Essential Web Tools for Teachers: Enhancing Common Core Skills with Technology
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Discover essential Web 2.0 tools designed for teachers to enhance student engagement and skills aligned with Common Core standards. These tools empower Arkansas students to produce and publish documents, interact with peers, communicate effectively, and evaluate diverse media formats. Key resources include Prezi for animated presentations, Google Docs for seamless document collaboration, and TodaysMeet for interactive discussions. By integrating these technologies into the classroom, educators can foster collaboration, critical thinking, and effective communication among students.
Essential Web Tools for Teachers: Enhancing Common Core Skills with Technology
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Web 2.0 Tech tools for teachers with minis
Common Core and Technology • Technology as a tool rather than a final product or an end in itself. • Arkansas students should be able to (per James Brock, ADE): • Produce and publish documents • Interact and collaborate • Communicate using web tools • Evaluate information presented in different media formats
ADE PPT Includes technology standards by grade.
Tools for Producing and Publishing Documents • Prezi – creates a fun, animated presentation. Can encompass text, video, and images. • Google Docs – workspace that mimics Microsoft office for easy document creation and sharing. • Penzu – online journal interface • Glogster – digital posters • VoiceThread – like a PowerPoint with a voiceover. Allows for audience comments.
Tools for Interacting, Collaborating, and Communicating • TodaysMeet – user-created and monitored chat room; only accessible by sharing a link (no strangers) • Vyew – creates a shared workspace updated in real time. Great for group projects. * • Collaboratize Classroom – a hub for online discussion, polls, and other written responses • Titan Pad – the sequel to etherpad. Allows for a real-time, color-coded chat only available to invited users.
Tools for Evaluating Info • Diigo – allows students to bookmark and annotate media from the web • Could also be used to annotate documents we upload • Sweet Search – search engine that only shows results that have already been evaluated by a research group. • Boolify – helps students understand how their search works and how to improve their terms