15+ Ideas to Get Students
Actively Learning Online
ShellyTerrell.com/category/byte-sized-potential
Virtual Makeover!
"The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century
will not occur because of technology but because
of an expanding concept of what it means to be
human.” by John Naisbitt
3000
Bit.ly/impactteach
Online?
#Edchat/ 30 Goals/ RSCON/ Free Fri Webinars/ Ebook EVO
Impact
Thousands
What’s your impact?
Mission:
Teacher
Focus on
the
learning!
iPad	
  car	
  mount	
  by	
  hammershaug,	
  Flickr	
  
iPad	
  car	
  mount	
  by	
  hammershaug,	
  Flickr	
  
“Pedagogy is the
driver, technology
is the accelerator.”
by Michael Fullan
Steve-­‐wheeler.blogspot.com	
  
Step into your
learners’ shoes
Creativity
Collaboration
Connectivism
Play
Citizenship
Experimentation
Real-world
connections
Peeragogy
Exploration
• Students shape their learning & the
curriculum
• Instructor(s) builds the foundation &
provides various opportunities for
learners to collaboratively create and
curate the content and resources
• Students learn from & support each
other
Howard Rheingold
Peeragogy.com
Co-learning & Peeragogy
It is literally true that you can succeed
best and quickest by helping others to
succeed. - Napoleon Hill
Participant Map
Thinglink.com/scene/469135908172464130
3,2,1 Introduction
3 Things we should
know about you
2 Places you love
to visit
1 Job you wish you
had
Peer Edit
HangOuts
PearlTree
Pinterest Livebinders
List.ly
Storify Educlipper
List.ly
Pinterest
“Learning is not the
product of teaching.
Learning is the
product of the
activity of learners.”
- John Holt
Voicethread.com
• Discussions	
  
• Debates	
  
• Peer	
  edi>ng	
  
• Poetry	
  
• Commentary	
  
• Review	
  
Activity: Create infographics with Piktochart.com
Newspagedesigner.org/photo/ucl-­‐final-­‐munich-­‐2012	
  
Activity: Compare teams (Infographic)
ImageReadinginPeacebySusanaFernandez,Flic.kr/p/9bvGPF
Pearltrees.com/p/bYc3P
Learn with
comics!
Comic by
Carmen Soto
Fernández
Created with
Comicshead.com
IOS & Android App
Idea: Visualize poetry
Idea: Recreate a scene from history
Patricia Lucas, Phrase.it, Pinterest.com/pin/393220611186213680
328-­‐	
  Nov	
  23th,	
  2012	
  -­‐	
  Life	
  of	
  a	
  Riyadh	
  Teenager	
  #365photoAR	
  by	
  Waleed	
  Alzuhai,	
  Flickr	
  
“People don’t
have a propensity
for laziness. People
have a propensity
for hard work. It
just needs to be
work that matters
to them.”
- Jane McGonigal
Instead of homework and tasks…
Write an essay.
Watch a video.
Give
missions,
quests &
challenges!
Topic: Hobbies
Challenge: Post a picture
of one of your favorite
hobbies & describe why
you enjoy it.
Photo/video challenges
Scenario: The mayor is ridding the city
of graffiti unless he is convinced it is
art.
Mission: Snap photos of graffiti you
want to keep and make a strong
argument why it is art.
Points Worth: 10
Bonus Points: Post a short reflection in
your blog for 5 more points.
Instead of grades …
Altered	
  image,	
  Fuck	
  this!	
  by	
  rafael-­‐cas>llo,	
  Flickr	
  
Points & badges
Edmodo.com
Points&badges
makewav.es	
  
Encourage
play with a
digital
sandbox!
Bit.ly/digisandbox
Digitalplay.info/blog/
Urgentevoke.com
Usewalkthroughs
Bit.ly/12I3epM
Create Games & Quizzes
Tinytap.it
Scratch.mit.edu Blubbr.tv
Photopeach.com
©wordle.net
Storify.com/usedgov/secretary-arne-duncan-joins-stuvoice
Langwitches.org/blog/2009/12/04/csi-twitter-crime-scene-
investigation/
Guests
engage
students
Brainstorming,BirthofanIdeabySuperlative00,Flickr
Let’s Brainstorm
Storyboard
Go on a
virtual
field trip!
Virtual field trips with Google.com/culturalinstitute
Google Earth
http://www.google.com/earth/index.html
Children's book written by
Mr. Smith’s 5th grade
special education students
at Gibbs Elementary
School
http://bit.ly/1eiMdLq
An interactive field guide of
Northwest Florida. Created by
Andrea Santilli’s 7th grade
students from Woodlawn
Beach Middle School
http://bit.ly/1eiMnCu
ePortfolio Reflections
Present.me/view/197057-digital-storytelling-andr-233-s-g
Pearltree.com
Pearltrees.com/shellyterrell/integrating-web-2/id8081935
It	
  all	
  
begins	
  
with	
  
seeds	
  
“If your actions in the classroom inspire children
to achieve more, question more, and dream
more, you are indeed worthy of the title
“Teacher.”’ – Robert John Meehan
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Virtual Makeover: 15+ Ideas for Engaging Elearning