Smart Teacher

Become an effective technology facilitator by learning skills to use classroom tech that makes teaching easier, more engaging, efficient, and more effective.

Learn to connect a smartphone to wifi by opening settings, turning on wifi, selecting the network, and entering the password to verify the connection and download videos.

Learn to set up and connect to a mobile hotspot, including enabling hotspot in settings, configuring the name and password, and connecting a computer for internet access.

Learn to switch display modes for a projection setup using keyboard shortcuts, including duplicate and extend options, so projector and laptop desktops stay separate.

Compare the traditional classroom, where lectures occur in class, with the flipped classroom, where lectures happen before class and time is spent on active, higher-order learning.

Record your lecture on a tablet or smartphone, share it with students to view at home, and lead a group activity in class based on the lecture while recording it.

Design a peer review activity, using open-ended questions in small groups and individual projects. Explore factors in peer feedback, prior experience, and relate this to student learning.

guide students from question to answer by exploring how water sustains crops and food, and how hunger and emotions shape learning.

Randomly select a student to answer questions and invite participation from the class. Apply changes to the selection process and prepare questions, topics, and presentations.

Explore classroom interactivities that boost learning through lively discussions and open-ended questions. Use group dynamics, concrete examples, and games, including video prompts, to enhance understanding.

Foster students' learning through debates to boost critical thinking, interaction, and public speaking. Prepare engaging topics, form pro and con groups, and develop evidence with essays, organizers, and argument outlines.

Lead a do-it-yourself class by conducting a debate, introducing the topic, dividing the class into two groups, assigning the affirmative and negative, giving research time, and recording a video.

Use polling software to gauge understanding, increase student interaction, and gather anonymous feedback via clickers or web-based polls.

learn to do it yourself by conducting a poll using polling software, opening the polling software, dividing the question and the options, and presenting it to your students.

Create a Google calendar and event, attach files from Google Drive, and set the event to public so students and parents can view the schedule.

Create a Google Calendar for yourself and your classroom, then organize grid events in the class calendar.

Develop your skills as an academic facilitator by organizing students into groups, quickly assessing assignments, and making learning content accessible and manageable on mobile devices.

Explore transitioning from physical to virtual classrooms through technology-based learning and practice using Google Classroom. Learn how to prepare for freelance tutoring in this new medium.

Learn to set up a do-it-yourself Google Classroom, post announcements, create assignments and questions, and manage the class stream to engage students.

Access student assignments quickly using Google Classroom folders and Google Drive, with sharing permissions that enable efficient grading and easy parent-teacher meetings.

Develop rapid content by recording voice over slides in PowerPoint with screen recording, using a laptop and microphone, then edit and save the video.

Engage students with animations and presentations that make concepts clear, using visuals, videos, audios, and music. Design neat, visually soothing slides to improve teaching impact and learner attention.

Create a video from a PowerPoint presentation using fixed images and previously prepared animations. Export as a video.

Learn to convert audio formats online, record audio with your computer’s sound recorder, visit an online audio converter, and select the target format to complete the conversion.

Create and enhance your own presentation by adding background music, recording your voice to explain the topic, using playback audio options, and saving as a PowerPoint show.

Record your screen with Camtasia to demonstrate how students join Google Classroom, capture a chosen area, enable audio, and export the finished video.

Learn to insert audio into video using Camtasia by recording audio with a sound recorder, saving it, and importing it into the clip bin to drag onto the track.

Download and install Camtasia, open your PowerPoint, and record the screen with narration, fullscreen mode, webcam, headphones, and audio, then save the video in a visual format.

Discover how a learning assistant helps teachers find subject-appropriate content for students, using a deep curation algorithm to present a focused selection from YouTube, Udemy, LinkedIn, and more.

Use a learning assistant to search for classroom language content, download videos or poems, and engage students with animation and rhyming word assessments.

Develop a do-it-yourself approach by designing a Wikipedia-based assignment for students and drafting clear instructions in a Word document.

Explore open educational resources, freely available learning materials you can use, edit, or share in the classroom. Curate materials, write lesson plans and study guides, and rapidly develop learning content.

Practice do-it-yourself teaching by opening our website to find open source resources for your students.

Create engaging assessments by designing diverse question types: multiple choice, multi-select, matching, classification, and audio or video based prompts to boost student participation.

Design your own assessments by selecting a topic, then constructing multiple-choice, fill-in-the-blank, and true/false questions.

Create an online test, visit HDTV is Best Moore's dot com, type two questions, assign points for each question, and publish the list.

Design an interactive PowerPoint quiz by creating question slides with answer slides for correct and incorrect responses, plus a result slide, and link choices to navigate between questions.

Practice a do-it-yourself approach by downloading and installing Skype, creating a Skype account, and managing contacts on Skype.

Learn to build a virtual classroom using WizIQ, publish content, and manage learners. Upload files from Google Drive, create assignments and tests, and invite students via course links.

Create a Google Plus community for your class to share resources, initiate discussions, invite students, and post photos and links to support collaborative learning.

Learn how to do it yourself by creating a Google Plus community for your Glass and sharing photos, links, and phone.

Learn to create a classy blog. Upload a photo or video and add questions and an assignment as a blog post.

Learn how teachers can create and run a YouTube channel for classroom teaching, improve sound and video quality, and share storytelling and group activities across subjects to engage students.

Learn to find and use copyright-free videos on YouTube by applying Creative Commons filters, enriching presentations and teaching with videos that have clear licenses.

Discover how the Micronesian app can improve students' memory, attention, intelligence, and decision-making through engaging games. Learn practical steps to introduce the app and address parental concerns.

Install the StayFocusd extension, block sites, and set max time per day, with options for blocked and allowed sites, nuclear mode, and challenges.

Become an expert searcher by mastering how to search resources and create learning materials for students, exploring useful websites, search engines, and contributing to search services.

Log in to your Google account, add languages, translate English to Marathi, submit translations, and validate quality to contribute to Google Translate.

Examine how women historically faced lack of protection after husbands' deaths, the impact of religion on their lives, including an institution for helpless women and debates over religious change.

Identify opportunities for self-development and plan ongoing learning to become a lifelong learner. Drive student development by mastering online courses, online learning, and expert videos.