Turn a quote (or any sentence) into a masterpiece.
Recite This is a simple to use website that offers a big payoff. Follow the four simple steps below and you will soon be creating things like this:
Visit http://recitethis.com
Simply type your quote (or any text you wish) into the white text box.
Select your design from the marque under the text box you just typed in.
Click on create.
That's it. Now you can see what you just created. Choose how you want to share your masterpiece. Do you want to share it on Facebook? Tweet it? Email it? Download it for later? The choice is yours. Now you have a "fancy" product without a huge time investment.
Happy creating.
Pondering IT
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Monday, March 3, 2014
Monday Mentions - Quizlet
Quizlet is a free website
that provides learning tools for students, including flashcards and games. It
was created by High School Sophomore Andre Sutherland in 2005 and now contains
over 30 million study sets. All of the material is user generated.
Create your own study sets with terms and definitions. You
can even add pictures.
You may even be able to find some that have already been
created by another user. Just type in what you’re looking for in the Quizlet search bar.
Audio is also available in 18 different languages.
Study Modes available:
Flashcards
Learn
Speller
Test
Scatter
Space Race
There is also an app so that students can study on their
mobile devices.
Check out the Quizlet
Teacher page for more ideas in using Quizlet to make your classroom even
more interactive.
Friday, February 28, 2014
Pinterest - Art Boards
Whether you are an art teacher or a teacher who needs more art in their life you may enjoy following these pinners.
1. Art Teacher
2. Art Bulletin Board
3. Art Ideas for Kids
4. Art Integration
1. Art Teacher
2. Art Bulletin Board
3. Art Ideas for Kids
4. Art Integration
Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Tech Tip Tuesday
Pinterest is a great resource for creating your Personal
Learning Network (PLN). Pinterest is a
social media site that allows users to create and share virtual bulletin
boards, or pinboards. This is a great way for teachers to virtually organize
their files. You can use Pinterest to bookmark blogs or other sites that
inspire your lessons, you can collect lesson and activity ideas without
cluttering up your teacher desk or adding a file cabinet to your already
overcrowded classroom.
Setting up a Pinterest account is easy:
Go to www.pinterest.com
and follow the prompts to create an account. You can even login or create a
Pinterest account using your FaceBook account. Need more information? Click here to see what it’s all
about. Need even more information? Click here to learn the basics.
What should you pin? Anything you want!! (Or anything that
is allowed in the terms and conditions.) Create boards for Professional Books.
How many times have you attended a workshop and someone mentions a book that
you must read? Pinterest is a great way to keep those organized and since there
is a Pinterest app for your phone you will always have your reading list at
your fingertips. You don’t have to do all the work yourself. You can follow
other people and see what they are pinning. That is the beauty of social media and
PLNs. You can look around outside of your school building for inspiration and
teaching tips.
Other boards you might think about creating:
Grade level boards
Content boards
Math strategies
Reading strategies
Literacy ideas
Classroom management and organization
Freebies
Social Studies
Read alouds
Your boards are only limited by your imagination. J Happy pinning.
Monday, February 24, 2014
Monday Mentions - Socrative
Socrative is a student response system. Socrative works on laptops or any web enabled device.
You can use Socrative to create quizzes, formative assessment or just incorporate it into your lesson to provide an interactive way to check for understanding. Question types include: Multiple Choice, True/False, Short Answer and Exit Tickets. These "resources" can be saved to your account for you to access over and over, no more "recreating the wheel". Quizzes are graded for you and exported into an Excel spreadsheet. You can even turn a quiz into an interactive game for your class. The video below walks you through creating a quiz and demonstrates how the interactive game, Space Race, works in his classroom.
Want more information? Check out the Socrative website http://www.socrative.com/
Friday, February 14, 2014
Time for a Change
The weather is not the only thing changing - this blog is going to be changing things up a bit too. Stay tuned to see what's new.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Call of the Future TODAY
What were you doing 10 years ago? Mark Zuckerberg was
creating Facebook. Our students today will have jobs that don’t even exist
today. Think about that for a minute. Many of us use Facebook on a daily basis.
Just last night, I chatted with a friend in Alaska, I made a tentative date to
meet up with some friends that I haven’t seen since college, I looked at a
friend’s new baby pictures, I played an online game, I checked out the weather
conditions around my state, and I discussed the Winter Olympics with people I
have never met. I was able to do all of that in the comfort of my living room
while sitting in front of the fire. All of that, too, in
about 15 minutes. If it was 2002, I would not have been able to do all of that,
because Facebook did not exist, at least not outside of Mark Zuckerberg’s
world. Here’s
a recap of Facebook’s first 10 years.
We are teaching the future. We are called to be 21st
Century Educators. Are you up for the call?
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