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This is the link to Padlet, the virtual blackboard that allows you to work with all the students and make all their "contributions" visible to the class.
//it.padlet.com
It is very easy to use, but here is a tutorial should you have any problems.
Think of how you could use it.

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Didattica digitale - Video tutorial Padlet

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Another tool I am asking you to use is the one that allows you to create a podcast (a digital audio message, you can share on the net, download): https://www.spreaker.com/
Easy to use, really useful.  How would you use it in your subject?  In English I asked it to share a powerful message with my students, or I asked them to deliver a speech, to interview an important writer, character, historical figure.  These links can be useful: https://gianfrancomarini.blogspot.com/2017/03/video-tutorial-spreaker-podcast-scuola.html
or
https://www.spreaker.com/help/tutorials

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This is the podcast I created for you.  You need to create your own and answer the following questions: How much technology do you use in your teaching? How do you use it? Why do you use it? Are you interested in learning more about the use of technology in our teaching practice? Why (not)? Listen to my podcast, then create your own by using the recommended application and post it in this column.  Make sure you write your name and surname.  Ideally you should write your script first.  You should copy it in the "comment" are provided in spreaker so that it is easier for all the colleagues to undestand you.
In my podcast I mention Adobe Spark used by my students to create a literature learning diary.  This is an example: https://spark.adobe.com/page/ChBfJRHk58O4u/

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In the past I used Padlet when I was teaching science in the middle school: it was useful to make students share their collection of images and photos (also taken by them and about their works), brief essays and also ideas.
- A useful software I used with them for scaffolding their way of studying was MindMaple Lite, http://www.mindmaple.com/ : I have to say it was not one which is usually recommended, but in my opinion it is one of the most effective, in particular because it can create the map by itself having only a formatted text.
- Teaching Maths and Physics,  GeoGebra, https://www.geogebra.org/, is a worth-of-use software. There is a online and a offline version, with the possibility to upload your own files and share them with the class or with the whole world, or to look for something interesting some other teacher has already created. Here is one of my applets I created last year: https://www.geogebra.org/m/tbMEr4w2 and the last one: https://www.geogebra.org/m/mrgjfm6h.
- Tracker, https://physlets.org/tracker/ , is a very useful tool for video analysis and modeling. Tracking an object on a video you can get infos on its position and other physical quantities. On the site you can find also some resources, activities and video ready-to-use.
- it would be difficult to mention some sites in particular, so I mention the Phet Colorado site, https://phet.colorado.edu/it/, famous for its effective scientific simulations (very useful also at the middle school) and Diigo, https://www.diigo.com/, one of the bookmarking site which I preferred to others when I started to collect sites some years ago.

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This week I am in Dublin thanks to a school-project and ... let you look who I met!

"Do you want to have a coffee with me?

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Well done! It is difficult to involve the students in studying geography with a traditional strategy.
Some years ago I employ some videos of the group Overland, who travelled with a lorry through the world and through different climate, environments, cultures

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After having sent a maybe ironic file, here is an audiofile with similar contents

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Hello everyone
Here we are for a new step of our Clil experience. The question is which tools are useful in my teaching experience, right? So usually in my class lessons I use PPT and PREZI to show my students the different images of my subject, Art history as you just know!

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Maybe many of you already know it, but one of my favourite websites for Mathematics is Khan Academy. It has many resources for other subjects too, but the immediate feedback students can get in the interactive exercises makes it highly valuable for Maths. It stores also many videos of explanation and some texts.

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Useful for creating shared notice boards (among users with Google accounts) is the Jamboard app. Members can add post-its, drawings, images, webpages... I am just about learning to use it, and I think it is developing still, but I suppose it can be quite useful for sharing ideas in a group (for example, a team of students researching a topic).

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WHAT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY?

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Podcast "Teaching With Technology: Baby Steps"

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Last year my classes had no interactive whiteboard, no projector, no available computer lab, no Wi-Fi... I used Edmodo for homework, but the idea of further integrating teaching and technology couldn't even cross my mind. This year I moved to a different school. Two of my classes attend lessons in rooms with a computer and a projector, so I have decided to prepare all my lessons to these students on slides. This implies a more detailed planning of the lessons, where the activities, the ...

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Teaching With Technology: Baby Steps - Lo show di Alice Spangaro

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Last year my classes had no interactive whiteboard, no projector, no available computer lab, no Wi-Fi... I used Edmodo for homework, but the idea of further integrating teaching and technology couldn't even cross my mind. This year I moved to a different school.

