Tes Teach
Tes Teach (formerly known as Blendspace) is a free website and app that provides tools that can help you create interactive, digital lessons. By dragging-and-dropping, you can easily combine web content with your own files into one digital presentation.
If your content can be digital, then it can be included in your lesson: YouTube videos, quizzes, website links PDFs, photos from your photo library, Dropbox files, Google Drive files—all of these and more can be assembled into a lesson using Tes Teach.
Once your lesson is complete, you can easily share your Tes Teach lessons via social media or by link. You create the lessons using your regular computer, and students can view them via computer or via personal devices by downloading the accompanying, free iOS or Android app.
Tes Teach also has a library of many lessons that have already been created by other educators, and they are there for you to access and share with your students. There are even many lessons about Jewish subjects as well.
To begin, sign up for a free account. This will give you access to the Tes Teach digital dashboard.
In Your Classroom
- Tes Teach is a great way to share student-created videos with the class
- Tes Teach lessons is an excellent tool for use in a flipped classroom, or for set induction lessons.
This is a “Technology Tuesday” post via Behrman House, edited by Ann D. Koffsky . You can find more Behrman House Technology Tuesdays here.
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Debbie Harris is the director of educational technology at the Sager Solomon Schechter Day School in Northbrook, IL. Involved in Jewish education for over thirty years, she has an education degree from Northwestern University with a concentration in instructional media and a master’s degree in professional Jewish studies from Spertus Institute for Jewish Learning and Leadership. She is skilled in using and teaching desktop publishing, video editing, presentation and animation software; and consults and presents regularly on integrating technology into Judaic studies. Her students podcast, blog, edit video and create claymations. She co-chaired the technology track for CAJE 33 in Vermont, is a SMART Certified Trainer for SMART Notebook, and a 2011 recipient of the Grinspoon-Steinhardt Award for Excellence in Jewish Education.
When not learning, teaching or writing about technology, Debbie likes to sketchnote and craft. She likes to knit, do calligraphy, sew, watercolor, paint fabric and just generally play with fun toys like scrapbooking supplies and anything with texture. Debbie travels to California every summer to paint tallitot with high school aged campers. Finally, she is incredibly proud of her two daughters; Lori, who teaches English at a community college; and Allie, who is the director of the URJ’s Camp Newman in California.
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