbeon FormsOrbeon Forms is your solution to build and deploy web forms. It handles complex forms typical of the enterprise or government, implements the W3C XForms standard, and is available in a free open source Community Edition, as well as a commercially supported Professional Edition.

17. PollDaddyThe most powerful and easy-to-use survey software around. Create stunning surveys, polls, and quizzes in minutes. Collect responses via your website, e-mail, iPad, Facebook, and Twitter. Generate and share easy-to-read reports.

18. PollhostIn a hurry? Create a free poll as a guest at Pollcode.com ... No need to sign up, quick free and easy!

19. ScattervoxScattervox is a new kind of poll! When you create a poll, you ask users to show how they feel about different people, places, or things by plotting them on a two-dimensional graph. It's like an interactive infographic!

20. SISsurveyCreate free online surveys and polls using SiS Survey. With SiS Survey you can now create surveys and polls for your website, blog and social network profiles.

21. SonarIf you need to feel the pulse of your community, or to get feedback on anything, SonarHQ is the easy and cost-effective way to get answers to your questions. The smarter, faster and easier way to create surveys.

22. SurveyMonkeySurveyMonkey is the world's most popular online survey tool. It's easier than ever to send free surveys, polls, questionnaires, customer feedback and market research. Plus get access to survey questions and professional templates.

23. Surveys EngineSurveys Engine is lightwheight online surveys server software. This tool enables you create various surveys and questionaires, from small and simple to large and complex. Surveys are hosted in our site so you and survey respondents don't need any software or server, just Internet browser.

24. SurvsCreate online surveys with simplicity and elegance. Survs lets you create, distribute, and analyze online surveys and questionnaires with a friendly interface and powerful features. Survs gives you everything you need to gather feedback.

25. Vizzual FormsVizzualforms is a web based service that will let you create forms and surveys, publish them online and see the results!

26. Web Form FactoryWeb Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. By generating the backend code for you, WFF saves you time... time you could spend doing more interesting stuff.

27. Web Online SurveysCreate questionnaires with point and click ease. This is an all in one service designed for people who are not computer experts and have the need to conduct surveys by themselves.

28. WufooWufoo is a web application that helps anybody build amazing online forms. When you design a form with Wufoo, it automatically builds the database, backend and scripts needed to make collecting and understanding your data easy, fast and fun.

17 Free Screen Capturing Tools For Teachers

1. Aviary Compatible with all modern browsers, including mobile devices which support Javascript and HTML5 or Flash. Customize with our code generator and integrate within minutes! Media creation tools: image editor, audio editor, screen capture.

2. Clip2NetThis free service allows you to upload desktop area image or files on the web really fast such as Desktop area capture and upload, Video capture and upload, Upload image from Clipboard, Upload text documents and much more.

3. Faststone Capture A powerful, lightweight, yet full-featured screen capture tool that allows you to easily capture and annotate anything on the screen including windows, objects, menus, full screen, rectangular/freehand regions and even scrolling windows/web pages. It also allows you to record screen activities and sound into video files.

4. Greenshot A free screenshot tool optimized for productivity. Greenshot is a light-weight screenshot software tool for Windows with key features such as quickly creating screenshots of a selected region, window or fullscreen; capturing of complete (scrolling) web pages from Internet Explorer, easily annotating, highlighting or obfuscating parts of the screenshot and much more.

5. JingSimple and FREE, Jing is the perfect way to enhance your fast-paced online conversations. Create images and videos of what you see on your computer screen, then share them instantly!

6. KingKong CaptureCapture onscreen images fast and easy. Quick capture of your desktop, selected areas and objects. Easy printing of screenshots. Automatic saving in various supported graphic file formats are some of the key features of KingKong Capture.

7. kwout"kwout" is a way you quote a part of a web page as an image with an image map. To use this service, all you need is to add our bookmarklet to your favorite browser. Takes a screenshot, cut out an aread, and then embed it anywhere that you want.

8. PrtScrScreen capture tool. Accessable through Ptr Scr, Ctrl+Prt Scr, or custom hotkey. Captures full screen, rectangle selection, freehand selection, or active window. Can capture mouse cursor. Supports multiple monitors. Much better than Microsoft's own Snipping Tool.

9. RumshotRumshot is an application for Windows similar to SnapShooter (Mac OS X) developed by Andrew Powell. Screenshots are a great way to show your desktop setup to friends and colleagues. But why settle for thumbnail of your carefully constructed desktop? Get classy - use Rumshot to automatically generate a themed and stylish screenshot preview!

10. ScreenDashCapture images from your computer screen with ease. If you can see it on-screen, you can capture it, including web-pages, PDF files, programs, etc.

11. ScreenhunterAward-winning screen capture solution to capture your screen, print and edit. Also with auto-scroll web pages, auto-capture, webcam and video screen capture.

12. ScreenpressoScreenpresso captures your screen (screenshots and HD videos) for your training documents, collaborative design work, IT bug reports, and more...

13. Screenshot CaptorScreenshot Captor is a best-in-class tool for grabbing, manipulating, annotating, and sharing screenshots. It's different from other screenshot utilities in several notable ways such as optimized for taking lots of screenshots with minimal intervention; highly configurable to make it work the way you want it to but stays out of your way in the system tray, excellent multi-monitor support, full set of scanner acquisition tools and scanner image correction, and perfect capture of Windows 7 partial transparency effects.

14. ScreenSnaprScreenSnapr's aim is to provide a simple and straight-forward approach to image capturing and sharing. Without any of the extra fluff, ScreenSnapr makes sharing images as easy as possible. Press the shortcut and go!

15. SkitchAnnotate, edit and share your screenshots and images... fast. Download now, it's free! Get your point across with fewer words using annotation, shapes and sketches, so that your ideas become reality faster.

16. TinyGrab:Social Screenshot sharing. Take a screenshot and share it with your clients or friends in less time than it took you to read this sentence! TinyGrab 2.0 makes simple screenshot sharing social. Taking the critically acclaimed original TinyGrab and building on it. TinyGrab 2.0 adds a tonne of new features and proves on the existing service.

17. Websnaprwebsnapr lets you capture screenshots of (almost) any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

30 Free Social Bookmarking Tools For Teachers

1. SymbalooeduOrganize and Share the best of the web with your students. Organize teaching resources all in one place. Encourage student to student communications. Promote innovation while maintaining simplicity in teaching.

2. PearltreesA place to collect, organize and share everything you like on the web. Add everything you like and organize it naturally. Enrich your collections and collaborate on your favorite topics. Discover millions of pearls to your interests.

3. 19 pencilsDiscover resources for your PreK-12 students from teachers around the world. Save thumbnails of web resources to a class page for easy student access.

4. A1-WebmarksA1-Webmarks is a free service that combines the convenience of a personal webmark server with the power of social webmarking.

5. All my favoritesShare your internet bookmarks. AllMyFavorites is free for personal use.

6. BibSonomyBibSonomy is a system for sharing bookmarks and lists of literature. Why dont you try it yourself? Collect, organise, and share bookmarks and publications.

7. BookmarkGSave and share interesting sites and articles

8. BuddymarksBuddyMarks.com has been called "The online personal, group and social bookmarks manager."

9. DeliciousDiscover, remember, and showcase your passions from around the web.

10. Diigo Education EditionDiigo is a powerful online research tool and collaborative research platform that integrates several key technologies, including social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and group-based collaboration, to enable a whole new process of online knowledge management and participatory learning in the 21st century.

11. EdshelfReviews & recommendations of tools for education. edshelf is a directory of websites, mobile apps, and desktop programs that are rated & reviewed by parents & educators, for parents & educators. We help you find the right educational tools for your specific needs.

12. EvernoteRemember everything. Save your ideas, things you like, things you hear, and things you see. Evernote works with nearly every computer, phone and mobile device out there. Search by keyword, tag or even printed and handwritten text inside images.

13. GivealinkShare your bookmarks with the community and help others navigate the Web. Use the GiveALink visualization tool to visualize and organize your bookmarks.Play the GiveALink games to create social links across the Web.

14. Historioushistorious saves you time by helping you find webpages you saw before. Bookmark sites with a single click, then find them again by searching for any word in the content of the page!

15. ikeepbookmarks.comiKeepBookmarks.com allows you to upload, and keep, your bookmarks on the web. You can access them at any time, from any computer... anywhere!

16. Jog The WebJOG THE WEB is a web-based tool that allows anyone to create a synchronous guide to a series of web sites. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.

17. Learn FizzFind, organize and share the best free learning on the web.

18. linkaGoGoThe free Online Favorites manager and Social Bookmarking application. Storing your Bookmarks (also known as Favorites, Anchors, Links or Hotlists) online. Your bookmarks are available on any computer with access to the Internet, protected by a password. So you can access them from everywhere, not only from home, but also from work, when you are visiting friends, when you are traveling etc.

19. LivebinderCollect your resources. Organize them neatly and easily. Make an impression

20. NetvibesEverything that matters to you, all in one dashboard. Netvibes is a personalized dashboard publishing platform for the Web and digital life aggregation.

21. NetvouzNetvouz is a social bookmarking service that allows you to save your favorite links online and access them from any computer, wherever you are.

22. PinboardSocial Bookmarking for Introverts. Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site. No ads, no fluff.

23. PinterestA content sharing service that allows members to "pin" images, videos and other objects to their pinboard.

24. RedditUser-generated news links. Votes promote stories to the front page.

25. Save ThisSave links to your favorite web pages from any site. Access your links from any computer or Web enabled wireless device. Organize your saved links into folders that you create. Share your saved links or folders with friends.

26. SharetivityShare, Save and Search. Your social network enhances your search experience

27. SmubSmub is the bookmarking, link-sharing & bookmark management tool for smartphones and any PC or Mac.

28. StumbleuponStumbleUpon is the easiest way to find cool new websites, videos, photos and images from across the Web. We make the best recommendations just for you.

29. TwoBrainsTwo Brains is an application that approaches the learning process in a different way. The application is built around goals, because in the end that's what you truly care about

30. Vi.sualize.usBookmark the pictures you like around the web. Enjoy people's favorite images

14 Online Bibliography and Citation Tools For Teachers

1. CitationGenerator -It's cloud-based, ad-free and quick (and easy) to use!

2. Citation Machine - FreeCitation machine helps students and professional researchers to properly credit the information that they use. Its primary goal is to make it so easy for student researchers to cite their information sources

3. Citefast - FreeCite your work at APA, MLA, and Chicago without leaving http://www.citefast.com/ in three easy steps. Your citations will be kept as long as you keep visiting the site. After four days of inactivity your citations will be deleted.

4. Citelighter - FreeStore, organize, and share your education and research for free. Creating internet-research bibliographies can be infuriating to say the least, so Citelighter grabs all relevant info to create accurate citations for you. Anything we miss you can add yourself, and we'll save your additions for future users.

5. Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy Citation Wizard - FreeOffer three Citation Styles: APA, CSE, formerly known as CBE, and MLA. All feature specific templates for citing online Journals, Web pages with and without authors, electronic Books and Databases.

