Code.org offers a wide variety of coding courses - https://studio.code.org/courses - designed for grades K-12 and beyond.
NOTE: Some of the materials are available without having to sign in.
The courses and activities will help learners: learn how to…
• make their own game, app or computer drawing;
• build real working apps, games and websites using HTML, CSSS, JavaScript, blocks and more.
Code.org also offers on-line university courses to help learners master various programming skills.
There is also the popular “Hour of Code” - https://code.org/hourofcode/overview - that provides one-hour tutorials available in over 45 languages and designed to attend to the different coding needs of learners.
Find out more about Code.org by watching the video clip at https://www.youtube.com/embed/mTGSiB4kB18
If you give “Code.org” a try or have already used “Code.org”, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
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“Wheel of Names” - https://wheelofnames.com/ - is a random selector tool that was designed for choosing winners/names.
However, educators can use “Wheel of Names” for so much more! E.g. “Different Writing prompts / Projects /Presentations / Podcasts #Vidcasts etc.”
Users of “Wheel of Names” are able to type text but the entire text won’t show up on the wheel piece. However, when users spin the wheel the entire text pops up once a piece has been selected.
"One of the nice things about this tool is that users can click Remove to eliminate that selected piece from the spinner if they want to spin again."
NOTE: This tool can be used without signing into an account. However, if educators wish to use their spinners over and over again or want to create one ahead of time, they can login with their Google account and their lists can be accessed and edited any time under the Open List Tab.
There are several different ways users can share their spinners with others to use.
1. Share>Get Shareable Link.
2. Enter someone's email address by clicking Share>Email List.
3. They can also be embedded into blogs/websites.
Enhancing the wheel…
Under the Customise tab users can choose to add an image in the centre of the wheel
Other customisations include Changing…
• the section colours,
• spin time,
• sound and
• the message that pops up once a name/category has been selected.
This “Wheel of Names” web-tool works beautifully on Chromebooks, laptops/computers and has been optimised to run well on most mobile phones and tablets.
Other Features…
Importing from Google Forms:
If users are delivering a presentation and want to choose a winner for completing a survey, create the survey in Google Forms.
It’s essential to include a question that asks for the attendee's name or email address.
• Once information has been collected,
• click on Summary to create the spreadsheet of responses.
• Then on your “Wheel of Names” spinner (make sure you are signed in), select Import>Link Google Spreadsheet.
• Choose your spreadsheet, select which tab and column you would like to pull from and then all of the information you need will be sent to your digital spinner!
There are many more really cool features that you can read about in the FAQ section of the website at https://wheelofnames.com/faq.html
Update!
I’ve just discovered that users now have the ability to add images to the different spokes of the wheel!
If you give “Wheel of Names” a try or have already used “Wheel of Names”, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
Thank you
P.S. To make it easier for you to locate posts that are appropriate, take a look at my two Live Binders at…
1. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510432 (for 2018 posts) and
2. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510566 (for this year’s posts)
P.S.S. Disclaimer: I don't have any relationship (financial or in exchange for services) with any of the items that I post.
"I post about items that I either like using myself or have found them to be very helpful and/or I feel that educators and/or Learners will find they can enhance their current practice by trying them out."
Otus - https://otus.com/ - is a learning management system (LMS) that’s evolved from a relatively simple iPad app into a full-fledged LMS that can be used on any device.
Educators can add video feedback to their learners through the Otus learning management system.
It's easy to do from any computer that has a webcam. Richard Byrne’s Video clip “How to Give Video Feedback in the Otus LMS” - https://www.youtube.com/embed/qv0_07ds5x8 - demonstrates how to add video feedback to a learners' portfolios in the Otus LMS.
NOTE: Video feedback in Otus could also be used to just give learners some encouragement.
If you give “Otus " a try or have already used “Otus “, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
Thank you
P.S. To make it easier for you to locate posts that are appropriate, take a look at my two Live Binders at…
1. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510432 (for 2018 posts) and
2. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510566 (for this year’s posts)
P.S.S. Disclaimer: I don't have any relationship (financial or in exchange for services) with any of the items that I post.
