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Schoology would be a good way to keep track of lesson plans, help students keep track of their grades, and to post projects and homework. From what I have seen from Dr. Humphrey's Schoology page, it seems like a very useful tool to keep the classroom organized and help students stay connection.

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The Best Mobile App. Period.

Everything students and faculty need to teach, learn, grade, communicate, and share fits in the palms of their hands on the devices they love. Schoology works great on any iOS, Android, or Kindle device.

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#1 K-12 Learning Management System | LMS | Schoology

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Everything students and faculty need to teach, learn, grade, communicate, and share fits in the palms of their hands on the devices they love. Schoology works great on any iOS, Android, or Kindle device.

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I liked wikispaces as a tool to facilitate student cooperation on group projects, create independence by encouraging students to ask each other for help, and the teacher can help students with questions outside of the classroom. It also allows students to be monitored by the teacher and record contributions.

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Wikispaces Classroom is a social writing platform for education. We make it incredibly easy to create a classroom workspace where you and your students can communicate and work on writing projects alone or in teams. Rich assessment tools give you the power to measure student contribution and engagement in real-time.

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When one of the other groups presented about Ezvid and making videos for students as an instructor, I was very interested in it. This seems like a very versatile tool for providing classroom instruction when a substitute teacher is in the classroom, given there is enough time to plan a video for the students. I would definitely use it once I learn how to use it.

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Ezvid: Free Video Editor & Screen Recorder

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Ezvid is home of the best video reviews, wiki, and the world's easiest to use freeware screen recorder and video editor.

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This is a handy article that can be a guide to using Youtube in the classroom. I like using Youtube videos in the classroom, because it helps visual and auditory learners, and it can go through step-by-step tutorials on math problems and other subjects.

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There are amazing ways to elevate and energize instruction through using technology tools. One resource that's popular with students of all ages -- from the youngest to the oldest -- is the video hosting website YouTube. YouTube lets anyone with a free account upload videos. Many organizations post collections of videos on this site, which is organized into channels. In addition to locating content, teachers can create their own YouTube channels to share videos and showcase student work.

YouTube is so much more than music videos and clips of animals doing tricks. It contains engaging, informative content at all levels. This video hosting site gives teachers the opportunity to take students around the world, listen to experts on a topic, or hear an explanation for a new idea. One of the reasons why people of all ages are using YouTube is because it's a powerful tool for teaching and learning.

Finding the "Right" Videos

Searching on YouTube with keywords can be as hit-or-miss as any Google Search. When looking for the "right" videos, there are a few strategies that teachers can use. Substituting different keywords can help bring different videos to the top of the list. Another option is to search within channels. Many organizations have YouTube channels, including notable channels from Khan Academy to the American Museum of Natural History. An advanced search will help you find channels based on your keywords. You can also use the advanced search tool to seek out videos of a certain length or uploaded within a certain time frame -- a great trick for finding recent and relevant content.

Accessing Content

Once you've found that perfect YouTube video, there are many ways to share it with students. The video clip might be something that you'll share with the whole class on a projector screen to spark a discussion and generate interest in a topic. If you'd like your students to watch differentiated content in smaller groups or view the same video at home, there are a few ways to get YouTube links to students. To include a YouTube video in a traditional activity sheet or homework page, you can shorten a URL or turn it into a QR code to make it easy for students and parents to access that clip.

A learning management system like Google Classroom or Seesaw lets teachers send the link to individual or groups of students to click and view on their device. The interactive presentation tool Nearpod also lets teachers embed YouTube videos so that students can pause to watch a clip by themselves or with partners. YouTube videos can also support students who are ready to explore topics that might not be explicitly covered in your curriculum.

Exploring Virtual Reality

YouTube now hosts videos that students can use to explore the world. The 360-degree videos on YouTube come from places like the Discovery Channel, are accessible on YouTube's website, and viewable on computers or mobile devices. There are lots of ways to use virtual reality tools like these in the classroom, and YouTube now contains videos that are compatible with Google Cardboard. If you don't have access to virtual reality viewfinders, students can still open the YouTube video and move it in all directions for a 360-degree view.

