Student Engagement Strategies
Glogster
"Glogster is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to create virtual posters combining text, audio, video, images, and hyperlinks and to share them with others electronically. Using Glogster’s educational site, Glogster EDU, teachers can establish class lists and monitor student activity while protecting privacy and anonymity."
"Glogster is a Web 2.0 tool that allows users to create virtual posters combining text, audio, video, images, and hyperlinks and to share them with others electronically. Using Glogster’s educational site, Glogster EDU, teachers can establish class lists and monitor student activity while protecting privacy and anonymity."
Storyboard
"The storyboard teaching strategy helps students keep track of main ideas and supporting details in a narrative by having them illustrate important scenes in a story. Storyboarding can be used when texts are read aloud, or it can be used to help students summarize and retain main ideas of a story they have read to themselves. Checking the thoroughness and accuracy of students’ storyboards is an effective way to evaluate reading comprehension before moving on to more analytic tasks. "
"The storyboard teaching strategy helps students keep track of main ideas and supporting details in a narrative by having them illustrate important scenes in a story. Storyboarding can be used when texts are read aloud, or it can be used to help students summarize and retain main ideas of a story they have read to themselves. Checking the thoroughness and accuracy of students’ storyboards is an effective way to evaluate reading comprehension before moving on to more analytic tasks. "
Jigsaw
"Using the jigsaw teaching strategy is one way to help students understand and retain information, while they develop their collaboration skills. This strategy asks a group of students to become “experts” on a specific text or body of knowledge and then share that material with another group of students. These “teaching” groups contain one student from each of the “expert” groups. Students often feel more accountable for learning material when they know they are responsible for teaching the content to their peers. The jigsaw strategy is most effective when students know that they will be using the information they have learned from each other to create a final product, participate in a class discussion, or acquire material that will be on a test. "
"Using the jigsaw teaching strategy is one way to help students understand and retain information, while they develop their collaboration skills. This strategy asks a group of students to become “experts” on a specific text or body of knowledge and then share that material with another group of students. These “teaching” groups contain one student from each of the “expert” groups. Students often feel more accountable for learning material when they know they are responsible for teaching the content to their peers. The jigsaw strategy is most effective when students know that they will be using the information they have learned from each other to create a final product, participate in a class discussion, or acquire material that will be on a test. "
Edublogs
"Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts - it's safe, easy and secure."
"Edublogs lets you easily create & manage student & teacher blogs, quickly customize designs and include videos, photos & podcasts - it's safe, easy and secure."
Foldables
"A Foldable is a 3-D, student-made, interactive graphic organizer based upon a skill. Making a Foldable gives students a fast, kinesthetic activity that helps them organize and retain information. Every chapter in the student edition of the textbook begins with a Foldable that is used as a Study Organizer. Each chapter’s Foldable is designed to be used as a study guide for the main ideas and key points presented in sections of the chapter. Foldables can also be used for a more in-depth investigation of a concept, idea, opinion, event, or a person or place studied in a chapter. The purpose of this ancillary is to show you how to create various types of Foldables and provide chapter-specific Foldables examples. With this information, you can individualize Foldables to meet your curriculum needs."
"A Foldable is a 3-D, student-made, interactive graphic organizer based upon a skill. Making a Foldable gives students a fast, kinesthetic activity that helps them organize and retain information. Every chapter in the student edition of the textbook begins with a Foldable that is used as a Study Organizer. Each chapter’s Foldable is designed to be used as a study guide for the main ideas and key points presented in sections of the chapter. Foldables can also be used for a more in-depth investigation of a concept, idea, opinion, event, or a person or place studied in a chapter. The purpose of this ancillary is to show you how to create various types of Foldables and provide chapter-specific Foldables examples. With this information, you can individualize Foldables to meet your curriculum needs."
Dipity
"Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."
"Dipity is a free digital timeline website. Our mission is to organize the web's content by date and time. Users can create, share, embed and collaborate on interactive, visually engaging timelines that integrate video, audio, images, text, links, social media, location and timestamps."
Living Images
"With this teaching strategy, groups of students work together to bring historical images to life. Not only does “living images” help students develop a deeper understanding of a particular moment in history, but it also provides an opportunity for them to practice collaborating with their peers."
"With this teaching strategy, groups of students work together to bring historical images to life. Not only does “living images” help students develop a deeper understanding of a particular moment in history, but it also provides an opportunity for them to practice collaborating with their peers."
Scribblar
This website offers an online whiteboard, real-time audio, document upload, text-chat and more. It's a perfect collaboration tool.
This website offers an online whiteboard, real-time audio, document upload, text-chat and more. It's a perfect collaboration tool.