翻译《教师今年需要尝试的十一种技术》

11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year

教师今年需要尝试的十一种技术

The new school year is here for many teachers. For those who haven't started school yet, the new school year will be here soon. If you've set the goal of trying something new in your classroom this year (shouldn't that always be one of our goals), here are eleven techy things teachers should try this year.

对于许多教师而言，新学年到了。即便尚未开学，也都快了。如果你今年还没打算在教室尝试新技术（这种打算并不总是有的），这里有十一种新技术，今年老师们可以尝试一二。

1. Build a Blog or Build a Better Blog

1. 建立或者改进网志

Blogs can serve many purposes for teachers. You can use a blog to communicate information to parents and students. You can use a blog to create a running journal of classroom activities and lessons throughout the year. Blogs can be used by students to record and reflect on their own learning. Make your students contributing authors on a class blog and have them write a weekly reflection on their own learning.

网志可以实现教师诸多目标。你可以利用网志向家长和学生传达信息。你可以利用网志创建一份杂志，记录一整年的课堂活动和课程。学生可以创建网志，记录并反思他们自己的学习。让你的学生在班级网志上发表文章，要求他们撰写每周学习反思。

Three good platforms for classroom blogging are Blogger, Edublogs, and Kid Blog. All three of those platforms are very easy to start as they don't require any technical knowledge on your part. All three of those platforms allow you to control your blog's visibility settings. Get directions for creating Blogger and Edublogs blogs here. (Disclosure: Edublogs is an advertiser on Free Technology for Teachers.)
有三个不错的网志平台，很适合课堂：Blogger、Edublogs、kid Blog。这三个平台都非常易于开始工作，不需要你有任何技术知识。这三个平台允许你控制你网志是否对外发布。这里有如何创建Blogger和Edublogs网志的指南（爆料：Edublogs在这里登得有广告）。

2. Build a Wiki With Your Students

2. 和学生一起创建维基

Building pages on a wiki is a great way for students to record and share knowledge about topics they've researched. Last year one of my classes created a wiki about 1920's culture in the United States. When everyone was done contributing one of my students made the observation that the wiki had more information than the textbook, he was right.
建立一份维基页面，是让学生记录、分享他们所研究的课题相关知识的绝佳途径。去年我的一个班级创建了一份关于二十世纪二十年代美国文化的维基。在班上每个人都做出贡献之后，我们就可以看到这份维基的信息已经比课本还要丰富了，而且还是正确的。

Teachers and students can also use wikis to create digital portfolios. Students can create and edit their own pages to show-off the work they're most proud of.

教师学生可以利用维基创建数字化档案袋。学生可以创建编辑他们自己的页面，以炫耀他们最值得骄傲的工作。

Wikispaces, PB Works, and Wet Paint provide free wiki hosting. I prefer Wikispaces because they provide free advertising-free wiki hosting to teachers. Learn how to use Wikispaces here.
Wikispaces、PB Works以及Wet Paint提供免费的维基虚拟主机。我更喜欢Wikispaces，因为他们为教师提供免费的无广告维基虚拟主机。在这里可以学习如何使用Wikispaces。

3. Build a Website

3. 建立一个网站

So a blog doesn't provide quite what you're looking for and a wiki doesn't either? Try building your own website. On your website you can include calendars of assignment due dates (try Google Calendar), post reference videos and documents for students and parents, and even collect assignments.
网志和维基都不能完全满足你的需求？你可以尝试创建你自己的网站。在你的网站里，你可以包含逐日的功课日程表（利用Google日历），为学生及家长张贴参考视频和文档，甚至可以收集作业。

Building a website used to be a difficult, technical process. That is not the case anymore. There are many free website creation and hosting services available on the web. Google Sites can be used to create a website containing blog and wiki elements. Learn how to use Google Sites in my publication Google for Teachers II. Some other website creation and hosting services you might want to try are Weebly, Webs, and Yola.
建立网站曾经是一个很困难有技术的活。现在时代不同了。现在网上有很多免费的网站创建及虚拟主机服务可供使用。Google协作平台可以用来创建包含网志和危机的网站。可以在我发表的《Google能为教师做什么之二》中学习如何使用Google协作平台。你或许还想尝试其他一些网站创建及虚拟主机服务，如Weebly、Webs、Yola。

