This document discusses professional development for teachers using various online tools. It begins by introducing the author, Dr. Antwuan Stinson of Alabama State University. It then lists and briefly describes several tools for online collaboration and professional development, including Wikispaces, Google Apps, EdWeb2, and YouTube. Next, it provides ideas for classroom activities using tools like Glogster, Voicethread, and Edmodo. It suggests using Voicethread for student multimedia projects and stories. The document concludes by sharing a presentation on using Edmodo for online classroom collaboration, communication, and file sharing.

1. Antwuan Stinson, Ed. D.
Professor, Secondary Education
Curriculum & Instruction
Alabama State University

2. Current Professional
Development
What Professional
Development should
look like

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To give you an idea what is available for
teachers
Guide you through a few tools that I use
with my students
Give you some ideas to help you expand
your information and page on the schools
website

4. CoolToolsforSchools
Wikispaces
Google for Teachers
Google apps
My Google Site
EdWeb2
Wikispaces

5. GO2WEB20.NET
Alabama Learning
Exchange (ALEX)
Rubistar
Youtube

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Designate a day for critical thinking or
creative ideas for a major grade
Try Glogster for online student development
of multimedia posters
Use Voicethread for the collection of group
conversations, images, documents, and video
Create a Edmodo site for classroom
interaction (blog, discussions, projects)

8. What can Voicethread webtool be used for?
Students can share stories or design a project
which explains an assignment. Allow
students to change or amend it any way they
wish. This authentic assessment will engage
creative students for hours.

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Book Stories
Solving math problems
Flip books
Pre-reading and
making predictions
Field trips
Back to school night
tour of your classroom
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Creating digital
collages over the year
Authors of a certain
period
Scientific method
Animal Habitats
Photosynthesis
Lab report or
dissections

14. http://www.rubrics4teachers.com/

15. Digital Discourse
Facebook for the Classroom
Presented by: Columbia Borough SD
Park Elementary, Grade 5: Michael Deiter, Rachel Fried, Kevin Kreider
& Fellow Students: JH, MS, ST, JS

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Facebook for school
Mirrors social networks
Classroom, school, and collaboration abroad
Meaningful center and off task options
Online tracking and grouping opportunities

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Free
Privacy
Used in any subject
Assign and explain online… just 1 time!
Attach and links, media, files
Organize content in Edmodo permanent Library
Create polls and quizzes
Grade online with rubrics
Threaded discussions- prepare for online
learning!
Parent access

18. Edmodo Setup
Edmodo is FREE!

19. Teachers Can Manage
Their Own Groups
(Change Passwords,
Remove Students, Remove Groups)

20. No Email Needed for
Students to Join a Group
(Just a Group Code)

21. Optional: Parents Can
Access the Group
(Each Student Has Their Own
Parent Access Code)

22. Edmodo Offers Many Ways
to Communicate and
Collaborate

23. Way 1: Conversations
about assignments
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24. Way 2: Create a Library
of Posts with Tagging
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25. Way 3: Create a CrossClassroom Shared
Group
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26. Way 4: Post to yourself
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27. Way 5: Poll Students/Teachers

28. Way 6: Assignment as a Digital
Dropbox

29. Way 7: Link to Google
Docs to share them
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31. Way 9: Set-up a Class
Calendar
You can view separate
group calendars or see
everything all-in-one.

32. Way 10: Send out Directions Using
the Note and Reply…Threaded
Discussions

33. Jigsaw, Think-Pair-Share,
Literature Circle?
Subgroups Within a Group
Step 1
Step 2

34. Edmodo Privacy
Students Can Only Send
Messages to the
Group or Teacher.
Students are unable to
direct message each other.
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35. Antwuan Stinson
mrstinson34@gmail.com
(334) 229-7690 (office)
(334) 377-0537 (text my Google Voice)