Edgaged - tutorials for now!

This is a great place for tutorials and how to's for the digital tools above. The Google Classroom workshop is a one stop place to learn all about Google Classroom and in particular all the extensions that work within this space and make your digital life in the classroom easier! See Saw is very popular - find out why here too.
Edgaged link

Fluency Tutor for Google

This is a great new tool to help with reading instruction in the classroom. Read the following from the Chrome Web Store blurb about it.

Easy to use with a sleek new look, Fluency Tutor for Google lets students record themselves reading and share with the teacher - away from the pressures of reading aloud in the classroom environment.

Ideal for schools using Google Apps for Education (GAFE), Fluency Tutor for Google integrates seamlessly with Google Drive and Google Classroom. And since it works with almost any online content, it’s great to use alongside other online instructional programs.

Features:
- Friendly dashboard interface for teachers and students
- Teachers can choose from hundreds of existing reading passages based on content, lexile level or reading age
- Teachers can also create their own passages from web pages, docs or other content
- Students can create reading passages from almost any web page
- Share passages with individual students, or with the entire class using the Google Classroom 'share' button
- Passages appear in student's Google Drive
- Students can read and record assigned reading passages whenever and wherever it suits them
- Extra help is provided including text-to-speech, dictionary, picture dictionary and translate tools
- Quick Score gives immediate feedback to students without the need for full assessment

Handy new Google Tools to help with literacy

Have a look at your Tools menu in Google docs and see the new speech to text tool - appeared this September and is great for those students who have ideas but struggle with writing!
Another cool tool can turn pics with text in them to Google docs you can edit ( see pic below of a blog post turned into a doc) You can take the pic of anything containing words with your iphone and open in the Docs app or send your pic to Google Photos - right click and open with docs - magically the words are extracted from pic and placed at the bottom of the pic  and can now be edited.
Lots of ways you can use this feature.

Collaborative Coding

Going to present at Ulearn on Thursday with colleague Brad - Collaborative Coding is the title - exploring ways we can use coding in the classroom.

Reading resources

Back from my holiday in Europe, it was so hot there and travelling with grandchildren so a little challenging.
Back to the real world - thinking about multi literacies - a great resource is Sheena Cameron's resource downloads. I am looking at ways we could translate some of these strategies to e-learning tools.

Kahoot Quiz Fun

Just used Kahoot for a quiz game and it was a lot of fun - great for reflecting on learning.
Here is a link to a tutorial about using it (although very easy)
Click on the pic to get to the game - you need to register and sign in (it's free)

10 team building games to promote critical thinking

Global vision link

3D Design tool

I saw a class today creating 3D designs using Tinkercad, these were then turned into reality with a 3D printer. Lots of planning and problem solving in the process. The student's brief was to make small 3D kiwiana models for a monopoly game. Click on the pic to find out more!

Present or record on i-Pad without wifi - might be a handy trick!

Click above to find out how!

Samoan Language Week

Samoan Language Week 24 - 30 May 2015

Click on the pic to gather resources!

50 ways to tell a story

Updated my web site

I have updated the design of my blog, the little girl is my Samoan grand daughter. I have just updated my web site too, I hope it is more user friendly and links to interesting and relevant information about teaching and learning with an e-learning lens
Have a look 

Universal Design for Learning - digital tools to support for inclusive practice

Finally got rid of the trojan web site that had taken over my blog!

I found the html code that had been infiltrated on my blog and deleted it  - now I can post!