Online Teaching Tools for Beginners

Christina Snyder and Alicia Truitt

*Please log on to your laptop.

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Introductions

Christina Snyder:

• High School English Teacher
• 5th year at SJHS; taught for 3 years out of state
• Completed M.A. in Teaching and Curriculum at MSU and earned the Educational Technology Certificate

Alicia Truitt:

• High School French Teacher
• 3rd year at SJHS; SJHS graduate
• Enrolled in Teaching and Curriculum M.A. program at MSU and working toward the Educational Technology Certificate

The best thing about online tools:

Online applications have evolved considerably in the last decade, and at the same time as they have become more sophisticated, they have also become much more user friendly, especially for us non-"techie" folks.

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Agenda

• Online tools for student presentations and collaboration.

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• Online tools for teaching

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• Getting organized: Learning to forgo the sticky note, (or other "pen and paper" approach).

First things first-

Please go to:

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http://february18pd.wikispaces.com

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Weebly- creating websites with ease

Why Weebly?

• It speaks to students' interests.
• It allows for demonstrating knowledge through visual artifacts, as well as writing.
• The ability to create multiple pages within the site allows you to create a project with mulitple 'layers,' or components. Students can keep these components organized by sorting their information into pages.

Student Work Examples

Please take a few minutes to peruse the example student websites which are listed in the wikispace.

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To Kill a Mockingbird

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French III/IV Weebly Example

Tutorial Time!

Christina will demonstrate setting up a website, please create your own account and practice with the features as she presents them.

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Here are some online tutorials as well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6iqVxaALas

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItQvKhv0S6Y

www.makebeliefcomix.com

Students are able to create comic strips with a set of clip art. It is a way to foster their creativity and to offer them another way to present.

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Google Apps

Benefits:

• easy collaboration, at the same time
• no more carrying home stacks of papers- access them all online, and edit them there, too, with Google's 'comment' feature.

• collaborative essays
• peer editing
• collaborative brainstorming/information gathering

Tutorial Time!

Christina will walk you through the basics of Google Docs. Please follow along and create one of your own.

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Here is an online tutorial made by Christina and her grad class partner. It uses another cool web app that we won't have time to cover today- Voicethread.

Here is a tutorial that focuses only on Google Docs

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Let's experience collaborating in real time.

Please go to the wikispace (www.feb18pd.wikispaces.com)

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Under Part 1, scroll to "3. Google," click on the link to "Example Google Doc"

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Back to the Wiki!

Please go back to our wikispace, and peruse some of the links to docs and presentations done by students.

Glogster

This is a presentational site that is quite creative and allows students to make a online poster. It is also great at helping to chunk their information.

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Part 2: Online Tools to Teach With

1. Ted Ed

2. Windows Live Movie Maker

3. Google Forms

4. Poll Everywhere

Ted Ed

"TED-Ed's videos aim to capture and amplify the voices of the world's greatest educators. To achieve this, we pair extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of exceptional educational videos."

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Browse: http://ed.ted.com/

Here is a video about situational irony.

Windows Live Movie Maker

• Some call it vodcasting - a video and audio output
• Great for using in a classroom to accompany a lesson
• Useful for flipped classrooms
• Students watch the lesson explanation at home and then come to school to practice/do their homework
• This frees up time for teachers and allows students to watch the lesson as many times as needed
• It is also a video editing tool

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WLMM

• Simply go to your Start menu, choose programs, and click on Windows Live Movie Maker

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WWLM

• There is a slight learning curve to this, but it is well worth it!
• Take some time and play it.
• Be creative.
• You can use video, your own pictures, or pictures from online to create the vodcast
• You can use this to teach in class or you can have your students use it as a presentation tool
• If you ever get stuck or don't know how to do something, simply search for a tutorial online to help you in the right direction

Google Forms

Create surveys, polls, and make them public. Share with students as formative assessment. View results in various graph forms.

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Please click where it says "please take the survey" (Under Part 2, #3).

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Complete the survey! :)

Time to view the results

• bar graphs
• line graphs
• paragraph text
• percentages

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Now you will create your own form as Christina demonstrates.

Part 3: Getting Organized Online

One problem with having so many awesome websites to for personal or professional use is that it is hard to remember/organize them all!

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Of course, there are online solutions to this problem!

A matter of preference

Images.....................or

Text

Symbaloo

This is a centralized place to organize and keep your favorite and most used websites.

Symbaloo organizes your sites into icons. The layout is similar to how you see your apps on your smartphone. They call it a 'webmix.'

Delicious

No, not dessert :)

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www.delicious.com is a social bookmarking site. It is an online storage bin where you can 'bookmark' your favorite websites. You can also see what is trending and "follow" people (see what they are bookmarking).

Pinterest-Caution: You may get addicted!

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Pinterest

If you have not explored this site, there are many reasons you will find it useful. It is a search engine as well as a great place to store your ideas (from websites).

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Delicious/Symbaloo vs Pinterest

All 3 sites have their merits and drawbacks:

Symbaloo- mostly a place to put all your important websites, and organize/access them visually (webmix). If you want a homepage on your computer that looks like the apps on your phone, this is good for you.

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Delicious- more in depth than symbaloo, you provide a description of each site that appears as you are looking through the list of your sites. Visual organization of Symbaloo is more appealing, but if text is your thing, Delicious is for you! (A great idea would be to set up a Symbaloo webmix and include Delicious on it!).

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Pinterest- The main difference here is that when you go on Pinterest, you are searching for ideas (recipes, lessons, tutorials, diy projects; etc) and you can save, or 'pin' them to 'board' (files) that you name and organize yourself. With Symbaloo and Delicious, you already know the sites you want to save.

Time to create

1. Create an account with either symbaloo or delicious. Start saving some of the sites you learned about today. Be sure to include our wikispace so you have access to everything you learned today: www.february18pd.wikispaces.com

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2.Create an account with and explore Pinterest. Check out their education boards.