Useful Tools: Lino and some additional resources

For new teachers, sometimes is difficult to create new materials. It may be caused by our inexperience or just because of the lack of time. For these special occasions, we can complement our material with lessons or activities already created by the teaching community. Moreover, we may have not realised that there are tons of apps that can make our life as teachers easier.

Here you have a variety of resources that I would probably use in my subject:

TeacherKit (app)

Is a classroom organiser. This app allows you to manage as many groups as you need. Creating personal profiles of your students, you can take some behaviour notes, control their attendance and the most important part, log their grades. 

Such important data can't be lost, that's why automatic backups are done periodically using dropbox.

Internet Literacy (eBook)

An Awarded eBook that through a very simple and sometimes humorous way, shows students the basic skills they need nowadays. 

In addition, contains some units related to another important aspects of the web they should know such as Netiquette, safety, privacy, ethics and online law.

This book is recommended for E.S.O students.

Workshop Hand Tools (lesson)

Ir order to create projects inside the workshop, students must know what and how many different tools they are going to find. It is also necessary to teach how to use them properly because nobody wants to get hurt. 

This lesson is ready to print and prepared to be given as a hand out.

Types of Energy (whiteboard lesson)

Very dynamic and intuitive powerpoint created for the Energy unit.

By using a lot of pictures and concise information this lesson can be taught easily by any technology teacher. It is as simple as it is effective.

Bonus Tool

Lately I've been working with a very useful tool. Lino is an app created to share a lot of information with others. You can post notes and organise your stickies all over the canvas. It is also possible to upload files (photos and movies). Moreover, Deadlines can be established in the calendar. 

All in all, a superb tool to share information and files among colleagues and students.

This is a Lino canvas created by myself as an example of what you can do.

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