10 Ways to Use Lucidchart Online Graphic Organizers in the Classroom : Teacher Reboot Camp

I am a big fan of Shelly S Torrel's blog or FB posts about the new technology tools. Below is the blog post about the role of graphic organizers in effective teaching. Specifically, she introduces a new web 2.0 FREE tool called LucidChart Graphic organizer.

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Flipped Classroom: 5 Strategies to Flip & Engage

    Another wonderful blog of a tech savvy teacher, Catlin Tucker.

Flipped Classroom: 5 Strategies to Flip & Engage

I am reading more and more about flipping the classroom phenomenon. This blog post of Catlin Tucker reflects my thinking and my approach to teaching: engage students in collaborative work around the content via gdocs, other collaborative tools and projects and make the work they do meaningful and experience rewarding. I observed this myself many times. When, for example, teacher candidates work on their jigsaw group projects on Native American Tribes via gdocs presentations or on prezi, they explore resources, in a way compete to find more information and other digital resources to make their presentation effective and educational. And they work outside classroom, meeting on google docs space.  I need to share my own strategies of the pedagogy of engagement.

Free Technology for Teachers: A Short Guide to Copyright for Educators

If you see this blog, subscribe to it. Richard Byrne shares his experience with Web 2.0 technology and give useful advice in how to use it. In the post below he provides a short guide on copyright for educators. A very useful and important topic! Read it for yourself:
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Digital Storytelling with Pinnacle Studio for iPad | iPad with Wes

I was browsing the Internet for something else when I came across this post of Wesley Fryer. I have been experimenting with my iPad and playing with its applications for my Social Studies methods class.  I used Socrative for a quick feedback or pop up quizzes, or Exit Ticket assessments in the end of the class. I take pictures and videos during the fieldwork hours, and used QR code for treasure hunts, and Explain Everything for creating a story about teacher candidates' teaching experience. In the post below, Wesley shares his discovery of Pinnacle Studio for storytelling.  I will explore it during the winter break and will try it out during the spring semester. Enjoy reading the post of Wes Fryer:
Digital Storytelling with Pinnacle Studio for iPad | iPad with Wes

Must Have Poster about 21st Century Skills

I agree with the author of the Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Blog, Med Kharbach, his poster should find place on the walls of each classroom: It is a good reminder of what skills teachers need to focus on when teaching their lessons in different subjects.

Great iPad Tips for Teachers

I am excited to see more and more blog posts about using iPads in the classrooms. I even opend a page on Scoop.It and on Pinterst about iPad in the classrooms.
This is an interesting blog post about a few tips for teachers.

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An Unexpected Invitation

I got a call yesterday evening from one of my global friends from the Ukraine, a professor from the Ukrainian Pedagogical University, Dr. Tatyana Zubenko. We collaborated in the International Snowblog project  in 2010 and then she took classes with IT4ALL on Moodle afterwords. She is a very tech-savvy professor. Tatyana invited me to participate in the International webinar-conference "Pedagogical Education as a Condition of the Sustainable Development of the Society: Technological Aspects." It was a great feeling to participate in something that was arranged for the first time. The provost of the University greeted the participants and I was the first to present. I was sharing my experience with the Global Collaborative Projects and the technologies used to support collaboration and student engagement. It was difficult for me to speak Russian after 12 years speaking only English  as far as the Web 2.0 terms is concerned. I am used to discuss these topics in English.

Here is the link to my presentation: Global Collaborative Projects: What, How and Why.

                                        

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