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Thanks to Gonzalo for sharing.

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Explore Apps for Learning & Teaching - Google for Education

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Enhance and enrich education with our apps for learning and teaching. Explore our app hub to find apps that connect with Google for Education.

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Thanks to Gonzalo for sharing!

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BookWidgets - The perfect content creation tool for teachers in the classroom

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BookWidgets - The perfect content creation tool for teachers in the classroom

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Thanks to Katya for sharing:
"As I mentioned last week, I have used Powtoon.com to create animated videos in which I explain grammar in a contextualized way to my EAL students."

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Log in and Make videos in minutes with Powtoon. Use our library of styles, characters, backgrounds and video, or upload your own! Easy and Awesome.

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Thanks to Shaun for Sharing:
"Students like the wheel deciding who has to answer the question/participate."

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What To Do Under Quarantine?

You'll have to take our word for it that the wheel landed on Phone an old friend. Your browser cannot display the wheel of choices. Please upgrade to a newer browser that supports HTML5 (most new ones do). Wheel Decide would normally show a wheel right here with choices that you can set (lunch, games, dinner, anything!). You can spin it to get a random decision. Make your own wheel of dinner, wheel of fortune, wheel of lunch, wheel of whatever you want now!

What's Wheel Decide?

Wheel Decide is a free online spinner tool that allows you to create your own digital wheels for decision making, prize giveaways, raffles, games, and more. Browse through our wheels and spin to randomize your life and make the decisions that have no wrong answers.

Decision Making

Let the wheel decide. Save your energy for the big decisions

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Can't decide? Wheel Decide for you! Set your own custom choices and then spin the wheel to make the random decision of lunch, movie, or anything! Make your own wheel of dinner or whatever now!

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Screenshot from IPEVO Annotator

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Thanks to Rob for sharing:
"I started using IPEVO Annotator so I could highlight things on my desktop when explaining things to students. It's basically whiteboard software."

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This works well for just presenting on your computer without a whiteboard with a nice suite of tools to annotate, highlight and mark up illustrations and PowerPoint slides you are presenting. It even has a screen capture and video recorder function, all for the low, low price of free. I was definitely surprised at how useful this app is and highly recommend it to others.

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‎IPEVO Annotator Enjoy greater interactivity on your interactive whiteboard system by using IPEVO Annotator. It's packed full of annotation tools that allow you to draw and annotate freely on images projected onto the screen. Further enhance the experience by using screenshot, screen recording or ot...

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Thanks to Frank for sharing:
"Recording videos from the cellphone and uploading them to the seesaw app directly instead of using the computer, it's faster and easier."

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Thanks to Frank for Sharing:
"Kahoot has this new feature called "challenge" students can answer the questions at any time while the challenge is active, they don't need to be logged in at the same time."

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Introducing student-paced games, a new way to play Kahoot!

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Learn about student-paced Kahoot! games, or challenges, that can be played from anywhere, any time on students' devices.

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Thanks to Fernanda for sharing:
"I would like to share a resource that I have seen working as recorded web-conferences to hold lessons."

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Thanks to Niki for sharing her use of Quizlet:

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Start studying Tricky words part 1. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools.

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Thanks to Niki for sharing her use of Quizlet:

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Thanks to Niki for sharing her use of Quizlet:

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Thanks to Niki for sharing her use of Quizlet:

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Thanks to Niki for sharing her use of Quizlet:

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Thanks to Niki for sharing her use of Quizlet:

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Thanks to Niki for sharing her use of Quizel

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Thanks to Niki for sharing:
"Quizlet is an AMAZING tool I've found, I have been making flashcards with it for tricky words for my year 1s. but there's a lot of possibilities for vocabulary work, spelling etc."

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Thanks to Simon for sharing:

-Intro video

Notes for students to copy and review

Second video for further explanation

Tasks including digital lab for students to visit and experiment

Google form for students to input data and answer some simple / extension questions so I can track who is working and who is struggling.
-Great for sketchy internet
-Independent learning

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No one enjoys being lectured about a topic they're struggling to understand.

It's a monotonous, frustrating slog that makes students beg to be saved by the bell.

