Technology Enhanced Teaching Lesson Exemplars.pptx

TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED TEACHING LESSON EXEMPLARS

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20 DIGITAL SKILLS EVERY CENTURY TEACHER SHOULD HAVE

1- Create and edit digital audio useful web tools that you can use with your students to record and share audio clips. As a teacher , you can use these tools to record audio clips to share on your classroom blogs or send them to students parents. Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill:

This is a great application that allows you to add audio comments to the content of your Google documents. This could be a good way to deliver feedback to your students. To use Kaizena , you need to be logged in to your Google account and just like any other third party application, to integrate Kaizena into your Google Docs you will have to grant it access to your Drive.

Audioboo is a wonderful tool for recording and sharing audio clips. It works both on iOS and Android devices as well as on the web.You can record and upload anonymously from the mobile app but it's much more powerful with an account - all you need is an email address.

Soundcloud is very easy to use and with once click you can start recording your own track. You can also upload sound tracks you have saved on your computer.Soundcloud also allows you to add comments to your audio tracks and share them with your students and friends.

TwistedWave is a new audio recording and editing web tool that you can use to create, edit and share audio recordings.It also lets you upload your audio files from your computer or import them from Google Drive and SoundCloud and edit them the way you like.

2- Use Social bookmarking to share resources with and between learners

Semantically speaking, ' social bookmarking' is made up of the term " social " which is related to society and general interactions between people, and the verb " to bookmark " (used here as a gerund ending in ing) which has to do with recording and/or saving content for both later use and quick access. Weaving the semantic reference of the two words results in social bookmarking as we know it today : a collaborative and collective saving and sharing of web content.

Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill:

Diigo is a powerful online research tool and collaborative research platform that integrates several key technologies, including social bookmarking, web annotation, tagging, and group-based collaboration, to enable a whole new process of online knowledge management and participatory learning in the 21st century.Diigo provides several apps/extensions, so you can collect everything or use Diigo for a specific purpose.

This is another powerful tool for saving and organizing your bookmarks. You can create as many binders as you want and in these online binders you can combine all of your cloud documents, website links and upload your desktop documents - to then easily access, share, and update your binders from anywhere.

Scoop. It is another powerful web tool for curating digital content. Similar to Pinterest, Scoop.it allows you to create as many boards as you want and you can either share them with the public or make them private. It also has a handy bookmarklet to use for instant Scooping.

Pinterest is a free web tool that you can use to visually curate web content. You can create as many boards as you want and you can also join other's boards and start a collaborative pinning experience. Pinterest has a handy bookmarklet that you can drag to the bookmarks toolbar and with one click you will be able to add anything you come across.

Some call it the new Pinterest for educators, Educlipper is really a great and promising website where teachers get to curate and organize digital content. Educlipper has been designed specifically for educators and by an educator ( Adam Bellow: founder ). The process of setting up your Educlipper account is pretty easy and can be done in a few clicks and once logged in you can instantly start adding content .

3- Use blogs and wikis to create online platforms for students

As for teachers, they can use these class virtual spaces to :

• Post assignments and homework to students • Upload documents and other learning materials to students • Post classroom announcements, important dates, event calendars...etc

• Create portfolios to document students learning Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill:

Blogger is a free Google service which provides users with a simple and easy to use blogging interface. Users can choose from a wide variety of templates and with just drag and drop functionality, one can set up and run the blog in few clicks.

Similar to Blogger, Wordpress is also easy to use and is free for basic versions. There are several guides and video tutorials on its help page that will help you through the process of setting up your blog.

Kidblog is designed for K-12 teachers who want to provide each student with an individual blog. Students publish posts and participate in academic discussion.

The World's most popular education blogging service... Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts - it's safe, easy and secure so try out an Edublog today.

4- Exploit digital images for classroom use tools to edit pictures to use with your students and they too do not require any software download or installation. Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

PicMonkey is a great web tool for photo editing. It has everything you might need to edit your image from the basic to advanced features. PicMonkey is a good option for adding text to your image.

Befunky allows you to crop, resize, or add a frame to your photo. It also lets you adjust the color, brightness, contrast, saturation, and sharpness of your pictures and even create collages to share with others.

