Time to Study for Exams or Mark them

Well it is June now.  If you are a student, good luck on your exams.  If you are a teacher, good luck on your exams.  Have a great summer and I will be posting in September again.

Tour Builder by Google

This is what  Katie Siemer has to say about Tour Builder, "So what is Tour Builder? Tour Builder uses Google Earth technology and allows you to add a sequence of locations on a map that users can click through like they’re going on a tour. You can upload up to 25 photos and YouTube videos to go along with each stop on the tour. You can also add a description and links to additional resources for each location that you add. When users view the Tour, they will click “next” on the tour to be taken to the next point on the map. Check out this example by the Jane Goodall Institute to get the gist of it. Tour Builder was originally created, “to give veterans a way to record all the places that military service has taken them, and preserve their stories and memories as a legacy for their families,” according to the Tour Builder website. Obviously, Google saw the cool ways this could be used in education and beyond and eventually made it public."

This tool could easily be used in History or Geography but you could use this in English class when discussing a novel that the character travels around.  You could easily build a tour to show your class.   Or you could have your students build a tour of the book they reading.  To see Tour Builder click here.

Writer's Workshop by Ted Ed

The Writer's Workshop is a list of 22 Ted-Ed short videos.  You might want to have your students look at this prior to a major essay or you might want to use one or more of these in your classroom as an introduction to a lesson.  To see the Workshop click here.

System of Equations and shooting hoops

 Andrew Stadel posted a nice little pdf that you could use to introduce systems of equations.

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 Maybe you might have your students go to the gym and shoot some baskets in pairs and record the number they make from the free-throw line and from the field (or field vs 3 pt line) and then they can present their data to the class and have other students solve the equations.

Zero Noise Classroom

If you want a countdown timer and noise meter for your classroom try Zero Noise Classroom as a Chrome App.

From their website, "The free noise level display and stopwatch for the cooperative classroom.

It helps students be aware of the noise level in the classroom during cooperative learning activities, and moderate it accordingly.

When time is over, the percentage of time that the noise level has exceeded the optimal level is displayed, so the teacher can use that value in gamification techniques."

To see the website, click here.

Pindex = Pinterest for Education

Stephen Fry, a well known British actor and comedian, co-founded Pindex.   He calls it Pinterest for Education.  To see the site click here.  To see an article from The Telegraph about Stephen Fry and Pindex click here.  If you are interested, they also have a "How To" guide.  You can see that by clicking here.

An Alternative to Canva

From a review from gerenm.photograpy, "Every so often, and especially around holidays, we all need to put together some sort of photo collage, be it for a Facebook post, an e-mail to friends and family, or for some sort of promotional material for our businesses. And, certainly, we can do it in Photoshop or InDesign or Illustrator or even Lightroom - if we have the time. More than likely, though, we need to do it quickly, and most of the "usual suspects" are not conducive to getting the job done right now."

To see Fotojet click here.  If you have never used Canva click here.