This is a course I’ve taught multiple times to various groups of students. This page holds a collection of various lessons I’ve taught and resources I’ve used.
About the Course
This course will introduce, provide, practice, and prepare students to use a variety of technological devices and programs in the classroom. A variety of styles and mediums will be covered to ensure that students will be able to apply and adapt activities suitable for their individual classrooms.
Goals
By the end of this course participants will:
- Feel increased confidence with a range of new technology
- Have developed their ability to use the activities in the future
- Will have increased confidence to explain the activities in English
Materials
All additional materials and hand-outs will be provided during the course.
Lessons
- Google for Education (G Suite)
- Apps
- Using Kahoot in the Classroom
- Using Quizizz in the Classroom
- Using Plickers in the Classroom
- Programs
- Audacity
- Windows Movie Maker / iMovie
Resources
The following is a collection of resources I like to share with every class I teach.
Professional Development
- LinkedIn Learning ($25/mth to learn ANYTHING)
- Personally, I’ve completed nearly 300 courses and learned graphic design, web and app coding, and worked through my Master’s (now PhD) degree with this website
- Google for Education Courses | Certification
- Classroom
- Drive
- Docs Shortcut | Templates
- Sheets Shortcut | Templates
- Slides Shortcut | Templates
- Forms Shortcut | Templates
- Drawings Shortcut
- Sites Shortcut | Templates
Presentation (PPT) Templates / Options
- Slides.com
- Prezi.com
- SlidesCarnival.com (Free templates, good design)
- SlidesGo.com (Free & Premium – more variety, Korean templates also)
- TaysTeachingToolkit.com (Lots of PPT Games)
Graphic Design / Templates
- Canva.com
- Canva Design School
- Miri Canvas (Korean Canva)
Multimedia
- Audacity (Sound recording & editing)
- OBS (Open Broadcaster Studio) (webcam, screen recording)
- Windows Movie Maker (simple video editing)
- iMovie (Apple’s best free movie maker)
- Lightshot (screenshot & screen writing tool)
- GoFullPage (Chrome full-page screenshot extension)
- GIMP (Free Photoshop-style image editor)
- Inkscape (Free Illustrator-style vector image editor)
Apps
- Kahoot | (How to use Kahoot Lesson)
- Quizizz | (How to use Quizizz Lesson)
- Plickers | (How to use Plickers Lesson)
Code
- Code.org (How to use Code.org)
- Hour of Code (How to use Hour of Code)
- Code Combat (How to use Code Combat)
- Scratch (How to use Scratch)
Other Apps
These apps have been recommended to me from other people or online as other good tools teachers can use. But, I personally haven’t (yet) tried them out.
- Blogger (Digital Portfolios)
- Book Creator (Create ebooks with text, images, audio, and video)
- Book Widgets
- Explain Everything (Digital Whiteboard)
- FlipGrid
- Formative
- Metaverse (AR/VR)
- Padlet
- Quizlet
- Recap App
- Screencastify
- Seesaw
- Socrative
- Soundtrap
- WeVideo
- Talk & Comment