6. Oregon Public Education Citation Maker for MLA - FreeDo you need to cite your sources? You can use this tool to create a Works Cited list of research sources following the MLA and APA standard citation formats.

7. Recipes4Success - FreeCreating a complete and correctly formatted citation is a challenge for many students, especially documenting sources such as art and music that aren't included in traditional citation formats. Create a citation formatted in either APA or MLA style. Students will still need to completely document the information, but the Citation Maker will format it for them.

8. RefDot - Chrome Extension - FreeMaking citation easy. Cite and store books or journal references. Add books automatically from amazon book pages. Cite books, journals and sites with this handy little extension.

9. Zotero - FreeZotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work-in the web browser itself. Whether you need to create footnotes, endnotes, in-text citations, or bibliographies, Zotero will do all the dirty work for you, leaving you free to focus on your writing. Create citations in Word and OpenOffice without ever leaving your word processor and add references to an email, a Google Doc, or some other editor simply by dragging one or more references out of Zotero.

10. EndNoteEndNote enables you to move seamlessly through your research process with flexible tools for searching, organizing and sharing your research, creating your bibliography and writing your paper. You'll save hours building and maintaining reference libraries and creating bibliographies. With unique features to maximize your time like automatically finding full text and updating records, EndNote lets you spend less time in the details.

11. NoodleToolsA powerful, integrated platform for research & literacy. NoodleTools is your instructional partner for differentiated teaching of literacy skills, critical analysis, sound reasoning, and collaborative group research.

12. ReferenceME - Android AppBetter essays, faster! Simply scan the barcode of a book using your mobile phone camera, and ReferenceME will create your bibliography and citations in moments. If there is no barcode you can find the book's ISBN or simply enter the details yourself, and turn them into references in any of the major styles used by universities and libraries. ReferenceME creates Bibliographies and Citations/Footnotes for Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, MHRA, MLA, Oxford and APA.

13. RefWorksRefWorks -- an online research management, writing and collaboration tool -- is designed to help researchers easily gather, manage, store and share all types of information, as well as generate citations and bibliographies.

13 Free Sticky Notes Tools For Teachers

1. CorkboardRemember and share what's important to you. Collaborate with others on a single Corkboard. Post and access on your computer or on-the-go. Organize your postings into Corkboards. Share what you post on your Facebook wall and get notified of new comments on your postings.

2. Hott NotesFree sticky notes reminders for your desktop. A simple, easy-to-use sticky notes software for Windows.

3. LinoitSticky and Photo sharing for you. A free sticky and canvas service that requires nothing but a Web browser.

4. ListingsOnline sticky notes. Take notes from your browser. Share and collaborate with others in real-time. Reach your notes from anywhere. Super fast, free and ridiculously easy.

5. Notepad2A fast and light-weight Notepad-like text editor with syntax highlighting. This program can be run out of the box without installation, and does not touch your system's registry.

6. PadletPadlet gives you a blank page (a wall) and you put anything you want on it, anywhere. Perhaps the easiest site for children to use. Pose questions, get their answers, and give them feedback - all on the same page.

7. ScrumblrScrumblr is a web-based simulation of a physical agile sprint board that supports real-time collaboration.

8. Simple Sticky NotesWhat is Simple Sticky Notes? It's a simple, easy-to-use, absolutely free, fast and efficient note taking software.

9. SpaazeSpaaze (pronounced "space") offers it's users so called boards. Each board is an infinite space which resembles a virtual cork. On these boards, items can be put. Currently Spaaze offers 7 different items: Labels, Notes, Bookmarks, Images, Files, Videos and HTML. These items can be edited in place, moved via drag and drop and positioned freely on the board. Therefore it's possible to arrange a bunch of items any way you like, which makes it possible to use it for many different use cases.

10. StickiesStickies is a PC utility. Just like a real sticky piece of paper: Once on screen, stickies will remain where placed until closed, even through reboots. Stickies appearance can be customised; fonts, colours and buttons may be changed, and styles saved. Stickies can be resized and store text or images. Stickies can snap to each other and to the sides of the screen to keep them neatly lined up. Stickies can be attached to a web site, document or folder so they only show when it's on screen, and much more...

11. StickrWith Stickr you can create streams, subscribe to your friends' feeds, form and join groups, follow people you like, leave private comments. Stickr feed can be embedded to your homepage or blog, your account can be associated with accounts on other social networking sites.

12. StickyPadStickyPad is an invaluable, easy-to-use tool that lets you place sticky notes on your desktop. You can type notes to yourself, set meeting and appointment reminders, keep track of a to-do list, and anything else you would do with paper notes.

13. StixyStixy helps users organize their world on flexible, shareable Web-based bulletin boards called Stixyboards. Unlike most personal productivity or project management software, Stixy doesn't dictate how users should organize their information. Users can create tasks, appointments, files, photos, notes, and bookmarks on their Stixyboards, organized in whatever way makes sense to them.

31 Free Photo and Image Editing Tools For Teachers

1. Aviary A better photo editing solution for web and mobile.

2. Cacoo Cacoo is a user friendly online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts. Cacoo can be used free of charge.

3. Chart ChooserWe've rebuilt our favorite tool for improving Excel and PowerPoint with HTML5 goodness. Use the filters above to find the right chart type for your needs. Then download as Excel or PowerPoint templates and insert your own data.

4. ChartGizmoWith your free account from ChartGizmo you can now create charts for your website, blog and social network profiles.

5. ChartToolCharts and graphs are a great tool because they communicate information visually. On Onlinecharttool.com you can design and share your own graphs online and for free.

6. Colorcinch An intuitive photo editor that lets you transform your photos into stunning cartoons, characters, and animes! Creating your avatar can be done with just a single click. Photo editing made simple, beautiful, and for everyone. It's free, no sign-up is needed.

7. CoSketchCoSketch is a multi-user online whiteboard designed to give you the ability to quickly visualize and share your ideas as images.

8. Creately100's of thoughtful features to make creately diagramming quick and natural, its a joy to use.

9. Creative Docs.netCreative Docs .NET is a vector-based graphic design tool with support for rich text, ideal to quickly write short documents, manuals, posters, illustrations, schemas, plans, flow charts, and much more.

10. diagram.lyDraw Diagrams Online, free. draw.io is an online diagramming application and github project. It features the full range of visual configuration you expect, as well as web application features such as a full range of export options, a large collection of icons, real-time collaboration and embedded widget sharing.

11. DoppelMeWith DoppelMe you can create a cool graphical likeness of yourself, your friends, family or any group of people for use as an avatar in forums, instant messenger, blogs and almost anywhere else on the web. It's free and there are no Flash, ActiveX controls, downloads or toolbars needed - just your browser and a few mouse clicks. That's it!

12. Flash PAINTThis is an online full paint application. Draw online with paint tool. Save on your disk your drawings and send your drawing to the public gallery.

13. Flowchart.comFlowchart.com is an online multi-user, real-time collaboration flow charts service. It's Flowcharting made easy.

14. Gickr.comInstantly create Animated GIF online, free, right now! Just upload pictures or grab them from your Flickr.

15. GlogsterLooking for a new way to express yourself? Mash up music, photos, videos, & more to express what you care about. Your ideas, your emotions, your Glogster. Glogster costs 10 seconds to sign up. That's it! Everything on Glogster is free & always will be.

16. GoAnimateMake Amazing Animated Videos! Use our Video Maker to create videos for free.

17. Google SketchUpIntuitive and fun to use. Re-imagine your living space. Model buildings for Google Earth. Use SketchUp for free.

18. InkscapeAn Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

19. Paint.NETSimple, intuitive, and innovative user interface. Every feature and user interface element was designed to be immediately intuitive and quickly learnable without assistance.

20. PencilPencil is an animation/drawing software for Mac OS X, Windows, and Linux. It lets you create traditional hand-drawn animation (cartoon) using both bitmap and vector graphics. Pencil is free and open source.

21. PhotoPeachOur idea is to help you tell better stories online using photos. With PhotoPeach you can create a rich slideshow in seconds to engage your friends or family. We also support background music, captions, and comments so you can elaborate on your story further.

22. PicMarkrFree Watermark. Add Custom Watermark with PicMarkr! PicMarkr lets you to add custom watermark (image or text) to your images online and free.

23. PixlrWelcome to the most popular online photo editor in the world...

24. ReshadeHere you can resize images maintaining quality, edges and texture. This means Reshade reduces or eliminates most of the usual side-effects of photo enlargement.

25. Rich Chart LiveCreate for free enjoyable and captivating Flash Charts from your web browser.

26. Roxio PhotoShowMake Free Photo Slideshow. It's so easy that just about anyone can tell an engaging, one-of-a-kind PhotoShow story in just minutes!

27. Slidestory Combine sharing pictures and narration and what do you get? Slidestory! Slidestory is a new, exciting and FREE way to make presentations and share them on the Internet.

28. SplashupSplashup, formerly Fauxto, is a powerful editing tool and photo manager. With the features professionals use and novices want, it's easy to use, works in real-time and allows you to edit many images at once.

29. SUMO PaintWeb's best image app, hands down! Our editor is full of unique features that let you unleash your creativity.

30. ToondooWorld's fastest way to create cartoons!

31. VokiVoki is a FREE service that lets you create customized avatars. Add voice to your Voki avatars. Post your Voki to any blog, website, or profile. Take advantage of Voki's learning resources.

17 Free Testing and Quizzing Tool For Teachers

1. ClassMarkerClassMarker's secure, professional web-based testing service is an easy-to-use, customizable online test maker for business, training & educational assessment with tests and quizzes graded instantly - saving hours of paperwork!

2. ClassToolsCreate free games, quizzes, activities and diagrams in seconds! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

3. Easy Test MakerEasyTestMaker is a free online test generator to help you create your tests. You can create multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, matching, short answer and true and false questions all on the same test. You can also insert instructions and divide your test into multiple sections.

4. Hot Potatoes You can choose from the following six types of questions to create your interactive quiz: crossword, multiple-choice, short-answer, gap-fill, matching/ordering and jumbled-sentence.

5. iQuiz MakeriQuiz Maker is an easy way for you to create custom quizzes for the iQuiz game for the iPod. iQuiz Maker works seamlessly so you can write, create, package your very own quizzes. Download the free application today to begin putting the world to the test.

6. ProProfs Quiz SchoolCreate Online Tests & Quizzes Easily. Over 100,000 quizzes created. Over 1 million quiz takers.

7. QuandaryQuandary is an application for creating Web-based Action Mazes. An Action Maze is a kind of interactive case-study; the user is presented with a situation, and a number of choices as to a course of action to deal with it.

8. QuedocOur quiz software not only plays quizzes, interactive lessons and revision aids; it also helps you create your own learning content and work cooperatively with others in the process of authoring.

9. Quiz RevolutionMake Free Facebook Quizzes and Free Online Quizzes. Interactive Multimedia Quizzes That Can Be Embedded On Any Site.

10. YacapacaIf you are a teacher you can use 15,000 quizzes in every subject or you can create quizzes, surveys, tests, eportfolios and more.

11. FunnelBrainFunnelBrain gives you and your friends a new way to learn. You can form study teams, play games, take quizzes, and show off your intellectual prowess. It's fun, it's free and you'll do better in class.