More than 600 effects, overlays, and borders to personalize any image, free! Pixlr Express is a fun and free photo editor that lets you quickly crop, re-size, and fix any picture, remove red-eye, and whiten teeth.

Edit your images online quickly and easily and also for FREE! With PicGhost you can edit all your images online, no software or installations required.

5- Use video content to engage students Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill:

WeVideo is a collaborative, cloud-based online video editor that is free to use, with affordable options to export in HD and store additional videos.

This Story Builder allows you to create mini-movies or video stories with the feel of Google Docs. You can also personalize the videos you create using the characters, story, and even music of your choosing and when you finish you can share your final product with others.

Rather than spending valuable classroom time learning a complicated video editing program, you and your students can now get straight to the project. Whether you want to film your lectures, create exciting presentations, or encourage your students’ creativity by having them shoot, edit and share their own videos, it’s all possible using this super-simple platform.

6- Use infographics to visually stimulate students Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Tools for Creating Educational Posters and Infographics

Here is what you can do with PowToon :

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Create Engaging and Captivating Content Animate Your Flipped Classroom Inspire Reluctant Students to be Creative

Let Your Students Express Themselves

• Below is a collection of four great web tools you can use with your students to create posters and inforgaphics.

7- Use Social networking sites to connect with colleagues and grow professionally Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

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Excellent Tools for Teachers Professional Development

This is a great website that offers all the resources you need to grow professionally. It has different sections with each one full of PDFs, books, articles an many more.

In this networking group, you can get connected with other educators who are interested in Web 2.0, social media, and more in the classroom.

There is no way that you did not hear about this awesome website. Discovery Education provides high quality, dynamic, digital content to everyone be it a teacher, an administrator , student or even parents.

With Google Reader or any other great RSS tool, you can subscribe to blogs and stay on top of it all.

Perfect for finding people to add to your PLN, participating in chats, and sharing what you’ve found, Twitter is one of your most powerful tools for growing and maintaining a personal network.

Find and share information, connect with others, and build upon your personal learning network on this popular answers site.

Ed Week is a also one of the leading websites in education. It helps teachers and educators grow professionally by providing all kinds of resources for free.

The title says it all. EPD is the largest online database of professional development conferences and workshops for educators and teachers from Early Learning to Grade 12.

8- Create and deliver asynchronous presentations and training sessions Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

Presentation Creation Tools for Teachers There are a slew of useful web tools that teachers and students can use to create awesome presentations and slideshows without having to install any piece of software. I am sharing with you below my four favourite tools that I have been recommending to teachers and students.

Google Presentation Google Presentation is part of the productivity suite that comes with Google Drive. It allows you to integrated text, images, videos, import/export slides, customize the size of our slides, insert themes and many more.

Haiku Deck This is probably the best addition to the web-based presentation tools. Haiku was initially working only on mobile devices but a couple of days ago the web version was launched; however to use it you need to request an invitation.

Prezi This is another great presentation tool that I have been using for awhile now. What I like the most about Prezi is the dynamism and interactivity it adds to the animation of the slides. Prezi slides can also be embedded in your classroom blog or website.

Zoho Presentation Zoho Show is an online presentation tool that helps you to create and deliver presentations. You can now take your presentations wherever you go, apply new ideas instantly, review, edit, share and deliver presentations on the go. Watch this video to learn more about Zoho Presentation.

9- Compile a digital e-portfolio for their own development Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

Great Tools to Create Digital Portfolios Digital portfolios are great ways for students to showcase their work and keep track of their learning. There are now a wide variety of web tools that allow users to easily create digital portfolios and share them with others. In a previous post here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning I featured a few of these tools and today I am adding more to this list.

Pathbrite is a wonderful platform that allows users to create academic digital portfolios using different media. Pathbrite offers different templates for users to choose from and each portfolio can include things like : Google Docs, letters, Youtube and Vimeo videos, transcripts, popular social media websites like Facebook, LinkedIn. Pathbrite also lets you important your materials like PDFs, Docs, Pictures, Videos and many more. Each portfolio created by Pathbrite can be shared via email or social media.

