EDUC560

Citations are important for student or teacher to tell the reader that certain material in his or her work come from another source. It gives the reader information's to find another source such as information about the author , title, name, location, date and page number of borrowing. Thus citations protect a work from plagiarizing.

Google Drive offers various advantages for education. It is a cloud storage service that allows students to upload, share, edit, and store important files( text or videos) which facilitate learning strategy. Also it develops collaborative group projects via google docs and publish learners works to offer them feedback from others.

Blog has a potential power in learning. students and teachers can use it for communicating or publishing information on the world wide web. so it is an important mean of sharing thoughts and ideas with the world.

It is online tool which allows teachers to create forms, surveys and quizzes and share it with others. Educators can use it to assess students and provide feedback. Similarly, students use google form to assess their own learning and collect data.

Webinar is a beneficial online meeting or presentation held on a definite time. It lunches an event , connecting individuals with viewers allowing interacting and discussing informations.

Padlet is an application to create an  outline bulletin board that you can use to display information for any important topic. Easily you can create an account and build  new board in order to add images, links, videos, and more. Students can use  a Padlet to collaborate in collecting ideas, brainstorming and more. It allows  all students to post to the wall or make comments, you may want to discuss internet safety and establish specific class rules. Also it can be used as a class space during snow days and school breaks to share a link teacher created.

A WebQuest is an inquiry-oriented activity in which some or all of the information that learners interact with comes from resources on the Internet.

In short Webquest a learner will have grappled with a significant amount of new information. It should be completed in one to three class periods.

In a long WebQuest a learner will have analyzed a body of knowledge deeply and created a new product. it should be completed between one week and one month.This Web-based project use World Wide Web sites to guide and help students develop-solving and decision-making skills. 

Rubric is a set of specifying the characteristics of an outcome and the levels of achievement in each characteristics. Teachers use it to provide consistency in evaluation and performance, gathers rich data, mixed method and allows for direct measures of learning. It used to help teachers and students focus on what is valued in a subject, topics, or activity.Teachers use rubrics to prompt a criterion-referenced assessment and provide students with detailed and timely feedback that encourage critical thinking and facilitate communication with others involved in scoring. It helps for refining teaching skills/learning activities for students.

Canva is an online design tool that offers users the opportunity to create professional looking posters. Canva can be used to create variety of images, including events as flyers,resumes, cards, certificates, and infographics. It allows students to design posters to showcase their knowledge in a visual way.

Canva is a collaborative tool allows students to share their work and request feedback from their classmates.Student can use Canva to construct and show knowledge.They also can capture photos or videos of their classwork, homework, assignments, school activities, post those in their account, or a class account and have discussion about the posts.Teachers use Canva to design visually appealing infographics, posters, and images to complement text heavy learning experience.

Quizlet is a web-based application developed to help students study information through interactive tools and games. Quizlet's mission is to help both teachers and students practice and master what they're learning. It can be used in any grade level and type of class.Through Quizlet students log in and choose the appropriate study set for the concepts they need to review.So it helps teacher to review for students. It encourages collaboration and team work skills while reviewing information through working together in a team. In addition, it helps students prepare for tests. with the engaging study tools and differentiation options available, students have so different ways to study information when using Quizlet.

Poll Everywhere is an online audience poll that can be used over mobiles. devices, twitter and online. Classroom applications use it for test taking. Teachers use it to learn about student and how well they are adopting to the class. Moreover, it allows students to be in charge and let them poll on a fun class activity they may want to participate in. What is good that Poll Everywhere is trusted and secure and it seems to be very effective and essential to be used in many different aspect of teaching and among different subjects as well. It gets the students interactive and very hands on with growing technology of today's society.

Kahoot is a free online game-based learning platform. kahoot can be used for any subject, any age , with any device to play multiple choices quizzes online. What makes kahoot so unique is that only the instructor needs an account and everyone else plays without logging in. In addition teacher can choose public games and adapt it it for learners according to classroom goals and material.It motivate students to look up and participate and offers individual and group feedback. Beside to that, it fosters discussion and social learning and encourage success in the classroom. 

ActivInspire is an collaborative lesson delivery software for in learning displays. It helps teacher bring lessons to life with rich and powerful activities that grab students attention, blending real time assessment and real world experience into the learning process. students interact, annotate and collaborate with ActiveInspire.

An infographics is a visual representation of information or data. It is a collection of images, chats, and minimal text that facilitate understanding for a certain topic.So it simplifies information in a visually engaging way attracting the audience. Thus teacher through using it can make an effective action plan which students can react with and concerned about.