"I post about items that I either like using myself or have found them to be very helpful and/or I feel that educators and/or Learners will find they can enhance their current practice by trying them out."
Qwiqr - https://qwiqr.co.uk/ - a web tool educators can use to provide individual learner feedback using QR technology.
"Ideal for formative assessment allowing users to attend to learners individualised needs and maximise their learning"
Qwiqr supports multiple forms of feedback including: audio, text, video, web links, and photo feedback.
The way Qwiqr works is simple:
- Print a sheet of stickers.
- Attach a sticker to any assessment, test paper or other document.
- Scan the sticker with a qrcode reader and follow the link.
- Record the audio feedback, text message or web link and it will be permanently associated with that sticker.
- When learners scan the sticker it will take them to the feedback
NOTE: - Depending on which version of iPhone, iPad or Android you use, you might need to download and install a QR code reader app.
Regarding the security of learners’ feedback, Qwiqr states that…
"There is no password required to access a published piece of Qwiqr feedback but it is necessary to have the correct code to access feedback...The codes are randomly assigned when stickers are printed, and the only way to find out which codes are valid is to try them. Testing 100 codes each second it would take approximately 300 million years. Anyone with access to the printed sticker can access the feedback, but this is also true with written feedback on learner's work."
Qwiqr offers a free trial period of 30 days after which you need a premium account to continue using it.
Other features provided by Qwiqr include:
- Edit feedback after publishing
- Tag your feedback and track when it is scanned
- Reprint published feedback
- Reuse feedback with other learners
- Learners can record their own response with conversations."
If you give “Qwiqr" a try or have already used Qwiqr“, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
Thank you
P.S. To make it easier for you to locate posts that are appropriate, take a look at my two Live Binders at…
1. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510432 (for 2018 posts) and
2. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510566 (for this year’s posts)
P.S.S. Disclaimer: I don't have any relationship (financial or in exchange for services) with any of the items that I post.
"I post about items that I either like using myself or have found them to be very helpful and/or I feel that educators and/or Learners will find they can enhance their current practice by trying them out."
iStudiez Pro - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/id310636441?mt=8 - is an excellent planner app for learners.
iStudiez Pro provides an interesting collection of features that help learners better organise their daily learning provider life.
The integrated planner can be used to "input and easily manage all types of schedules including classic, alternating (A and B weeks), rotating and block schedule."
Learners can also use it to…
- keep track of their courses,
- add details about their courses and instructors (e.g., emails, office hours, phone numbers, holiday hours, cancelled courses etc). Using colour labels students can mark class types and distinguish specific courses.
- Organise Assignments/Coursework etc., by date, priority, pending and completed.
The integrated GPA calculator (Grade Point Average ) enables learners to track their grades and GPA based on input from exams and assignments.
Other important features provided by iStudiez Pro include…
- calendars integration (you can choose to see third-party calendar events in iStudiez Pro. OR, you can share iStudiez Pro schedule into your calendars and share it with your classmates, friends, parents);
- Today view ("updates your current schedule in the real-time mode"); and
- Apple Watch integration.
As for the pricing, the main functions of iStudiez Pro are free, however, multi-platform Cloud Sync requires a subscription which can be done on a weekly, monthly or annual plan.
If you give “iStudiez Pro " a try or have already used " iStudiez Pro “, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
Thank you
P.S. To make it easier for you to locate posts that are appropriate, take a look at my two Live Binders at…
1. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510432 (for 2018 posts) and
2. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510566 (for this year’s posts)
P.S.S. Disclaimer: I don't have any relationship (financial or in exchange for services) with any of the items that I post.
"I post about items that I either like using myself or have found them to be very helpful and/or I feel that educators and/or Learners will find they can enhance their current practice by trying them out."
Screen recording tools are ideal for creating educational video tutorials and explainers.