Google Sites is another wonderful platform I have been recommending for teachers and educators over the last couple of years. Creating a digital portfolio using Google Sites is pretty basic. Just head over to its home page, sign up and then click on create my site. Pick out a template for your site and give it a name and description and there you go. Google Sites also allows you to upload your materials into your page including, files, PDFs, videos, pictures and HTML codes.

Silk is a web tool that you can use to create beautiful webpages where you can create, edit, and share your digital portfolios. Each page comes in with a variety of themes to choose from. Silk gives you more ways to structure and visualize your content. A Silk page consists of collections that hold together similar pages, and supports raging important bits of information on each page.

Weebly is a platform that lets you set up a web page in a matter of few clicks. It also provides pre-set themes and templates to use with your webpage and provides you with powerful authoring tools to add materials and cease content on your pages.

Dropr provides you with a space where you can create web pages to host your images, videos and audio. Each of these pages has its own unique URL. Dropr editor is very easy to use and with just drag and drop you can upload and share all types of content : pictures, music, videos, 3D, interactive stuff and many more.

10- be able to detect plagiarized works in students assignments Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Plagiarism Detector Tools for Teachers and Educators

Plagium is a cool plagiarism detection tool. Just paste in the original portion of text ( shouldn’t be more than 250 characters) and hit "search". You can also check URLs and files but you will have to sign up with them. The service is free of charge.

Turnitin This is another great tool for detecting plagiarism in your students work. You can check papers against 24+ billion web pages, 300+ million student papers and 110,000+ publications.

Dupli Checker With you Dupli Checker you only have to copy paste, or upload your content file containing essay, thesis, website content or articles, and click ‘search’, and you get the analysis reports within seconds. Each sentence is dissected, and all the source websites from where the content was copied are displayed.

iThenticate is a service offered by Plagiarism.org, but is geared more toward professional writing and scholarly research. Publishers like Oxford University Press use iThenticate for its Cross Check software, which includes a database of more than 31 million articles and 67,664 books and journals.

PlagiarismChecker.com makes it simple for educators to check for copied work by pasting phrases from a student's paper into a search box. The system can search through either Google or Yahoo.

Plagiarism detect A few clicks and your text will be checked for plagiarism. Firstly, you upload your text (paste it to the checking area or upload a file). Then the system breaks it into small linguistic units and checks it for similarities against all the websites that are open for indexation and also our private database.

11- Create screen capture videos and tutorials Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Some Very Good Screen Capture Tools for Teachers

Screen capture images can be used for a variety of reasons. You can include them in tutorials and multimedia classroom projects. You can also use them as illustrative visual aids when explaining a difficult concept or to visually highlight a process. There are several web based tools and extensions that you can use for this purpose. Here is a list I compiled for you containing some of the best tools I have been using in my work as a blogger.

Web Page screen Capture This is a freeware software for taking screenshots . This extension is able to capture 100% of both the vertical and horizontal content appearing on any webpage on the Internet. It is very easy to save the captured file onto your computer or print it / or share it to any social network.

Tech Smith Snagit The Snagit for Google Chrome™ Extension makes it possible for you to capture images within your Chrome browser. In order to edit, share, and manage your captures.

Screen Capture This tool allows you to capture visible content of a tab, a region of a web page, or the whole page as a PNG image.

Monosnop is a wonderful desktop software that you can use to : • • • • • • •

Capture full screen, just part of the screen, or a selected window Highlight important details with pen, text, arrows and shapes Hide private information with our blur tool Open snapshots in your favorite external editor Drop images on the Monosnap icon to upload them to the cloud Upload your snapshot to our storage in one click Or save it to your local folder and copy it to clipboard

12- Curate web content for classroom learning Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Great Tools for Web Curation

It allows you to create categories to which you scoop links and materials you find online. It also has a bookmarklet that you can install on.

This another cool tool I use to organize and bookmark my resources. The same principle as Scoop.it you can create different binders and use the bookmark to help you your live bindering.

13- Use and provide students with task management tools to organize their work and plan their learning Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

A List of Great Task Management Tools for Educators

1- ChromeMilk: TaskMilk lets you access your tasks right from your Chrome toolbar. 2- RemindMe:

Simply set reminders so you wouldn't get carried away with browsing.. remind yourself of online stuff that you want to do later, job tasks that need to be done at a specific time, or just about anything that you would hate to miss! 3- StayFocusd StayFocusd increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites.