4. Create Videos Without Purchasing any Equipment

4. 不需要购买任何设备就能创建视频

Video is a powerful form of communication. It wasn't that long ago that classroom video projects required possession of expensive editing software and other equipment. That is no longer the case. Today, anyone with access to the web can make a high-quality video production. Two of my favorite web-based video creation services are Animoto and JayCut. Of the two Animoto is the easiest to use while JayCut offers the most editing options. Learn how to use Animoto in my free publication Making Videos on the Web.
视频是一种强大的通讯形式。现在不像以前那样，教室视频投影仪需要使用昂贵的编辑软件和其他设备。现在已经不再是这样了。现在，任何能够上网的人都能建立高质量视频作品。我最喜欢的两个基于网页的视频创建服务是Animoto和JayCut。这两项当中，Animoto最容易使用，而jayCut提供了大量的编辑选项。可以通过我发表的《在网上制作视频》学习如何使用Animoto。

5. Create Maps to Tell a Story

5. 创建地图讲述故事

Maps are obviously useful for Social Studies teachers, but did you know that you can also use multimedia maps to tell a story? Google Maps and Google Earth can both be used to create a multimedia story. Try having your students write the biography of a famous person by plotting points on a map and adding text, images, and videos about that person to each placemark. Visit Jerome Burg's Google Lit Trips to learn more about using Google Earth in a literature course. Visit Tom Barrett's Maths Maps to get ideas for using maps in mathematics lessons. Need some general directions for using Google Maps or Google Earth please consult my free publications Google for Teachers and Google Earth Across the Curriculum.
地图显然对社会学研究的教师有用，但是你是否知道你也可以使用多媒体地图来讲述故事？Google 地图和Google 地球都可以用来创建多媒体故事。试着让你的学生撰写名人传记，并在地图上做标记，在每个地标上添加与此名人有关的文字、图像和视频。访问薄杰荣的《Google李特游记》，学习更多有关如何在文学课程中使用Google地球。如果需要有关使用Google地图和Google地球的一般性指导，请翻阅我的免费出版物《Google能为教师做什么》和《跨课程使用Google地球》。

6. Try Backchanneling in Your Classroom

6. 尝试在教室中建立学生秘密渠道

As staffing cuts create larger class sizes, it is becoming more difficult for some teachers to hear every student's question and or comment. Some students are reluctant to verbally share their thoughts in the classroom. And some students just have to blurt-out every thought or question they have as soon as they have it. Creating a backchannel for your students can address all three of those problems.
由于裁员，导致班额变大，对许多教师而言，变得更难倾听每位学生的提问并做出解答。有些学生不愿意在教室发言分享他们的想法。一些学生管不住嘴巴，说出自己每个想法，只要一有问题就马上问出来。为你的学生建立一个秘密渠道，可以解决这三个问题。

A backchannel is another name for a chat room in which your students type their questions and comments whenever they have them. You can then address those questions and comments immediately, have students reply to each other, or address the questions when time permits. Learn more about the uses of backchannels in my presentation about using backchannels in the classroom.
秘密渠道，其实是聊天室的另一种名称，你的学生只要有问题和意见，都可以在这里输入。然后你就可以马上解决这些问题和意见。如果时间允许，也可以让学生彼此回答，或者彼此解决问题。在我的《在教室中使用秘密渠道》演示文稿中学到更多有关使用秘密渠道的知识。

Here are some school-friendly services that can be used to host backchannels: Today's Meet, Chatzy, Edmodo, and Present.ly.
这里有一些方便学校的服务，可以用来搭建秘密渠道：Today's Meet、Chatzy、Edmodo、Present.ly。

7. Join a Social Network for Your Professional Development

7. 为了专业发展加入社会化网络

Social networks can be used for much more than just sharing pictures of your kids with you old high school friends. Twitter, Classroom 2.0, and The Educators PLN are great places to connect with other teachers around the world. Use these connections to gather ideas for improving your lesson plans, share and find great web resources, and perhaps virtually connect your classroom to another classroom. Check out the Flat Classroom Project for ideas about connecting classrooms around the world. View my resources to learn how to build your own personal learning network.
社会化网络不仅仅用来与你高中校友分享你家小孩的照片。Twitter、Classroom 2.0 和The Educators PLN非常适合与世界各地其他教师联系。通过这些联系去收集思路，改善课程计划，分享发现优秀网络资源，或许还能让你的教室与其他教室虚拟连接在一起。查看《平坦的教室计划》，了解有关连接世界各地教室的构想。查看我的资源，学习如何构建你自己的个人学习网络。