12. JeopardyJeopardyLabs allows you to create a customized jeopardy template without PowerPoint. The games you make can be played online from anywhere in the world. Building your own jeopardy template is a piece of cake.

13. EdgamesUse games to enhance your classroom teaching! On this site you will find more than just one or two games, we have categories of games for all types of classrooms.

14. QuizSlidesThe easy way to create stylish, interactive online test!

15. What2LearnThe fun and effective way to learn. Play some of our thousands of revision games and quizzes or make your own. Whether you are revising for examinations and tests such as GCSE and SATs, or simply looking for a powerful and engaging way to develop literacy and understanding, register today and start the learning fun.

15 Free Web Conferencing Tools For Teachers

1. AnyMeetingAnyMeeting is free with ads. It allows for meetings of up to 200 people, and has essential functionality like screen sharing, VoIP and phone conferencing, meeting recording and it even has a follow-up functionality.

2. BigBlueButtonBigBlueButton enables universities and colleges to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote students.

3. Google+ HangoutWould you like to see, hear, and share information to your online learners. With Google+ Hangouts you can have a video group chat for up to 10 people for free! It is a powerful tool much better than a Web Chat.

4. ManagemeetManageMeet.com is a online service that enables teams to collaborate on tomorrows solutions in real-time. Share knowledge, collect ideas, analyze and decide.

5. Meetin.GsUnlimited meetings with 6 participants/meeting, material exchange, agenda & notes, 5MB size limit per file, and Skype integration.It's also a great place to edit documents together with a group and anyone can mail-in notes and other materials via email.

6. MeetingBurnerHost up to 10 webinar attendees for FREE with no ads - forever! Instantly share your screen with anybody. Works with iPhones, iPads, and Android Phones. You'll also get analytics for your meetings so that you can see how your guests interact with your content.

7. MikogoScreen sharing has never been so easy! Have an online meeting, give a presentation, or provide remote support with Mikogo. Sign up today and see how simple online meetings can be!

8. ShowDocumentShowDocument lets you do quick and easy real-time collaboration with others with no software required.

9. Sync.inSync.in is a web based word processor for people to collaborate in real-time. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone's screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate with text documents, useful for meeting notes, brainstorming, project planning, training, and more.

10. TokBox Video ChatTokBox makes it easy to add video chat to your site using either the OpenTok API or OpenTok Widgets.

11. TwiddlaMark up websites, graphics, and photos, or start brainstorming on a blank canvas. Browse the web with your friends or make that conference call more productive than ever. No plug-ins, downloads, or firewall voodoo - it's all here, ready to go when you are. Browser-agnostic, user-friendly.

12. VyewVyew allows you to meet and share content in real-time or anytime. Upload images, files, documents and videos into a room. Users can access and contribute at anytime.

13. WebHuddleMeetings can be conducted either in conjunction with an enterprise's existing teleconferencing service, or utilizing WebHuddle's optional voice over IP.

14. YugmaYugma free web conferencing allows anyone, anywhere to instantly share their desktop and ideas online with others. To start hosting your own meetings, sign up today for FREE. Your Yugma Free web conferencing account allows you to invite up to 1 attendees with 30 minutes meeting limitations.

15. Zoho MeetingGet started with online meetings, start sharing your desktop to anyone, anywhere at any time.

15 Free Authoring Tools For Teachers

1. Easygenerator Easygenerator provides cloud-based eLearning authoring software. Easygenerator enables instructional designers and subject matter experts to rapidly create the most engaging courses that have the highest learning impact. Easygenerator is affordable, easy to use, and future proof. Simply create, design and publish your eLearning courses. Used and loved by 5000+ users in more than 120 countries in both enterprises and universities. Easygenerator's headquarter is located in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

2. LCDSThe Microsoft Learning Content Development System (LCDS) is a free tool that enables the Microsoft Learning community to create high-quality, interactive, online courses and Microsoft Silverlight Learning Snacks.

3. SmartBuilderSmartBuilder is the award-winning course authoring tool that enables you to create rich Flash e-learning with an easy-to-use interface.

4. The Multimedia Learning Object Authoring ToolThe Multimedia Learning Object Authoring Tool enables content experts to easily combine video, audio, images and texts into one synchronized learning object.

5. authorPOINT authorPOINT is an authoring tool that allows users to capture presentations and add pre-recorded audio/video, all inside of Microsoft PowerPoint. authorGEN also offers authorPOINT Lite, which converts PowerPoint presentations to Flash.

6. DipityFrom what we can glean from their website, Dipity is an online timeline creator. Users, known as Dipsters, can create their own content on subjects that are meaningful to them and share them with other users. Dipsters can also integrate social media into their timeline, utilizing real-time updates.

7. Document Suite 2008Document Suite 2008 is an authoring tool that helps transform documents into online help modules.

8. IzzuiIzzui is a hybrid social learning application that can be linked with QuickLessons. Izzui uses Facebook as an LMS to track and deliver courses. Izzui also has an e-Commerce capability allowing users to charge and pay for courses that they have created.

9. JackdawJackdaw produces SCORM 1.2 compliant content that is easily integrated into any LMS. Users can create interactive content either from scratch or with the the help of over 100 templates. Jackdaw also lets users create content that they can then sell on the Open Elms web-store.

10. LessonWriterFrom what we can gather from their website, LessonWriter is a tool for teachers that allows them to create lessons from any passage. These courses allow teachers to be creative with their lesson plans and also saves them a great deal of time.

11. MOS SoloMOS Solo offers a way for users to create content on the go without having to rely on a constant Internet connection. Even though they are using an offline content creation tool, they do not lose any of the functionality or power to create their multimedia content.

12. myUdutuA free online authoring tool with a suite of WSIWYG tools, allowing users to create courses in an approachable environment. Claims to export SCORM 1.2/2004 conformant courses to be used in a 3rd party LMS or integrate into social media sites, such as Facebook.

13. QuickLessons Authoring ToolQuickLessons was built from the ground up to be a completely SaaS based content authoring tool, requiring the user to only have access to a web-browser. QuickLessons comes equipped with quizzes, games, characters, out-of-the-box animations and other customizable content to allow users to create truly unique and interactive flash-based content to meet their needs. Users can either use QuickLessons for free, publishing their content only to Facebook, or they can buy an individual, corporate or academic account.

14. ScratchFrom what we can gather from their website, Scratch is a creative tool that helps users create content that is beyond the barriers of traditional page-turners. Scratch users can create interactive stories, animation, music, and art, then share their creations on the web.

15. xtimelinextimeline is a tool that allows users to create timeline based content for free. Users can also share their timelines with other users, creating a community.

5 Free Annotation Tools For Teachers

1. Diigo It's one of the most commonly used free web annotation tools which lets you bookmark and tag web pages. In addition to that, you would also be able to highlight a part of a webpage if you wish to emphasize something and attach sticky notes to it. Its advanced search allows you to rummage through the text of pages you have bookmarked which includes tags, titles, URLs and even your own comments and highlights. One of the best features of Diigo is your ability to comment on other users' notes which can be set to either public or private.

2. A.nnotate A.nnotate is not just a free annotation tool but also a collaboration and indexing tool. It can be used to catalogue images and other document formats. It also makes it easier for you to work with a group especially when documents are needed to be sent through email back and forth because of comments of different users. With the use of A.nnotate, you can simply create a single read-only copy of your document and share it with whomever you like so you could all comment on it. Another good thing about it is, it is very easy to use and it works fine in commonly used web browsers without you having to install software or plug ins. You may sign up for a free account which gives you credits for annotating 30 items every month, anything above that will require payment.

3. Bounce App Bounce app is a very simple free annotation tool that works just as effectively as others in the market. You simply log on to their website, enter the URL of the webpage you'd like to comment on and then click on Grab Screenshot. Voila! You'll have a screenshot of that webpage and you're now ready to comment on it by dragging the mouse and creating red boxes (like the one you see below). These red boxes are labelled with another box that contains your name and has a space for your comments. One of the best features of Bounce is that you can share your feedback on either Facebook or Twitter and let your friends see it.

4. Crocodoc Crocodoc Personal is a free annotation tool used for commenting on documents. Simply log on to their website, upload a PDF file, Office Doc or image, modify it using Crocodoc tools which allow you to highlight, draw or comment on it. When you're done, click on Share button at the upper right hand corner of the page and send the link to whomever you'd like to share the document with. You may share it through copying the link and sending it through email or IM, or you may even embed it on your blog or website. However, if you would like to store your files or view your upload history, you have to sign up for a Crocodoc account but you need not worry because this app is absolutely for free.

5. Markup.io Markup allows you to draw on any webpage using built in tools. Simply go to their website, drag the icon located at the lower right hand corner of the page to the bookmark bar of your browser.

8 Free Video Tools For Teachers

1. Ezvid Ezvid is a 100% free video creation tool that allows you to capture everything that appears on your computer screen. It also allows you to edit your recorded videos by splitting your recordings, inserting text and audio, controlling the speed and even drawing directly on your screen. There's also a Gaming Mode specially designed for gamers to avoid black screen problems when recording games such as Diablo III and Call of Duty which are full screen games. You can save your edited videos for later use or you may directly upload them on YouTube.

2. BlueBerry Flashback Express Recorder This recorder just, like other screencast tools, enables you to capture your screen while recording yourself through a webcam. It introduces quite a long list of features that will let you edit videos like a pro. BB Flashback Express Recorder also has a very easy user interface that allows you to decide what area of your screen you would like to capture and whether to record sound and web activity or not. Another good thing about it is that you can have scheduled recordings so you wouldn't have to miss online events. It also includes a player which works like a VCR and allows you to review your recording frame-by-frame.

3. ScreenrScreenr is a web-based screen recorder. Yes, you read it right. It's web-based so that means, you wouldn't have to install it on your computer but it requires Java to run. Screenr allows you to easily capture your screen by logging on to their website, clicking on the record button and keeping it open while you are capturing your screen activity. Keep in mind that you only have a maximum of 5 minutes per recording. Files are saved on the site. When you're finished, you'll be given a link that can be easily shared by email or can be embedded on websites. It's absolutely free, works on both MAC and PC and will work even on your iPhone.

4. Rylstim Screen Recorder Rylstim is a very simple and easy to use Screen Recorder which, aside from capturing your screen, also allows you to record events happening on the monitor including right and left clicks. It has a minimalistic and intuitive interface but supports multiple CODECs. You can also customize the video frame rates. Rylstim Screen Recorder works on Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows

5. Krut Krut is a screencast tool that works in almost any Operating system and requires Java to run. It's a very simple program with only 3 basic controls: Record, Snap for still pictures, and the Arrow button used to adjust the borders of your recording area. It's very minimalist without all those complicated features that other screencast tools offer, but it can be powerful too because of some additional features such as timer-controlled recording. You can also use it for recording streaming video and audio.

