Paper Planes
I’m hearing the song, Paper Planes, by MIA. They use a nice sample from another song that I can hear but can’t quite place in this song.
OK… I know that it has been a while since I have posted. But, to my defense there was a bout of time when I could not log in. They were performing some sort of maintenance that kept forcing me to change my password and never actually get to the edit screen. This is the first time that I have tried since August, I think. But, here it goes.
I have been toiling about looking for 2.0 tools for teaching, and here is what I have recently come up with:
- Quizlet – this is a cool site for drill and practice learning. You can make digital flashcards that quiz you, test you, and even make little mini games for you. This is not for higher-level learning, but it is good for rote memorization.
- I have developed a few course pages using Google Sites. They provide free webspace to create basic websites (all with a very easy interface for development). You can see an example of a more complex site here: DIS ToK.
- There are two different application development (free) environments out there (excellent for creating simple games and getting students to use higher order thinking skills): Scratch and another hosted by Microsoft that I can’t seem to find right now…
- I have found an interesting tool for coding learning called Hackety Hack, but I haven’t tried it out yet…
- If you want to create very cool characters for handouts in your classroom, check out SP Studio by Janina Koeppel. I would recommend it for teachers to use to create images for the classroom, but not to recommend to students (due to a section of the app where you can have your character choose weapons – ugh).
