EDU560

Rubrics are usually used by anyone, but they might be difficult a little bit and wastes time, for that Rubistar is found. It helps teachers to rapidly and easily develop quality rubrics.Our instructor helped us by modeling all features of Rubistar When she chooses a category to evaluate it, all the quality ratings are filled in and are ready to customize.It's really helpful.

Literally, padlet is the best tool to cooperate with anyone in the world and be productive. In class, we made beautiful ones that are easy to read, and fun to share your thoughts and opinions regarding a topic with all your friends.




Canva is a tool packed with enough easy simple features and operation so that anyone can create a unique assortment of catchy content that gets shared widely. In EDUC561 class, me and my friend Leticia created very vital one that deals with low expectations that teachers have, in a very easy manner and attractive way to read.




Do you know this icon? For sure yes, it is google drive which is the free data storage service. google drive is beneficial for each individual; for me, as a student, I used it to access documents when I have a presentation. Also, I can use it to share photos and videos with my classmates and teacher.



Blogger is the great old man of publishing on internet. It stresses on accessibility and facility of use. Blogger focuses on allowing anyone to quickly publish a full, rich piece of content to the Web for anyone to access and benefit from it. Thanks to this course that introduced me to blogging. I recently joined blogger and I'm so happy to use it and share many posts on it.



Zoom is the leader in modern undertaking video communications, with an easy safe cloud stand for audio and video conferencing, chatting and webinars. For example, you can use it to attend online sessions in your course if you are not able to attend physically.



A webinar is an online meeting or presentation held through the internet at a real time and live. It's not recorded before. Basically, it is an online occasion, which interfaces people with watchers over the world. I encourages everyone to attend a webinar with a topic that suits his interest because they are extreme beneficial. I attended Early STEAM Learning with LEGO Education webinar. More details about this webinar are on a post in my home page.



What a fantastic learning platform it is. Kahoot is based on games where it makes it easy to create share and play learning games and quick quizzes. It allows students to learn and have fun at the same time and helps teacher to get rid of boring classes. What is good is that is suitable for all ages, as we tried it in our media class and it was really amusing.



ActiveInspire is a cooperative lesson delivery software. Such program offers interactive touch boards and displays. I used it to explain fractions lesson using a vast suite of tools to deliver my lesson that was full of creative activities that enhances students' involvement and grabs their full attention.



This advanced tool is used to take screenshots for anything found on my screen( it's like the screenshot on our phones).We use it to hang, save or even share the image wherever we want, so it's useful in any program you are working on.



Poll everywhere is really the easiest and fastest way to get live responses from people in any meeting, conference, classrooms , events, concerts...It transforms the presentation into a conversation with the audience. our teacher tried it with us in classroom , where she asked us a question, and then the teacher and us watched the chart updating automatically with our responses.



Quizlet is a free website that allows students to study information through learning tools and games. Hence, you can practice and master whatever you are learning in a practical way. Such website, teachers can use it heavily in schools where it unleashes boredom and saves time for both students and teachers.



Microsoft Word is the most famous and useful program around the world. We start using it from childhood till the never end. It suits all domains and plays a vital role in doing any report or research. It allows you to create and format any document in very simple way.Briefly, it is the most popular word processor that allows you to create anything as small as a short letter to novels containing thousands of papers.



A Web Quest is a model that is based on inquiry and investigation of information. In this activity students are given a task, and then they are asked to complete the task using resources that are available online on the web quest and helps them finish their research. Teachers nowadays tend to use this model when they want to conclude a unit as summation, to teach students how to be independent thinkers and to increase competency in the use of technology...



Infographics are visual presentation of information in the form of charts, schema, graph and images, prepared to view information in organized understandable manner regarding a complex material. Besides, they are used to summarize a long report, compare and contrast different options or even to raise awareness about an issue or phenomenon.



Google slides are free online presentation program that allows users to create a presentation and edit it with partners online at the same time/ they can also chat there. this application facilitates work and assignments of students. From my own experience in this class, it made group work much better where we chatted via this application and finished our presentation in very short time.



Google forms is a web-based app used to create forms for the purpose of data collection and surveys especially in schools and colleges. There are plenty of uses of google forms, some of them :


1-Create Surveys to Meet Curriculum Objectives
2-Ask Various Types of Questions
3-Create Professional Looking Forms using Themes
4-Multiple Ways to Administer Forms