6. CamStudioCamStudio is a pretty straightforward program that lets you record your screen and audio and produce outputs in AVI or SWF format. It enables annotation such as text and call out inserts and even provides you some cursor options such as default, hidden or highlighted, which should be carefully laid out prior to recording. You have some video options too which lets you control compression, frame rates , quality and time lapse but aside from that, you can't really do much with the video because it doesn't include editing capabilities.

7. Webineria Webineria is an open-source easy-to-use screencast tool which lets you capture your screen activity and do "picture-in-picture" video by adding your webcam stream. It provides you 3 frame rate options: 5, 10 and 15 frames per second and outputs can be produced in either AVI or FLV format. It has built in features too that let you adjust the boundaries of your record area, use hotkeys to pause and resume recording. Outputs are saved on the site and can be shared via email links or embedding on websites.

8. Screen-O-MaticScreencast-O-Matic is a screencast tool which has both web-based and desktop versions. It's very easy to use and will run so long as you have Java installed on your computer. It has free video hosting and allows you to record your screen or both your screen and webcam. You may also publish your output directly to YouTube. The free versions of Screencast-O-Matic has limited features though. For instance, there's a 15-minute recording time limit, there's a small watermark when recording, it doesn't allow webcam-only recording and it doesn't allow you to zoom and annotate while recording.

6 Free PDF Tools For Teachers

1. Adobe Reader XIAdobe Reader is a trusted high quality tool that allows you to view and print your PDF files. It also lets you interact with PDF content, including multimedia. Other features covered are adding and verifying digital signature, annotating on PDF pages, creating and filling out PDF forms, and printing out these documents.

2. Doro PDF Writer by CompSoftDoro PDF Writer is very easy to use and is pretty straightforward. It doesn't have all the other options that other PDF tools have but it works great in printing PDF files. It is installed as a virtual print driver and converts any printable document or image to PDF format. It can be powerful too as it lets you set the author name and even protect it with a password before conversion. Just select it from the program's setting menu before printing a PDF document and it will launch and provide you the option to change the document's metadata. On top of those mentioned is the ability to enable and disable copying, pasting and printing functions of the document. It is compatible with XP, Vista, Windows 7 and 8.

3. BullZip PDF Printer by BioPDFBullZip is another PDF tool that works as a virtual print driver and uses Ghostscript to convert documents. Like Doro, it also allows you to convert printable document or image to PDF format but on top of that, it also lets you add watermarks, merge PDF files and even add protection to your PDF files. It is free for up to 10 users and offers installation of promotional, third party components. You may check the guidelines here.

4. PDFTK BuilderThis is an open source PDF tool used which allows you to easily reorder or merge selected pages. It is also capable of splitting and rotating pages and adding stamp and encryption to your file. Aside from those mentioned it doesn't offer too much and even lacks the basic function of watermarking with background text.

5. PDFill PDF ToolThis is probably one of the most user-friendly free PDF tools that offer you so many features. It provides the most important functions such as merging, splitting, reordering, rotating and cropping pages and even allows you to add headers, footers and watermarks. It also offers additional features such as encrypting and decrypting security options, and deleting, flattening and adding form fields. It requires GhostScript and Java to run.

6. jPDF Tweak It can be a good choice when you want to get as many features as you can in just one application. It lets you merge, split, reorder and rotate pages, and add watermarks and encryption too. You can also digitally sign PDF documents using it. There are features for attaching files to PDF and editing metadata as well. jPDF Tweak requires Java 5, or even higher, to run. It uses iText library to manipulate PDF documents and JGoodies Forms for its GUI.

34 Sites To Download Royalty Free and Creative Commons Music For Teachers

1. Archive's audio and MP3 library This library contains over two hundred thousand free digital recordings ranging from alternative news programming, to Grateful Dead concerts, to Old Time Radio shows, to book and poetry readings, to original music uploaded by our users. Many of these audios and MP3s are available for free download.

2. ArtistServer Free independent music, 11,000 mp3 downloads by more than 10,000 artists.

3. Audiofarm It´s the best and easiest way to find new and interesting music, audio recordings, people and friends from around the world.

4. Audionautix All music in this online collection created by Jason Shaw. Released under Creative Commons license 3.0 You are free to use the music (even for commercial purposes) as long as you credit "Music from - audionautix.com"OR provide a link to this website from yours. Music must be part of some other created works. No further permission is required.

5. BeatPick Creative Commons licenses allow the use of music for free for non-commercial projects, provided that users credit your name in association with their multimedia projects. Thus, we provide music for free for scholastic and socially involved projects, while we require that governmental funded ones pay a licensing fee. For personal use, we encourage our users to buy the albums/EPs from our site. To obtain the download of the required files, all projects must provide us with their name, e-mail and project description, allowing us to control that they are indeed entitle to such uses.

6. Brainy Betty Free Sound Clips and Music for Presentations!

7. Bump Foot Bump Foot is a non-profit netlabel in Japan. There are two main branches. Bump side : techno and house, or based on them. Foot side : ambient, IDM, or etc... other than bump side.You are free: to Share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work, and to Remix - to adapt the work.

8. CASH MusicCASH Music is a non-profit organization that hosts digital tools for musicians and labels to share their music. The digital tool allows for uploads and downloads of songs and sharing is made easy.

9. ccMixter Looking for music for a video, school project, game you're developing, podcast or just for listening in your cubicle or mobile music device? Find exactly the music you're looking for - podsafe, liberally licensed - using dig.ccMixter Music Discovery tool.

10. CCTrax All showcased music is available under one of the six Creative Commons licenses. They authorize free music download and enable the artists to promote their music while protecting their rights.

11. DanoSongs Hi, I'm Dan-O and I post my original music as free MP3 downloads here on DanoSongs.com. You can listen to the songs online or download the tracks. It's also legal to use the music royalty free in your video, game, film, presentation, slideshow or website.

12. FMA The Free Music Archive is an interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads. The Free Music Archive is directed by WFMU, the most renowned freeform radio station in America. Radio has always offered the public free access to new music. The Free Music Archive is a continuation of that purpose, designed for the age of the internet.

13. Freeplay Music Library Freeplay's first product, the Freeplay Music Library, is a comprehensive collection of High End Broadcast production music spanning all the popular musical genres, available for download either on-line or via our Portable Hard Drive.

14. FreeSFXDownload free sound effects.Stuart Duffield has been creating audio professionally for 18 years. Having worked predominately in the Games Industry, he has produced a wide range of audio for various worldwide clients and numerous high profile projects. Based in the UK, Stuart has a history of synthesising, recording, designing, processing and editing audio of all types. Having worked in-house for a number of major Game Developers, Stuart currently works on a freelance / contract basis. This involves audio design, music composition and voice production in various forms - for Games, Animation, TV and Film.

15. Freesound Freesound aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, ... released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.

16. iBeat Free Beats - Download beats, loops, breaks and samples Free beats, loops, and breaks - iBeat.org iBeat - pushing beats, loops and breaks since 2007. Free under Creative Commons licensing.

17. Incompetech Incompetech hosts a wide variety of royalty free music. You can browse their selection by genre or feel. "Feel" would include things like: Action, Relaxed, Intense or Humorous; you can select a combination of 'Feels' and it will check its database for selection matches. Clips can be played on the website and instantly downloaded as well.

18. Jamendo370,000 tracks.Free music for all. Enjoy unlimited music, it's completely free and legal.

19. JewelBeat Free Background Music. Easily search thru over 4,000 free background music and sound effects simply by using keywords. No need to download to preview - just type in keywords, listen immediately then download what you need! Start searching for free background music.

20. Josh Woodward Yes, you can freely download, share and use all 180+ of Josh Woodward songs.

21. Kompoz Kompoz is an online community that prides in collaboration between artists from all over the world. Artists post their clips on the website where anyone can download it and use it for their own productions. They can also add their own instruments or creative mix to the original clip and upload it on the website again.

22. LifeSounds LifeSounds works on the integration of music throughout the curriculum. Their desire is to build each individuals' ability to strengthen their emotional intelligence and to encourage understanding between people.

23. Musopen Set music FREE. Musopen (www.musopen.org) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit focused on improving access and exposure to music by creating free resources and educational materials. We provide recordings, sheet music, and textbooks to the public for free, without copyright restrictions. Put simply, our mission is to set music free.

24. Orphan Songs The Orphan Songs website is running by Carl-Otto Johansson. Most of the music here is free to download and use. (Creative Commons).

25. PacDV This is a small database of free audio clips organised by mood or emotion such as: Warm, Loving, Serious or Lonely.

26. Partners in Rhyme Royalty free music libraries for you to download and start using right away in your commercial projects. These high quality music tracks will make your projects more effective and sound more professional.

27. Public Domain 4U Great Historical Music Recordings, Free to Download, Play, and Share. Our musical heritage is our culture. The Past should be appreciated, not neglected. These artists are so unique, they should never be forgotten. This site is designed for your musical edification. This site can not grant any commercial uses of this material.

28. Purple Planet Free Collection of Royalty Free Music available for download, composed and performed by Geoff Harvey and Chris Martyn Music can be used free of charge for web-based projects e.g. YouTube (see 'Using Our Music' for more info) in exchange for a link to our site. Donations are welcome!

29. Restorm This is a platform to sell music to the public. Also, you can download some of their free selection of music just by creating an account.

30. Royalty Free Music Library Royalty Free Music Library is proud to offer one of the largest offerings of online broadcast-quality royalty free music anywhere on the web. Download royalty free music from 3 of the top royalty free catalogs online:

1. Royalty Free Music Revolution - The definitive royalty free music catalog with over 1000 songs from some of the top composers in the industry.

2. Radical Music Library - Royalty free music with cutting edge productions and "indie" attitude. Created by professional composers with a long list of film and television credits.

3. Mojo Music Library - An offering of top- notch royalty free music with broader coverage on each CD for those who need a bit wider coverage for their budget.

31. SampleSwap Creative Commons Licensed Electronic Music for Commercial and Non-Commercial Royalty-Free use(Free professional-quality MP3s for DJ'ing, film scores, radio, TV, video games, podcasting, etc.). These pre-cleared songs were uploaded by artists at sampleswap.org under a variety of Creative Commons licenses. Please be sure to read the licensing information for each track carefully before using any of this music.

32. Sonnyboo 40 completely free pieces of music. For each and every single song below, all you have to do is credit the songwriter - Peter John Ross (www.sonnyboo.com) and the music is your to use for free.

33. SoundCloud SoundCloud is a website where artists share their new tracks to the world. There is a section under Creative Commons license where you can download other people's tracks. You can stream the available clips and it takes just a simple click to get the MP3 file without any registration.

34. Stock Music Boutique Stock Music Boutique library offers high quality royalty-free production music. All tracks have full music clearance ready for instant buy out. Find a track you like and use it forever at no extra cost.

18 Free Stock Photos Sites For Teachers

1. PublicDomainPictures.net is a repository for free public domain photos. You can download high quality photos, upload your own pictures, earn money to charity, get exposure and gain popularity and improve your photographic and graphic skills.

2. FreeImages is not just another clipart graphic site!.... more than 6000 original stock photos all for FREE! Free images is a high quality resource of digital stock photographic images for use by all. All images in their collection are free to use on websites and printed materials.

