https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas Post interesting technological tools that are useful for teaching. en-us 2016-02-29 09:26:08 UTC 2016-06-06 10:17:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/smiley.jpg claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014051 Practical Uses
- Brainstorming (4th - 6th grade duvrei anglit - thinking of plot ideas for our movie writing project)
- Brainstorming (3rd grade duvrei anglit - finding alternative words to "said" for students to use in creative story writing activities)
- Collaboration projects - where students can post ideas or links to articles with summaries for projects they are working on together]]> 2016-04-11 09:40:43 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014051 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014310 Practical Uses
- Students can use it as a journal to practice writing informal English
- Long-term project - students are assigned a "theme" for their blog and they must do a certain number of posts according to assignment specifications - jigsaw activity - students look at each others' blogs to learn about the different topics]]> 2016-04-11 09:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014310 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014725 Pratical Uses
- Younger duvrei anglit students - they have advanced understanding of spoken English, but more difficulty with writing - this tool gives them the ability to draw their answers, work creatively, and demonstrate understanding without the pressure of spelling, grammar, and vocabualry]]> 2016-04-11 09:46:17 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014725 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014957 Practical Uses
- Flipped classroom
- Practice dictations (audio of words with a more personal effect) at home
- Student made presentations on different topics - jigsaw - students need to watch each others' videos (ask questions or hold discussion so students are responsible for actually watching the videos and absorbing the information)

]]> 2016-04-11 09:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105014957 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105015280 What is it for?
- Reading comprehension and writing structure
- Online annotation tool incorporated into the site
- Teaches students how to write a structured argument
- For all ages
- Articles on all types of topics for all levels
- Students can listen to a REAL PERSON (not computerized voice) read the text aloud 
Practical Uses
- Flipped classroom/blended learning
- Pre- oral debate activities 
- Learning to write an argument/persuasive paper ]]> 2016-04-11 09:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105015280 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105019749 General description of the tool
- Content from Smithsonian
- Sign up as teacher, as students as class (students can't sign up on their own - but are given a user name and password after teacher signs them up)
- Has pre-made lesson plans (i.e. "Be a Journalist") which provide benchmarks/objectives, but they are general and adaptable
- Different lexical levels
- Public comments on the article 
- Quizzes on the readings 
- One-way interaction --> read article and answer questions, then do more activities in class
- Comments - if you make them public - the students can generate discussion with each other ]]> 2016-04-11 10:24:21 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/105019749 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112080556 - Useful for review 
- Multiple choice questions only/true/false
- Can show or hide student leaderboard --> you can make it more or less competitive
- There are pre-made quizzes you can use and you can edit it
- Students get an avatar in the beginning
- You can jumble the questions so students are on different questions from each other
- There are different themes (i.e. jungle) and a message on theme comes up after you answer each question
- Can also be used for homework
- Students choose their own nickname
- Your quizzes save
- In two languages --> English and Spanish (but you can type in Hebrew)
- You can add pictures to your questions
- You can record
- Pretty easy to build]]> 2016-05-23 08:44:21 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112080556 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112080916 - Used this tool in class demonstration
- Only multiple choice and true/false questions
- Can add pictures and videos to the question
- Students enter a code to the game
- Students choose a nickname
- This tool is awful
- You can only read the question on the projector
- Students only see colors on the screen to choose the answer
- When you make a quiz it says you can pick more than one answer, but you can't when you're actually taking the quiz as a student
- Nice for the teacher to see everyone's faces looking at the board
- You only see the top 5 leaderboards
- You don't see what everyone got wrong
- You can't review the questions and what you got wrong and right --> you can on quizizz, it's a big disadvantage for Kahoot 
- Everyone can shout out an answer (triangle! red!) and the teacher doesn't really know what each student knows 

]]> 2016-05-23 08:47:09 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112080916 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112083903 - You see the question yourself
- Students are on team 
- Results update on the screen live time - but by time so students aren't called out individually which is really nice

]]> 2016-05-23 09:07:39 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112083903 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112088126 - Digital storytelling
- I used this with my fifth and sixth grade students 
- They made comics/storyboards out of stories that they wrote
- Students really enjoy
- Program works really slowly and everything loads really slowly
- There are so many features, it's important to dedicate a large part of a lesson to showing the students how to use it and letting them play around and become familiar
- A lot of options for creativity
- The students wrote the story together and now they're making their own comics based on it and all of theirs are so different ]]> 2016-05-23 09:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112088126 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112088359 - Gives you more of a starting point
- Good for students that they say they aren't writers
- It provides pictures
- You can't upload your own images
- Write a story based on the pictures
- Choose where to put the pictures, then where to place the text
- You can record an audio - screencast - read stories to students at home
- Junior high can create story books for the younger students - not for a grade - just for the library to contribute! 
- Need to buy it to print it ]]> 2016-05-23 09:35:11 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/112088359 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113758675 - Goes through your iTunes and creates lessons
- You can personalize it and pick your interests (i.e. celebrities)]]> 2016-06-06 08:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113758675 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113758683 - Make your own lists of words
- You can look at your friends word lists
- You can share your list
- There's nothing that allows you to collaborate on a shared stack of words
- Better for older students
- Speech software - good for LD students 
- Not overly engaging
- Vocabulary tool ]]> 2016-06-06 08:18:01 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113758683 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113758851 - Really funny
- There are conversations about different topics
- You can select different levels
- Pretty authentic, topics about dating, at work, traveling, playing music with friends, etc. 
- Video with conversation written on screen
- Then the whole conversation comes up afterwards
- There's a word bank
- When the conversation comes up written there are underline words that you can click on to define
- Good for collaborative extension activities - performing the conversation and adding extra lines
- Good for students to practice speaking with emotions and facial expressions
- High school students
- Can buy additional lessons, but comes with plenty to start with
- Good for LD students - a lot of room for differentiation ]]> 2016-06-06 08:19:20 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113758851 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113760777 - Adjust for multiple intelligences
- Provides a bridge that allows the use of computers without breaking communication
- Interactive and engaging
- ECB whiteboard software --> computer, projector, interactive whiteboard, internet --> put interactive text book online, i.e. with vocab you can pull up a word list and you can listen to the pronunciation, you can show the Hebrew or Arabic translation or both, one at a time or everything, you can also add a text box and type on the screen!  - you can make the font bigger, bolder, different colors, you can zoom in for students sitting in the back of the class
- Are your notes that you type on there saved? --> he thinks with the internet version it can be but with the offline version you can't save it
- If you're a teacher it's free and if you're a student there's a fee 
- You can adjust the speed from rabbit to turtle when it's reading 

]]> 2016-06-06 08:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113760777 claire_alterreid https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113770766 - Sings the song with words on the screen but one word is missing
- You need to type in the missing word
- Be careful with which song you choose... some on the website is inappropriate...
- Free!
- Only in English 
- It's fun! ]]> 2016-06-06 10:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/claire_alterreid/ideas/wish/113770766