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The Best Sites, Apps, and YouTube Channels to Learn Music From WIRED Magazine Modern technology makes studying to play a new instrument easier than ever. And the best part? Most of these tools are free or affordable. See THIS LINK for all the details!
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From Common Sense Media: Visit museums, parks, historical sites, and more to enhance at-home learning. See top picks here! TOP PICKS | 31 TOOLSVirtual Field Trip Apps and WebsitesField trips are informal learning experiences that get students out into the world, exploring the world and students' interests. Trips to museums, parks, historical sites, and more show students that learning (and life) happens outside the classroom, too. During field trips, students discover new things and learn in authentic environments, placing classroom content into new contexts. Unfortunately, for many schools and students, field trips are rare (if they happen at all). Thankfully, there are great games, apps, and websites that can bring places and experiences fostered by field trips to the classroom. While not an outright replacement, these field trip tools can offer inspiring and intriguing experiences for students. See all the links here: https://www.commonsense.org/education/top-picks/virtual-field-trip-apps-and-websites?j=7741220&sfmc_sub=181501174&l=2048712_HTML&u=144751915&mid=6409703&jb=376&utm_source=edu_nl_20200414&utm_medium=email borrowed from the BubbleUpClassroom.org blog: We are in the midst of very challenging times. A global pandemic, in-person school cancelled in many parts of the world through the end of the school year, stay-at-home orders for most of us. In the United States, we've been staying put for about five weeks now and teachers, students, and parents are still trying to figure out work, school, and life in general. At the Kilmer Library, we've working to create engaging content to keep our students interested and learning without our normal channels for classroom collaboration. One such activity has been our virtual vacations. I first saw virtual trips brought to life on the amazing Instagram account of Georgia school librarian Martha Bongiorno (an aside: she is a "must follow" for teachers and librarians everywhere). During her spring break, Martha rolled out four different virtual trips (and actually cited elementary librarian Sarah Curran on Facebook as her original source for the idea). I immediately loved the concept, asked permission to tweak it for my students and ran with it. Each trip that I put together includes: Sights to See -- links to famous attractions, a virtual video tour of a city or monument, tours of popular museums. STEAM Activities -- hands-on science experiments or building projects, relevant arts and crafts projects, anything that brings out the maker in my students Travel with a Book -- links to titles in our eBook or audio book collections that take place in the specific setting we are visiting I built six trips for our week long spring break and then decided to continue traveling, adding a new vacation spot each week on #TravelTuesday. We are now asking for student requests on our social media feeds to add some student voice into our trips! So far, we have visited: To hop aboard and start making your own trips, make a copy of my Google Docs trip template. And, you can easily view all of our trips on the Kilmer Library website. It has been so much fun for me to build each trip, but I also think this would make a fantastic student project. In a World Language class, students could be tasked with creating trips to cities or countries where that language is spoken. Beginning students could make them in English, but more advanced language speakers could develop these virtual vacations in another language. Creating a virtual trip could be a great way for students to focus on setting when reading a novel for English class or to focus on specific historical time periods in Social Studies. Imagine traveling to Tolkein's Middle Earth or to 1920s Harlem? What other ways could you incorporate virtual vacations into your instruction? And where do YOU want to go? -by Gretchen (from the BubbleUpClassroom.org blog) You might also like:
Google Meet is a free and easy app that is already built into your Google account (if you already have one). Simply open it up and get started. I've attached a really handy one-sheet (also in Spanish) that will get you started in no time. As always, if you have any questions, let me know and I'll gladly facilitate. Google Meet is just like Skype, Zoom, and many other video conferencing apps. But the nice thing is, it is free and easy, especially if you already use Google apps (such as Gmail, Docs, etc.) because it is already built in. You can hold meetings with as little as one other person, all the way up to hundreds of people. You can send invites to people, run the meeting, record the session, share your screen (screencast) or slide show, and so much more. Take a look at the attached PDF file below and give it a try!
