Tes

 Tes

 Basic Information

Tes Teach is a digital tool that Creates multimedia lessons with engaging but not-so-interactive style.

Primary Use:

• [General] Present information with different types of content (text, photos, multi-media) in a flexible layout to share online
• [Faculty] Reports, Presentations, Assessments, Lessons
• [Students] Presentations, Assessments, Lessons

Key Features:

• Create unlimited interactive lessons, presentations, and projects by dragging-and-dropping web content, your own files, and assessments in one place
• Browse, bookmark, copy, and adapt lessons created by others in the Library
• Discuss and comment directly on learning resources
• Take quizzes and instantly receive results

What is Tes Teaching Resources? 

Category: Presentation Tool

Keywords: Presentation, Multi-media, Assessments, Instructional Design

 Detailed Information

Full Description:

Tes Teach is a tool that is used for collecting and bundling information for a multitude of uses. The goal of Tes Teach is to enable teachers to “blend” multimedia seamlessly into the classroom in an efficient and effective way.
It is essentially works by allowing the user to bundle information from a myriad of resources (including but not limited to): Google, Google Drive, DropBox, OpenEd, Gooru, YouTube, files from your own computer, and much more! Tes Teach means of creating virtual notebooks, but much easier to use than its counterpart LiveBinders.com. It has a very simple, “drag and drop” or insert type of interface that makes pooling together resources very
efficient. All the user has to do is lick on “new lesson”, name the lesson, and begin inserting and sequencing resources in the “tile” spaces.

Tool Access

To access the tool online or for a related download link (if available) please see sources below:

• Free to use in Web and IOS devices

Advantage/ Disadvantage:

Using TES Teach you can create interactive lessons with your own content as well as any content from the web. Students can also use TES Teach to create their own lessons and presentations as a way to showcase their understanding of a particular topic. Design is great, and the option to create lessons that students can view at home is a bonus. It focuses mostly on delivering content; there could be more room for interactivity. It allows you to incorporate lots of multimedia resources but can still be confusing for students.

Good for Teaching:

With Tes Teach, the lessons can then be shared with students via a unique link, Google Classroom, Facebook, Twitter, email, QR code, or embed the lesson on your own website. So many options to make this platform work for you and your students! The lesson itself is almost like a playlist where students can navigate in the order as designed or select parts of the lesson to do. They can also use TES Teach to create presentations and other projects.

Good for Learning:

Having a way to create a lesson with content that‘s the same for all students but differentiated in assessment or reading content or something along those lines would be a huge benefit. Once you‘re done building your lesson, you can send it out to your students and there are quite a few of great ways get your lessons out. You can also collaborate with other teachers/colleagues/students which is an awesome feature. Plus, the ability to embed this lesson on the web is great if you have a classroom website or blog. When a student gets the lesson, they‘ll be able to see the resources you shared and take any quizzes you created. They‘ll also be able to add comments to any of the resources, so you can engage in a discussion with your students around your content which is nice as well.

  Reviews [For Future Use]

Public and Internal reviews on the quality of the tool and ease of use to learn/ implement.

 Learning Expectation [For Future Use]

General guidelines of how long it typically takes to learn and be comfortable (basic, advanced, expert levels) with the tool as well as what capabilities users have at each level.

• Level of difficulty to learn/ use for each level:
  • Basic  Use/ substitution: 2-4 hours of use
    • General familiarity with the tool
    • Ability to import documents in from MS Word or Powerpoint
    • Ability to create a simple document and share
  • Advanced Use/ augmentation: 20- 30 hours of use
    • General comfort with the tool
    • Ability to make a presentation from scratch including text, graphics, video, and with basic thoughts on style.
  • Expert use/ transformative (modification / redefinition): 40+ hours of use
    • Complete comfort with the tool
    • Ability to offer advice and guidance to others on the tool
    • Ability to use the tool for various design purposes: presentation, booklet, ePortofolio…
    • Understanding of layout, style (font, colors, themes) to meet end users needs

 Examples

Additional Examples:

• Science Lessons
• World Languages Lessons
• Professional Development Lessons
• See Lessons for more education examples

 Tutorial Guides

Instructional tutorial and guides on how to learn about the tool. For a detailed lesson (step by step) to learn the tool in a more comprehensive manner, please see the Lesson section. Additionally, please see the reference section for sources where additional tutorials exist. Guides are in multiple formats: web page, downloadable pdf, and video.

• Overview (website)
• Quick powerpoint on TES (pdf)
• A Guide for creating Digital Lessons (website)
• Create Digital Lessons (video)
• Adding Widgets in Tes Teach (website)
• Create a Class in Tes Teach(video)
• Test Teach Tutorials for Teachers(video)
• Tes Virtual Guide (website)

 Templates

If you are interested in starting with a template, which often have background, color theme, and fonts, it may save time and highlight new design elements.

• Paid Tes Templates 

 Lesson

 Crowdsource  [For Future Use]

To learn from other faculty or to share your thoughts or resources (e.g. templates) please see below:

• Comments (either blog style or discussion based)
• Upload their examples/ samples (ability to post information in form)
  • Form components: (For future form)
    • Name
  • • Submission type ( Examples, Guides, Lessons, Templates, Reference Link)
  • • Title
  • • Purposes/ Uses
  • • Description (optional)
    • Attachment – Upload or Link
  • Date and Time Uploaded
  • Contact Information (hidden)
  • Download Stats
  • Rating Stats

 Reference

The key resources used to make this resource page. Most all information is public except for specific TCS generated resources. For more examples and resources (e.g. guides, templates, etc) see below:

• Common Sense Media
• Williamferriter
• Teacherswithapps
• Shakeuplearning
• Edtechroundup