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Nearpod is a student engagement platform that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The concept is simple. You can create presentations that can contain Quiz’s, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. You can also access over 7K k-12 standards-aligned lessons from the on-site repository. Children can access a teacher’s presentation through a code. You can move the class through the presentation (take control of what is projected on students' screens) and let them interact with the media as they go. Alternatively, you can also opt for  student-paced,  where the student controls the flow of the lesson. Below are just nine of the many different creative and innovative ways of utilising this multifaceted tool. 1) Simple Presentation Delivery At it’s most simple, you can use Nearpod as a substitute for other presentation tools.  The presentations will be beamed to each iPad in the classroom. This instantly makes it a far more superior presentation tool. Y

With so much of the world’s information readily accessible, educators face a big challenge in helping students keep their work authentic.   Originality reports , available in Classroom, can help students improve their writing by flagging needed citations, while also providing you with a fast and easy way to verify academic integrity. When you turn on originality reports, you and your students can check work for authenticity. Originality reports use Google Search to compare a student’s work against billions of webpages and millions of books. Originality reports link to the detected webpages and flag uncited text. The reports can: Help students identify unintentional plagiarism and uncited content before submitting assignments. Help teachers see where students used source material and where citations are present or missing. You can watch the detailed process on this link -  *Note that in future Google plans to add an option for schools to have a private repository of student submissions

If you have always wanted to make your online modules more awesome and interactive, then the Puzzel.org LTI app is the app for your needs! It grants you the possibility to embed puzzles as assignments and provides an easy way for students to solve puzzles interactively online and submit by saving the puzzle as an image and then allow the students to upload it as an image file. There are a lot of options available on this site from creating crossword puzzles to word search, quiz, acrostic, matching pairs, quartet game, memory game, sliding puzzle, scavenger hunt and cryptogram. You can learn more about its features on this link -  https://puzzel.org/en/ features .  I  personally  have used this site for my grade 7 DL classes, and students found the interface easy to use and fun to play with.

  Sharing with you a fun resource tool which I'm planning to use in my classes next week. Even though we seem to have settled quite a bit with the online learning platform, I cannot deny some of the features that only traditional classrooms can provide. No matter how engaging lessons we plan and make the online content as much easy to understand for our children, yet the virtual class seems to be elusive and invisible. It is challenging for us to recreate the same classroom environment which was once full of rich and productive classroom discussions. Classroom discussions undeniably offer benefits like -  improved concentration in students, development of the capacity for the clear communication of ideas and meaning, helps learners appreciate diverse perspectives and most importantly affirms students as co-creators of knowledge. The instructional tool that I'm about to introduce in today's newsletter allows the facilitator to inspire meaningful, measurable and inclusive dis

One of the biggest challenges teachers face is finding high-quality, relevant, nonfiction texts.  As the language teachers, I'm sure you must have struggled to find engaging articles that could be read by your learners and still challenge those students who are reading above grade level. Thankfully, Newsella addresses just this issue. Newsela.com is an education website focused on building student reading comprehension by providing high-quality news articles and real-time assessments for students in grades 2–12. It is a database of current events stories tailor-made for classroom use. Indexed by broad theme (e.g. War and Peace, Arts, Science, Health, Law, Money), stories are both student-friendly and can be accessed in different formats by reading level. An added benefit of using the site is that students not only practice reading nonfiction but also stay current with what is happening locally and globally.  Newspaper writers rewrite a story four times for a total of five Lexile le