4- Things To Do: This extension has a few subtle features, which can help you manage your to do list very efficiently: 5- Google Calendar Checker: Quickly see the time until your next meeting from any of your calendars. Click on the button to be taken to your calendar. 6- Incredible StartPage: Incredible StartPage is a productive start page replacement for Chrome. Put all your favorite bookmarks in a beautiful frame, and enjoy our handy features! We are a featured extension by Google!

7- My Shortcuts: Quickly access your favorite Google™ Web Apps: Gmail™, Contacts, Calendar, Docs and other Google™ services, or create a new email, event, document, spreadsheet or presentation.

14- Use polling software to create a real-time survey in class Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

Free and Easy Poll/ Survey Tools for Teachers

Poll Everywhere is a powerful web tool for creating and distributing polls. It offers you five types of polls to choose from: multiple choice poll, free response poll, true or false poll, clickable images poll, and discourse poll. Your respondents can vote on your poll either through SMS or via the web using the generated link you will provide them. Poll Everywhere also has a wonderful way of displaying the results of the poll. You can have the results displayed on a chart of bouncing bars. You can also present your polls as a seamless part of your PowerPoint or Keynote slideshow. Flip on through and instead of another flat picture, your respondents see your slide come alive with real time poll results

AnswerGarden is another great tool to use for collecting feedback from students. This is how it works: you type in your question in Create New AnswerGarden page. When you hit ‘submit’ you will be directed to your newly created AnswerGarden page. From there you can share your page with others or embed it in your class blog or website. Respondents will have to either enter their answers or choose from existing ones.”If you're satisfied with the results, you can for instance show the AnswerGarden to your friends, tweet about it or export it to Wordle or Tagxedo.

15- Understand issues related to copyright and fair use of online materials

Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Great Resources for Learning More about Copyright Issues

Pics4learning is a safe, free image library for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and images for classrooms, multimedia projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other project in an educational setting.

16- Use digital assessment tools to create quizzes Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

Free Tools to Create and Administer Quizzes

EQuizShow is a simple and free site that lets teachers design Jeopardy-type games online.It is a great app for teachers who want a quick and easy way to engage students and have them ready for exams or assessments tests. This app will find its most use during refresher courses or for helping students review for a test.

QuizSlides.com is an innovative web-based platform for multiple-choice testing. Here are some of the features QuizSlides offers to its users : • Quick and easy test creation using PowerPoint. • Stylish and attractive look. • Interactive "answer until correct" test format for quizzes. • Choice of test formats with or without negative marking for exams. • Exams can be timed. • Test results and statistics at a glance, and downloadable results spreadsheets. • Designed to work well on iPads and other touchscreen devices.

17- Find and evaluate authentic web based content Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill :

A Great Rubric for Evaluating Web Content Here is another wonderful rubric from University of Wisconsin on the different criteria to use to evaluate websites . Students and parents can use it to assess web content in terms of its relevance to what is being taught in class. It can also be used as a tool for self-asessment and peer feedback.

This rubric covers 8 major criteria :

Content: This criterion is for evaluating the usefulness of the content of webpages in terms of the information it has, the quality of the content, how frequently the content is updated, and whether it includes feedback loops such as surveys, forms or questionnaires.

Multimedia This one assesses the use of multimedia elements in web content. These elements include, photos, graphics, sound, video and animation.It specifically looks into how these elements are integrated into the texture of the content and to what effect they are used.

Fair Use Guidelines This one looks into how citations are being used (if at all) in web content

Internal and External Navigation

This criterion examines the validity of the the internal links ( links directing to other pages within the same website) and external links (links leading to content in other websites). It also looks into how the linking system is being built into the website and whether or not it facilitates users navigation.

Layout and Text Elements This has to do with the typography of the web content: size and font of the text, the uses of headlines and subtitles, use of italics and indentations. It also examines the format of the page, the colour being used and the background and whether these elements enhance the general readability of the text or not.

Contact Person, Copyright and Update Information Does the web page includes a a section where users can contact the author and read more information about the website such as the date of creation and copyright information ?

