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Antwuan Stinson, Ed. D. Professor, Secondary Education
Curriculum & Instruction Alabama State University
Current Professional Development
What Professional Development should look like
1. To give you an idea what is available for teachers
2. Guide you through a few tools that I use with my students
3. Give you some ideas to help you expand your information and page on the schools website
CoolToolsforSchools Wikispaces Google for Teachers Google apps My Google Site EdWeb2 Wikispaces
GO2WEB20.NET
Rubistar
Alabama Learning Exchange (ALEX)
Youtube
Designate a day for critical thinking or creative ideas for a major grade
Try Glogster for online student development of multimedia posters
Use Voicethread for the collection of group conversations, images, documents, and video
Create a Edmodo site for classroom interaction (blog, discussions, projects)
What can Voicethread webtool be used for? Students can share stories or design a project which explains an assignment. Allow students to change or amend it any way they wish. This authentic assessment will engage creative students for hours.
Book Stories
Solving math problems
Flip books
Pre-reading and making predictions
Field trips
Back to school night tour of your classroom
Creating digital collages over the year
Authors of a certain period
Scientific method Animal Habitats Photosynthesis Lab report or
dissections
http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/
Digital Discourse
Facebook for the Classroom
Presented by: Columbia Borough SD
Park Elementary, Grade 5: Michael Deiter, Rachel Fried, Kevin Kreider
& Fellow Students: JH, MS, ST, JS
Facebook for school
Mirrors social networks
Classroom, school, and collaboration abroad
Meaningful center and off task options
Online tracking and grouping opportunities
Free
Privacy
Used in any subject
Assign and explain online… just 1 time!
Attach and links, media, files
Organize content in Edmodo permanent Library
Create polls and quizzes
Grade online with rubrics
Threaded discussions- prepare for online learning!
Parent access
Edmodo Setup
Edmodo is FREE!
Teachers Can Manage
Their Own Groups (Change Passwords,
Remove Students, Remove Groups)
No Email Needed for
Students to Join a Group (Just a Group Code)
Optional: Parents Can
Access the Group
(Each Student Has Their Own
Parent Access Code)
Edmodo Offers Many Ways
to Communicate and
Collaborate
23
Way 1: Conversations
about assignments
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Way 2: Create a Library
of Posts with Tagging
25
Way 3: Create a Cross-
Classroom Shared
Group
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Way 4: Post to yourself
Way 5: Poll Students/Teachers
Way 6: Assignment as a Digital
Dropbox
29
Way 7: Link to Google
Docs to share them
1 2
3
4
5
6
Way 9: Set-up a Class
Calendar
You can view separate group calendars or see everything all-in-one.
Way 10: Send out Directions Using
the Note and Reply…Threaded
Discussions
Jigsaw, Think-Pair-Share,
Literature Circle?
Subgroups Within a Group
Step 1
Step 2
Edmodo Privacy
Students Can Only Send
Messages to the
Group or Teacher.
Students are unable to direct message each other.
Antwuan Stinson
(334) 229-7690 (office)
(334) 377-0537 (text my Google Voice)
