Using Video in Your Classroom

WeVideo is a web-based (website, Google Play, iTunes) video editor that includes options for cropping, changing speed, adding titles and credits, using green screen, adding voiceovers, recording the screen and webcam simultaneously, and more. Best of all... allows for collaborators on the same video! Frisco ISD has many paid licenses for WeVideo which means you and your students are not limited by the free account limitations! 

See this list of 10 Ways to Use Video in Your Classroom. 

Let me know if you're interested in using WeVideo with your students with our FISD accounts!

Canva Pro is free for educators!

I love me some Canva (not to be confused with Canvas; I love that too)! I use it to make graphics, including the TitanTag buttons. Now Canva Pro is free for educators! Read more. 

Street View's 15 favorite street views

Google recently posted their 15 favorite street views. Take a break and check them out. Read more.

When to Use Tech

Whenever you consider using Technology in the classroom, it's a great idea to ask yourself a few questions. Using tech just for the sake of using tech isn't best practice. Please take a few minutes to read over this article from Ditch that Textbook: Should I use it? 10 Considerations.

Virtual Reality Resources

Virtual Reality can be used to connect your students to the content in ways nothing else can. I recently came across this post about VR sources, several of which I had not seen before. My favorites include: 

• StorySpheres- Students create their own VR tour from a 360 image
• Tour Creator- Google's VR tour creator similar to Google Expeditions
• Panoform- Students draw on their grid paper to create 3D graphics (think molecules, organs, etc)

Read more: Edutopia's 5 Worthwhile Augmented and Virtual Reality Tools