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Two Great Apps to Help You Integrate Augmented Reality in Your Instruction

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September 11, 2017 As a new emerging technology that is being integrated in education, augmented reality has such a huge potential for enhancing students learning and making your instruction engaging  and lively (watch these TED talks to learn more about the educational potential of AR). There are now several educational platforms and mobile apps that allow you to integrate AR in your teaching, most of which are free, simple and easy to use. This chart features some of our favourite titles. In today’s post we are adding two more apps to the list: these are Field Trip (updated) and Aug That. 1- Field Trip ‘Field Trip, your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you is now on the iPhone! Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it will notify you and if you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you. Field Trip can help you learn about everything from local history to the latest
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Here Is A great App to Help You Plan, Assess and Analyze Learning

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September 10, 2017 Kiddom is a free iPad app that is similar to Google Classroom. It provides a collaborative learning space where teachers can plan, assess and analyze learning. It is ideal for blended learning or flipped learning classrooms. It is also integrated with Google Drive allowing you to easily create and share documents with students. To help both teachers and students stay organized, Kiddom automatically creates folders for documents and assignments shared through Google Drive. Teachers can use Kiddom to monitor students progress using the app’s integrated gradebook. Based on generated progress reports, teachers can track students learning and assess classroom performance. Also, Kiddom ‘comes loaded with national and state standards (like Common Core). You can even add and track your own custom skills.’ Kiddom’s assessment library provides ‘a vast library of free standards-based quizzes, videos, assessments, lessons, real-world exercises, and more. Use content for differe
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12 Great Tools to Create Engaging Activities Around Primary Source Documents

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September 8, 2017 DocsTeach is a great website that provides teachers and students access to thousands of primary sources that include things such as maps, videos, photographs, census records, draft cards, graphs, legislation letters, posters and several other document sources. We have already featured DocsTeach in several posts in the past. In today’s post we want to draw your attention to these excellent tools provided by DocsTeach that allows you to create your own document-based activities. The purpose is to help you engage your students in an active process of document reading. “Rather than passively receiving information from a teacher or textbook, students engage in the activities of historians — making sense of the stories, events and ideas of the past through document analysis.” Before you start using any of these tools you need to read “ Guide to Creating Your DocsTeach Activity ”. Below are the links to the tools together with a brief description of what you can do with them
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3 Good Educational Websites for Science Teachers

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September 8, 2017 Here are three good websites to help you bring to life your science classes. These are basically portals where you can access tons of interactive activities, video tutorials, guides, lesson plans, and news articles covering the latest in the world of science. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback in our Facebook page. 1- Young Scientist Lab This is an interactive platform where students and teachers can have access to a wide variety of educational resources to bring science to life. These include engaging activities, interactives, teaching tools, and several other standards-aligned resources. The site also host a section for parents featuring a number of family interactives and activities. 2- Live Science ‘Live Science offers a fascinating window into the natural and technological world, delivering comprehensive and compelling news and analysis on everything from dinosaur discoveries, archaeological finds and amazing animals to health, innova
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3 Handy Google Classroom Guides for Teachers

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September 7, 2017 In yesterday’s post we covered some excellent video tutorials that can help you learn more about how to use Google Classroom in your teaching. Today we are sharing with you these three guides from the same source which is Google for Education. These are step by step visual guides that cover a number of tips, guidelines, and activities on how to make the best of Classroom in your own instruction. The guides are available for free download from Google for Education Training Centre, you will find them under the title ‘ Handy Guides ’. Here is a short overview of what each guide has to offer you: 1- Getting started with Google Drive This visual guide will help you learn how to set up a class and add students in Classroom. More specifically, you will get to know how to: set up a class, add students by email or code, create an assignment, add materials and assignments, add grades, and how to share feedback with students. 2- Google Classroom Tips This is a one-page PDF featu
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Some Excellent Resources to Help You Tap into The Educational Potential of Google Classroom

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September 6, 2017 Google Classroom is an excellent educational platform to use with your students in class. It provides you with a virtual space where you can organize your teaching materials, create and gather assignments paperlessly, communicate with your students and provide instant feedback. Students can use it to view their classes, collaborate with their peers in real time, and access and review their assignments.  We have already shared a number of interesting resources to help you make the best of Google Classroom in your teaching which you can access from this page and today we are adding this excellent resource from Google for Education . In ’ Welcome to Your First Day of Classroom ’ you will find a number of video tutorials, visual guides and tips on almost everything you need to know to tap into the educational potential of Google Classroom. You will get to learn how to set up a class and add students, how to assign and grade work in Classroom, how to reuse your syllabus, h
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The Ultimate Back to School EdTech Chart

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September 5, 2017 Below is a chart we have been working on for the last couple of days. It features a number of key resources to try out in this new school year. We arranged these resources into four main categories: iPad resources, Android resources, Chromebook resources, and Web resources.  The purpose is to help you make the best of educational technology in your reaching. Check out the chart and share with us your feedback. Categories Resources iPad Resources iPad apps for preschool and kindergarten learners iPad apps for elementary students iPad apps for middle school students iPad apps for high school students iPad apps for university students iPad apps for librarians Apps perfect for every classroom Apple’s educational  interactive guides iPad apps for students with special needs Android Resources Android apps for kids Android apps for elementary students Android apps for middle school students Android apps for high school students Android apps for students with special needs An
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