Treasure Hunt (or: not recreating the wheel)

One of the most important things to get over to colleagues is to look before you create.There's loads of stuff out there already. It's often just a case of sharing it with your students. You can do that by  email, by showing it in class, by putting it on a blog, by sticking it on an online tool like the 'linoit' lesson plan or by putting it in a blog post. That's how you will evidence this course and you may (like lots of your colleagues) choose to start doing that for your students too.

To that end, let's see how much you can do in 45 mins:

1. Find a good website and put the link into a blog post (NEW POST not NEW BLOG!)
2. Find a single YouTube video relevant to your subject and embed it in a blog post 
3. Add 'infographic' to a google search for a topic you are teaching soon. Find one you like and either link to it or embed it in a blog post. 
4. Add '.ppt' to a google search of a topic you are teaching soon. Find a powerpoint you could download and edit- put the link to the site in a blog post saying what it's about (extension: download it, upload to google drive, then link to it or embed in a blog post- this is fiddly but it does tell you how to do it here: http://eteachx3.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/embedded-google-doc.html
5. One quizlet card set relevant to what you teach and embed
6. Relevant existing Prezi and embed





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Here's an example from me. I haven't done it exactly but you should get the idea:
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3. http://www.onlinecolleges.net/2012/07/26/a-teachers-guide-to-social-media/  (I could have embedded this but it would make for a long scroll to the next item)

4. http://users.sch.gr/grigorise/how_do_i_use_powerpoint_to_teach.ppt (by Patrick Douglas Crispen) 

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