Every Tuesday, I share some of the best technology blog posts, tweets, or highlights that I have discovered during the week. My hope is by sharing these tech tidbits, we can all continue to share information with each other in regards to education technology integration.
Google Sheet: Charts
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This is a very short video on how to take data that is in Google Sheets and create a graph for science class. It also explains how you can then insert the chart into your Google Slide for your presentation.
Mizou.com is a chatbot that was created for 1 to 1 student interactions in a safe environment. There is something from elementary to senior students to explore. With Mizou, teachers can customize and create an AI chatbot based upon their learning materials and rubrics. The chatbot can then be shared with students in a secure fashion (students do not need to login or sign up). Students can then interact with the chatbot using text, images, and audio. Students and teachers will receive automatic feedback identifying where students relate in context with the material. If you don’t have a lot of time, try using one of the chatbots already created by another educator. You can search by grade level and subject. You can give them a try yourself before you share them with students. I tried a chatbot about learning the ABC’s and another where I conversed with Edgar Allan Poe. You could learn about mummification or get tutorial help in math. There are so many different and wonder...
What is it? Mathigon/Polypad is an interactive learning platform designed for mathematics. “ A completely new content format, combined with an innovative new curriculum, makes learning more personalized and fun than ever before: we call it the “Textbook of the Future”. Highly interactive content allows students to actively “explore and discover.” How much does it cost? It is free and students don’t have to sign in to use Polypad IF they don’t want to save their work. They can go to the site, explore, and visualize how math works. Want to know more? Watch this short video for a quick overview. Alice Keehler has a blog post in which she talks about how she uses Polypad to help her students visualize fractions including a video of her elementary age son using the program. You can access it here.
Educaplay is a website that allows you to create and find educational activities, manage groups, export your resources, and use them with your students across devices. In addition, students can challenge each other and see the results in real-time. For those of you who use Google Classroom or Microsoft Teams, the activities can be easily integrated. To get started, sign up for a free account. Spend a few minutes searching for your time zone (honestly, this was the hardest part of using the site), and then do a search for a unit of study in the search bar above. There are thousands of different games already created by other people you can use. If you find one that looks interesting, give it a try. If you want to use it with your students, click on the Share button and then click on Google Classroom (or Microsoft Teams). The top ten results will be posted by everyone who plays the game. If you want to create your own game...
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