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A colleague of mine had previously tried and failed to introduce me to Padlet.
The reason why I resisted is that I find its setting quite messy: it is simple enough to contribute posts to it, it looks very difficult to navigate if you don't know where to go searching.
I have now realised, though, that it has an impacting perk: students can contribute to an existing padlet without setting up any account!
I think I could give it a try, for tasks with a very clear and simple structure (separate sections with no connection between the subsections).

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Hello everybody,
I used podcast only a few times, and I find it very useful in order to share images and texts. If only I had known it when I prepared with my students some products for the many competition we partecipated in!! It has also has an attractive graphic, and this is quite important. One thing I appreciate is the fact that we can work also with the texts; students can read and write a lot and I can better correct their written tasks. from this "platform".
Thank you Cristiana for having shared it with us.
So, I would contribute with two websites. Maybe you already know them...I find them very useful because you can find and share many resources for teachers, and they're all free!!
https://sharemylesson.com/
and
https://sheg.stanford.edu/
A tool I often use in order to make mind maps is  https://coggle.it/

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Technology and I

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Since my level in using technology could be defined approximately "basic", and since I tought for many years mostly Italian and Latin Literature, were the written texts are the aim of each topic, until a few years ago I used to thinking that in those subjects it wasn't so important to use technological tools.

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Dear all,
for me the most important technological tool is  “Google”

with all its tools.  It seems ordinary, but it's really very powerful with the big amounts of  tools it offers.
The first thing I ask students when I enter a class is to create a Google Account, if they do not have one.

According to the needs I use different tools offered by Google, but mostly:

Google drive: I use the drive to share things with students and students to share things with me

Gmail: very well known!!!! Students can send me an email to make me questions. For example (we have only two hours/week) sometimes they have doubts on the exercises and they send me emails to ask.

Editey ( it's not really a Google tool, but you need a Goggle account to use it):  to create html&css pages. Students use it especially at home if they cannot install Eclipse

Google Slides: it's like power point, but students can work simultaneously on the same file. To prepare presentations generally I divide the class in groups and each groups must prepare a specific part. With Slides even if each groups makes its part, they work directly on the same file so they can see each other work and make things directly homogenous.

Google Search: very well known!!!!

Google forms: never used yet, but I would like to try it to do assessments. It allows to do forms/questionairres

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Dear all, last week I observed a collegue doing a CLIL lesson and she used, among others, the videos from this website: https://mathtv.com/. I thought they were clear both from the point of view of the language and of the math :)
I often use videos from Khan Academy, too, and I find very useful also those made by Elia Bombardelli http://www.eliabombardelli.com/ but these are in italian of course.
For those of you interested in mathematical olimpic games there are usefull video lessons (also in italian) from prof. Emanuele Callegari (università di Roma 2) that you can find here http://www.problemisvolti.it/CorsoBaseOlimpiadiMatematica.html

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Marisa Mercanti

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Thank you for sharing all this knowledge, actually I don't know these apps and I am understanding that I have a lot to learn! I will search if there is something interesting connected with my subject that is Business administration. Thank u all!

Marisa Mercanti

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Carla Castellarin Cudia

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"Teaching with technology: my personal experience"

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Good evening, I'm Giovanni Moras and the title of this podcast is "Teaching with technology: my personal experience".

In the last two years I came back to teach Maths and Physics in the high school after six beautiful years in the middle school, teaching Maths and Science. I make this premise because in my experience I notice that, like a lot of other aspects in education, it is important to establish an effective educational relation with students to make them understand some of our ...

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Teaching with technology: my personal experience - Lo show di Giovanni Moras

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Good evening, I'm Giovanni Moras and the title of this podcast is "Teaching with technology: my personal experience". In the last two years I came back to teach Maths and Physics in the high school after six beautiful years in the middle school, teaching Maths and Science.

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Even though I don't have apps to share with u especially on my specific subject, I want to share with you this article that I found interesting...

“The best creative work doesn’t come from time spent looking for inspiration, it comes as a result of tirelessly generating, sharing, and exploring ideas,”

https://www.shieldcasework.com/is-finding-inspiration-a-waste-of-time/

Have a nice week,
Marisa

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Sorry: I wrote"podcast" instead of "padlet"...I don't know why. It's completely different, but It could be referred to Spreaker. Am I wrong?

