If you have students do these activities
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Consider using the following tech tools: |
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Memorize facts | To help you or students create and share online Q&A sets or flashcards, use http://quizlet.com/ or http://www.studyblue.com/. |
Discuss texts or concepts you're working with in class | Let students share comments, feedback, and links in a protected space at http://padlet.com/ or http://voicethread.com/ |
Respond to a selected-response or open-ended question as a formative assessment, often as a warm-up or exit ticket | Have students answer a poll online and anonymously at http://www.polleverywhere.com/ or http://www.socrative.com/. |
Summarize using a word wall or word cloud | Create "word clouds" with any block of text at http://www.wordle.net/ or http://tagul.com/. |
Construct concept maps or outlines | Find templates for graphic organizers at http://mind42.com/ or use Smart Art in Microsoft Word. |
Design a poster | Have students make online media posters with text, photos, videos, sound files, and more at http://edu.glogster.com/. |
Collaborate while writing or write in a shared journal | Let multiple users enter text in one document simultaneously at http://primarypad.com/ or https://docs.google.com/. |
Create a video lesson | Have students create and share screencasts and videotaped lessons using http://www.showme.com/ or http://www.educreations.com/. |
Create an online class newsletter | Learn to create and host a class website at http://www.weebly.com/. |
Read and annotate online texts and share annotations with others | Share online texts--and comments in the margins--with others at https://www.diigo.com/. |
(Source: ASCD/ http://www.ascd.org)