Tech Thoughts - Kletke Tech Resources

TKSST: Rainbow peacock rangoli and other sand mandala designs

10/31/2021

How are rangoli designs created? These videos are titled with the word “easy,” but this traditional art takes practice. The compilation video above, shared by the India-based PakkaLocal YouTube channel, captures how Menaka’s Rangoli creates four celebratory rangoli designs, including a rainbow peacock kolam and single color dots rangoli.

Teachers - If you are not using The Kid Should See This website, you should seriously consider doing so.
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ProWalk Tours

10/31/2021

Prowalk Tours is a channel that is redefining travel by giving you the best guided walking tours, drone tours and scooter tours. Relax and enjoy a vacation right from the comfort of your own home. Walk through the streets of Naples, Italy. Take a hike up Mt. Vesuvius.
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English Teaching 101: 13 FUN CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES USING TECHNOLOGY: Produce a Book Trailer

10/29/2021

3. Produce Book Trailers
Book Trailer Project is a digital storytelling activity for middle school or high school students after they finish reading a book. Students need to take the key idea from the book to create a short video that persuades people to check out a book they have read.

Check out this post to read the step-by-step guide in doing the Book Trailer Project.

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English Teaching 101: 13 FUN CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES USING TECHNOLOGY: Create Their Own Quiz

10/26/2021

2. Create their Own Quiz
Challenge your students to create their own quiz using Kahoot!
Kahoot is a student-response gamifying tool that lets teachers create multiple-choice quizzes and polls and is a great way to incorporate fun and games in the classroom! It provides quick, real-time results and gives students instant feedback on their devices without anyone being called out individually.

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English Teaching 101: 13 FUN CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES USING TECHNOLOGY: Write Illustrated Stories

10/24/2021

Times have changed. Gone were the days when teachers deliver the same old lectures day after day. Now, everyone expects teachers to integrate engaging, educational and fun classroom activities using technology. Why not, technology has become the best learning tool in the classroom making more students engaged in the lesson, improving collaboration and making learning more fun!

1. Write Illustrated Stories Let your students create their very own personalized stories using a variety of colorful and vibrant Illustrations that ignite creativity. Story Bird and Story Jumper are two great websites that allow students to bring creative writing into the 21st century with technology.

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Edutopia: Top Tech Tools for Educators

10/22/2021

By Jonathan Eckert February 5, 2021
One of the most popular tech tools in schools, Flipgrid won praise from teachers across the country because of the flexibility it gives students to submit digital projects and how it effectively supports peer and teacher feedback.

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Edutopia: Top Tech Tools for Educators

10/20/2021

 By Jonathan Eckert February 5, 2021

For those of us who like to discuss rich texts with students, Parlay lets us connect with students remotely, facilitate discussion, and track how the dialogue builds. As students respond, Parlay shows who is contributing and where the conversation is moving as the software visually tracks student responses in a discussion web. Teachers can use built-in tools to assess the frequency of students’ answers in real time even when students are not in the same room. Teachers can then spend their time on deeper level assessment of the depth of student responses, which can also be recorded.
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FT4T: An Overview of Google Forms Quiz Settings

10/19/2021

Back in July I published a series of videos and blog posts detailing what you need to know to get started using Google Classroom, Drive, Docs, Slides, and Forms in your classroom (those are linked below). Of course, Google had to make some updates to Google Forms right at the start of the new school year and in doing so added some more functionality to Google Forms while also moving the location of some settings menus. That's why I recorded a new overview of Google Forms quiz settings. In my new video, An Overview of Google Forms Quiz Settings, you'll learn:

How to access the settings.
What each setting does.
Why you may or may not want to use some settings.

Tiki-Toki Timeline Maker

10/19/2021

Tiki-Toki has everything an aspiring timeline creator could possibly need. In addition to the basics such as support for BC, extensive date formatting options and built-in search and filtering, our timeline app comes with no less than four view types (including the Category Band view - see the timeline to the left). With our premium accounts, you can also embed timelines on your website or blog.

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TinyTap

10/15/2021

TinyTap is a social platform which empowers families, teachers and students to learn from each other by creating their own personalized learning apps and playing thousands of new ones shared daily by a worldwide community of educators and learners worldwide.

Together we are building the world's largest marketplace for educational games - a community that celebrates creativity and knowledge!

TinyTap is just getting started! Our vision is to change the future of personalized education by making it available, accessible and fun to anyone who has a passion for teaching and learning. Together, we are building the world’s biggest educational marketplace for kids.
We promise to constantly add more game creation tools so that the only limit will be your imagination and creativity! We are also dedicated to improving the Tinytap community so we can all learn from each other.

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