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One of my favorite websites is the renowned, world-class, amazing PHET:
https://phet.colorado.edu/
In this website there are plenty of physics (and maths and science and chemistry and and and...) simulations.
They might extremely useful when your lab is not available for whatever reason.
Please, try to play at least with one simulation.
For example, try this (I use it in my statistics learning unit):
https://phet.colorado.edu/sims/html/plinko-probability/latest/plinko-probability_en.html
Another extremely useful application is audacity:
https://www.audacityteam.org/
It permits me to record every kind of sound (even my voice). Successively I use that sound in my classes: students have to measure the its duration by means of stopwatches and then make some very easy calculations to work out the average duration and estimate the statistical error of such a measurement.
There is still one more online tool that it's very useful to me:
https://www.codecogs.com/latex/eqneditor.php
This is used to write formulas and equations in a very neat way and for me it's far better that Word's equation editor

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I'm not very good in sharing materials, even if I try hard to use Dropobox and Drive. WhatI find useful is to use the free We Transfer app to send "heavvy" files  (up to 2GB), that can be send, downloaded and shared by a simple e-mail:

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I'm not very good in sharing materials, even if I try hard to use Dropobox and Drive. WhatI find useful is to use the free We Transfer app to send "heavvy" files  (up to 2GB), that can be send, downloaded and shared by a simple e-mail:

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https://wetransfer.com/
Another good website is the Kahn Academy link to a 300 videos library on Art History
https://it.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/beginners-art-history/a/cave-painting-contemporary-art-and-everything-in-between

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Ivano De Pol              Teaching with Technology

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Ivano De Pol              Teaching with Technology

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Good afternoon to all. I tried Spreaker! Sorry for being later!!!

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ICT changes very fast!
Maybe we need to choose an application and keep on with that one, otherwise we get confused thera are so many choices on line. Which is the best? I going to try Padlet anyway.

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Hello everybody! Online there are many site for materials to dowload and for my subject I often use like many of my collegues these links:

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history

https://smarthistory.org/
I conferm these links have many quiz, tests, and videos with very nice images and also contextualized very well.
I also use 'super mappe lite' for creating mind maps for android that is open sourse and very easy to use by students. Here is the app to download if you like to try it.
https://www.supermappe.it/funzioni-e-versioni/android/

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Here's my podcast, sorry sometimes i just go on babbling... :(

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16313604

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16313657

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1) Technology can be useful for effective teaching but it is just a tool. The teacher is still (and anlways be, in my humble opionion) the one who can make the difference in a student's life.
2) As Ivano already said, many tools are kinda clones of other extremely similar tools: trying to keep up with ALL tools is not a good strategy to me. The best is the enemy of the good.

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Simonetta Daffarra

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So many things to learn and deal with, in such a short time...

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So many things to learn and deal with, in such a short time...

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I'm exhausted...

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Tech for teach

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Tech for teaching - Santo Gibilisco's show

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Technology can help you a lot as a teacher. As mathematics and physics teacher I would like to mention some tools I couldn't do without. First of all, Geogebra. Ok, every maths teacher knows it, since it is a must have. It is a powerful (and free) software which can be used for Geometry, Trigonometry, Algebra, Statistics.

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Hello everybody I lost myself during last week, I am sorry to answer today but better now than never

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Hello everybody I lost myself during last week, I am sorry to answer today but better now than never

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I usually do not use many technology devises but I believe that it would be the future in our lessons, I find useful to watch historical videos on https://www.youtube.comhttps://www.youtube.com and http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/is also useful. I use google drive as well to share materials and stuff I need to keep for myself. I like to watch documentary video also on https://www.raiplay.it. When I can't save images or text I use snapshots or screenshots.
About apps I can't live without ppt and maps!

Bye!

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In my CLIL module (physics) I used materials from Khan Academy, that others have already mentioned, but also from the site https://www.physicsclassroom.com/
You can find texts that can be used in class, exercises, some animations and interactive simulations (but I think Phet simulations are better).
Bye!

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https://www.spreaker.com/user/10939425/teaching-with-technology

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https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16354569

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Listen in to popular podcasts and radio shows from around the world or start your own with Spreaker!

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I find all this path really interesting but at the moment I can't enjoy all these contents because I am so tired and worried due to the final and so demanding part of the CLIL course.