3. FreeFoto.com is made up of 132232 images with 182 sections organized into 3630 categories.

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46 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers
by TeachThought Staff

What are the best free apps for teachers?

That's a pretty general and subjective idea. The best free apps for teachers as human beings-health, finances, and entertainment? The best free apps for teachers in the classroom? To connect with other educators? To stay on top of emerging tools and trends in education? To use with students?

For iOS, Android, or Windows Phone? Can we assume there's WiFi access? Is data use an issue? What about data privacy? And what do we mean by 'free' Truly free? Are in-app purchases available? Necessary? Is it a free version that has hideous banners everywhere?

To say that there is a lot to consider is an understatement.

That said, we've taken a wide-lens view of the modern teacher and taken a stab at what might be considered 46 of the best free apps for teachers available for iOS. They may have some paid options, but they're each entirely useful without spending a penny.

While we do look at music, health tracking apps, and other teachers-as-a-human-being apps, we focus mostly on the kinds of digital content that will help you teach more effectively to a wider range of students in more compelling and dynamic ways than ever before. All free.

ClassDojo offers a beautiful classroom management platform for teachers to easily encourage any behavior or skill in the classroom and keep parents in the loop.

Haiku Deck makes it a snap to create beautiful presentations that will wow your audience - whether you're pitching an idea, teaching a lesson, telling a story, or igniting a movement.

Shadow Puppet is a digital storytelling app for iPad designed for kids. Students record mini-movies or presentations that combine photos and their voices.

Google Drive is one of the best free apps for teachers to safely back up all your files - like videos, photos, and documents - so you can't lose them. Easily invite others to view, edit, or leave comments on any of your files or folders.

Dropbox is the place for your photos, docs, videos, and other files. Files you keep in Dropbox are safely backed up and you can get to them from all your devices. It's easy to send large files to anyone, even if they don't have a Dropbox account.

OneNote is your very own digital notebook to capture your thoughts, discoveries, and ideas. With OneNote you can seize that moment of inspiration, take your class notes, or track that list of errands that are too important to forget. Whether you're at home, in the office, or on the go, your notes are available to you on all your devices.

NASA invites you to explore and discover the latest images, videos, mission information, news, feature stories, tweets, NASA TV, and featured content with the NASA App for iOS.

Twitter lets you Tweet, Retweet, reply, and favorite in a flash. Quickly see recent Tweets and top trends. Share your location, a song, or your thoughts with a flick of the wrist on one of the best free apps for teachers on social media.

Adobe Voicehelps you create stunning animated videos in minutes. No filming - just talk to tell your story. Pick from over 25,000 beautiful iconic images to show your ideas and Voice automatically adds cinematic motion and a soundtrack. Persuade, inform and inspire anyone online. Make an impact.

Google Maps Street View allows you to explore the world at street level. Search for cities, places, and businesses. Browse layers including roads, borders, places, photos, and more. Visit the Earth Gallery to find exciting maps such as real-time earthquakes, planes in flight, hiking trails, city tours, and more.

Read&Write for Google Chrome boosts confidence and attainment for students with dyslexia or English language learners who struggle with reading and writing.

Google Photos is the home for all your photos and videos, searchable and organized by the people, places, and things that matter.

Skype enables video calls, conferencing, and more for school-to-school or school-to-expert video interactions.

TikTok is a learning platform and social network. Algorithms help teachers access lesson ideas and teacher hacks from other users.

Evernote for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch gets you effortlessly organized with notes that sync between all your devices. Be productive anywhere.

Duolingo makes it easy to learn another language from your phone in your spare time. They're one of the best free apps for teachers (and students) to learn virtually any language, virtually!

Khan Academy houses thousands of standards-aligned practice and lessons in K-12 math, grammar, science, history, and other subjects.

OneDrive app iOS lets you easily work with your personal and work files when you're on the go.

Quizlet is a formative assessment tool where users can create, present, and share quizzes on a variety of subjects.

FlipGrid is one of the best free apps for teachers to promote student engagement and discussion. It allows teachers to facilitate video discussions and organize students into groups with access to particular discussion topics.

Kahoot is a game-based formative assessment tool - teachers can design multiple-choice, true/false, and other games related to class content. Teachers can also access assessments created by other users.

Microsoft Word offers a free experience for viewing, creating, and editing documents.

Pocket saves articles for you to view later. Don't lose track of the interesting things you find by emailing yourself links or letting tabs pile up in your browser - just save them to Pocket.

Newsify users can read and share their favorite websites and blogs with an amazing newspaper-like layout.

Nearpod enables teachers, schools, and districts, to use their iPads to manage content on students' iPads, iPhones, iPods, or Macs. It seamlessly combines interactive presentation, collaboration, and real-time assessment tools into one integrated solution.

Wordflex Touch Dictionary was developed exclusively for iPad and with rich content from the Oxford University Press. This fun, fascinating tool offers a truly engaging reference for word lovers of all ages and interests. By using your fingers to manipulate word trees, you will experience language as an interactive adventure and will find information quickly and easily.

TED grants access to riveting talks from some of the world's most fascinating people - wherever you are.

ShowMe allows you to record voice-over whiteboard tutorials and share them online. It's an amazingly simple app that anyone can use, no matter how young or old.

Phonics Genius is specifically designed to help students recognize and distinguish words by sounds.

ZipGrade is, hands down, one of the best free apps for teachers to grade multiple-choice tests, quizzes, and assessments instantly in the classroom by using your iPhone or iPad's camera as a scanner. It is the most cost-effective, fastest, and most accurate way to grade tests in the classroom or where ever you are.

Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of all ages to independently document and share what they are learning at school.

iAspire is an iPad app and web-based solution for classroom observations, teacher evaluations, classified staff evaluations, classroom observations, classroom walkthroughs, implementation rubrics, and much more. Customize iAspire to fit the evaluation needs of your school, and save time by using iAspire to observe, evaluate, take notes, aggregate information, and share evaluation data instantly.

PhotoMath is the world's smartest camera calculator! Just point your phone camera to a math expression, and PhotoMath will instantly display the answer with a detailed step-by-step explanation.

Google has it all. Say "Ok Google" and find everything from nearby restaurants to the calories in cheesecake. Google also shows you the info you need before you ask, like updates on your favorite teams and traffic alerts.

Lapse It is an award-winning full-featured app for capturing amazing time-lapse and stop motion videos. It is easy, fast, and intuitive.

Snapseed brings to your mobile device the power and control of professional photo editing software, previously only available on the desktop. Now with the tap of a finger, you can retouch, adjust perspective, re-edit, and more.

Spotify is one of the best free apps for teachers to stream music on a mobile device or tablet. Search for any track, artist, or album and listen for free. Make and share playlists. Build your biggest, best ever music collection.

Evernote Scannable moves paper forward. Scan contracts, receipts, business cards, and any paper that comes your way. Save or share documents instantly and move on.

Penultimate combines distraction-free, natural handwriting and sketching with the power of Evernote's sync and search. Take class or meeting notes, journal your thoughts, or outline your next big idea-in the office or on the go. From the first stroke, Penultimate makes the experience of pen and paper more productive.

Pushbullet is a place where your messages, photos, songs, and links can all come together and be easily accessible.

Infinit is the easiest app for sending photos and videos to your friends; and transferring files between your phone and computer.

Sleep Cycle monitors sleep quality, wakes up during light sleep phases for less grogginess, tracks sleep patterns and trends, and more.

Apple's Podcast app isn't perfect, but it is one of the best free apps for teachers to listen to and download podcasts and can do just about anything the average listener needs. If you're a power user, you probably have a favorite, and it's probably not free. 🙂

sets up a list of tasks, and a length of time for each of them. When you start the timer, it will tell you when to move on to the next task.

Splash Math is an award-winning math program used by more than 12 Million children for fun math practice. It includes unlimited math lessons on number counting, addition, subtraction, etc.

Unit Converter offers you a measurement converter for Length, weight, height, area, temperature, time, pressure, speed, force and more.

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46 Of The Best Free Apps For Teachers by TeachThought Staff What are the best free apps for teachers? That's a pretty general and subjective idea. The best free apps for teachers as human beings-health, finances, and entertainment? The best free apps for teachers in the classroom? To connect with other educators?

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FCS | Module 5 | Tool for Teaching: Popplet

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1. Prepare a Learning Story using the Learning Designer tool (submission due date 19th February, 23:59h Brussels time)
-try to integrate some of the Learning Activities and technology tools that were introduced throughout the course.

2. Review two Learning Stories of your peers (submission due date 26th February, 23:59h Brussels time)

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Creating a Lesson Plan with the Learning Designer

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COOPERATION - STUDENTS FROM AN UPPER GRADE AS EXPERTS
I find very intriguing this simple, yet brilliant idea of inviting students from an upper-grade as experts to the classroom.

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Create videos that engage and impress. Animoto's drag-and-drop editing tools and visual effects make it easy. No training or experience necessary.

Create and share videos for free. Upgrade anytime for more customization.

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Free Video Maker | Create & Edit Your Videos Easily

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Make a photo speak.
Thanks for Blabberize tip. I know apps but not an online tool for that. I had to try it, it was easy, which is important for a tool.
You can use it to make a Blabber image of an author speaking about himself or it can be a blabber image of a person describing the era when he lived in. There are many ways to use this in English classes and other subjects as well.

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Blabberize.com - viewing: Blabberize example

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+ SS were divided into groups based on their interest
toonddoo.com - comic creator

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5.3 Tell s Story: creating video biographies of famous personalities

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5.3 Tell s Story: creating video biographies of famous personalities

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popplet - for map
Edmodo - for communication
Pinnacle - for film editing

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'Tell a Story' - creating video biographies

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Reconsider how we organize our lessons into more student-centred, project-focused and collaborative learning environments that support the development of 21st Century Skills.

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5.2. From Learning Activities to Learning Story: An example

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In this video, Will introduces you to an example of how an iTEC teacher has used generic Learning Activities and turned them into an innovative and contextualised narrative to use in the classroom, in other words a Learning Story.
1. DREAM ACTIVITY- SS dream up what their video story about friction will be like
DESIGN
SCRIPT
2. EXPLORE ACTIVITY - SS carry a research of the topic of friction and other science videos
3. MAP ACTIVITY- SS organize their ideas for the content and research in a mind map and start to create storyboards. SS in pairs comment on each other's plans.
Popplet - mind-mapping tool
REFLECT ACTIVITY-  Students and the teacher record, post and share audio-visual reflections and feedback of project progress, challenges and future steps. The students slowly build a shared collection of ways to tackle challenges, which can be used after the project ended.
4. ASK and COLLABORATE ACTIVITY

After having created a product as part of their work (prototype, presentation, design, etc.) student teams meet with 2–4 “experts”. These “experts” could be future users, readers, or recipients of the product created by the team. Expertise may be interpreted broadly, for example, a construction site worker can be considered to offer deep insight into the everyday practices of people on a building site. Other students or teachers can also be considered as “experts” in certain areas. The student teams communicate their ideas using prints, drawings, models or other supporting materials. The “experts” are encouraged to modify and comment on the product. After the meeting the students analyze the comments and decide how to interpret them for their re-design. They then refine their product, especially in relation to the challenges, context and added value of the result, record a reflection and update their documentation. This activity can happen more than once at varying time investments and can be conducted online or face to face.

