Yesterday afternoon I hosted FB Live and YouTube Live sessions simultaneously. During those sessions I answered questions from readers and viewers. If you missed it, the recording is now embedded below. I’m planning to do another live Q&A session next Thursday at 4pm Eastern Time. Please send your questions to me.

The questions that I answered during the live session are copied below.

Question #1

I’m working on designing a major project for my French courses so they can work while I am in France and Spain with one of our travel groups…..

Here’s what I am looking for: Along time ago, I used to use Roxer.com to create simple webpages…nothing fancy…
choose a background color, choose a text font, upload a picture , embed an HTML widget and publish…
It was easy. and then, Roxer disappeared… I began looking for other sites to create webpages, and I know there are the top 10 favorites out there…but here’s my problem…most come with pre-made templates and are way too complicated to use out of the starting gate.

I just want a site (I’ll even pay) where I can create something quickly, and easily online.

Question #2

Our french teachers would like to be able to give their students an assignment to their french class and share a copy to each student which can easily be done. Now here is the tricky part. They want the student to be able to record themselves speaking the paragraph and save it in that google doc and turn that into their teacher. Right now it always goes from voice to text. I have a bit of research and have not discovered an easy way of being able to do that?

Question #3
I teach 3rd grade. I was thinking about having my kids create videos to share new laser technology solutions they design. I have seen some that work like Common Craft videos. I’m sure there are others. The problem is my district blocks everything! Based on usage policies, so many are for 13 years and older. We can’t even us Jigsaw Planet!

Can you suggest any technologies other that PowerPoint or Google Slides, (also not highly thought of by super.)

Question #4
I am trying to find a good resource for 3rd and 4th grade students to create book trailer videos. I know there is Animoto, but since teachers can only have 50 student accounts it is restricting if I want to do this for several years.

I was looking at Adobe Spark, but students need to be 13 years old. We have Chromeboxes and Chromebooks for student use

Question #5
What do you suggest as the best way to share resources such as documents and webpages for teachers? Google Docs? Padlet?

Question #6
My students have made a blog in order to use it as an Eportfolio. So, every student has got a blog. I would like to know if an app exists that makes it easier fot me to follow them. What do you think is the MOST practical tool to do it? I would like to have all of the blogs in the same window.
My second question is about an app to make videos. Do you know of an app in which you can insert animated gifs?

Question #7
Can you recommend an LMS for K-8?

Question #8
What is the best green screen app for use on Chromebooks.