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6 Ways to Add Video to Your Classroom with Animoto

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Students relate to video — it’s a growing part of how they share and how they absorb information. And if you’re looking for a good way to tap into that natural enthusiasm and understanding, it helps if you can communicate with video, too. Animoto is a website that lets you easily create videos and slideshows. Video recaps.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

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Differentiated instruction is the ability to respond to variance within students, providing different students with different opportunities for learning. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Ed Tech Vocab: Keeping Up with Trends in Education

eSpark

Differentiated instruction is the ability to respond to variance within students, providing different students with different opportunities for learning. This means that students watch video lectures at home with education technology and work on exercises or projects during class time.

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Top 15 Sites and Apps for Flipped Learning

Technology Tidbits

A "Flipped Classroom" is a classroom that uses class time to do activities/lessons (guided by the teacher) and "homework" time (at home) for guided instruction (usually through video). Comment Bubble - An innovative site where users can comment on a video to create an interactive discussion as well as interactive graphs.

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15 Tools for Self Paced Learning

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Finally, Self-paced learning is becoming more and more prevalent in schools w/ the integration of BYOD (bring your own device) or mobile learning. GrammarFlip - A excellent site for students to practice their grammar by watching educational videos and then completing interactive exercises. videos, lessons) aligned to state-standards.

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25 Reading Sites and Apps

Technology Tidbits

Again, Mobile Learning and BYOD make it easier for any student to learn any core subject, especially that of Reading. Also, a great way to "flip a lesson" and gauge student learning to help differentiate instruction. One of the worlds most popular ways for students to learn subjects such as Reading, through animated videos.

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EdmodoCon Guest Post #3: M.Valois

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

Loved his "30 second lesson" ideas, where students can create a video in "30 seconds" about a key concept. He also reminded us about the core philosophy of differentiated instruction - my biggest passion. Flipping the classroom/BYOD by Kate Baker and Liz Calderwood was another gem.

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