Sat, Aug 13, 2016 4:10 PM in Technical Writing: Making Science Text More Readable
Thank you! I started doing more close reading with students last year using http://docentedu.com " target="_blank">DocentEDU . Your suggestions for annotating and adding to scientific texts will work great with it. DocentEDU lets you add information (along with questions and discussions) into any website.
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Mon, Sep 21, 2015 1:49 PM in Technology
Find/choose tools that let students share their ideas and let you target their interests.
Tools like DocentEDU and Explain Everything have had a big impact on my lessons. DocentEDU lets me pose targeted discussions questions anywhere in a text, including after a video I embed. Explain Everything gives students the ability to make amazing videos to show what they learned.
Any tech that helps ...
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Mon, Sep 21, 2015 1:40 PM in New teacher without text ....how do you create lessons without a book?
I've been using DocentEDU to turn news articles, online textbooks like CK-12, and my published google docs into complete lessons. It lets you add questions, discussions, notes, videos, and more to almost any website.
Here's a lesson I made on the scientific method https://docentedu.com/beta/share/9110ey5z
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