Nimbus Screenshot - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nimbus-screenshot-screen/bpconcjcammlapcogcnnelfmaeghhagj - is a multi-purpose tool that educators can use to record screen-casts and capture screenshots.
"For those of you using Chrome, Nimbus Screenshot is available a free-download extension"
Nimbus Screenshot is both a screenshot taker and screencast recorder.
As a screenshot taker Nimbus Screenshot offers the following services …
• Capture the entire web page, or a specific section of it
• Supports scrolling when capturing screenshots from web pages
• Capture the entire browser window
• Capture a screenshot of another program
• Quickly capture a section of the web-page
• On a blank canvas, create your own simple drawing or model
• You can add own watermark on screenshot (Premium)
• Add graphics and text boxes to your screenshot
• Resize and crop
• Add arrows and stickers
• Highlight text
• Blur certain sections to hide sensitive information
• Add watermarks (premium)
• Save screenshots in JPG and PNG
• Save to Nimbus Note
• Send screenshots to Slack
• Upload screenshots to Google Drive, and Google Classroom
• Upload screenshots to Dropbox (Premium)
• Save screenshots to a PDF
• Add comments to your screenshots and screen-casts
As for video recording, Nimbus allows users to…
• Record video from your screen to make a screen-cast
• Record video of another active program
• Record video from a webcam
• Add your own watermark on the video (Premium)
• Customise the video screen resolution and frame rate
• Annotate the video with various shapes, including arrows and rectangles
• Convert from WebM to MP4 and GIF (Premium)
• Crop your video (Premium)
• Trim your video (Premium)
• Upload the screen-cast either to Nimbus Note or save to your disk
• Publish screen-casts on Youtube (Premium)
• Upload videos to Google Drive, and Dropbox (Premium)."
Watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/embed/ihPdwnVixYc to learn more about Nimbus Screenshot and Screen Video Recorder
If you give “Nimbus Screenshot and Screen Video Recorder " a try or have already used Nimbus Screenshot and Screen Video Recorder “, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
Thank you
P.S. To make it easier for you to locate posts that are appropriate, take a look at my two Live Binders at…
1. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510432 (for 2018 posts) and
2. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510566 (for this year’s posts)
P.S.S. Disclaimer: I don't have any relationship (financial or in exchange for services) with any of the items that I post.
"I post about items that I either like using myself or have found them to be very helpful and/or I feel that educators and/or Learners will find they can enhance their current practice by trying them out."
Educators often source their videos from a variety of websites and services, and it can be challenging to keep track of the videos they’ve found.
ClassHook - https://www.classhook.com/ - wants to streamline the process of organising videos so that educators can focus on helping their learners extract the most learning from them.
ClassHook have announced their “Personal Clips feature” - http://www.blog.classhook.com/2019/04/21/manage-all-of-your-favorite-videos-on-classhook/ - which could be a good way to have a set of videos cued-up and ready to display in the educator’s learning environment(s) without jumping from tab to tab or site to site.
Educators will soon be able to use the Pause Prompts feature with all Personal Clips regardless of the source of the video.
However, in the meantime they can use Pause Prompts with videos that they find through the ClassHook platform.
Pause Prompts are discussion prompts that appear while any chosen video is playing.
The Pause Prompts automatically pause the video until users are ready to advance it.
You can Learn more about ClassHook's Pause Prompts by watching Richard Byrne’s video clip at https://www.youtube.com/embed/NUPqgbdWMT0
If you give “ClassHook " a try or have already used " ClassHook “, do share your feedback, positive and/or negative, in the comments.
Thank you
P.S. To make it easier for you to locate posts that are appropriate, take a look at my two Live Binders at…
1. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510432 (for 2018 posts) and
2. https://www.livebinders.com/b/2510566 (for this year’s posts)
P.S.S. Disclaimer: I don't have any relationship (financial or in exchange for services) with any of the items that I post.
"I post about items that I either like using myself or have found them to be very helpful and/or I feel that educators and/or Learners will find they can enhance their current practice by trying them out."
