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Technology Tools & Document Hosting To Assist With FlippingYour Classroom Or Developing Online Materials Daniel Downs Ed.D. Digital Learning Specialist Andover High School http://www.projectbasedlearningonline.com
Types Of Documents Resources Benefits Documents (Word,PDF,Powerpoints,Docs)
Google Web Based Documents/Forms/Spreadsheets https://support.google.com/drive/answer/49008?hl=en Slideshare www.slideshare.com
Allows for real time editing and sharing of presentations and documents. Often accessible with a link. Documents include spreadsheets, forms, presentations, pdfs.
Videos (Podcasts, screencasts, lectures)
Youtube www.youtube.com Teacher Tube www.teachertube.com Flickr www.flickr.com Slideshare www.slideshare.com Vimeo www.vimeo.com
These sites offer unlimited hosting for large video files for viewing. Each has its benefit for flipping. Be sure to read privacy settings for using these services.
Photos (class activities,posters,graphics)
Flickr www.flickr.com Photobucket www.photobucket.com Google Drive/Image Gallery https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos
These sites offer image hosting which includes a direct link and in some cases downloading of full resolution file(Flickr). Be sure to examine maximum file upload sizes for these services
Presentations Slideshare(hosted Powerpoints) www.slideshare.com
These sites offer hosting for presentations such as Powerpoints,Presentat
Google Presentations Prezi www.prezi.com Glogster www.glogster.com
ions and Graphic Posters.
Websites/Blogs (teacher websites)
Edmodo https://www.edmodo.com Blogger www.blogger.com Wordpress www.wordpress.com
A few of the options out there for hosting links and teacher web pages.
Online Assessment/Rubric Makers
Google Forms/Spreadsheets/Documents www.google .com Rubistar http://rubistar.4teachers.org
Each of these resources can be used to create assessment tools such as rubrics,surveys,response forms,quizzes,tests.
Collaborations Tools WikiSpaces https://www.wikispaces.com Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com Edmodo www.edmodo.com Evernote http://evernote.com/video/ Socrative http://www.socrative.com/#
These collaborative tools create live interactive web based environemnts for teachers and students. These tools enable live assessment(Socrative),storage(Dropbox),Classroom focused interfaces(WIkiSpaces),and web based journals(Evernote).
Online Educational Communities
Edutopia Blog http://www.edutopia.org/blogs Edudemic http://www.edudemic.com
Once you hop into hosting classroom content online and creating engagement with your students using the web you will want to stay abreast of
Twitter https://twitter.com Teaching Channel https://www.teachingchannel.org/?national=1 WebsEdge Education Khan Academy http://www.khanacademy.org Ted-‐ED http://ed.ted.com http://ed.ted.com/about Educreations http://www.educreations.com
current technologies and resources. This short list can get you started. Some of these are tutorial based(Khan Academy) and some are Industry blogs(Edutopia).
Surveys Google Forms Survey Monkey Poll Everywhere http://www.polleverywhere.com Instant Poll http://www.polleverywhere.com/my/polls#!/my/polls
Gathering data from students is an important component to understanding if you are creating engagement and impact. These tools are simple ways to get started.
Research Tools This is a short list of web based resources for research.
Screencasting Tools Screencast www.screencast.com Quicktime(Mac Tool) Photobooth(Mac Tool) Screencast-‐0-‐Matic http://www.screencast-‐o-‐
Developing specific core subject video tutorials/lectures/presentations is an integral way to personalizing your educational web content. These tools allow you to
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create,store and personalize your message to students with video.
Shortened Links Bit.ly https://bitly.com Google Link Shortener http://goo.gl
As you develop content for the web and desire to host it on a variety of sites or post in different places you will want simple easy to use web links. These tools will assist in shortening web links.
