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Tired of Presentations?
Have students upload their Power Points to Voice Thread and then they can watch the ones they are interested in and make comments. To the left is an example of a college research project with comments by students. The kids loved not having to listen to 30 presentations and still have the option to offer feedback. I loved not losing 5 periods of class time to listen to presentations! We will still do presentations but now only once a semester instead of 4 times a semester!
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Top FREE sites for Business EducationFEFE-Need I say more? If so, lesson plans with everything you need. Trust me.
Tanya-BT Skinner was a lifesaver for me in my first years of teaching. I still use her ideas after 10 years! Utah CTE-List of excellent plans for all CTE (thanks Molly & Janelle) Georgia CTE-Thanks Regina and Janie for sharing this awesome resource. AICPA-Curriculum, games and accounting career information! TCA-Videos, updated articles and they are HUGE funders of financial education (FEFE) Above is a wordle a student made after an essay reflection. Students copy and pasted their essays into Wordle.net to find out which words they used to often. There were a lot of big I's, You's and And's.
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Top FREE sites for engaging students
Go Animate-Turn cartoons into videos; Student example below on left (students created it in 50 minutes after a credit report lesson)
Text Poll-This is an excellent site that I use at least once a week. It allows you to create your own texting polls and embed in Power Points. Quizlet-Great for creating flashcards (adding images) to quiz students and practice "typing speed". Voki-Want to engage students in their vocabulary or have them create a short radio advertisement? If so try voki's. Popplet-Great for mind mapping, brainstorming and group work. Thanks for sharing Cadre Facilitators! Glogster-This is an awesome site for teenagers to express themselves! I am hoping to use it Marketing to have students create advertisements (video, pics and music)! Animoto-Create amazing videos in a short amount of time (no technical skill need) Note-I originally had wallwisher on this list but it has been freezing a lot which makes for frustrated students and an exasperated teacher during the last hour of the day. Who said math was boring?
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Other "greats" that deserve mentioningEdutopia-Stay up to date on what works
Trailfire-Web 2.0 for teachers. 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools-This is an excellent site with links to educational tools. Online Stopwatch-Free stopwatch to download into Power,Points, iGoogle & more. Wordle-Excellent for brainstorming Photo Fun-Turns ordinary photos into works of art Teacher Tools-More great resources for educators Rubistar-Create rubrics fast and save them online-thanks for the tip mom! Don't Buy It-Although a bit juvenile for high school students it still has some excellent ideas and is great for training CTSO's to go out and teach younger kids. The Gateway to 21st Century Learning-lesson plans for all sorts of subjects and grade levels. McRel-Free lesson plans in a variety of lessons including economics. Teachnology-Great source of lesson plans, tips and rubrics |
Some "favorites" favorites
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Word Tag Tools Learned at Cadre
Tagul Word it Out Wordle
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Need to show off some pictures?
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Start Here go places (accounting)Students must create a "future me" profile to access the games.
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Need a new focus activity?
Popplet is an amazing collaborative tool! My class uses it to reflect, brainstorm or just share ideas. The popplet on the left is one a class made to reflect on things they learned in Tech Essentials. They are all "shelly" because they logged in as the teacher.
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Online Games to reinforce learning
Financial Football is loved by some students and hated by others.
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Generation i leaves no excuses
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Celebrity Calamity is a fun way to reinforce personal finance topics
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Karma Tycoon is excellent for teaching NPO's to budding entrepreneurs.
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