Mind Over Media project addresses the broader idea of propaganda in the 21st century. Mind Over Media is a free online resource devoted to helping individuals understand how to recognize and interpret propaganda in media. A teachers page includes a complete curriculum as well as eight lesson plans. Teachers can create a free account to curate media for their lessons and view sample, teacher-created custom galleries. Because the platform includes a crowdsourcing feature to encourage educators to share more examples of propaganda, the library of available media will continue to grow.
In 2010, a collection of wartime letters and photographs was discovered in an old cupboard at a high school in Paris. Forgotten for years, the letters were written by a former pupil, Louise Pikovsky, to her beloved school teacher during World War Two.
Last year, we launched EDU in 90, a Google for Education video series that focuses on an important topic for educators, administrators, and school leaders each episode. This season, we’ve covered everything from differentiation with Classroom to codingon Chrome to apps that work with Classroom. Missed an episode? Check out our full series playlist.
Timelinely makes it easy to get started. You just have to copy a YouTube URL into the Timelinely homepage to get started. Once you have entered the URL for a video, a new screen appears that allows you to add tags or annotations to the timeline of the video. You can do this while the video plays or you can simply jump to a place on the video to add annotations. Your annotations can include text or images. As you can see in the screenshot below, I included an image of my friend Tom Richey in the annotation that I made on one of his YouTube videos.
Before you get too involved with Timelinely it's important to note that you'll have to create an account in order to save and share your work. You can create an account by using your Google account, by using your Facebook account, or by signing up with any email address. You can share your annotated version of a video via email and social media. Embedding the annotated version is a feature that Timelinely says is coming soon.
Applications for Education One of things that I like about Timelinely is the option to include pictures in your annotations. I can see that feature being used to include an alternate example for students to view when watching a math lesson.
Plagiarism is a very real phenomenon in colleges and universities, and it starts in high school. Here is a tool with a reasonable fee that teachers can start using for free. At the end of the year I will ask for teachers feedback to add it to our other teaching tech gear.
From Unicheck Blog
As promised, new amazing updates are rolling out right after we’ve announced the Unplag plagiarism checker name and mission change. To tell the truth, we cannot contain our excitement about this one any longer. Unicheck plagiarism checker is now integrated with Google Classroom! Yes, we are the first who did it.
Google Classroom is growing in popularity all over the globe. No wonder! This online educational platform encourages simpler and more engaging teacher-student and peer-to-peer interaction. It makes it both paperless and multi-functional. Google Classroom allows creating discussions and assignments; giving advice to all students at once; sharing documents, videos or feedback; and doing many more useful things.
With Google Classroom being freely accessible to any educator or student with Gmail account, Unicheck is sure to be an extra helpful add-on.
Ideas Unicheck Team Shares
What makes us so enthusiastic about the integration? We believe there is something in common between the Unicheck Team and Google Classroom creators. Oh, it isn’t an idle boast. Delivering education to every person who strives for knowledge no matter the location, social and economic conditions, will make learning an everyday habit. This is what we aim to do too.
With Unicheck plagiarism checker at hand, educators will have another smart and powerful tool to help students learn how to speak their minds out and reveal individual writing voice.
Treats You Get with Integration
Well, it’s handy, quick, and supportive. As an educator, you receive notifications on the checked student submissions directly to your email (at Gmail). No need to open a new tab or log in to the Unicheck account. The notification briefs you on the similarity rate of each student paper, lists student name, email and submission date. No time wasted. You see which paper needs checking right away.
Plagiarism reports then can be shared with students. You are free to choose between these two options: forwarding an email or sharing a report link.
Adjusting search settings (skipping minor text matches from search) and choosing who and when is notified on submissions is also possible. Every time a paper is being scanned, Unicheck compares it with billions of relevant sources on the internet and all documents uploaded by educators to Unicheck. Just to deliver up-to-date check results.
Simple Steps to Integrate Unicheck Plagiarism Checker
To integrate Unicheck with Google Classroom, having a registered account for your school, college or university is absolutely crucial. In such a way you will be able to choose Google Classroom in the LMS Integration tab.
Then, go through a quick settings configuration process. Type in the name for the integration, pick up the class(es) to be connected, specify a plagiarism report receiver(s), and select search settings. Hmm.. there is something missing. It’s logo! Yes, you can add your institution’s logo to the Unicheck report.
Go For Unicheck!
Being able to work in Google Classroom and have all papers checked for plagiarism automatically is a thrilling opportunity to jump at. Our team would be glad to respond to all of your questions and give way more detailed explanation on how it works! Let’s get in touch!
This blog provides information about Library Media (Lib) and Information Technology (Tech) for teachers, and everything that belongs to both categories (CD). Lists of links and post labels are organized accordingly. Enjoy!
