{"id":76362,"date":"2021-08-11T09:26:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=76362"},"modified":"2021-08-11T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T13:27:38","slug":"first-day-of-class-5-edtech-tools-that-can-make-it-more-engaging-ofgang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2021\/08\/11\/first-day-of-class-5-edtech-tools-that-can-make-it-more-engaging-ofgang\/","title":{"rendered":"First Day of Class: 5 Edtech Tools That Can Make it More Engaging [Ofgang]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techlearning.com\/how-to\/first-day-of-class-5-edtech-tools-that-can-make-it-more-engaging\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>First Day of Class: 5 Edtech Tools That Can Make it More Engaging<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For younger students, a great way to have students learn more about one another and let their creativity shine is to have them create an \u201cAbout me\u201d page using Book Creator. This can include a short bio and photo. Students can also add audio and video components to their page, providing an opportunity for more of their personality to shine. Ultimately, the various student\u2019s pages can be combined into one ebook about the class.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>&#8230;I find PronounceNames.com to be a life saver. The site has recordings of proper pronunciations for more than 100,000 names.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Day of Class: 5 Edtech Tools That Can Make it More Engaging &#8212; from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang Excerpt: For younger students, a great way to have students learn more about one another and let their creativity shine is to have them create an \u201cAbout me\u201d page using Book Creator. This can include a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[271,8,252,18,9,32,141,533,63,419,119,46,23,393,89,50,195,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-creativity","category-digital-audio","category-digital-photography","category-digital-storytelling","category-digital-video","category-education-technology","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-google","category-ideas-teaching","category-instructional-design","category-k-12-related","category-multimedia","category-student-teachingteacher-education","category-teachers","category-teaching-learning","category-tools","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76362"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76364,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76362\/revisions\/76364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}