Terry's Tech Tips

Web pages contain all kinds of information relevant to your content.  They include scholarly articles, websites devoted to your topic, and current events.  You likely assign web-based resources to students as part of their learning all the time!  You may wonder: did they read the online article/paper/assigned web page? did they understand the content of the article/paper/assigned web page? what conclusions or opinions did they develop based on the content presented on the webpage? Why Use InsertLearning? Use InsertLearning to: add clarification for words/phrases that your students may not understand.   enhance student interaction with your web material by inserting questions for understanding .   ensure close reading by asking them to highlight (using the Insert Learning tools) who, what, where or anything that is appropriate to the content.   ask opinions about the content that will be shared with classmates for a class discussion. insert videos or links for addit

As an educator, you spend a lot of time finding 'just right' resources for your students.  Cultivating your curation skills means finding the right content for your students and being able to access it easily! If you are like me,  you sometimes can't find a resource when you need it,  and have spent precious time trying (and sometimes failing) to find it again! YouTube has been with us for a long time now.  As teachers, we are used to searching YouTube for great content to educate and engage our students. I have been familiar with the Playlist feature YouTube provides, and have used it a time or two to create playlists for students to watch.  For some reason, I never thought about using this feature to help organize my curated videos for various courses!  While preparing for my Google Educator exam this summer, the benefits were a blinding glimpse of the obvious! Navigate to YouTube using your @concordcarlise.org Google account.  (You can use the 'Grid'!)