Sutori is a free digital learning tool that allows users to create interactive stories. Both teachers and students can get an account and use this free tool (premium version available as well). Sutori is an instructional presentation tool which enables the user to engage in critical thinking, research, and inquiry, enhance literacy, allow creativity and collaborate.
This tool works in multiple disciplines such as social sciences, English and communication, Math, and many others. It allows for a different way to tell stories! Add text, images, links, audio, video, and quizzes to the presentation and share in a number of ways and formats for your users.
INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGIES:
Bloom's Level: 1-6 (Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating, Creating)
-Creativity
-Promotional
-Infographics
-Digital Storytelling
-Presentations
-Student-centered
-Visually appealing
Mar 11, 2020
Mar 10, 2020
Build media rich content with Buncee
Use a creation and communication tool, called Buncee, to build media-rich content for your classes.
Buncee can be used for any subject, any class, by both students and instructors. You can create digital flyers, invitations, slide presentations, digital/print signage, design mockups, graphic directions, newsletters and much more. There is a free basic version, but it is a limited trial for 30 days of premium usage, then reduces to the free version and what it offers, which is quite a bit. You can download your finished project or have access to various ways to share with a link and embed code.
Instructional Strategy: Concept Formation
Bloom's Levels: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating and Creating
Buncee can be used for any subject, any class, by both students and instructors. You can create digital flyers, invitations, slide presentations, digital/print signage, design mockups, graphic directions, newsletters and much more. There is a free basic version, but it is a limited trial for 30 days of premium usage, then reduces to the free version and what it offers, which is quite a bit. You can download your finished project or have access to various ways to share with a link and embed code.
Instructional Strategy: Concept Formation
Bloom's Levels: Remembering, Understanding, Applying, Analyzing, Evaluating and Creating
- Categorize learning (help students group content based on certain characteristics)
- Explore ideas by making connections
- A visual way to present information and demonstrate learning
- See relationships between items of information
- Classify objects, events, or ideas
- Compare items of information
- Present a cause & effect relationship
- Sequence items of information
Feb 14, 2020
Using Wakelet to collect, organize, and share content from across the Internet
Wakelet is a free application that essentially is a curation website. Working individually or collaboratively in a group, you create collections of images, documents, videos, sounds, and links and house them on one site. This tool can be used for research gathering (house what you have found before you start writing), team projects, demonstrations, and presentations.
Instructional Strategy: Lecture, Demonstration
Bloom's Level = 1, 2 without activity (remembering, understanding)
= 3, 4+ with activity (applying, analyzing, etc.)
- Push content
- Introduce topic/content, followed by a discussion to support the concepts covered
- Presentations
- Provides the instructor/students the opportunity to apply the concepts from the book and course to real-world experiences
- Provide an opportunity to demonstration process, formula, or data gathering/research methodology
- Students are able to lead the discussion, whether individually or as part of a group collaboration
- Challenge the imagination
- Stimulate reflection
- Individual or group usage
Jan 30, 2020
Google Docs, Sheets, Slides - Making Them Accessible with Grackle!
Grackle is a Google Suites add-on that works with Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets.
We often have items in the G-Suite but either don't think about the accessibility or check the accessibility of Google Docs using Microsoft Word; an inefficient, multi-step workflow.
Google Docs has 22 checks against established WCAG 2.0 standards, Sheets has13 checks, and Slides has 7 checks.
It’s the law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else. There are two sections of the ADA, section 504 and section 508. Section 504 - making accommodations for students with disabilities, such as giving students extra time on an exam, and providing a ramp for wheelchair access. Section 508 - all course materials must be accessible for all students.
The ID team’s focus is Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 using the WCAG 2.1 Principles as our benchmark.
In this tutorial, you will see how to access the Grackle Add-on and use it checking the accessibility of a Google Doc.
We often have items in the G-Suite but either don't think about the accessibility or check the accessibility of Google Docs using Microsoft Word; an inefficient, multi-step workflow.
Google Docs has 22 checks against established WCAG 2.0 standards, Sheets has13 checks, and Slides has 7 checks.
It’s the law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else. There are two sections of the ADA, section 504 and section 508. Section 504 - making accommodations for students with disabilities, such as giving students extra time on an exam, and providing a ramp for wheelchair access. Section 508 - all course materials must be accessible for all students.
The ID team’s focus is Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 using the WCAG 2.1 Principles as our benchmark.
