Engaging the Digital Natives with Free Technology

https://www.blendspace.com/lessons/A4UsUyApY-LjpA/engaging-digital-natives-with-free-technology-sloan-c

Shake up the location, format and restrictions of leaden and unispired assignments

Flipped lessons, avatars open courses, give students choices, free-form thinking, collaboration

Have students introduce themselves (comics, digital story,

Blendspace to create lessons

When is Good for scheduling

instaGrok

Haiku Deck

Listly

Trello (can assign tasks and duedates to brainstorming)

list management (asauna??)

Mindmeister (mind mapping)

Vocaroo online voice recorder

Kaizena (highlight text and add voice comments and resource links to student work)

Educreations

Give information to students and have them present it

Tellagami or Voki for avatars-customizable and sharable (Tellagami is an App)

Breakout of the discussion board (one post and two replies) Use for Two Truths and a Lie (integrate into LMS)

Voki can record with cell phone call-in or by typing in text

Padlet, a blank canvas. They can post their name with picture, or video. (create seating chart) or create a burning question "board" can secure it so that only your students can access, or security by obsecurity

mybrainshark (presentation, reflection, upload files, audio or pre-set background music)

Merlot "find mobile apps for teaching" (education, then teacher ed board)

Socrative

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