5 Best Web Resources - Interactive EdTech Tools for Teachers

 5 Best Web Resources - Interactive EdTech Tools for Teachers

Teaching in this New Normal is quite challenging on the part of the teachers, students and parents. Everyone needs to adjust to the New Normal setting. Teachers should enhance their ICT skills and learn new teaching tools to be able deliver their learning materials interactively, easily and timely to their students. Since learning in New Normal will be a combination of synchronous and asynchronous learning using online learning portal or the so-called Learning Management System or LMS.

In a synchronous learning student is learning in real time, it means a group of students are learning at the same time.   While asynchronous is the opposite of synchronous learning which means that learning does not occur at the same time, in this method a group of students also engage in learning through online, download available learning materials such as modules or prerecorded video lesson and task sheet to be completed on their own pace.

 So here are some of the best web resources or Edtech tools that teachers can use in implementing their synchronous and asynchronous learning in order to make students learning more interactive and engaging.

 T   1. Teacher Vision

Teacher Vision is an educational learning website where teachers can access thousands of resources in One time subscription. But if you are a first-time user or you signup for the very first time you are entitled for 5 free resources which you can download with no fee. 

 How to download free resources or materials in Teacher Vision?

1.       Click Grades tab at the header section

2.       Select the grade level 

3.       Select the subject categories for example Mathematics

4.       Select the topic

5.       Click Download (see the example image below)

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      2. readwritethink

A great educational website where everyone can access best or highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

It is the best free educational resources for educators and students.

readwritethink offers resources not only for teachers and students but also the parents can have the access to learning materials. Parents would simply click on the link direct from the website the Parent & AfterSchool Resources where they can select the grade level from Kindergarten to Grade 12.

The Teachers also have the access for Professional Development (see the image below:)  where they can select the following:. Strategy Guides, Professional Library, Meetings & Events and Online Professional Development.

Aside from the Professional Development, teachers can also explore on the following resources by grade level. See image below.

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3.       3. ReadingRockets

 

Here’s another very beneficial educational website, it is called readingrockets.org. This main prupose of readingrockets is to offer resources to help struggling readers build phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary,

and comprehension skills.

If you explore their website you will see there (see image below) the four main Heading Tabs or Headers: Teaching Reading, Helping Struggling Readers, Reading Topics A-Z and Children’s Books & Authors.

If you click on Teaching Reading the website will give the following options: Classroom Strategies, Reading Basics, Reading 101 Course, Looking at Writing and more articles about reading. MFC-J200

Readingrockets.org offers a lot of resources pertaining to reading. So if you are looking for educational resources to improve your students or your kids reading skills readingrockets.org is the best online resources for you. Take a visit and explore the website.

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 4.    4. Mindmeister

 If you want to make your online classes more engaging here's one of the best tool where teachers, students and other professional can use it is a Mind Mapping Tool called MindMeister.

Using MindMeister you can capture, develop and share ideas visually. It is truly a great tool for brainstorming.

A MindMeister is web-based applications which means you run it within the web-browser. It is compatible with Windows, Mac OS or Linux.

All you have to do first is create an account or you may sign up using your existing Google Account or your Facebook account.

Here's the user-interface that you will encounter if you log-in to the application  or web-app.

With MindMeister you can create  your weekly plan activity where you can select sample templates. So create your account now and explore MindMeister.

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5.       5. Wordsift.org

 

Here’s the fifth free educational tool that lets teachers and students creates or generate a word cloud showing the most frequently occurring words in the text. See the sample image below.

This is a sample output using the Wordsift.org, it appears that Freedom, negro, nation, dream, one are the most frequently occuring words. So it is great tool to present words used in an an essay or passage.

 Aside from presenting the word cloud using Wordsift, it can also present a visual display generated using the WordNet Visualization Widget within the platform. See the image below.

 

In this example, we used --Martin Luther King, Jr., “I Have a Dream” (delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C.) ---

"I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation. This momentous decree came as a great beacon light of hope to millions of Negro slaves who had been seared in the flames of withering injustice. It came as a joyous daybreak to end the long night of their captivity."

Now, the question is how does WordSift works?

WordSift is easy to use, you just have to copy the essay or passage that you want to create a word cloud out of that essay or passage and paste it on the WordSift site and click Sift. Just like the example above.

So try it now, you do not need to create an account. 

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