Sharing Student Work

There are many digital creation tools that link directly to YouTube. One example is the powerful screencasting tool Explain Everything. Students can post their Explain Everything creations on YouTube to easily share them with a global audience. Indeed, there are many ways that scannable technology like QR codes and augmented reality can make sharing student work happen easily in your classroom. Keep in mind, however, that when sharing student work on a platform like YouTube, you'll want to make sure that student permissions are in place.

How are you using YouTube with your students? Share your favorite YouTube channels and activities in the comments below!

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Harnessing the Power of YouTube in the Classroom | Edutopia

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There are amazing ways to elevate and energize instruction through using technology tools. One resource that's popular with students of all ages -- from the youngest to the oldest -- is the video hosting website YouTube. YouTube lets anyone with a free account upload videos.

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This was a social media site that another group in the class discussed, and, in addition to that, this website provides interesting ways that Twitter can be used. I would definitely use Twitter to tell my students what they will need for the day and to provide reminders of homework assignments before they are due.

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I thought this was very cool when looking up how to use Facebook in the classroom. This would be a great way to link social-media and history.

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Fakebook - create a fictional social medial profile

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Create a spoof social media profile for a person, theme, place or object being studied

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I chose this standard:
GLE 0507.4.2 Recognize that some characteristics are inherited while others result from interactions with the environment.
And this would be a great game for teaching students about selection and evolution to help them understand the standard in a fun and engaging way.

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TestTubeGames - Bringing Science to Life

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Science it a wonderful subject to learn by doing. Throw a ball to learn how trajectories work, break open rocks to study minerals. But abstract topics, like theoretical physics, don't lend themselves to easy experiments. Can you travel near the speed of light? (Spoiler alert) No. No you cannot.

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As an example, this would be a great video for students to see what fire is for grades 3-5. It delves into science and thermal energy while focusing on the science and having few distractions inside the video. I personally like minutephysics when it comes to supplementing science education.

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Fire it up! We explain hot stuff. Video of a candle in microgravity: http://mix.msfc.nasa.gov/IMAGES/QTVR/0601309.mov Tweet it - http://bit.ly/pOz9Dn Facebook it - http://on.fb.me/n0pCUE minutephysics is now on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 And facebook - http://facebook.com/minutephysics Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute!

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I like using websites like Kahoot for review games and collaborative learning. Splitting students into groups would require them to work together and collaborate in a limited amount of time to answer questions. I like it, and my former students loved it and thought it was really fun while showing their knowledge on the subject being reviewed before the post-test.

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Kahoot! | Learning games | Make learning awesome!

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Kahoot! is a game-based learning platform that brings engagement and fun to 1+ billion players every year at school, at work, and at home.

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It is also nice to have online resources such as Khan Academy be able to help students of all ages with math and science. I have personally used this tool in lesson plans and when I was a student struggling through high school Physics. This tool is great because students can access this tool at home if they have an internet connection.

