CaptureCast: Screencasting on Chromebooks
Screencasting is a great opportunity to create content for student learning. It's also a terrific way for students to use a classroom device to explain their learning. This is often associated with iPads apps such as Explain Everything or the PC/Mac tool Screencast-o-matic. Chromebooks can also benefit by adding the extension CaptureCast. The article below describes how to use it. If you need any help, please reach out.
Twitter in Education
Eric Curts shared an interesting article on Twitter in Education this week that I thought was of benefit.
Even if you don't want to post on Twitter yourself, it is easy to create an account and just search for people and hashtags of interest.
If you aren't familiar with hashtags, when people post conversations involving a linked topic, the put a hashtag in the post so that people can search for the hashtag and get access to only those posts.
Because the #read4fun is in that post, it will pop up in the list whenever you search for #read4fun in the search bar of Twitter.
I am also including a list if education hashtags to help you make the most of finding and connecting with the right educators and content that will be potential resources for your needs.
Second Grade Projects
The second grade team was kind enough to invite me to check out their projects. These multimedia presentations involved a combination of posters, written reports, and visual presentations on classroom devices. Students were given the parameters of what was expected and allows to use tools such as Google Slides, Google Docs, Educreations and more to meet the technology portion of their standards. The parent turnout was amazing. The teachers and students really put together something enjoyable.
If you are using technology tools in your classroom and would like me to see them or if you need help implementing them, please let me know.