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Daniele Marini   Teaching with technology

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Daniele Marini   Teaching with technology

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I did it...I thought I wouldn't
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16355393

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podcastclil - Podcast CLIL Daniele Marini

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The use of technology in class, I thought it was biting me, it wasn't

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Mlearning class - mobile learning- contenuti formativi per dispositivi mobili

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Mlearning class - mobile Learning - un progetto formativo ed educativo per l'utilizzo di dispositivi mobili in classe

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Dear colleagues I want to share with you this web site that I think  it is very useful, complete and well done. http://mlearning.isitgoonair.net/
The authors are some computer science colleagues of

Istituto Statale d'Istruzione Superiore "G. Galilei" - Gorizia,

and they offer their experiences about teaching with technology. I think that is a very very good and effective site. If you surf into this site you can find a specific page  "risorse "
http://mlearning.isitgoonair.net/risorse/
in which they describe each app or digital instrument they propose, referring also to Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy.
Please look at it!

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Hello everyone, sorry for the delay of my speech, but never like in this period the numerous school commitments or not, do not seem to give me respite: even technology seems to help me a lot.

I like my students to use technology to better understand the subjects I teach, that is, mathematics and physics. I find very useful the program, already mentioned by my colleagues, geogebra that you can download for free at www.geogebra.org (both for mathematics and physics) and also the PSSC videos (for physics) of which Zanichelli has an archive but that can also be found on you tube.

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In picture there are some students working in info lab.
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/16364484

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some considerations - Technology at school

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Technology at school - I teach ICT so I use technology almost every day: when I'm in lab I use applications for explaining students how to use tech and apps and, when I'm in class I often use apps to teach more theoretical topics (but sometimes I do lessons using students' devices as well).

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Teaching with technology: why not?
I try to summarize my story with technologies ...

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teaching with tecnology_ whay_not - Annalisa Muto's show

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Here is the transcription of the audio file ...

"My first job in this strange school world was as a computer science teacher to prepare students and adults for the ECDL exams. And from that moment on, technology has not left me anymore. I tried to use some programs like word excel ppt publisher autocad with my students at school but most of the time the computer room was obsolete and after a few attempts we were forced to desist from continuing. One year I had the chance to have a LIM in my classroom: wonderful I felt very happy but … the year after nothing neither a PC, only blackboards and chalks. when I finally arrived at a school where in every class there was a computer and a projector I was very happy but I'm honest I only used programs like geogebra, excel, ppt, word, audacity and tracker (for physics), some interesting videos from the web to increase in my students the curiosity for the study of my subjects and space on spaggiari dedicated to teaching to share material with colleagues and students.
Now thanks to the CLIL course I'm starting to learn about new tools available online that could be a valuable teaching aid: students need as never before to be able to learn through collaboration and good communication that cannot always happen in class (we do not have many hours available and not all the necessary technology). So yes I’m interested to improve my knowledge about technology for my teaching practice.
Thank you"

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Padlet is very useful for brainstorming activities (for example to activate prior knowledge) or in reflection times after a "visita di istruzione", and also for organize lessons, in fact in it you can put materials, links to resources, links to tests and assessment activities we have just create with other apps.

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Dear colleagues,

I want to share with you a web site created for sharing materials of an Erasmus+ Project I collaborate with other four European partners (all of them in education area) and other colleagues of my school (one is also here in this CLIL course). The project is called TELMS, the acronym is for “Technology Enhanced Learning Mentoring Support”. TELMS is dedicated to teachers, the aim is to equip teachers to embrace new technologies in the way they teach in order to stimulate and engage learners through the development of a “peer mentoring programme”. It was a great chance for my school to have opportunity to create a small group of “mentor” teachers and another of “mentee” teachers and to research a “peer mentoring” collaborative activity. During project activities we learn a lot from partners. The link of the site is https://telms.eu/. Look at it, there is also a section in italian language!

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This my second post is about some useful tool I daily use during my lessons with first year classrooms in order to teach them collaboration using technology. For example I ask them to collaborate on-line drawing a conceptual map or bulding an on-line presentation using tools like:

https://coggle.it/ for collaborative conceptual maps (suggested also by Francesca Bordini);

https://www.mentimeter.com for brainstorming, in order to improve discussion, but also for quick pools or quizzes;

https://prezi.com/ for  collaborative presentations with zoom effects that students like a lot!

https://www.emaze.com/ for  collaborative presentations different from the last above for the presence of 3D effects.

