Clever ideas for using Google Tools effectively for students and for all teachers
Google offers a multitude of terrific tools that can be used to enhance both teaching and learning. These tools are powerful, user-friendly, and FREE!! This book highlights many of these tools and provides clever ideas for using them in the classroom.
iLearn iTeach Powerful Utilities for the iPad - (Single)
Author: Patsy Lanclos
Pre K - Adult
Quick Overview Powerful utilities for students, teachers, administrators, and everyone! Make your iPad an effective replacement for the laptop or desktop.
Digital Shapeshifter: Visual Teaching, Differentiated Learning, and Formative Assessment with the Classroom Document Camera - (Single)
Author: Len Scrogan
Grades K - 12
Powerful Teaching – Visual Learning
Few technologies have spread to K–16 classrooms as quickly and pervasively as the document camera. Rapidly and single-handedly, this device has forced antiquated overhead projectors into back room closets and surplus sales. In addition, few technologies are this easy to use. Still, few educators employ the true power, flexibility, and potential of this richly visual tool for powerfully and creatively transforming classroom instruction …until now.
Tools and ideas to make your SMART Board more interactive.
If you’re looking for the tools and ideas to make your SMART Board more interactive, this book will equip you with both. Research shows that students interacting with this technology can make significant gains in student achievement.
Smart Surfing Safe Surfing: A Guide for Educators and Parents 2nd Edition (Single)
Author: David Hoerger
Activities for Students, Teachers and Parents
Designed specifically to help teachers, parents, and students become successful, smart, and safe surfers of the Internet. Providers users with an understanding of the difference between browser and search engines, and how to use them efficiently and effectively.
Contains sections on finding and using images, maps and atlases and sound files on the Internet
The Social Web provides tools to help educators create communities as an extension of the classroom for the purpose of sharing information and content online. Students learn to collaborate with others providing additional opportunities for peer learning. Social media applications in the classroom give teachers an opportunity to model and teach digital ethics and digital citizenship. Furthermore, competency in managing social media gives students a competitive advantage in the real world by helping them learn to create and control their own brand.