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Thursday 13 February 2020

20:55

The 5 Leading LMS Your School Should Try in 2020


Top LMS for schools in 2020


If you have ever thought of using a learning management system (LMS) for your school, there is this possibility that you're stuck on choosing the right platform to host your virtual classroom.

And if you have never thought of it before now, I wish to remind you that you need to do just that. We are in a digital revolution.

From saving time through automation, encouraging creativity among learners to exploring the global educational community and developing skills for the future, every 21st century school has so much to gain running with LMS.

There are quite many of them, but in this post, I share with you 5 of the leading learning management system (LMS) your school can explore today to make a difference in your locality.

CANVAS

An Open, Extensible Learning Ecosystem

The Canvas Learning Management Platform allows schools to build the digital learning environment that meets the unique challenges faced by their institution. Canvas simplifies teaching, elevates learning, and eliminates the headaches of supporting and growing traditional learning technologies.
Canvas is made up of a powerful set of highly integrated learning products that allow institutions to get all of the functionality they need and none that they don’t.

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Moodle is a free and open-source learning management system written in PHP and distributed under the GNU General Public License.

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Schoology is a social networking service and virtual learning environment for K-12 school and higher education institutions that allows users to create, manage, and share academic content.

Google classroom LMS
Google Classroom is a free web service, developed by Google for schools, that aims to simplify creating, distributing, and grading assignments in a paperless way. The primary purpose of Google Classroom is to streamline the process of sharing files between teachers and students

Read: 55 Ways to use Google Classroom as an edtech tool

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Blackboard Learn (previously the Blackboard Learning Management System) is a virtual learning environment and learning management system developed by Blackboard Inc. ... It may be installed on local servers or hosted by Blackboard ASP Solutions.

To explore each of these more, click on them to open up the page and sign up.


Friday 7 February 2020

14:57

6 Ways Teachers Can Use Screencastomatic Video Creation Tool Profitably

How to use screencastomatic as a teacher


Screencast-O-Matic is a screencasting and video editing software tool that can be launched directly from a browser. The software has been widely used in the education sector to support video creation for flipped classrooms, bi-directional student assessments, lecture capture, and student video assignments. 

Web developers, professional course creators and entrepreneurs have also found Screencast-O-Matic as the most trusted tool for video tutorial and content creation.

It is for Windows, Mac, and Chromebook users.

Screencast-O-Matic is free for life; but as a free user, you have only 15 minutes recording time for each video session.

To have an unlimited recording session, you have to pay a paltry $18 annual fee. Using the link to register, you will have a 20% discount.


Today's teachers stand to gain so much with this tool. In this post, I share with you 7 ways teachers can benefit from using Screencast-O-Matic.

Flipped or Blended Learning

Easy video tools to help you focus on what matters – your students.  Create tutorials or lessons for classroom instruction.  Share videos with students so they can learn on their own. This allows you to use your in-class time more efficiently.

Drive Student Conversations

Engage students with video conversations. Have students record their ideas or thoughts about a classroom topic or help them communicate with you on a deeper level.  Drive the conversation and use video to enhance the learning experience.

Mentorship and Feedback

Connect and build relationships with video. Video allows you to build an authentic two-way connection with students. Easily provide personalized video mentorship and receive student responses to drive thoughtful conversations and collaborative thinking.

Lecture Capture

Capture your lectures so students can watch them anytime. Videos are perfect for students who need time to review course material or were unable to make it to class. Share video links, add content to an online course, or create a channel on Screencast-O-Matic.

Professional Development

Be the best educator you can be. Use video for professional development and continue to enhance your skills. Capture and share new processes and tools. Create video tutorials to help educators learn ways to improve classroom instruction.

Build a community

Video can bring a community together. Share updates and announcements to parents to keep everyone on the same page.  Easily create videos to enhance the parent/teacher relationship. It takes a community to educate. Video helps make that happen.


One more thing; creating classroom videos goes beyond benefiting your students and parents. Think of monetizing these videos or building a very strong brand, creating tutorial videos with Screencast-O-Matic.


Go here to register your account FREE, and start recording.



Monday 3 February 2020

22:30

How to create Class Attendance Register in Google Sheet

Using Google Sheet for classroom automation


As a 21st century teacher in this digital revolution, it's time you cleared your desk, do away with most of these paper works and get down to the business of 21st century teaching.

Google has provided a lot of tools to help you in this area.

One of these: automating your classroom attendance register.

I have just recorded a video to guide you on how to do it.

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