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Adobe's free iPad app called Adobe Voice allows students to create animated videos using a series of slides. With a selection of over 25,000 images, this impactful app offers background and transition options as part of its cinematic motion. It is user friendly and starts with a tutorial for how the app works. Students can create their own template or select from nine pre-made templates called "structures" and use the available photo and music library. They may also upload their own photos, add text to the slide formats and narrate each slide with their own recorded audio. The app will automatically auto adjust the slide timing to fit the narration.   To share their work, students can email a link to their presentation or grab the embed code to plug it into their own digital portfolios.

Google forms now allows you to randomize answer options for  Multiple Choice,  Checkboxes,  Choose from a list and  Grids.   Simply use the advanced settings drop down to shuffle your option order.

Mrs Brown of St. Mary's Memorial High School shared her love of  Zondle as an assessment tool, " I am sure a lot of you have been been using Zondle already  but if you haven't checked it out I definitely suggest you do!   In general, you create review questions on the website and the site turns it into games for students to play on computers, tablets and smartphones. You can also set it up to play review games as a whole class. Students get points for getting questions correct and playing often.  Their current "place" is put on the leaderboard so it is like a competition for the students.  A lot of my students are just as obsessed with using zondle as I am.  Go to www.zondle.com and start playing around with it if you have time. Students  can play again and again if you set the quiz as formative assessment, so its great for any memorization. You can see if their scores are improving each time and which questions they miss most. It also makes student...

  What do you get when you cross an adorable, programmable robot with a group of tech-savvy high school students? Self-directed elementary students with an interest in basic programming!  Teachers Adam Swift and Lynne Kesselman advanced Egg Harbor Township Schools’ STEM initiative goals with their Finch Robotics grant, which included bringing their high-schoolers into the district’s 1st through 8th Grade elementary computer classrooms to teach the younger students how to program the sturdy creature to follow their commands.  Common Core standard ties included problem solving, positive and negative number recognition and number lines, inverse operations, units of measurement, cause and effect, and conditional statements. The high school students were given the fortunate opportunity to practice their leadership and programming skills in a supportive environment. Some advance work was completed by all students by participating in the STEM Hour of Code p...

Teens know how to negotiate social media to get their point across and avoid outright confrontations through the art of the subtweet . The hashtag #subtweet reveals  passive aggressive posts with real targets. The biggest celebrity names subtweet their heartaches, hates and frustrations and our students are using the subtweet as well as the most popular twitterers. Many opt out of the hashtag and just post subtweet-like comments on their twitter feed to fly even further under the radar.  Comparable to the slambooks of the 80's, students use subtweeting to make a point about someone in particular or to draw attention to themselves for a particular purpose.  Using subtweets allows students to avoid disciplinary actions, because they do not name names directly. Subtweeting from Devils Advocate on Vimeo .

Post by SRI & ETTC at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey .

10 years ago today, a bouncing baby rover landed on Mars. Explore Oppy's "90-day" mission https://t.co/7WZYIVyBvT #10YrsOnMars — Spirit and Oppy (@MarsRovers) January 24, 2014