Those of us faced with the impromptu task of "remote learning" may be looking for some great resources for their students to utilize while away from the classroom during the nation's school shut downs. I will start sharing a few great and easy "go-to's" right here over the coming weeks. Check out the Big Deal Media website: https://www.bigdealbook.com/ This site offers "trusted resources for educators" with a focus on free education and technology resources for K-12 teachers, schools, and classrooms. The site is chock full of searchable blogs, articles, reviews, links to great sites, webinars and professional development, ebooks, and newsletters delivered directly to your mailbox (you can filter the types of resources you want sent to you). No matter what you teach, there is plenty of great grab and go stuff for you to choose from. From the site: Big Deal Media saves educators hours of research and thousands of dollars while identifying top-quality resources and OERs for schools and classrooms. It is a content-rich collection of trusted print and electronic publications that offer the information and tools K-12 educators need-all vetted through the prism of the curriculum. It consistently delivers wish lists of resources and funding opportunities, and has done so since 1995. Big Deal Media publications provide timely, relevant, and reliable resources in a rapidly changing educational environment, created with insight and attention to detail by seasoned educational publishing professionals and practicing K-12 educators. MediaCasts is a great source for video content, as well as TV and cable news channels and programs. MediaCast is not just video: you can post all types of media on MediaCast for your students, from documents to audio, images and presentations, and much more. Here is how you can share direct MediaCast links to your students: The Tappan Technology Committee is presenting a one-hour workshop on how to use Adobe Spark in the classroom.
What is Adobe Spark? Adobe SPARK is a free and flexible one-stop-shop online content creation tool for making sharp graphics, videos, and webpages. It is like having all of the ADOBE programs bundled together in one quick and easy to use format. Teacher’s get exclusive free premium features that you’d normally have to pay for, plus you can set it up for all your students. During this hands-on workshop, you’ll be able to:
KALPA# 1017765 More useful links: Teacher Guide - https://spark.adobe.com/images/Adobe%20Spark%20Edu%20Guide.pdf Teacher resources - https://edex.adobe.com/spark Spark for students - https://spark.adobe.com/students/ Reviews - https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/adobe-spark At today's staff meeting, the Tappan Technology Committee presented a brief demo of Quizizz, a cool tech tool to help enhance your formative assessments. If you have more questions or would like help working with this great tool, feel free to email anyone from the Tech Team and we can meet for a tutorial. The Tappan Technology Committee is: Kyle Kipp, Daniel Capitan, Yvette Wright, Jen Shaw, Renee Nassar, and Rebecca Lee. Follow this link to try out Quizizz for yourself: https://quizizz.com/ Don't forget, there is a really great 1-hour workshop on Adobe Spark that will be presented on Feb 17 in the library computer lab from 3:30 to 4:30pm. KALPA # 1017765. Practice making high quality content the easy way with this free to educators resource; you and your students can make sharp graphics, videos, and webpages in no time. Some people have been asking me for information on good places to find free audiobooks, so I created a page that collects a lot of great resources all in one place. Feel free to explore this one stop shop for audiobooks and share as you see fit. The link to free audiobook resources: https://collections.follettsoftware.com/collection/5da75b6d8bd9c500120ed2de?h=e6a652ff71c9b3bc395b3b8a168091db6e236277f28a336b97ad62d9d61696b4 As always, if you have any questions or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks, Kyle Kipp 'We Read Too' app connects young readers of color with books they can relate to. It is a directory of diverse books.We Read Too is a directory of hundreds of picture, chapter, middle grade and young adult books written by authors of color featuring main characters of color. Whether you are a parent, librarian, teacher or student, We Read Too is the best resource for you to find diverse books for youth readers. Check out this article for more information: https://mashable.com/2017/04/10/we-read-too-app-books-people-of-color/ Follow this link to the app download: https://wereadtoo.launchaco.com/ |
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