Last week, my colleague, Javier Hernandez, presented a PD on virtual museums using Apple's Keynote. I thought this would be a great idea for our 5th graders who are currently studying the different cultures of the world. But instead of using Keynote, I thought it would be easier for the students and teachers to use Google Slides. Using office suite applications on your computer can be troublesome during the submission process (multiple emails, multiple versions, etc). The following is the Virtual Museum template I created using Google Slides. The "Main Lobby" is where you can access the different rooms. For the 5th grade project, each room would be designated for a specific component of a world culture. The curator's office is where students can provide an image and a short description of themselves. In the "Room" slides, students can insert images of their museum piece and rename the text appropriately. If you are planning to create ...
Tagxedo let’s you create word clouds out of your URL, Twitter ID, Del.icio.us account, news, search or RSS. Here is an example of a word cloud I created of my edtech blog: As you can see in the second image, you can customize the font, theme, color, orientation, and shape of your word cloud. Share your creation via Facebook and Twitter. Check out this video by eduTecher . It explains how to use Tagxedo very thoroughly.
In this video, I show a recording of myself interviewing a teacher that I did for a social studies unit. The goal was to model for the teacher and her students some key interviewing principles and practices. An interview is an essential tool for empathy work in the human-centered methodology of design thinking. Get your hands on the "Design Thinking in the Classroom" book here to help foster creative thinking and problem-solving. This is a great toolkit to equip students and help you on your mission in student empowerment. www.davidleeedtech.org/designthinkingintheclassroom Insights for Innovation (IDEO U Course): https://www.ideou.com/products/insights-for-innovation “Linear Lingo” by Harvio www.epidemicsounds.com Website: www.davidleeedtech.org Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidleeedtech/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidleeedtech Blog : davidleeedtech.wordpress.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DavidLeesEdTechWorld
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