Qwiki Creator is also a great tool for teachers, create customized content for your students. This is textbook 2. I love the idea of students creating their own digital textbooks as they learn about a subject.
Throughout their learning and research, students can keep a table of contents of items they want to be sure to include in their Qwiki.
The Qwiki can be shared easily or embeded on a student blog or website. They can access any of the websites or resources you include in your Qwiki for a majorly upgraded version of a webquest.
Qwiki Creator could be used for digital storytelling. Students can find images, videos and maps that help them tell their story and narrate the creative story for others to enjoy. In a foreign language class, students can give a web tour where they narrate in the language they are learning.
This would also be neat to do in a geography or history class. Students can help put the Qwiki together and the finalized Qwiki can be put on a class blog or website for students to learn from any time.
Please leave a comment and share how you are using Qwiki Creator in your classroom! What it is: I just learned about this fantastic site from fellow edublogger dkapuler , thanks David! Boom Writer is a fun site that gives you a new way to engage your students in creative writing, and will have them assessing themselves in a new way. Using Boom Writer , you the teacher choose or produce your own story starter.
Each student follows this prompt letting their imagination take over. One chapter at a time, student write, read and vote on the submissions they like the most. The winning chapter gets added to the story and the process continues. You can determine how many chapters will be completed. When the collaborative story is finished, the book can be read online or published and turned into a published print copy. How to integrate BoomWriter into the classroom: BoomWriter is a great tool for creating collaborative stories as a class.
Students work on their own creative writing while building each other up as writers. Begin by creating a prompt. Give it to your students to think about. This is your chance to edit or return to a student to continue development of the story or idea.
The chapter with the highest votes gets added to the story and the process repeats. You can choose as many chapters as you would like the finished story to have. Groups could start with the same prompt or each have a different prompt.
Rather than the group voting on their own story, they could vote on another groups story. Each student can add a chapter about what has been learned. Students can essentially create their own collaborative textbook. BoomWriter is a great tool to help students understand writing with purpose and audience in mind. Please leave a comment and share how you are using BoomWriter in your classroom!
How to integrate Moglue into the classroom: I think tools that make content creation simple are absolute genius. As much as I would love for every student and myself to know how to program, it takes quite a bit of know-how before students can make their stories and ideas come to life. The intuitive interface of tools like Moglue let students focus on breathing life into their creations and not on the technology tools used to build them. Tools like Moglue are wonderful for the classroom where students are often short on time and resources someone to teach them programming.
Because the interface is so easy to use, students can focus on telling a story, releasing their inner artist, and letting their creativity shine. Tips: The Moglue builder can be downloaded on Mac or Windows computers and has a great tutorial to get your students started!
Please leave a comment and share how you are using Moglue in your classroom! What it is: Sharing the web with students can be a challenge. Websites can often have urls that feel unending, students can copy down a url incorrectly, students type with different speeds, or characters show up in the address that they are unfamiliar with.
Complicated urls can single-handedly convince teachers to ditch a wonderful web resource for something easier to manage…like a worksheet. Symbaloo EDU and Weblist are two of my favorite ways to quickly and easily share websites with students. Symbaloo EDU is fabulous because it was created with educators in mind. Symbaloo lets you gather all of your favorite online tools and sites into a webmix about the topics you teach.
Symbaloo web mixes can be published and shared with colleagues, students, and parents. Symbaloo can be used by students or teachers to create a personal learning environment. With Symbaloo folders can be created that contain sites and resources that are related. Symbaloo can be used year-long, just continue adding sites and resources for your students throughout the year. Everything that you have used all year-long will be in one easy place for students to access.
Weblist lets you pull together and organize content on the web. Create a list of urls centered on a theme and it is combined into one easy to navigate url. The list can be saved as a bookmark or a homepage. What I like about Weblist is the visual aspect. Each website is saved as a snapshot of that website with the website name and a description below. The visual organization is perfect for younger students who may not be able to navigate links designated by text.
As students search the web for resources based on subjects or inquiry questions, they can save what they find and create a virtual e-book of sorts. Symbaloo can also be used by students to organize all of their online work in one place. Students can add links to the slide shows, documents, videos, images, etc. Symbaloo becomes an e-portfolio. Weblist is great for quickly sharing a collection of sites with students.
Weblists are perfect for sharing a collection of sites in a computer lab setting or with colleagues. The visual interface of Weblist is perfect for students. Students can easily travel from one site to another because the web page is embedded in the Weblist, the url never changes. Want to get really crazy? Combine Symbaloo and Weblist. Create folders for your students on Symbaloo so that there is one central url to go to. Have Symbaloo link to your various Weblists. This combines the great organization and collaboration aspect of Symbaloo with the awesome visual interface of Weblist.
It is a powerhouse of learning for your students created by you. Skip to content. Leave a comment and tell us how you are using Soo Meta in your classroom. At the end of the day, this site is a treasure trove of resources for physics classrooms.
Play the Qwiki: Anastasis Academy What it is: I first wrote about Qwiki in when they launched their search service. Tips: Books can be read online or purchased and added to your classroom library.
What it is: Moglue is an interactive ebook builder that helps students create and share their stories on mobile devices as an app. This download desktop platform makes it a snap for students to create interactive ebooks and release them as apps for iOS devices iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch , Android tablets and Android phones. When you choose the Reader-enabling option, save a copy of the form using a different filename, and then send the copy to recipients.
Troubleshooting tips for completing forms. Make sure that the PDF includes interactive, or fillable, form fields. Sometimes form creators forget to convert their PDFs to interactive forms, or they intentionally design a form you can only fill in by hand.
Check for additional capabilities and restrictions in the purple document message bar, just below the tool area. Additional forms tips for Acrobat users. Do you want Acrobat to detect the form fields for you? You can click Yes to run the Form Field Recognition tool, or use the Typewriter tool to create form fields. Also, make sure that fonts are embedded in any PDF before you import it as artwork in the form. Make sure you update to the latest printer driver a program that controls your printer.
Printer manufacturers offer updated drivers to improve compatibility with newer software, such as newer versions of Reader and Acrobat. Go to the manufacturer's website, and browse or search for "drivers" or "printer drivers. If you have a different printer connected to your computer, try printing the file to the other printer. Sometimes a different printer can successfully print a PDF that doesn't print on another printer. To switch printers on Windows, see Change the default printer Windows 10 and 8 or search Windows help for instructions.
Often printing problems stem from issues with the PDF file. Even if a PDF looks fine on screen, it can contain incomplete or corrupt data. Click the Advanced button in the Print dialog box to find this option. In Windows 7, the Advanced button is at the bottom of the dialog box.
Sometimes a PDF file becomes damaged or contains corrupt data. If you downloaded the PDF from the web or received it in an email, download the PDF again or ask the sender to resend it.
Copy the file directly to your hard drive, rather than a thumb portable or network drive. Include only letters and numbers in the filename. Try printing the new copy of the PDF.
Open the file in the original program such as a word processing or a page layout program. Then click Analyze and fix. Restart your computer, then open the file again.
It is surprising how often simply restarting your computer solves a problem. Restarting a computer clears its memory and memory cache. It is important to update your version of Reader or Acrobat.
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