ThreeRing

Friday, May 17, 2013

Share student work and create portfolios with ThreeRing

There is nothing like immediate feedback on class activities and projects for students and their parents and peers. ThreeRing empowers teachers with the ability to capture student activities via picture, video and audio and immediately share them with the student or a class, using ThreeRing's web site.

ThreeRing allows teachers to set up individual class groups, class rosters and multiple sharing options. The mobile app makes capturing and sharing student work instant and easy. Check out the video and learn the power of ThreeRing.

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Tagxedo

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Quickly create word clouds with Tagxedo

A wonderful web tool for creating word clouds in various shapes and colors is Tagxedo. This is an especially nifty tool for elementary teachers, who want to get students using various vocabulary words or just having fun writing.

In this video, a couple of young students create a Tagxedo word cloud in a couple of minutes.

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Blog Comments

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How to comment on a class blog post and start conversations

A popular TV game show wonders if you are smarter than a 5th-grader, but this video may have you re-thinking this and lowering the grade significantly.

Thanks to Mrs. Yollis' remarkable 2nd and 3rd graders, who produced the video, we not only wonder if we're smarter than these precocious youngsters, we also learn some amazing tips for commenting on classroom blog posts. These kids provide solid advice for both student and teacher bloggers.

Thanks to Mrs. Yollis and her stupendous students for this very cool video.

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KidBlog and Feedly

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

How to add a KidBlog class blog to your Feedly blog reader

KidBlog and Feedly just might be a marriage made in cyber-heaven. (Okay, I'll admit I made up that word.) I've been using KidBlog for years and have written about KidBlog widely here at Learn it in 5. I recently discovered the blog reader, Feedly, the most user-friendly, powerful content curator I've seen. 

As I continue to create categories and add amazing content to my Feedly reader, it struck me that reading and commenting on my students' blog posts would be incredibly easy if I could add KidBlog blog posts to Feedly. I was thrilled to learn that I could do this in seconds.

Now, I have all of my KidBlog classes on my Feedly reader, each in its own category. I read blogs from my iPhone, my MacBook and from my desktop computer. Plus, I can comment on the posts without ever leaving the comforts of Feedly. If you use KidBlog, adding your class RSS feeds to Feedly is a must.

The video above demonstrates how to easily add your KidBlog class RSS feed to your Feedly reader. As you'll note in the video, it's much easier to do if you have the Feedly widget already in place on your computer, but if not, simply copy the KidBlog RSS feed and paste it into Feedly's "Add Content" section.

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Feedly

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Feedly blog reader is remarkably user-friendly

Since Google announced the shutdown of its blog reader, I've been searching for an acceptable replacement. I recently located it, when I discovered Feedly.

Feedly is not new; it was released in 2008, making it somewhat old in the blog reader world, but it has kept pace with the needs of blog fans. Not only is it remarkably easy to use, it has a very nice mobile interface, making it easy to read your blogs on the go.

This video demonstrates the remarkable power of the blog reader, Feedly.

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May 2013

ThreeRing
Friday, May 17, 2013

Tagxedo
Wednesday, May 1, 2013

April 2013

Blog Comments
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

KidBlog and Feedly
Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Feedly
Sunday, April 28, 2013

Socrative for Feedback
Saturday, April 20, 2013

EditMe Menu Navigation
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Google Reader Export
Monday, April 1, 2013

March 2013

Math Rap
Sunday, March 31, 2013

February 2013

Heidi Hayes Jacobs
Monday, February 18, 2013