When I want to explore some new tools and their didactic use, I type the link: http://www.metodologiedidattiche.it/2017/12/09/didattica-laboratoriale/; in this website there are some good experiences,  I appreciate the focus on methodology and to Bloom's taxonomy.

Now I'm interested in the use of THINGLINK tool (360 degree photographs and augmented reality) but I have not used in classroom. If you are interested in you could use this link: https://www.thinglink.com/edu

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Dear all,
I agree with Federica Tabacco, also for me Padlet Tool is very useful. I use it very often with my first year classes (secondary school) in order to share easly and quickly collaborative activities I assign them such as researches, presentations or exercises. This tool could increase students to read and learn from peers because it engage them. In the photo above there is an example of a padlet I used last year in order to prepare students collaboratively to an assess on "numerical sistems": I wrote an exercise in a column  and students had to answer the correct answer below like a little game! The most quick student who was picking a post just under mine won! Activity worked well: there are better marks in the successive final assessment of the module.

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Maria Concetta Brocato: "My teaching with technology" podcast

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Maria Concetta Brocato: "My teaching with technology" podcast

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This is the transcription of the podcast:
About the first question: “how much technology I use in my teaching?”

Before answering it’s necessary to point out that I teach Computer Science, so it is easy for me to know and use new Tools or Software when they are published. I’m not scared to use them, I’m curious and I’ve, also, a big advantage: I can use the laboratory for almost all the hours I have with each of my classes. In my school ICT Labs have very fast internet connection, a PC for each student and an interactive whiteboard connected with teacher pc. There is a favoured situation so I could choose and decide what I want to do with less problems than others. I could decide to use ICT or simply chalk and talk using a board, or performing some writing on a paper. And, almost if the relevant part of my teaching involves ICT, I use to mix and use together paper and files, books and tools, forums and talks, posts on a Padlet wall and common exercises.

About the other two questions: “How and why do you use technology?”:

The answer is: I use technology in order to improve student collaboration and “peer to peer” learning. In my opinion, the relevant point is a didactic reflection on what a teacher want to use and how he uses it in order to reach those aims. I don’t call innovative a teacher only if he uses ICT. For absurd a teacher could use ICT as a TV, without any interaction with students, substituting his action with a video. Using ICT only in one direction: from teacher to students. Is this an innovative and good way to use ICT? I think no, it could catch better student attention but don’t really change teaching.

My teaching action is focused on performing “students collaboration” and “active learning”, I try to use technology in order to “redefine teaching” as we have read in the “The Pedagogy Wheel.pdf” file and in the website link inside the centre of the wheel (https://designingoutcomes.com/the-padagogy-wheel-v3-0-learning-design-starts-with-graduate-attributes-capabilities-and-motivation/). There are a lot of Tools, websites and methodologies that allow and could improve problem solving, creativity, and collaboration. The point is that technology is useful if there is a teaching plan, so I try to plan and focus well my objectives and after I think about Sw.

In this I agree with Claudia Manganaro, a CLIL course colleague. In her podcast, posted here in this padlet, she told us it depends mainly to teachers.

I like Flipped teaching and I use “in presenza” lessons in order to perform activities together with students. I commonly use a Learning Management System (Moodle) and I use Moodle courses every year with each class. I use courses as “scaffolding” environments and often we use forums. Each course is “wrapped around the class” during the year, it is not static but we build together and share contents and materials done during lessons or at home like a personal cloud. During this 10 years I could observe students appreciate and use it.

About the last questions: “Are you interested in learning more about technology practice?”:

The answer is: Yes! I like teaching discussions on innovative methodologies, reflection about tools and connections to Bloom's taxonomy. As I wrote on the first column post now I'm very interested in the use of THINGLINK tool (360 degree photographs and augmented reality) but I have not used in classroom.

Many thanks to all and bye for now.

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I usually find material in youtube and now, thanks to the CLIL course, I'm using also Kahoot.

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When I teach Physics and I use a lot of technology in particular video from youtube.

I download the files on my laptop and project them on the whiteboard in class; I also share them with my students to work in flipped classroom.

Videos are attractive for students, they are much more interested on them versus the traditional frontal lesson. They can also manage the learning time looking to them when and how the can.

When I teach Maths I use Kahoot to check the ongoing learning before the formal written assessments.