20+
SITES TO TAKE ONLINE COURSES
E-learning
is a new notion brought up by the digital era. It’s very trendy to get some
education online, especially if the courses come from world famous university
and is very useful for your specialization. Check out Coursera,Khan Academy and other great online schools to get more ideas for teaching your
discipline and provide your students with extra information. For example, you
may pass the general course of Computer Literacy or New Teaching Methods. There
is a great variety of free and low-cost courses available on the Internet.
10+ IDEAS TO USE YOUTUBE IN
CLASSROOM
YouTube is of a great help while teaching students. It offers a
great variety of educational programs to borrow wit from. Choose the best ones
and use them in the perfect collaboration with your own teaching technique.
Here are some ideas how you can use YouTube in the classroom:
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Borrow educational videos from the most popular YouTube EDU channels to show in
classroom.
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Allow your students to dig deeper into a subject by watching
additional videos on topic.
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Take advantage of YouTube for Schools section to get videos for your regular
classes.
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Use short clips from documentaries to provide context to a
topic.
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Create playlists to help with future lesson planning and share
amongst your department.
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Spark lively discussions by watching news reports from
different broadcasters and pushing students to join a certain pint of
view.
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Set an assignment that requires students to research and make
their own videos to be later played in class.
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Upload your own videos and presentations to YouTube to share
with your students and colleagues.
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Demonstrate large scale experiments someone on YouTube has done
before.
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Enhance listening skills on language classes by watching
videos with native speakers.
If you
want to find the very media website for getting more teaching knowledge and
skills, Teachertube.com is
for you. Here you’ll find a lot of images, audios and blogs with useful data on
teaching. Go for it to get additional materials for your lessons.
40+
USEFUL FREE SOFTWARE FOR TEACHERS
Teachers who actively use PC for their work can’t do
without useful software. There’s no need to spend money on expensive
teacher kits and professional tools since there exist numerous free
alternatively to satisfy any teaching need.
We
already talked about good tools prepare visual aids. Here are some more free
programs to check out:
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Freemake Video Converter – a free video converter to
prepare files for any gadget or device (e.g. projector, student tablets,
mobiles, etc.), burn DVDs and Blu-rays, create slideshows and audio
visualizations, edit video quickly, upload to YouTube, etc.
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Skype is a
famous instant messenger to chat with your students and colleagues, exchange
files, and make video calls.
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all-in-one free video players will play your offline
videos and DVDs.
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IrfanView Image Editor is a cool way to edit photos
and images in a simple way. It provides a lot of options: add shapes,
text, adjust colours, rotate, resize, etc.
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PhotoScape is another great photo editor to add
frames, effects, and filters to your photos.
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free audio players to play music files, audio
recordings on a PC.
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easy-to-use video editors will help you do basic video editing
tasks: cut unwanted video parts, rotate, zoom videos, add text or audio, etc.
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handy ZIP compressors to unite and compress data in a
weightless archive to send to your students.
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useful PDF converters to convert Word and image files to PDF
format and vice versa.
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audio CD burning software is indispensable for music
teachers to prepare musical files for the lessons.
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free MP3 download tools to get free audio files for
lessons, presentations, and slideshows.
· sound recording software to save voice messages to
your students, make podcasts, listening assignments, etc.
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time-tested video conference software to arrange webinars, online
lessons, public discussions at school.
50+ WAYS TO USE SMARTPHONES IN
TEACHING
When your students don’t leave their phones and tablets out of
hands and spend all the time looking at touchscreens, you have
nothing to do as to follow their trends and turn these toys into tools. Install
to your phone and recommend your students to get the following apps to improve
their learning experience:
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2048, Math Puzzle, King of Math to improve maths skills
and make students’ brains work;
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Evernote to
write down tasks, observations, to-do lists and always have them at fingertips;
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World Geography to
borrow tasks for geography lessons and broaden general outlook;
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Ministry School Timer to
always be on time at your classes and manage schedule;
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VCB Music Theory to get basic music knowledge
about symbols, chords and musicians;
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Learn Something to find a lot of book titles and
website links with tons of educational materials;
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Skype and
other chat and instant messaging apps to talk to students
instead of emailing them.
5+ EDUCATIONAL PODCASTS AND CHANNELS
Podcasts have recently become incredibly popular. You can find a
podcast on any topic and expand your mind with new knowledge, thoughts, and
ideas while doing something else. There are many sites and apps with podcasts
that you may choose from:
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The Memory Palace will
be an interesting source for history teachers and their students. The podcasts
transform historical events into small episodes.
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Openculture contains a lot of information on various
subjects such as Languages, Astronomy, Economics, Math, Literature, etc. Choose
a necessary topic and discover a great number of videos, podcasts, as well as
free textbooks, ebooks, online courses and audio books.
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Teachercast will
be useful for new teachers who don’t want to stay behind their more experienced
colleagues. You’ll learn how to communicate with students’ parents, how to use
technology for more productive work and many other things that will turn you
into a great teacher.
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TEDTalks Education is
a podcast where you can enjoy stories told by greatest researchers,
scientists, educators and community leaders.
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TheStateofTech provides latest
technology news and innovative ideas that you may use in the classroom.
A modern teacher has to adjust to new methods brought
up by the fast-paced technology and its trends. We hope that this list will
help you to approach the next generation schooling standards and make a great
breakthrough in your teaching career.
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