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Power Points

Powerpoints are a universal tool that is used widely both proffessionally and in the classroom, these allow for presentaion assistance with text, images and video. when used properly that make for an engaging talk, for an example go to my about me page

the most common tool is Microsoft powerpoint, but libreoffice, open office and letex are all good tools and provide just as good functionality

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Assist a student in a presetation
• as part of a large project such a video
• Use to look at design process, and a time line for where a project should be at certian stages

Debugging Info Graphic

Infographics are great tools that allow students to orginize information graphically and creatively

The tool I used to build this info graphic is easelly but this could just a well be done in photoshop or microsoft publisher

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Have students layout a concept using an infographic such as lines (mathematics) or tags (Computer Science)
• Have students describe visually how to use a skill such as debugging (my example)
• Have Students work out how a piece of software works, this can be done with sofware they use or that they have made

Word Cloud

Word clouds are a great way to look at a body of text holistically, mine below looks at a body of work i have produces to see what are the important ideas that come up

there are a plethora of tools avalible for this, and it is also a relivily straight forward task to build in JS or other languages, some of the premade ones are tagxedo.com and abcya wordclouds

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Make a word cloud of student essays to see important themes that appear
• Make a word cloud of a book or movie script to see what is highly talked about
• a good programing excercize for more advanced students in your class

Fake Book

FakeBooks are an oppertunity for students to look at peoples lives in a unique light that was not avalible untill the modern day, my fakebook on Alan Turing can be found here

The best tool i have found would be classtools, see my fakebook, if nessiary this could be creaded via photoshop aswell

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Look at someones life, with a particular focus on interconectedness and major events.
• Look at major events such a world war 2 and look at how the interactions happened between major parties
• look at how ideas evolved over time such as mathematical theorms or software

Google Trek

Google Treks are an amazign tool that can be used to help a student gain a wider persepctive, one example is bellow of how the internet has impacted the world

Google is really the only tool avalible thought this could be mocked up in photoshop, or using a physical map and paper

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Have students show how an idea or inovation has impacted various locations
• Have students learn about important landmarks and thier historical significance
• Have students look at what it would be like to travel and where they would go and what they would see

Project Based Learning

Project Based Learning is an amazing tool that can have students creating very strong connections between content with high ownership of the knowledge gained, these are not small projects to start nor are they easly designed, but the initial overhead is well worth the effor, see the outline for one here

The Tools for this very wildely based on the content area for CS it is important to give them resources that they can learn the coding from, example PBL assignments can befound with a quick google search

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Have the students build artifacts to show thier learning
• Have the student come up with new solutions to problems large and small
• deploy these to help students with self driven learning

Digital Story

Digital Stories can be a great way for students to learn and reflect on thier life, the class and more

Two of the most likly tools you would be to use would be iMove or Windows Movie maker, both of these provide more than enough functionality for what your students should need

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Reflect on the completion of a project, and the design process that lead up to the success
• Reflect on important milestones or moments in the class or thier life
• Learning about Multi modal comunication and how they can use this to pitch ideas

Innovative and Integrated lesson Plan

An Innovative and Integrated lesson Plan is one in which technology is effectivly itegrated along the ISTE Standards, and example of one such lesson plan can be found here

to best make these I would review the website and match thier standards (linked above) with contentstandards you are trying to reach, your ablilites as a teacher should perepare you to effecivly use this lesson plan

Three ways this can be used in the classroom are below

• Reinvigorate an outdated lesson that already has strong content
• Spark intrests using newer and more engaging tools
• This can be used to help differentiate between students, with different approaches and technologies used for different students