Teachers and educators worldwide use Poll Everywhere to cut through this monotony and reimagine class participation as a two-way dialogue.

From high school teachers to college professors, I've collected five examples below that highlight the breadth and depth of class participation you can achieve with Poll Everywhere. You can try out any of these ideas yourself by signing up for a free Poll Everywhere account.

1. Anonymous polling gives students the courage to speak up

One Kansas Youth Pastor created a safe environment for his Youth Group to discuss sex and dating

Kansas Youth Pastor Cam Brennan knew the teens in his Youth Group felt pressured to be sexually active. He also knew the last thing they wanted was talk about this in front of their peers (or anyone else, for that matter). So Brennan turned to Poll Everywhere and its anonymity setting to cut through the drama and create a safe, comfortable space for honest conversation.

Brennan created anonymous, open-ended polls for his students. This way, they could ask whatever they wanted about sex and dating without being singled out. He also switched on moderation, just in case any jokers felt like submitting inappropriate comments that could spoil the mood. Thankfully, Brennan said, students genuinely wanted to have this conversation.

2. Formative-assessment polling exposes gaps in knowledge

To explain the nuances of law, this professor uses polling to reach class-wide consensus

Christopher Robertson teaches at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona. He uses multiple-choice polling during a capstone class designed to expose where students are struggling with the nuances of US law. During this class, students respond to several multiple-choice polls that have a correct answer that's obvious to those who understand the law.

If too many students respond to one of these polls incorrectly, Robertson instructs them all to turn to their neighbor and discuss why the choice they made was the correct one. When a consensus is reached, the pair turns to another and starts the debate over. This continues until the entire class is united in their response - which is usually correct.

3. Map popular opinion with before- and after-class polling

Opinion polling warms students up to class participation and maps how their feelings change

Deborah Husbands, Senior Lecturer at the University of Westminster, uses live polling to kickstart her cognitive neuroscience classes. Students begin class by responding to an opinion poll - such as the one above - which leads into a larger classroom discussion about the underlying issue at hand. After the discussion, students are asked the same question a second time to see how popular opinion has changed.

Husbands' students find the anonymous nature of Poll Everywhere makes it easier to engage with these tricky topics. They feel reassured when they see that other people in the room agree with their position, even if they're in the minority. This imparts a confidence to speak up that might be lost if students were stuck in their heads.

4. Help students discuss current events with targeted polls

One high school teacher's President Election Wednesdays helped students upack a chaotic election

Peter Paccone, a teacher at San Marino High School in Los Angeles, helped his US Government students make sense of the 2016 presidential election with a variety of live polling activities. For Paccone, this was a great way to facilitate class participation. "In the weeks that followed, I asked the students several questions related to the various issues raised during the campaign," he said.

Ripped from the headlines, these questions challenged students to weigh in on several real-word issues, including the border wall, Justice Antonin Scalia's replacement, and voter identification. All this culminated in a word cloud that asked students their thoughts on the 2016 election in a few words (recreated above).

5. Coordinate axes create a visual representation of popular opinion

One senior lecturer discovers a variety of uses for interactive images as questions

Derek Bruff is director of the Vanderbilt University Center for Teaching and a principal senior lecturer in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics. During a workshop on active learning environments, Bruff distributed photos of three different classrooms to participants. He then asked participants to place each classroom on a set of coordinate axes representing "paradigm" and "flexibility" concepts discussed earlier (seen above).

As each group reached a consensus on where each classroom fell on those axes, they reported their results out using Poll Everywhere. "Coordinate axes seemed to serve as a good way to have participants play with the 'flexibility' and 'paradigm' ideas," said Bruff. "Feedback from participants, as well as the overall noise level in the room, indicates that was indeed the case."

Want better class participation department wide?

Our classroom response system can scale to fit your needs. Find out how.

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5 educators share class participation tactics using live polling

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No one enjoys being lectured about a topic they're struggling to understand. It's a monotonous, frustrating slog that makes students beg to be saved by the bell. Teachers and educators worldwide use Poll Everywhere to cut through this monotony and reimagine class participation as a two-way dialogue.