Speed Web Pages Does the page load quickly? How images are featured into the web page and whether they include tags to help users get an idea of what they are about if they do not show up properly.

Writing Mechanics This criterion evaluates the written content of a web page in terms of grammatical errors, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.

18- Use digital tools for time management purposes Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Some Very Good Tools for Better Time Management

Maintaining focus in a world permeated with all kinds of digital distractions becomes a real challenge. Ironically enough, this same technology that distracts us can be used to fight off distraction. There are now several productivity and time management apps that you can use on your iPad to help you better ration your time and control how you spend it.

Pomodoro Timer helps you boost your productivity using the Pomodoro Technique™, one of the most effective time management methods out there. Not only will you get a fully configurable timer that lets you customize every aspect of the technique, but you will also enjoy a clear and beautiful user interface.

DropTime is a countdown timer designed for the Pomodoro Technique. It sets up a loop sequence of timers and records how much time you spent on a task.

19- Use note taking tools to share interesting content with your students Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Good Apps for Note Taking

Evernote is an easy-to-use, free app that helps you remember everything across all of the devices you use. Stay organized, save your ideas and improve productivity. Evernote lets you take notes, capture photos, create to-do lists, record voice reminders--and makes these notes completely searchable, whether you are at home, at work, or on the go

Microsoft OneNote for iPhone is your digital notebook for capturing what's important in your personal and professional life. Jot down your ideas, add pictures, update your shopping list, and check your to-do's from this Microsoft Office app.

20- Use of online sticky notes to capture interesting ideas Here are some tools for teachers to develop this skill : Sticky Notes Apps for Teachers and Students

With Sticky you can organize your thoughts and ideas in a colour and tactile way. You can add as many pages as you want. It also allows you to add text, images and a wide range of different colours to make your notes and todos stand out. This app is free.

My Secret Diary This is app that enables you to takes note and record your thoughts using text and images. You can attach the photos you have in your albums directly into the page and you can also accompany them with music from your iTunes . The app also provides several stcikers to add to your notes to help you better remember important details.

Conventional Methods of Teaching

What is Conventional Methods of Teaching?

This term will be used in this study to refer to the teaching using chalk and board for teachers; pen and paper for students. Rather the teacher uses other methods such as demonstration using examples, lecture methods, question answer methods among others.

The blackboard is a reusable writing surface on which text or drawings are made with sticks of calcium sulphate or calcium carbonate, known, when used for this purpose, as chalk. Blackboards were originally made of smooth, thin sheets of black or dark grey slate stone. Modern versions are often green because the colour is considered easier on the eyes.

Realia The main advantage of using real objects into the classroom is to make the learning experience more memorable for the learner. To give a couple of simple examples, if you are going to teach vocabulary of fruit and vegetables it can be much more affective for students if they can touch, smell and see the objects at the same time as hearing the new word. This would appeal to a wider range of learner styles than a simple flashcard picture of the piece of fruit or vegetable. (With very young learners, classroom management can become trickier if you bring in real objects as excitement levels tend to rise. Last year one of my students bit into an onion we were passing round.

Posters and wall charts

A wall chart is a type of large poster often displaying information for education and entertaiment. Great posters and charts for all subjects to hang on walls to display around classrooms or hallways. A variety of different subjects so children can learn the fun way with charts to attach pieces to for fun games also.

Flashcards Flashcards are a simple, versatile, yet often underexploited resource. I would like to offer some reasons for using flash cards and a selection of activities for use in the Young Learner classroom, although some of the activities could also be used with fun-loving, lower level adult classes.

The textbook A textbook or coursebook is a manual of instruction in any branch of study.. Textbooks are produced according to the demands of educational institutions. Although most textbooks are only published in printed format,

As you visit classrooms, you probably notice that most, if not all, of those classrooms use a standard textbook series. The reasons for this are many, depending on the design and focus of the curriculum, the mandates of the administration, and/or the level of expertise on the part of classroom teachers.

Digital Learning Resource

The term 'digital learning resource' is used here to refer to materials included in the context of a course that support the learner's achievement of the described learning goals. These materials consist of a wide variety of digitally formatted resources including: •

graphics images or photos

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audio and video

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simulations

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animations

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prepared or programmed learning modules.