5. MAKE ACTIVITY - recording and editing the video with own phones
6. SHOW ACTIVITY - SS share their video on youtube / Vimeo
Comments and feedback can be added.
LEARNING SCENARIO - make a video about friction

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FCS | Module 5 | From Learning Activities to Learning Stories

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iTEC: 'Book trailers' - video summaries of works of literature

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A. LEARNING SCENARIO - broad description of classroom learning experience based on emerging trends in education , society and technology. It describes the context and environment in which the learning takes place. e.g. scenario 'A Breath of Fresh Air' The purpose of scenarios is to provide a vision of innovation in education.
B. LEARNING ACTIVITY- is based on the  learning scenarios.
e.g. forming teams, collection data outside the school, creating a multi.media presentation, sharing files, mental notes about students, working with outside experts, introduction to a theme, peer feedback, presenting results, joint course of two teachers.
C. LEARNING STORIES: are produced as a result of learning activities being packaged together to provide more comprehensive learning experience within an educational focus narrative. It is a collaborative process= input from teachers, policy makers, pedagogical experts, and representatives from industry.
is st. which is designed to be used by different teachers in different subjects
e.g. COLLABORATIVE MEDIA PROJECT
1.  TELL a STORY - through a process of digital story-telling: creating a video / animation, e.g. a video biography / book trailer
- you can adapt it to any subject
2. CREATE A GAME-
3. MAKE A BOOK TRAILER

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FCS | Module 5 | Introduction to Learning Stories

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!  you have to complete the first task of the final assessment which is to create a Learning Story using the Learning Designer. It is due in Module 6 on the 19th of February.

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I have enjoyed this optional activity. A LOT.

How would you best develop your

students' collaborative problem-solving skills within a project-based learning?

I have recorded a tip for everyone and a tip for a language teacher since I teach English.
3:20 minutes
I love soundcloud:)
https://soundcloud.com/stream

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a free student response system that empowers you to engage your students through a series of educational exercises and games via smartphones, laptops, and tablets.
-brainsorming
-assessment
-exit ticket- at the end of the lesson to get feedback
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0vLucRJuNg

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4.5 4.5. Activity: Learning Activities for the Flipped Classroom Scenario

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4.5 4.5. Activity: Learning Activities for the Flipped Classroom Scenario

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Have I used Flipped Classroom so that SS did learning at home? Not something really thought out or with technology. Actually I told them to pre-study some grammar in workbook but not everybody does that. Students have many after-school actvities, sports, homework from many subjects. I am thinking whether they would appreciate this. I like it but it means extra work and SS will look at it as homework. Some will do it, some not.I would need to see some working practice and speak to teachers who do it. I am not telling it is not doable but has this homework nature. Imagine all subjects do it.
It needs a discussion with students.

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4.3 RUBRICS The purpose of the 21stCentury Learning Designrubrics is to help educators identify and understand the opportunities that learning activities give students to build 21st century skills.

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4.3 RUBRICS The purpose of the 21stCentury Learning Designrubrics is to help educators identify and understand the opportunities that learning activities give students to build 21st century skills.

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A learning activity is any task that students do as part of their school

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related work. It can be an exercise that students complete in one class period, or an extended project that takes place both in and outside of school.

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4.3. Developing Learning Activities: The Edukata Process

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EDUCATA is a FACILITATOR GUIDE FOR DESIGNING

LEARNING ACTIVITIES

-  Participatory Design Model
OK, have never heard it, even the name:)
Ok, 44 pages.
Ok, by Finnish.
NOTES:
'Edukata is a model for educators to facilitate a participatory design process in collaboration with

other educators and students at school.'
' It is not a step-by-step guide with guaranteed

success'.
'Through feedback from

teachers, we found that these activities positively impact teaching, learning and attainment, and

foster 21st-century skills, such as creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem-solving,

communication and collaboration, and the new literacies. '
'Edukata is a collaborative, participatory process. At the core is a team of educators who are working to improve their upcoming teaching activities.'
AFTER GOING THROUGH THE DOC, I CAN SEE IT IS NoT MUCH OF USE FOR AN INDIVIDUAL TEACHER.

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Get visibility of who, what, where and when across the team.

Communicate efficiently with fewer emails, messages, Excel sheets, or copy-pasting information.

Provide autonomy without security risk by creating custom calendar access for each individual and group.

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Homepage - Teamup Calendar - Shared online calendar for groups

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4.2. Examples of  iTEC Learning Activities

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Students go outside of school to collect data. The data can either be in the form of multimedia or scientific observations. Either the entire class goes outside, or only some of the students.
You record mental notes about learners. These notes are based on your observations of their working habits, personality traits, social connections, hobbies, and special skills. The mental notes aid in forming functional teams and also support your interactions with your students. You use the TeamUP tool to record your notes.
You divide the class into small teams of 4-5 learners that are optimal for collaboration. Each team has their own topic of inquiry that is related to the theme of the course. You let the learners suggest topics they are interested in and use the TeamUP tool to match learners and topics, using information stored in mental notes.
THIS IS INTERESTING: TEAM NEWSFLASHES Independently working individual learners or teams of learners post periodic status updates for other learners and you to be able to follow the independent activities and progress.
PEER FEEDBACK:  Learners view each other’s work and provide feedback, praise, and criticism. Peer feedback can be used when students present their project outcomes, but it can also be used as part of a knowledge building activity, when students are discussing about a challenging topic.
I would like to try the OUTSIDE EXPERT:  Students receive additional and/or deeper knowledge from an out-of-school expert of a relevant field. In addition to a video interview, the expert may be involved in following teamwork and commenting on it.

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Learning activities for 21st century skills: flipped classroom and collaboration in a Future Classroom scenario-  THAT TOOK PLACE ON 3RD FEBRUARY WITH María Jesús García San Martín.  They identify suitable learning activities for the Flipped Classroom scenario such as infographics, posters or stories to talk about the importance of visual and collaborative tools in the classroom.
Her blog: http://stopandlearnenglish.blogspot.cz/
Flipped lessons - SS are in the centre of learning.
* INFOGRAPHICS - visual way to deliver knowledge
If SS design it - tell them why and what is the goal.
SS can / should work in teams.
roles: leader = coordinator / supervisor / secretary - takes notes of the workflow /speaker - asks, presents, answers Qs and interacts with the T
SS can set up their own rules.
SS select a topic from wider range.
provide them with examples.
- needs to have a clear and direct title / subtitle
- the body - text and images
- explenatory text - somtimes inevitable
- sources
-autorship and licence
USE: explanations / shared results / brainstorming / assessment
YOU CAN SHARE IT IN THE SCHOOL.

STORY TELLING
Storybird

COMIC CREATIONS

POSTERS
SS make a poster of EXPECTATIONS from a course
piktochart, canva, tackk, glogster

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Digital Interactive table - anew thing for me

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I have found an article in Czech about it, 2 years old:), from 2015.

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10 DŮVODŮ PROČ budete chtít interaktivní stůl SMART Table - Vzdělávání - Články - VeŠkole.cz

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V prvním díle seriálu 10 DŮVODŮ PROČ roku 2015 se vám pokusím více představit výhody interaktivního stolu SMART Table, a proč byste ho měli mít ve své třídě.

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3.3 Collaboration and Technology in the Classroom TOOLS in the VIDEO:

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3.3 Collaboration and Technology in the Classroom TOOLS in the VIDEO:

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notetaking:TitanPad,
chat: Today's meet
mind map: Popplet

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Future Classroom Scenarios | Μ3 | Educational Technologies and Collaboration in the Classroom

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is a tool that allows you to create and share engaging interactive images, videos and 360° photos for teaching and learning.
ACTIVITY:
Ask students to locate and download a Creative Commons image that best illustrates the general topic of the report; for example, the heart, Slovenia, a myth, a painting by an artist, a photo or illustration of a famous person, a map. They should create a tag with the citation for the image.

Then add information as appropriate:

Short audio clips recorded and uploaded to Soundcloud

Primary source documents

Podcasts or speeches

Video about the topic

A Google doc or presentation                                          they've created

Link a map (which may also be ThingLinked)

Link to a Video or Slide Show of captioned pictures

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an augmented reality app and a great tool to develop your students creativity.
2 years ago I was introduced to it at a workshop at a conference called Teachers' Summit, which is organized by an iPad company 24U in the Czech Republic every year.
Unfortunately, my SS do not have tablets. But they have mobile phones! :)
TIP for an activity for English:   A team of students prepares a lesson on the history of British music. They put posters with bands, musicians or different periods on the walls. Their classmates go around, after focusing the tablet on a poster, a music video starts playing or a video with a student talking about the period. Students collect information.

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FCS | Module 3 | Tool for Teaching: Aurasma

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Good teachers with great attitudes.
1) He played to his students a recorded example of him describing a picture. It was animated. The teacher let students describe a picture and through Socrative, he displayed all their answers on board together, on the interactive whiteboard.
2) For little children it is nice and creative. Not for my circumstances, the drawing takes time. Or if I taught art, which I do not. But I did a similar activity about Romans in England, SS got materials to study and then in groups made genially presentations about cities / growth of the Empire / army, etc.
3) I like the task of making a park. Popplet
SS are active and moving, collaborating.

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3.4 Q: : what are the pros and cons of using the technology tools presented in the videos (if you know them). And what other technologies can you add to this list?

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3.4 Q: : what are the pros and cons of using the technology tools presented in the videos (if you know them). And what other technologies can you add to this list?

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Genially - looks very nice. It can make interactive presentations and posters. There are free templates. It is not that easy to use at the beginning, which can be disappointing. ( Powerpoint is easier to use.)
It has a collaborative mode, more students can be logged into one concrete presentation BUT THEY CANNOT WORK AT THE SAME TIME. IT SHOWS THAT IT IS OCCUPIED BY ONE STUDENT. IT IS BAD.

GLOGSTER - we like it but it is PAID. 1 teacher can have 120 students accounts and can put them into groups.

KAHOOT is great!
- for quizes
- T or students can make a quiz
- it has many uses in the classroom- for eliciting / revision,..

Joomag - to publish on online magazine. We use it in eTwinning.
- version with ads in the side is for free and the ads are not terrible
- you upload a PDF into it and that is it
- you can create it in it in a team, but we do not use this so that students are surprised what the other team has written
- every issue one country is responsible for it, we take turns
- this team can add there things directly in the joomag
- you can have subscribers
I am anclosing the first issue, it is about our schools.

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Learn about our schools and much more! Have a look at our lives and environments we study in and enjoy it.

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3.4. 21st Century Skill in Focus: Creativity and Technology in the Classroom

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3.4. 21st Century Skill in Focus: Creativity and Technology in the Classroom

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Let's briefly take a look at another 21st Century Skill, being creative.
But technology often provides completely new ways of interacting with existing content or creating new content thereby providing students with new ways to express their creativity.