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Let's learn to multiply. M U L T I P L Y. And the best way I think to do anything is just to actually do some examples, and then talk through the examples, and try to figure out what they mean. In my first example I have 2 times 3. By now you probably know what 2 plus 3 is. That's equal to 5. And if you need a bit of a review you could think of if I had 2-- I don't know-- 2 magenta-- this color-- cherries. And I wanted to add to it 3 blueberries. How many total pieces of fruit do I now have? And you'd say, oh, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Or likewise, if I had our number line, and you probably don't need this review, but it never hurts. Never hurts to reinforce the concept. And it this is 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. If you're sitting 2 to the right of 0 and in general, when we go positive we go to the right. And if you were to add 3 to it, you would move 3 spaces to the right. So if I said, if I just moved over 3 to the right, where do I end up? 1, 2, 3. I end up at 5. So either way, you understand that 2 plus 3 is equal to 5. So what is 2 times 3? An easy way to think about multiplication or timesing something is it's just a simple way of doing addition over and over again. So that you means is, and it's a little tricky. You're not going to add 2 to 3. You're going to add-- and there's actually two ways to think about it. You're going to add 2 to itself three times. Now what does that mean? Well, it means you're going to say 2 plus 2 plus 2. Now where did the 3 go? Well, how many 2's do we have here? Let's see, I have-- this is one 2, I have two 2's, I have three 2's. I'm counting the numbers here the same way that I counted blueberries up here. I had 1, 2, 3 blueberries. I have one, two, three 2's. So this three tells me how many 2's I'm going to have. So what's 2 times 3? Well, I took 2 and I added to itself three times. So 2 plus 2 is 4. 4 plus 2 is equal to 6. Now that's only one way to think about it. The other way we could have thought about this is we could've said, instead of having 2 added to itself three times, we could've added 3 to itself two times. And I know it's maybe becoming a little bit confusing, but the more practice you do it'll make a little sense. So this statement up here, let me rewrite it. 2 times 3. It could also be rewritten as 3 two times. So 3 plus 3. And once again, you're like, where did this 2 go? You know, I had 2 times 3 and whenever you do addition you see I have 2-- oh, I don't know these-- well, I said cherries, but they could be raspberries or anything. And then I had two things, I have three things and the 2 and the 3 never disappear. And I add them together, I get 5. But here I'm saying that 2 times 3 is the same thing as 3 plus 3. Where did the 2 go? 2 in this case, in this scenario, is telling me how many times I'm going to add 3 to itself. But what's interesting is, regardless of which way I interpret 2 times 3, I can interpret it as 2 plus 2 plus 2 or adding 2 to itself three times. I can interpret it that way or I can interpret it as adding 3 to itself two times. But notice, I get the same answer. What's 3 plus 3? That is also equal to 6. And this is probably the first time in mathematics you'll encounter something very neat. Sometimes, regardless of the path you take, as long as you take a correct path you get the same answer. So two people can kind of visualize it-- as long as they're visualizing it correctly, two different problems, but they come up with the name solution. And so you're probably saying, Sal, when is this multiplication thing even useful? And this is where it's useful. Sometimes it simplifies counting. So let's say I have a-- well, let's stick with our fruit analogy. An analogy is just when you kind of use something as-- well, I won't go too much into it. But our fruit example. Let's say I had lemons. Let me draw a bunch of lemons. I'll draw them in rows of 3. So I have 1, 2, 3-- well, I'm not going to count them because that'll give our answer away. I'm just drawing a bunch of lemons. Now, if I said, you tell me how many lemons there are here. And if I did that you would proceed to just count all of the lemons. And it wouldn't take you too long to say, that oh, there's 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 lemons I actually already gave you the answer. We know that there are 12 lemons there. But there's an easier way and a faster way to count the number of lemons. Notice: how many lemons are in each row? And a row is kind of the side to side lemons. I think you know what a row is. I don't want to talk down to you. So how many lemons are there in a row? Well, there are 3 lemons in a row. And now let me ask you another question, how many rows are there? Well, this was one row, and this is the second row, this is the third row, and this is the fourth row. So an easy way to count it is say, I have 3 lemons per row and I have 4 of them. So let's say I have 3 lemons per row. I hope I'm not confusing you, but I think you'll enjoy this. And then I have 4 rows. So I have 4 times 3 lemons. And that should be equal to the number of lemons I have-- 12. And just to make that gel with what I just did with the addition, let's think about this. 4 times 3-- literally, when you actually say out the word 4 times 3, I visualize this. I visualize 4 times 3. So 3 four times. 