Listen Current is a freemium tool that curates interesting public radio stories and provides teaching resources for them. Listen Current organizes the story by subject matter and current events. It offers suggested comprehension and discussion questions for each story. Listen Current also has a partnership with Socrative to provide quizzes for their stories. The paid version allows teachers to create classes and track student progress. The paid version also offers support for ELLs.
Google Art Project is a digital collection of over 200,000 works of art from art galleries and museums around the world. Users can view the art, read pertinent details, and even create their own galleries of interesting pieces. Read below for an idea of how to use this tool in the classroom.
Block Posters is a neat classroom design tool that simply allows you to upload an image and create a poster from it using standard 8.5"x11" paper. If only it laminated, too!
ThingLink is a freemium tool for educators that allows users to upload an image and make it interactive through links. It is hard to explain exactly what this tool is, so a better way to do it is through this example.
Professional Learning
8 things every teacher can do to create an innovative classroom offers ideas about how you can be an innovative teacher by allowing your students to innovate through projects.
In A New Vision to Personalize Writing Instruction, the author discusses one of the frontiers of edtech: writing. Google add-ons Doctopus and Goobric are used as examples of technology that can enhance writing through feedback and revision, but the edtech world is still looking for a more comprehensive strategy.
Caitlin Tucker, edtech teacher and blogger extraordinaire, shares ideas for using Google Art Project in classes other than art: Design a Thematic Art Gallery with Google Art Project.
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