MY COMMENT: I think that people are naturally creative so we should give students a chance to be so in the classroom. I agree that it is important to cultivate creativity.

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3.3 Share your ideas about collaboration in the classroom.

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3.3 Share your ideas about collaboration in the classroom.

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After passing a course aimed at collaboration at the ESAcademy, I tried several collaborative activities in my classes. I spent a lot of time on the lesson plans, assessment rubrics, peer-assessment rubrics too. They got two marks, one for the team work and presentation, one for their individual English performance while speaking. Students usually created st. together and it took like 8 lessons max, with presentations too. So from my observations: SS were more active - it was student-centered / they had to communicate with each other and discuss and compromise/ they made decisions / they gave each other different roles/ they shared responsibility for the final result- which was very important for them. They used padlets / glogster / genially, Internet / camera. Good planning makes the final result of high quality, students should know what is expected from them and what the assessment will be like. If you have time, it is really a good idea to make the assessment with the students together.
For some students it is a novelty since in many classes they just listen and write down. Not in English but it is the prevalent mode.
Students' team work - a presentation given by the help of genially.
The Genially - it has a collaborative mode, more students can be logged into one concrete presentation BUT THEY CANNOT WORK AT THE SAME TIME. IT SHOWS THAT IT IS OCCUPIED BY ONE STUDENT. IT IS BAD.  I wanted them to try a new tool in this case. But better would be to let them choose the tool.

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To make profit - metal ores
- fertile lands for farming and a large labour force
-market for goods produced in Italy or Gaul

Import - pottery from Gaul, wine from southern Europe and the Rhineland

Export - wollen cloaks, lead, silver, the black stone called jet, oysters and hunting dogs

A coin of the emperor Constantine (c.ad 274-337)

coins of gold, silver and brass

single currency across a vast area of Europe, Western Asia and North Africa

Celtic life had mostly been based in the country

the Roman life was centered in town with about 5000 inhabitants

the Romans also rebuilt the old British settlements

they also built large town halls, law court, markets, shop and even public toilets

smaller towns were mainly around military camps and forts or where was a need to trade

most roads were made using stone which was available locally

layers of broken flint and crushed stone -> foundations , surfaace was generally of gravel

forest was cleared well back from the verges to prevent ambush

built by army using troops or slaves
as labour

Roman Towns

The Romans built towns, often on the sites of the former tribal capitals of the Britons

Smaller towns and villages grew up around crossroads, along rivers and by the sea.

Into these towns moved usually officials, lawyers, traders and craftworkers. They were soon followed by rich Britons.

Londinium (=London) is sited on the banks of the river Thames.

This location was ideal for trading with the rest of empire.

Londinium became a great centre of trade and was the biggest city in the province.

In the city was built an army fort, a huge town hall, basilica, a market place, forum and temples.

The Romans were great engineers.

They built aqueducts that supplied their towns with fresh water.

They made also pipes of lead and timber.

Towns had also drains and sewers.

Roman Peace

British rebels - sold into slavery

Local rulers and nobles
who supported Rome - prospered
- adopted Roman ways and dress
- learned to speak Latin

Roman rule - harsh, but effective; it did bring a period of peace to large areas of Europe

Romans who stayed in Britain were influenced in turn by the Celts - worshipped their own gods (godnesses), but they also honour many of the Celtic gods

Romans -> luxurious new public baths at Bath (western England) -> dedicated both to Sulis (the Celtic godness) and Minerva (the Roman godness)

LIVING IN STYLE

Large country houses = villas -> for important Roman officials or for local British rulers (for those who remained loyal to Rome)

Villas - surrounded by large farm estates
- became more and more luxurious -> under-floor central heating, baths and dining rooms (there visitors from Rome would be entertained with lavish banquets)

VOCABULARY

All-roads-lead-to-Rome TEAM

ROMAN PEACE
rulers and nobles - vládci a šlechta
harsh - přísný, tvrdý
farm estates - (zemědělské) statky
lavish banquets - bohaté hostiny, rauty
tiles of baked clay - dlaždice z pálené hlíny
highly spiced - velmi kořeněné

Thank's for your attention!

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To make profit - metal ores- fertile lands for farming and a large labour force-market for goods produced in Italy or Gaul Import - pottery from Gaul, wine from southern Europe and the Rhineland Export - wollen cloaks, lead, silver, the black stone called jet, oysters and hunting dogs A

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3.2 21st Century Skill in Focus: Thinking about Collaboration in the Classroom

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3.2 21st Century Skill in Focus: Thinking about Collaboration in the Classroom

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effective collaboration is in fact much harder to achieve than simply asking students to work together.
21CLD Learning Activity Rubrics :
This guide describes six rubrics of 21st century learning, each of which represents an important skill for students for develop:

collaboration

knowledge construction

self-regulation

real-world problem-solving and innovation

the use of ICT for learning

skilled communication

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3.1. Evaluating your use of technology: The Innovation Maturity Model

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3.1. Evaluating your use of technology: The Innovation Maturity Model

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Q: How much innovation is already in my teaching?
A: Sometimes even stage 4.
e.g. students make a leaflet in glogster, they have to take photos for that and publish it- send it to me via email, show in the classroom

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US Middle class simulator; simple, provides topics for discussion in the classroom about the US

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Urban Ministries of Durham serves over 6000 people every year who struggle with poverty and homelessness. Spent is an interactive game created by McKinney that challenges you to manage your money, raise a child and make it through the month getting paid minimum wage after a stretch of unemployment.

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itch.io is a simple way to find, download and distribute indie games online. Whether you’re a developer looking to upload your game or just someone looking for something new to play itch.io has you covered.

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CoSpaces gives your imagination a place to unfold: Fantasy worlds, immersive birthday cards or virtual museums – with the free online platform you can easily create whatever you want in 3D and explore it in virtual reality, 360° or on a regular screen. Your creativity is the limit!

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We care about your students' privacy. CoSpaces Edu takes student privacy very seriously and is COPPA and FERPA-compliant.

We have several measures in place to make sure that the data that you and your students store in CoSpaces Edu is always kept safe.

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CoSpaces Edu for kid-friendly 3D creation and coding

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Boost your kids' learning experience by letting them invent, build and code their own creations. Runs on mobile, tablet and desktop, including Chromebooks.

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Seamlessly build, monetize and distribute your virtual reality experiences on the Oculus platform while targeting Oculus Rift, Oculus Quest and Oculus Go.

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The Future Classroom Toolkit enables teachers, school leaders, education policy-makers and technology suppliers to create and implement Future Classroom Scenarios. A Future Classroom Scenario is a narrative description of teaching and learning that provides a clear vision for innovation and advanced pedagogical practice supported by technology.

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webinar: How to create a Future Classroom Lab at your school given by Jørund Høie Skaug

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webinar: How to create a Future Classroom Lab at your school given by Jørund Høie Skaug

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'In this webinar you will learn about experiences with a mobile Future Classroom Lab in Norway, and hopefully get some ideas to set up your own lab, either with a decent budget - or on a shoestring budget.'
FROM THE VID:
1. SS tend to lie down if they are in the lab.
2. Round tables to discuss things.
3. Teachers are asked to incorporate technology into their lessons but hey lack time and resources.
4. Use social media to discuss things with students from other countries. Facebook, Twitter, eTwinning, padlet
5. What technology providers are active in your area to contact
MY THOUGHTS: I should make the seating arrangement in my classrooms more varied.
He may know more about VR
email: jhs@iktsenteret.no

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How to create a Future Classroom Lab at your school

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MODULE 3: From vision to reality – technology in your future classroom 

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MODULE 3: From vision to reality – technology in your future classroom 

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You can create channels of conversation, share files, searcheable content, you can plug in Twitter, Google drive and many others and get notifications from these. But can you plug in Facebook if you can plug in Twitter, Google Drive, etc.?

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2.6 My course message: SLACK is new to me. Never heard of it. Like Edmodo?

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2.6 My course message: SLACK is new to me. Never heard of it. Like Edmodo?

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My colleague uses Edmodo to give extra work for Biology and share materials. I have searched for comparison of Slack and Edmodo. I would need time to explore the Slack. Can't say much  now. But can you plug in Facebook if you can plug in Twitter, Google Drive, etc.?
What about Facebook group? Is it worse? Students know Facebook.
For collaborative work my SS use mobile phone apps, Facebook.

FINAL THOUGHT: I would prefer to use it with my colleagues and management instead of e-mails and Bakalari internal system, which is terribly old.

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is a cloud-based team collaboration tool for real-time messaging that brings all your communication together in one place, allowing archiving and search for modern teams. It is a very useful tool that you can use in the classroom to discuss a project, a topic, etc. Besides, your students cannot only send messages and communicate with other students, but they can also share different documents and work collaboratively; If you use any services like Google Drive, Dropbox, or Box, you can also paste the link and that document will be immediately will be sync and searchable too.

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Slack is where work flows. It's where the people you need, the information you share, and the tools you use come together to get things done.

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2.4 Your future classroom – towards a realistic vision 

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Let's just focus on some education and technology trends that will shape our classrooms in the next decades.
1) The year 2025, it is just in 8 years,  is too close to see big changes, I guess. I see it happen like in decades, 20 years earliest. But we may change things on a smaller scale, however, not centrally, lack of money, politics... I suppose it is a matter of minor initiatives, schools, teachers. And training of teachers at universities. And being responsible for one¨'s teaching and further education.

VIDEO: I have picked the ones I like: more project work / less teacher-centered / more devices available / not traditional class rooms / SS will do not just listen and write / much more dynamic

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Future Classroom Lab Interview Series #9 - Classroom of 2025

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VIDEO: TRENDS   It is important to remember that with trends we don't just mean education or technology trends but also economic, social and political trends. 

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VIDEO: TRENDS   It is important to remember that with trends we don't just mean education or technology trends but also economic, social and political trends. 

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prioritizing trends

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If I understand it correctly it is a person that should be interested in the innovation. So in my opinion the stakeholders are these:
! Ministry of Education - there should be bigger talk about innovations
and the load of knowledge, information students must be taught. If you have projects, you can teach a lot of skills, a topic in deep detail,etc., but you cannot cover in a year so many topics. Moreover, if we let students choose what they want to study.
1. The management of school
2. the teachers - they will need training. Are they willing to? Some teachers are not that is the fact. Can you order them to? You will need a hard-working and motivating management that would be inspiring enough to make the teacher work and want. The management must be more hard-working and innivative than teachers.
3. the regional council who is our school's official founder and gives us money from the Ministry of Education - but it depends on the laws how big a word they can have in innovations in the schools
4. parents who work in companies that can give financial support
!!! Universities accept students either without an test because they just need students or students take entrance exams, usually encyclopedia tests- facts, data or sometimes logical tests and 'study-talent' test.

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The Future Classroom Lab is supported by over 30 companies. FCL enables companies to showcase their own ideas for innovative learning spaces and how their technology and solutions can support innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching and learning.

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classroom - any place where learning takes place
1. trends
2. maturity modelling
3. writing a scenario or finding an existing one
4. designing innovative learning activities
5. evaluating innovation

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2.2 "Something you can revisit and refer back to and discuss with your colleagues and school principals."

