I was absent from my classroom yesterday in order to attend a fabulous training by Discovery Education. Being absent from the classroom is always challenging because my students sometimes do not receive the information that they need. But this time, it was like I never left the classroom. I did a screen cast of my lesson for my students usiing Screencast O Matic. They loved it, the substitute loved it and I loved it. They were able to learn the content like I was still actually in the classroom and to be honest it only took me about 10 minutes to create.
- user friendly
- allows you to go back a few seconds to fix mistakes
- easy to publish to your youtube channel
Now at the actual training I learned a ton! The resources provided by Discovery Education are amazing! I can't wait for my students to be able to build a board using content from Discovery Education.
During the training, I was introduced to Answer Garden. Wow! Answer Garden is a smash of Padlet and Wordle. It asks for short responses to questions that it compiles into a Wordle. Words that are repeated become bigger showing more emphasis.
The last tool that I learned about is Symbaloo. This site serves as a sort of bookmarking system for websites, apps, etc. I love how simple it is, how you can change the color of the images and how you can add titles. Here is my Symbaloo for resources that I have used and love or want to learn more about:
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