Educ 560

 Google Drive: is a free data storage service that you can use to store important files , documents, picture  and so on. if your family members or friends also have their own google drive accounts, you can all share files with each other, this is especially handy if you have to travel for your occupation and need to work on projects simultaneously with colleagues.

Google Forms: Google Documents is a free web_based application in which documents can spread sheets can be created, edited and stored online. Files can be accessed from any computer with an internet connection and a full-featured web browser. Google Docs is compatible with most presentation software and word processor applications.

 Webinar Benefits: reach and engage a very specific target group. Allow them to ask questions, or pose questions on your own to the participants. A webinar gives you the opportunity to continue to reach your target group when the broadcast is over, since each webinar can also be watched afterwards. This enables you to increase both the impact of your message.

Blogs: Have the potential to expand students creativity, not to mention their writing skills. They require minimum technical knowledge and are quickly and easily created and maintained. Blogging give students an opportunity to become published authors and showcase their writing skills.

Padlet: is an online bulletin board. History teachers, however can use this tool in myriad ways. For example, padlet users can pose open-ended questions and elicit multiple student responses ideal for posing documents based questions using primary sources.

Poster: is any piece of printed paper designed to be attached to a wall or vertical surface. Typically, it include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be used for many purposes.

WebQuest: is an inquiry-oriented lesson format in which most of the information that learners, work with comes from the web. One model approach for this dilemma is called webquest developed in 1995. Webquest is an inquiry-based activity where students are given a task and provide these access. Webquest are discovery learning tools, they are usually used to begin or finished a unit of study.
There are six reasons for teachers to use webquest:

1. begin a unit as an anticipatory.
2. conclude a unit as a summation.
3. students create power.
4. teach students how to be independent thinkers.
5. increase competency in the use of technology.
6. motivational technique to keep students on task.
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RubiStar: Rubics have become popular with teachers as a mean of communicating expectations for an assignment, providing focused feedback on works in progress and grading final products. Although educators tend to define the word "rubric" definition in different ways. Rubrics are often used to grade student work where they can serve another, more important role as well. Rubrics can teach as well as evaluate. When used as a part of a formative, student-centered approach to assessments, rubrics have the potential to help student develop understanding and skills. Students should be able to use rubrics in many of the same way that teachers use them to clarify the standards for quality performance.  

Activinspire:is a collaborative lesson delivery software for interactive displays.Known and loved by educators around the world.Activinspire provides a vast suite of tools to create and deliver dynamic lessons.Teachers need to create exciting lessons that successfully integrate interactive technology tools into them.Activinspire is a free software application that integrates with the Promethean boards,it is a company that creates not only hardware but also software for education.They have a website where teachers can download flipcharts that other people have made for free.

Kahoot:is an accessible learning platform that encourages students to communicate and engage in conversation with their classmates around the educational content because they are forced to look up to the questions and answers displayed at the front.Using kahoot quizzes as a formative assessment is very useful in class where students can have fun participating in quiz.It is also a great way to enhance the learning process is to get student's to create their own quizzes.