Featured: 5-21-2013 RealtimeBoard [Tools]

RealtimeBoard is an online tool for creating and implementing real-time visual presentation and collaboration.

RealtimeBoard online whiteboards can enrich your lessons:

• Use whiteboards to dynamically draw your lessons.
• Discuss the tasks with students either in or out of the classroom.
• Access boards any time from everywhere.
• Make a rich presentation to share with your class.

Create a new board from a template or from scratch. You can upload your own images or use images from the RealtimeBoard library of vector images. Add videos to your boards by pasting YouTube or Vimeo links. Use the mark-up tools to draw, create text, and make sticky notes.

RealtimeBoard works with Google Drive, too. Drag-and-drop files from Google Drive onto your boards. With a Chrome extension, grab images from websites and web searches right to the RealtimeBoard library.

 Watch a video demo of RealtimeBoard

Share your RealtimeBoard public boards, or keep boards private. Invite colleagues to share boards. Set access rights: editors can make changes to your boards, viewers cannot.

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Featured: 5-20-2013 EdCanvas [Tools]

Drag-and-drop resources to create a dynamic EdCanvas that will help you effectively teach your lesson while increasing student engagement.

EdCanvases are useful for organizing, presenting, and sharing online resources with your students and colleagues.

If you are implementing a flipped classroom, EdCanvas makes it possible to easily gather and annotate online resources, including rich multimedia, into lessons using just one link. EdCanvas is also a handy tool for Web quests, project-based learning, and class presentations.

Mix assessment with your content. Quickly create a quiz on any empty canvas tile by clicking “Add Quiz". They are instantly and automatically graded, providing you with a detailed and easy-to-use report.

With an invitation from you, students can create canvases, too. Create a class for your students, then invite them by entering their email addresses. Your students will receive an invitation to sign up for Edcanvas. You will be able to see all the canvases they create.

 Watch the video: Edcanvas Basics

EdCanvas for Schools offers reports and data to improve learning, real-time collaboration for students and teachers, a parent portal, shared resources pool for teachers, Common Core-aligned content and canvases, unlimited file storage and uploads, and more.

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The Rearview Mirror 5-18-2013

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.

Monday

TheWorld Digital Library makes significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world available on the Internet, free and in multiple languages.

Tuesday

Curriculum Corner is a site where teachers can go to find current, relevant, meaningful, and ready-to-use lessons and activities that fit their classroom structure and meet Common Core standards.

Wednesday

CoachMyVideo Mobile is a coaching tool that is powerful, portable, and easy-to-use Coaches and teachers can provide clear, effective instruction with greater ease and efficiency.

Thursday

Kikutext allows teachers to easily and effectively communicate with all of their students' parents, with the goal of helping students learn better.

Featured: 5-16-2013 Kikutext [Tools]

 

Kikutext allows teachers to easily and effectively communicate with all of their students' parents, with the goal of helping students learn better.

Using the Kikutext system, teachers are able to send quick individualized status updates directly to parents' cell phones as a text message. Parents can respond to these updates by simply replying to the messages from their phones. It's fast, easy, and free.

Kikutext works like this: Teachers add their class and create a "class code" which is shared with parents; parents text message the "class code" to the provided Kikutext phone number to start receiving their student's status updates on their cell phones; teachers can now send out quick, individualized status updates to parents, and parents can reply to the messages to communicate with teachers. And, with flexible recipient selection, teachers can message a single parent, a group of parents, or all parents.

Kikutext Features:

• Two-Way Communication
• Full Conversation History
• Email-Style Inbox
• Safe, Private, Professional
• Versatile Messaging
• Message Templates
• Message Scheduling
• Simple Parent Enrollment

 Watch a slideshow about Kikutext

Teachers only see names of parents, their numbers are hidden. Parents can only see the Kikutext phone number. No personal contact information is disclosed to either party.

 See earlier posts about three similar tools

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Featured: 5-15-2013 Coach My Video [Physical Education]

 

 

 

CoachMyVideo Mobile is a coaching tool that is powerful, portable, and easy-to-use Coaches and teachers can provide clear, effective instruction with greater ease and efficiency.

Coach My Video Mobile is designed to take advantage of the technology of the latest Apple devices and operating systems.

Athletes can receive clear, understandable, visual guidance for improved skill development. Video analysis can promote helpful interactions by focusing on visual and objectively understandable information.

Key features of Coach My Video Mobile:

• Slow-motion, frame-by-frame video playback, with zoom.
• Forward, reverse, pause, and 3-second instant-replay.
• Access videos & images directly from your camera roll.
• Capture and save full-resolution still image from any video frame.
• Email your video clips.

Coach My Video was founded in 2009, with a team of athletes, coaches, and technology specialists to help coaches, athletes, trainers, and instructors take advantage of of next-generation mobile devices for easier video-instruction.

 Watch an example of how Coach My Video has been used.

Coach My Video Mobile is a free app available on the iTunes App Store. It is compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 5.0 or later.

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