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2.2 "Something you can revisit and refer back to and discuss with your colleagues and school principals."

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IMPORTANT! You need the team and environment for any change!!!

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VIDEO: iTEC scenario: Outdoor Study Project 

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It already happens in schools. I am not a Science teacher but I like when students have a chance to go outdoors. My colleague does that. But cooperation across subjects does not happen in this case in our school. You would need teacher collaboration and have it in the curriculum. Again, depends on individual teachers and their time they want to invest to school. I can see it can be done once in a while.

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? What is the setting? Is it like an after-school club? It is important here to say.

+ the student would like it
+ it is a good chance for weak students to show they are good at something
+ as an extra activity - out-of-school experiences very good
+ connects the school and real-life
+ it is autonomous
+ creativity and critical thinking are developed
+ some teachers would be willing to work extra- assessing and helping even without being paid- but not many

- who would help the student during the project, which teacher if no subject is the target at the start
- does it prepare for the traditional university study and entrance exams?
- unrealistic nowadays, teachers are not used to it. Many would oppose it.
- some teachers would like to get paid for extra work
- time consuming? my students have many activities in the town and a lot of studying

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iTEC scenario: Recognizing Informal Learning

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2.1 FUTURE CLASSROOM SCENARIOS                                If we have a very clear idea of where we want to go and why, it will be much easier to convince our colleagues, students, parents to join us on this journey.

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2.1 FUTURE CLASSROOM SCENARIOS                                If we have a very clear idea of where we want to go and why, it will be much easier to convince our colleagues, students, parents to join us on this journey.

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SCENARIOS:
got to be realistic / innovative / take into account trends /

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FCS | Module 2 | Introduction to Future Classroom Scenarios

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I find the idea of flexible classroom interesting but see many obstacles. i undersatnd it is not about the furniture but the type of learning. I like it because of the way of work it enables. I think that it can prepare students for life and career much better.

the webinar:
Establish your own lab. Seems to be pretty unrealistic for me and apparently other teachers. MONEY, SPACE, WHO WILL LOOK AFTER THE DEVICES and THE LABS, MANY TEACHERS WOULD NEED TRAINING for project based learning, inquiry based learning
! assessment is important to see it it works
Questions below:
SPACE:
Answers: give students different tasks
OK- clear but it is not always possible and wanted
MONEY
Answer given: You can try Erasmus+ project with technology, kA2 and buy from the money some equipment
HOW
Answer: There is no step-by-step doc, every school is different,  but you can ask the FCL ambassador for help.

MY THOUGHTS:
It is very hard for a teacher who works full-time, prepares lessons, corrects tests, etc., to try to make a big innovative change like this, get the stuff in favor of that. Since you definitely need to have a team, not just one person. There should be a person in a school who would do that.
Maybe I would create a space in the school where slowly teachers who would want try to work in this way. To start with small proportions.

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FROM THE WEBINAR: the zones are FLEXIBLE, not FIXED.

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FROM THE WEBINAR: the zones are FLEXIBLE, not FIXED.

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It is in Brussels.
It is not about a traditional model of a teacher talking, talking...
We should promote in students: critical thinking / interactivity / assessment / participation / communication / analysis / interpretation / collaboration / planning / reflection
The different zones could help this.
I myself have tried in in collaborative activities, it is pretty challenging for the students but I had a good feeling seeing the students really work and being involved wholly.

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webinar: FROM FUTURE CLASSROOM TO FUTURE TEACHING 

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webinar: FROM FUTURE CLASSROOM TO FUTURE TEACHING 

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FCL - is a pedagogical approach,  a proposal to definitely break spatial barriers where our students can become the center of their own learning
My notes: 1) What are the present challenges we are facing today?
- special needs / personalized learning - each student is different/ values / competences / education for employability / teaching digital skills
DEFINITION OF FUTURE CLASSROOM: A FLEXIBLE LEARNING SPACE TO SUPPORT STUDENTS WITH DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES AND NEEDS TO CREATE, COLLABORATE AND INTERACT, ENHANCING THEM TO MAKE THE MOST OF THEIR CAPACITIES WITH THE HELP OF TECHNOLOGY, FURNITURE AND DESIGN.

iT IS ABOUT HOW TO TEACH .

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From future classroom to future teaching

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MODULE 2: Your future classroom – towards a realistic vision 

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FUTURE CLASSROOM TOOLKIT = Edivista- if you want to innovate your classroom or school, this is a useful resource to get you thinking about a range of challenges and ways to approach them.

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1.6 iTEC - was a project (Innovative Technologies for Engaging Classrooms, 2010-2014) about designing a future classroom to introduce innovative teaching practices to improve the quality of the teaching process. The outputs provide a basis for this course; WILL ELLIS - project manager

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REPORT:
STUDENTS improvement: problem solving
critical thinking
collaborative skills
creativity skills
independent learning skills
ICT skills

STUDENTS took on new roles in classes: peer tutors
peer assessors
codesigners of their learning
even teacher trainers :)
STUDENTS' motivation to learn was also impacted positively.

TEACHERS - greator enthusiasm to work
- new ways of teaching
- explored new S and T roles
- more collaboration
- new approaches to assessment and teaching

FUTURE CLASSROOM TOOLKIT Where can I find it?

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In iTEC (Innovative Technologies for Engaging Classrooms, 2010-2014), European Schoolnet worked with education ministries, technology providers and research organisations to transform the way that technology is used in schools.

Over the course of the project, educational tools and resources were piloted in over 2,500 classrooms across 20 European countries, with the goal of providing a sustainable model for fundamentally redesigning teaching and learning. The project involved 26 project partners, including 14 Ministries of Education, and funding of €9.45 million from the European Commission's FP7 programme. The project ended in August 2014.

Read more: Project summary | Evaluation results

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After a week off due to flu I can return to some work I enjoy since we have school holidays:)

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After a week off due to flu I can return to some work I enjoy since we have school holidays:)

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1.5. Activity: What does your classroom look like?

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1.5. Activity: What does your classroom look like?

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In the glog (made by a S for one etwinning project) you can see the TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM I do not like, compared to the IT classroom I prefer.
MINUSES:
1) It is not my own classroom. I can't keep my things there since we change classrooms and have things ready and prepared. This bother me a lot. There is no solution.
2) It looks boring and it is not as cosy as the attic IT room.
3) If I change the seating arrangement a lot it steals time from the lesson to do it and redo it.
4) There are no computers for students or tablets.
5) Students are used to sit there in pairs.
6) It is crowded with desks.
7) There is no chill-out area, maybe just the no-desks back space at the windows.
PLUSES
1) It is better than in developing countries.
2) It has a projector or interactive board.
3) There is some possibility of movement.
4) There is wifi and my SS can use a mobile phone.
5) You can make quickly groups of FOUR by making TWO students turn their back.
6) It is good for writing tests in groups of 16, one student per desk.
7) It is good for presentations and traditional teacher-centered lessons.
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See the Glog! BREAKS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: text, images, music, video | Glogster EDU - Interactive multimedia posters

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1.5. Activity: What does your classroom look like? Our IT classroom in the school's attic:

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1.5. Activity: What does your classroom look like? Our IT classroom in the school's attic:

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Personally, I like the IT classroom. I have no fixed classroom, this classroom is shared so I can't have all my lessons in it.
I have my 2 English seminars in 90 minute blocks ( about English speaking countries- their history, literature, culture, etc.) there.
Students can work on computers, there are 19 computers. I also have the etwinning Club there with my colleague, we publish an online magazine with students-  'eMates' in Joomag.
For English I have only 16 students, half of normal class. Jupeee. There is a projector so SS can also sit in the center and listen to or give presentations. Plus, there is enough space to move, rearrange the chairs, so you can do groupwork and SS do not bother other groups.
Instead of a classical white board there could be interactive smart board.
I am repeating myself but I would appreciate a set of tablets for students:) We have none.

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Firstly - I like that the space is colorful and varied, not rigid.

My current issue - we have to change classrooms and have only 10-minute break to run to our office and to another classroom. Not even mention to go to the bathroom, a luxury. You are not able to prepare almost anything before the lesson, keep things at the spot, etc.. I would LOVE to have my own classroom. Of course, with tablets, laptops, projector:) Fantasy..

QUESTION TO CONSIDER
There are around 30 students in an average classroom in many countries, aren't there? Have you tried it with this number?
In the video it looks like that in every zone there are just several students. It means that the SS would be at different stages of work.

My THOUGHT:
It is not manageable because of lack of space and number of students. Sorry.
Maybe it is not about zones, but IT IS ABOUT THE WORK STAGES and EQUIPMENT and from the video apparent STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING, COLLABORATIVE WORK and RELAXED ATMOSPHERE.

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1.3 ) Comment on 21st century skills video

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21st century skills:
CREATIVITY- should have a lot of space at school.CREATIVITY- should have a lot of space at school. During the creation process people very often learn to reach their goal / bring an idea to life and can self-direct their learning without being pushed by the teacher.
! It requires personal responsibility from the student and internal motivation.

COMMUNICATION -
necessary for life, relationships, work. social skills

COLLABORATION - my experience has shown that we must give SS enough opportunities for team work to learn skills for successful cooperation and shared responsibility.
Plus, collaborative work makes SS really work and be active. I can see the difference.

PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY + CITIZENSHIP

foreign language - majority of people need it in their adult life
cultural awareness- people must be more tolerant
digital competence
- tech will make your life and career easier if you master it
mathematical competence - WHY?
I really do not know- I live pretty nice without deep Maths knowledge, most of secondary-school Maths I have forgotten. Basic counting and % left in my mind is what I need. I would let SS choose levels of Maths to study.

PEER ASSESSMENT

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I have a twitter and it is very good for getting ideas from inspiring people. I am building a web about technology for English in WordPress to sort out the tips and tools and share experience but it is at the start.

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I. B   MY SCHOOL and ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY

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I. B   MY SCHOOL and ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY

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There are 500 students in my school. I have to go to different classroom to teach, students also move. This means I cannot set up an ideal English lab with all things ready..
+for languages we have a language lab = with earphones with microphones so that SS can speak in pairs and the teacher can hear them and talk to them.
+ we have 3 IT classrooms. Usually for up to 16, maximally 19 students.
+in most school's classrooms there is a computer on the teacher's desk, a projector or the white interactive board.
- we have no tablets for students and this troubles me since I would like to use them in my lessons. In the school there are 10 Samsung tablets among teachers. I have one since I am interested in technologies. I am still thinking whether to use BYOD or not if we do not have the tablets.
+ This year I have got from school a notebook to use, which is very exceptional. It was a sort of reward from my management for my hard work. Normally we are three teachers for one desktop computer, now in my office I have  a notebook. I wish every teacher had a compzter available to use just for him.
In the picture there is me and my colleague Karolína with some of our SS in the eTwinning Club- an after school activity we run this year. We write an online magazine with other 4 European schools.

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1) How can I use VR in the classroom?
I have bought iGETR1 head set and now I am exploring on the net how I can use VR in English classes. I hope I will find out more.