3 plus 3 plus 3. And if we did that we get 3 plus 3 is 6. 6 plus 3 is 9. 9 plus 3 is 12. And we learned up here, this part of the video, we learned that this same multiplication could also be interpreted as 3 times 4. You can switch the order and this is one of the useful and interesting actually, kind of properties of multiplication. But this could also be written as 4 three times. 4 plus 4 plus 4. You add 4 to itself three times. 4 plus 4 is 8. 8 plus 4 is 12. And in the U.S. we always say 4 times 3, but you know, I've met people and a lot of people in my family they kind of learned in the-- I guess, you could call it the English system. And they'll often call this four 3's or three 4's. And that in some ways is a lot more intuitive. It's not intuitive the first time you hear it, but they'll write this multiplication problem or they'll say this multiplication problem and they'll say, what are four 3's? And when they say four 3's, they're literally saying, what are four 3's? So this is one 3, two 3's, three 3's, four 3's. So what are four 3's when you add them up? It's 12. And you could also say, what are three 4's? So let me write this down. Let me do it in a different color. That is four 3's. I mean literally, that's four 3's. If I told you to say, write down for four 3's and add them up, that's what that is. And that is 4 times 3 or 3 four times. And this is-- let me do that in a different color. That is three 4's. And it could also be written as 3 times 4. And they all equal 12. And now you're probably saying, OK, this is nice. It's a cute little trick, Sal, that you've taught me. But it took you less time to count these lemons than to do this problem. And well first of all, that's only right now because you're new to multiplication. But what you'll find is there are times and there are actually many times-- and I don't want to use the word times too much in a video on multiplication-- where each row of lemons, instead of having 3 maybe they have 100 lemons. Maybe there's 100 rows. And then it would take you forever to count all the lemons and that's where multiplication comes really useful. Although, we're not going to learn right now how to multiply 100 times 100. Now, the one thing that I want to get you and this is kind of a trick. I remember my sister just to try to show how much smarter she was than me when I was in kindergarten and she was in third grade, she would say Sal, what is 3 times 1? And I would say, because my brain would say, oh, that's like 3 plus 1. And I would say 3 plus 1 is equal to 4. And so I'd say, 3 times 1? That must be 4 as well. And she would say, no, silly. It's 3. And I was like, how can that be? How can the 3 times some other number still be the same number? And think about what this means. You could view this as three 1's. What are three 1's? That's one 1 plus another one 1 plus another 1. And that's equal to 3. Or you could view this as 3 one time. So what's 3 one time? It's almost silly how easy it is. It's just 3. That's one 3. You could write this as one 3. And that's why anything times 1 or 1 times anything is that anything. So then 3 times 1 is 3. 1 times 3 is 3. And you know, I could say 100 times 1 is equal to 100. I could say that 1 times 39 is equal to 39. And I think you're familiar with numbers this large by now. So that's interesting. Now there's one other really interesting thing about multiplication. And that's when you multiply by 0. And I'll start with the analogy or the example when you add. 3 plus 0 you've hopefully learned is 3. Because I'm adding nothing to the 3. If I have 3 apples and I give you 0 more apples, you still have 3 apples. But what is 3 and maybe I'm just fixated on the number 3 a little bit too much. Let me switch. What is 4 times 0? Well this is saying, 0 four times. So what's 0 plus 0 plus 0 plus 0? Well, that's 0. I have nothing plus nothing plus nothing plus nothing, so I get nothing. Another way to think of it, I could say 4 zero times. So how do I write 4 zero times? Well, I just don't write anything, right? Because if I write anything, if I write 1/4 and I don't have no 4's-- let me write this. This is four 0's, but I could also write zero 4's. And what is zero 4's? I'll just write a big blank here. There, I wrote it. There are no 4's here. So there's just a big blank. And that's another fun thing. So anything times 0 is 0. I could write a huge number, you know, 5,493,692 times 0. What does that equal? That equals 0. And by the way, what's this number times 1? Well, it's that number again. And what's 0 times 17? Once again, that is 0. Anyway, I think I've talked for long enough. See you in the next video.

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Basic multiplication (video) | Khan Academy

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Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.