Friday, October 23, 2015

More Interesting learning Sites:

Larry Ferlazzo (@larryferlazzo) maintains a fantastic website with a huge range of educational content

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/

Best online games for 2015 part 2.

A lot of examples of quiz sites similar to Kahoots

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/10/21/the-best-online-learning-games-of-2015-part-two/

There is also part one here:

http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2015/06/13/the-best-online-learning-games-of-2015-so-far/

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Try Spiral

http://spiral.ac/?utm_expid=87810258-0.RYeRNCFzQLuMbuKJ3rBc_w.0

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And the third in the list for this week is Google Classroom which is getting better and better.

https://classroom.google.com/

(Sign into Google first)

Friday, September 04, 2015

Changes to Google Apps:

Docs

Now has voice type - no add-ons needed. This is on the web version of Docs now and will be on the IoS and Android apps with the next update I believe.

The in Doc research feature which has been available on the Web, is being added to the Android App.

(Tools…..Research)

Revision History has been extended - might be useful for viewing student’s work.

(File….Show Revision History)

New Templates in Docs

File….New...Start from Template

Sheets:

Very cool Info panel in sheets which lets you see a visual representation of your data.

Click on icon on bottom right corner

Monday, June 22, 2015

I've realised that it is a year since I posted on this blog. Perhaps it's because I use Twitter as my go to tool for professional learning. (@rosscoh) However I believe a blog is still a useful tool for communicating and in this case, keeping references to professional learning links for posterity.

The things I've been thinking about are here: Not in blog form but as a Google Site shared with the staff in 2014 - https://sites.google.com/a/cloud.wellesley.school.nz/state-of-play/

I'm about to produce a 2015 edition of this.

In the meantime, here are some cool links which might help your digital learning programme:

This free resource aims to encourage young people to engage in creative writing. Designed by current teachers, the LMYL Picture of the Day can simply be shown on a Smartboard screen to give an instant writing stimulus.
https://lendmeyourliteracy.com/category/pic-of-the-day/