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September 12, 2024

We All Can Benefit from a Growth Mindset

1. Sign in, stowe your other devices, and log into a Chromebook. Complete the While You Are Waiting (WYAW) activities (including attendance!)
   
   
2. WEB 2.0 ALERT: Works like the Flippity Quiz Show game. It's called Factile https://www.playfactile.com/.
   • Let's test our Digital Literacy: https://www.playfactile.com/digilit17/play
   • But wait, there's more: (Tables vote on which to do, ask for a volunteer to be Game Show Host)
   • Geography (2nd): https://www.playfactile.com/2ndgeography/play
   • Multiplication Tables https://www.playfactile.com/multiply102
   • Vocabulary https://www.playfactile.com/bhseslreview
   • American History https://www.playfactile.com/projectwowhistory
   • Life and Earth Science https://www.playfactile.com/milahn
     
     
3. INTERACTIVES: These are websites that take advantage of the interactivity of an IWB but are not from within the IWB's particular software
   • Mathematics Interactives:
     • http://www.teacherled.com/iresources/numeracybasics/
     • https://www.mathlearningcenter.org/apps
   • Story Starters Interactive: http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/story-starters/index.html
     
   • Teach Time or Angles? See https://www.visnos.com/demos/clock
     
   • Interactives for K-1: https://stormedapps.co.uk/
   • Math Apps:https://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&type=ac
     (some free content, most required paid membership to NCTM)
   • Tangrams and other Math activities: https://polypad.amplify.com/
     
     
4. Digital Whiteboards: Miro https://miro.com/education-whiteboard/ and Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ (formative assessment alert!)
   • Whiteboard Fi https://whiteboard.fi/ Scroll down to find the and wait for your instructor to give you the code to join.
     
     
     
   • Follow your instructor's directions for how to interact with the various Graphic Organizers in the saved board.
     
     
   • Want a quick no sign in Whiteboard to share? Check out the "lite" version of Miro: https://webwhiteboard.com/
     NOTE: This is an "on-the-fly" version of Miro if you don't need to save the board as it expires after 24 hours. To save your boards, sign up for a free account with your class gmail.
     
     
   • WE DO: Using the on-the-fly version of Miro, see what you can do with a basic version of the board by creating a question or other activity for your tablemates to answer. Once you have a board to share, click the Share button to copy your board and share it on this Padlet with your tablemates to complete.
     
     

     12:30 EDEL 446-01 / EDMG 466-01 https://padlet.com/wcudigilit/mywhiteboardactivity_01_f24

     2:00 EDEL 446-02 https://padlet.com/wcudigilit/mywhiteboardactivity_02_f24

TOOLS O' THE DAY COLLECTIONS:

Digital Tools by Category
https://www.educatorstechnology.com/2017/02/the-ultimate-edtech-chart-for-teachers.html

Lakewood Middle School: Web 2.0 Tools
https://bluevalleyk12.libguides.com/c.php?g=658128&p=4619378

10 Web 2.0 Tools
https://blog.education.nationalgeographic.org/2018/01/26/10-free-tech-tools-websites-every-teacher-should-know-about/

The "Best Lists" of Web 2.0 Tools from Larry Ferlazzo

Most Current 2024: https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2024/05/23/all-of-2024s-mid-year-best-lists-so-far-in-one-place/

All of the "Bests": https://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/about/my-best-of-series/