by Sandra Pires

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Essential techy tools to use in the classroom

Here we GO

Create a BLOG

to Communicate

to create a running journal of class activities

Make your students contributing authors

Ask students to reflect on their learning

Use

Create a Twitter

Connect with your students

Connect with other teachers around the world

Gather ideas to improve your lessons

Share and Find great web resources

Create Q/A sessions

Use it as a voting system

Create a Wiki

Offer cooperative learning

Create a glossary of terms

Develop a taxonomy of words activity

Develop a multimedia research project

Create students’ e-portfolios

Create a Shoutreel

Create a private chat

Carry out discussion questions

Invite experts to Share info With the class

Provide mentoring and homework support

Students @ home view and participate in classes

Use it as an assessment tool

Create a Glogster

Create an interactive poster

Create an interactive manual

Create a video documentary

Design an interactive presentation

Carry out collaborative class projects

Carry out “get to know” tasks

Use a Flip camera

Summarise a topic through video

Capture highlights of a lesson

Use it as a study guide

Record “corrective” feedback

Record class activities for teacher training

Send spoken messages

Use Animoto

Create slideshows

Create a teaser for your lesson

Create a digital story

Show your students’ work through pictures

Ask students to display Knowledge of a concept

Podcast

Create video tutorials

Provide audio feedback

Record instructions

Sum up Important knowledge

Ask students to create their own podcasts

Use Moodle

Share resources

Set assignments

Create quizzes

Create a forum

Create a choice activity

Embed dynamic Content from YouTube, Flickr, QuizMaker, etc

Add a learning object

Use YouTube

Visit YouTube Life in a Day to access different cultures

Visit TeacherTube

Visit YouTube specific channels: BBC, Documentary,etc

Access video tutorials

Start a Brainstorm or discussion by watching a video

Carry out a a quiz after watching the video

Use Google

Create & collaborate documents using Google docs

Create a class Site and edit as a document with Google Sites

Organise & share events with Google Calendar

Communicate with Google Talk

Access books and magazines with Google Books

Search for articles or journals with Google Scholar

Get social updates, news & blog posts with Google Realtime

Use Google maps to tell a story

Use Google maps to write a biography

Add pinpoints to a Google map and add text

Use Delicious

Access your favourite sites anywhere

Share your bookmarks with your students

Recommend sites for student research projects

Recommend books

Discover your Students’ needs & interests

Create conceptual maps using the tags

Photos sources:

Slide 2 - Flickr by Swgrlimited Slide 3 - Flickr by gueishaboy Slide 6 - Flickr by Nataliya Shapovalova Slide 7 - Flickr by Miss Ruth Slide 8 - Flickr by www.holpenpromotion.com Slide 9 - Flickr by www.eduardtitotv.com Slide 10 - Iconfinder by elegantmediaicons Slide 12 - Flickr by artoo 1121 Slide 13 - Flickr by Pennypoon1104 Slide 14 - Flickr by Grey wind Slide 15 - Iconfinder by Aleksandra Wolska Slide 16 - Flickr by dizzy web design & graphics Slide 19 - Flickr by SHRCC Slide 20 - Flickr by Luvemacphoto Slide 21 - Flickr by Steven+Alison Hoober

Photos sources:

Slide 22 - by Konica Minolta Slide 25 - Flickr by dgilder Slide 26 - Flickr by Solecism Slide 27 - Flickr by Divania Slide 28 - Flickr by misallphoto Slide 29 - Flickr by Konstantin Sutyagin Slide 30 - Flickr by Fabio Floriano Slide 34 - Flickr by Shutterbug Sheep Slide 35 - Flickr by SerrNovik Slide 36 - Flickr by Liz:) Slide 39/44 - Flip.com Slide 46 – LCDProjectorforrent.com Slide 47 - Flickr by m.fam Slide 49 - Tutorials db.com Slide 50 - Flickr by Karf Oohlu

Photos sources:

Slide 52 - Flickr by Igor Borodin Slide 53 - Flickr by eduard Titov Slide 54 - Flickr by hermannyln Slide 55 - by drewstevensconsulting.com Slide 56 - by masternewmedia.com Slide 58 - Flickr by tapasparida Slide 59 - Flickr by dgilder Slide 60 - Flickr by lifehack Slide 61 - by thisislondon.co.uk Slide 62 - by mormon.org Slide 70 - Flickr by OShelomenstev Slide 71 - Flickr by hkvan Slide 74 - Flickr by Authentics Trading Limited Slide 78 - by blog.massmoca.org Slide 79 - by faqs.org

Photos sources:

Slide 84 - by kitchen.net-perspective.com Slide 85 - by threesaparty.com Slide 88 - by webdesign.org Slide 89 - Flickr by kovacevic2009