Internet Tools/Resources #3

Mayleen S. Wichep

ED 638 Fall Intersession 2019

Dr. M. Rivera

Internet Tools/Resources

 

(https://www.slideshare.net/)

SlideShare is a platform for sharing presentations, documents, videos, and etc.  SlideShare was acquired by LinkedIn in 2012 for the sole purpose of business or marketing.  Today, SlideShare users include Business Owners, Educators, Lobbyist, Marketers, and Sales Professionals.

The benefits of SlideShare are: it is free to use, easy to use, reach a large professional audience, builds authority, and includes analytics.  In order to access SlideShare one must create a LinkedIn account. 

The homepage can be accessed using this website, https://www.slideshare.net/.   The explore tab on the homepage provides a variety of topics to access.  The education topic provides presentations about Literacy, Assessment, Strategies, Technology, Integrating Games Into Lessons, Higher Education, Leadership and Administration for educators and many more.  The Literacy presentation displays slides of Guided Reading strategies and information about the importance of discussing and talking about independent reading books.  There are additional resources provided to enhance the strategy provided such as charts and tracking tools to monitor student performance.

The homepage also displays presentation courses and PowerPoint courses that requires an account set up.  There is a free one-month trial to use for the courses.  After creating my LinkedIn account, I am now able to upload presentations to share with users.  SlideShare enables educators to share and access presentations with research-based information, videos, images, and resources that can enhance learning.  This is another tool that educators can benefit from.

Internet Tools/Resources #2

 

TeacherTube (https://www.teachertube.com/)  is a video sharing website. It is designed to allow those in the educational industry, particularly teachers, to share educational resources such as video, audio, documents, photos, groups and blogs. The site contains a mixture of classroom teaching resources and others designed for teacher training.  This site was officially launched on March 6, 2017.  Its goal is to provide an online community for sharing instructional videos.  This was the ideas of Adam and Jason Smith.  The service is free for everyone and it is user-friendly.

The homepage shows tabs to for all content areas including science, math, history, social studies, language arts and educational songs.  Users can access to over 1,000 videos, audios and more resources for all grade level.  When further exploring teachertube, there are additional websites provided to access to free worksheets and other great resources to supplement a lesson.  The Math tab provides videos of clear and simple procedures to solve a particular content or skill with visuals and audio to support the lesson.  Visit this site to watch educational math videos.  https://www.teachertube.com/videos/midpoint-on-a-graph-49218.   I especially like the educational songs tab because it provides a tool for the learners who learns best by listening to sounds and music.  Most of the songs are interlinked and integrated to all content areas.

This is another tool/resource that can help educators promote learning across the curriculum.  It has a variety of useful resources that teachers can access to supplement their lesson.  Students will be exposed to learning in a fun, meaningful and interactive way.  I highly recommend teachertube to all educators.