In this tutorial, you will see how to access the Grackle Add-on and use it checking the accessibility of a Google Doc.
Jan 20, 2020
Use gamification in your classroom with Gimkit
Interested in gamification? Why not try Gimkit! Gimkit is a free web-based application with no software download required, that works on a Mac, PC or mobile devices. Gimkit allows an instructor to select or build quiz questions in a "kit" that students play against a clock as well as each other to accumulate points (in game dollars). Similar to Kahoot or Quizlet, this is another version of an app that allows you to provide a fun formative assessment component to your course!
Instructional Strategy: Lecture
Blooms Levels= 1-2 without activity (knowledge, comprehension)
3-4 with activity (application, analysis)
- Stimulate reflection
- Challenge the imagination
- Develop curiosity and sense of inquiry
- Push content
- Introduce topic/content, followed by a discussion to support the concepts covered in the lecture
- Lecture method should include the types of experiences students will be afforded and the kinds of learning outcomes expected
- Teacher-centered (unless activity is involved)
- Incorporating an activity can help to enforce learning as the attention span of students may be limited
- Formative assessment
- Reflective quiz
- Provides the instructor the opportunity to apply the concepts from the book and course
Aug 5, 2019
Kahoot! Latest updated to this easy to use formative assessment tool to create interactive quizzes
Kahoot - formative assessment, game-based interactive quiz tool.
Use a free game-based formative assessment platform to stimulate thinking, reflection, and provide evidence of student learning. Kahoot has been out for a number of years, but as its popularity increases, so does its functionality. Currently, there is a free version, a plus version ($1 a month, annual billing) and a pro version ($3 a month, annual billing) - no downloads of any software are required, and students can participate with computer or mobile device (with the proper app download). There is plenty of power in the free version, and this tutorial shows some of the new features added, so take a look! Kahoot.com will get you to the site, students can log in with the app (mobile device app for iOS or Android) or go to kahoot.it to use a computer. A great tool to use in a face-to-face environment, using the PLAY button and run it live, but if you are online you can click the CHALLENGE button and assign a time frame for students to complete it.
Instructional Strategy: Lecture
Use a free game-based formative assessment platform to stimulate thinking, reflection, and provide evidence of student learning. Kahoot has been out for a number of years, but as its popularity increases, so does its functionality. Currently, there is a free version, a plus version ($1 a month, annual billing) and a pro version ($3 a month, annual billing) - no downloads of any software are required, and students can participate with computer or mobile device (with the proper app download). There is plenty of power in the free version, and this tutorial shows some of the new features added, so take a look! Kahoot.com will get you to the site, students can log in with the app (mobile device app for iOS or Android) or go to kahoot.it to use a computer. A great tool to use in a face-to-face environment, using the PLAY button and run it live, but if you are online you can click the CHALLENGE button and assign a time frame for students to complete it.
Instructional Strategy: Lecture
Blooms Levels= 1-2 without activity (knowledge, comprehension)
3-4 with activity (application, analysis)
- Stimulate reflection
- Challenge the imagination
- Develop curiosity and sense of inquiry
- Push content
- Introduce topic/content, followed by a discussion to support the concepts covered in the lecture
- Lecture method should include the types of experiences students will be afforded and the kinds of learning outcomes expected
- Teacher-centered (unless activity is involved)
- Incorporating an activity can help to enforce learning as the attention span of students may be limited
- Lecture should not repeat the textbook but should provide additional information and examples
- Provides the instructor the opportunity to apply the concepts from the book and course
Jun 5, 2019
Accessibility 101 & Accessibility 102 (2019 Faculty Conference Presentations)
It’s the law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is a piece of federal civil rights legislation that prohibits discrimination and guarantees that people with disabilities have the same opportunities as everyone else. There are two sections of the ADA, section 504 and section 508. Section 504 - making accommodations for students with disabilities, such as giving students extra time on an exam, and providing a ramp for wheelchair access. Section 508 - all course materials must be accessible for all students.
The presentations below were from the May 6, 2019, Baker College Faculty Conference. Meant to be viewed consecutively, they provide an overview with supporting material, of some of the basic accessibility issues in the classroom. You can see how to make Microsoft documents (Word, Powerpoint, etc.) accessible, understand about alt text for images, closed captioning for videos, color contrast, font size, and making descriptive web links.
More information, PD training, and tutorials will be coming in the future, so you can check back with this site.
Accessibility 101
Accessibility 102
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