8. Use an Online Service to Save Your Bookmarks

8. 使用在线服务保存你的书签

Every spring just before school lets out for the summer and all of the school-issued computers are re-imaged, some of my colleagues come to me in a panic wondering how to save all of the websites they have bookmarked on their computers. This problem could be completely avoided if they would just try using an online social bookmarking service like Diigo, Delicious, or Google Bookmarks.
每年春天放暑假之前，学校所有计算机都被重新建立映像，我的一些同事很慌张的找到我，想知道如何保存他们在计算机上保存的网站书签。如果他们使用在线社会化书签服务如Diigo、Delicious和Google Bookmarks的话，完全可以避免这个问题。

Using an online bookmarking service allows you to access all of your favorite websites from any Internet-connected computer anywhere. All three of these services offer browser add-ons that allow to save bookmarks just as easily as you would with the bookmarking features in Firefox or Internet Explorer. These services also allow you to share your bookmarks with others (your students for example) and to add comments to your bookmarks so you remember why you saved each one. Learn more about online bookmarking services in this video from Common Craft. Learn how to use Google Bookmarks in my free publication Google for Teachers II.
使用在线书签服务，你可以从任何连上互联网的计算机，访问你收藏的所有网站。上面三种服务都提供有浏览器插件，使得保存书签就像在浏览器里面添加书签一样容易。这些服务还允许你与其他人（比如说你的学生）分享书签，为你的书签添加意见，以便于你记住为什么要保存这个网站。可以从这个来自Common Craft的视频了解更多在线书签服务的信息。从我的免费作品《Google能为教师做什么之二》学习如何使用Google 书签。

9. Get Your Students Searching More Than Just Google.com

9. 让你的学生比Google.com搜得更多

Give students a research assignment and the first place that most of them will go to is Google.com. There's nothing inherently wrong with that, but if that's all your students do they're not likely to find the best possible information. One of the ways you can do this is by introducing your students to Google Wonder Wheel and Google Timeline. Both of those refinement tools are built into Google Search. You should also show your students how to use Google's advanced search options. If your students are searching for information that contains numerical data such as distance and time, introduce them to Wolfram Alpha. Learn more about Internet search strategies and tools in my free publication Beyond Google. Learn how to build your own search engine in my free publication Google for Teachers II.
给学生一个研究任务，他们绝大多数首先会去Google搜索。这其实没有什么不对，但是如果你所有学生都这样做，他们不大可能找到最好的信息。一个办法是想你的学生介绍Google奇迹轮和Google时间轴。这两个精致工具都内置在Google搜索当中。你也可以向你的学生展示如何使用Google高级搜索选项。如果你的学生搜索包含数值数据的信息，比如距离和时间，给他们介绍Wolfram Alpha。可以从我的免费作品《超越Google》中学习更多有关互联网搜索策略和工具的信息。从我的免费作品《Google能为教师做什么之二》学习如何创建你自己的搜索引擎。

10. Have Your Students Create Podcasts

10. 要求你的学生创建网播

Creating podcasts is a great way for students to preserve oral histories or to hear themselves practicing a foreign language. Open source program Audacity and Apple's Garage Band are excellent platforms for recording podcasts. You can also record podcasts without installing software by using Aviary's Myna service or Drop.io's voicemail service. If you need a free place to host podcasts check out PodBean or Blubrry.
创建网播是让学生保存口述历史、听自己练习外语的绝佳途径。开源程序Audacity和Apple的Garage Band都是录制网播的极好平台。你也可以不需要安装软件直接使用Aviary的Myna服务或者Drop.io的音频邮件服务来录制网播。如果你需要免费空间搭建网播，可以试试PodBean和Blubrry。

11. Eliminate Inbox Overload

11. 消除邮箱超载

Get all of your students using Google Docs or Zoho Writer this year to eliminate the need for them to send you document attachments. Simply have them share their documents with you. You can edit their documents and grade their documents without having to open attachments. Using Google Docs or Zoho Writer will eliminate issues associated with students sending attachments that you cannot open. Getting your students to use either of these services will free up a lot of storage space in your email inbox.
今年让你所有学生都使用Google文档或者Zoho Writer，就不再需要他们发送文档附件给你。让他们简单的共享文档给你即可。你不需要打开附件就可以编辑他们的文档，给他们的文档评分。使用Google文档或者Zoho Writer，可以消除学生发送的附件你无法打开这种问题。让你的学生使用这两种服务，会让你的邮箱释放大量存储空间。

Stay tuned later this week for a free PDF guide on how to use the tools mentioned above.
敬请关注本周晚些时候，将会放出PDF版本免费指南，讲述如何使用上述这些工具。

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