Week 3

Here I am with some new things learned. This week we've learned how to create learning activities with new tools. I've chosen Quizlet, but other interesting links saved to my Symbaloo webmix as well just not to forget and have them at hand. For instance, the e-mail service "Word of the Day" could be a very nice reminder to learn a word a day (both for me and for my students). I remember me studying Chinese, such services would help me a lot. They remind and keep you up.

The links are: Word Think

NY Times

Wordsmith

Dictionary Reference

Merriam-Webster

Of course, for students' learning it's not enough. You need to build a context (sentences), you need to make assignments for practicing, etc. But good to know, isn't it?

FlipSnack is another activity. In fact, it's an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications. They write that it's the ideal solution for those who wish to embed a book, magazine, catalog, newspaper, portfolio or any other kind of document into a website or blog. Has anyone tried? Is there any practical point?

Puzzle Makers - working with kids ten years ago I missed such services a lot) Very easy and time-consuming. Here are some links:

Crossword maker 1

Crossword maker 2

Wordsearch maker

Cloze Creator 1

Cloze Creator 2

These are the activities that draw my attention to some extent. Unfortunately, two of my three blogs are not updated yet, but the blog Free Technology for Teachers is extremely active and is constantly updated. I definitely need to check the function Whisper by Google. They write that it is a free Chrome extension that lets you send pop-up notifications to the students listed in your Google Classroom rosters. The students will not need to check their inboxes to see the notes that you send to them. It is great for sending quick notes like, "keep up the great work today" or "please get back on task."

When I have enough free time I need to practice a little bit with Google Drive Templates (Google Drawings and Google Slides), to grasp how to use them. Activities are organized by grade level. There are activities for Language Arts, math, social studies, and science. And Google Classroom, of course. Here I feel like everybody knows all that and only me not)

Another article from this resource reminds me to set up a procedure with students' blogging to give them the opportunity to have their voices heard and to connect them with other students, of course. Comparison of 7 Blogging Services for Teachers is here.

P.S. Prof. Roos asked us to update our blogs with insights from the technology blogs OR from the things we've learnt in this unit. I decided to make a combination of two for some reasons: 1) only one blog was kept updated during this week; 2) I wanted to save these resources to practice all this and not to forget (I saved it to Symbaloo as well, but there is no place for comments and explanations there).

That's all for today, stay tuned and keep yourself technologically updated!