Talking in the Library

Have you ever wanted to communicate with someone by audio?   Alejandro Yegros is using Audioboo for a class project. I made a short screencast for the class about how to use this simple, fun tool. I'm sharing it with the rest of our community so you can learn how to use it, too. Examples of how you might use Audioboo World Language teachers and students could practice pronunciation and fluency with reading aloud and share with their teachers.  Teachers can respond with private audio feedback. Students could post speeches or debate positions for feedback. To flip the classroom, teachers could make simple audio recordings for students to listen to for homework.  Students could listen to other students' work and respond. Audioboo

#151867485 / gettyimages.com I had a request from a teacher to do a post about the top five new tech tools that are spreading around these days. Here's my highly subjective list. If you have any tools you'd like to add, please comment and I'll build them into a new post. 5.  Kaizena A Google Apps add-on that allows you to make voice comments on Google Docs. Kaizena tutorial 4.  Flubaroo A Google Sheets add-on that auto-grades multiple choice tests.  It also auto-emails grades back to students. Flubaroo tutorial 3.  Canva A super design tool that makes GREAT LOOKING images of all kinds:  business cards, posters, menus. Very flexible. I see this as being a much easier tool to use for infographics than Piktochart. Canva tutorial 2.  Padlet An online bulletin board. Users generate the bulletin board, pose a question and anyone can post to it if they have the URL. Possible use: in small groups, one person starts a board, and everyone contr

If you are human, you have struggled with organizing yourself.  If you're a student, this is a huge issue--and if you have yourself organized, it is MUCH easier to concentrate on the work you're doing. Junior Celine Zhu just showed me My Homework , an app that syncs across all of your devices.  It does amazing things like: keep track of your assignment due dates show your block schedule sync all your info on your phone, tablet, and computer Celine swears by it. Check it out!