Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Terrific tools for teaching with Bloom's Taxonomy

Tools4blooms.weebly.com

This was a fast- paced session with a slough of fantastic websites and apps to use. The presenters started at Top of the revised version of blooms- creating. Here is a list with some descriptions of all the wonderful sites and apps to use in the classroom. Lots of info crammed in.....

Www.doink.com
Looks like paint. Students can draw their own cartoons to illustrate a concept. Example given was an erupting volcano.

Www.aviary.com
Edit images, create music to incorporate in projects. Many free music apps could be used too.

Storybird
Great with supporting creativity with writing. Lots of examples on the site.

App for iPad/websites :story kit ,story robe, toontastic, pimpampum, voice thread

Educreations
Turns your laptop into whiteboard

Evaluating
Shares back
Toonlet - students can create a cartoon and teacher can reply
Shelfari - spend a little bit of time with several books, create a book club, gets students excited about reading and sharing their opinions, helps students realize their opinions matter
Puppet pal hd app- students can make characters debate

Web conferencing

Analysis
Slide rocket
Quiz snack
Scale of the universe 2- great tool to lead to analysis. SUPER COOL!!!!!

Tiki-toki -make timelines with your students

Wordless - tagxedo - cut and paste information to get main idea, pit research papers

Popplet - app available
Idea sketch
Createagraph
Word sift
Wise mapper
Mindset on the iPad

Applying
Thing link
Creaza-mind mapping, you can create an account, you can create a cartoonists, add text bubbles, movie editor, audio editor - all free

I civics- you have to take information you know to play a game with your wealth of knowledge- students can simulate being the president, etc.

Glogster
Skitch
I motion hd

Understanding

Providing information for students by students
Understood it
Open culture - 500 free online courses
Quicklyst - organization note taking tools
Time maps- talking about history, civilizations have changed over time
Gap minder
Wikia
QWiki
Wolfram alpha
Geo walk

Remembering
Ixl
Quizlet
Lino - colorful post its
Word dynamo
Iprizewheel
Cork board.me




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