5 Ways Teachers and Students Can Use Sway in the Classroom

Today the educators should design his activities which can develop 21st century skills in his students.  If you are a 21^st century educator it’s sure you will use Sway in your class room. 21^st century educators are teaching with new technology tools which can inculcate concepts in his students.  And they use digital multimedia to enhance their quality teaching and engage the students in the lesson. Sway is a best way to use in education with various attractive features and with Sway; it can bring ideas to life in new way.

A teacher can use Sway in the classroom interactively, with the best features like easily can add text, links, pictures, audio, video etc. Here I hope to describe five important ways teachers and students can use Sway in the classroom.  

To collaboration –

Collaboration is a main rubric among 21^st century learning skills. So, teacher can design a collaborative works with Sway inside or outside the classroom. By creating one account of Sway for group of students, teacher can ask students to share the responsibilities among each student and do their own works collaboratively inside or outside the classroom. This is important for anytime anywhere learning.  And this can be applied with PBL activities. Students can write their project report collaboratively sharing some parts of the project report.

To build presentations -    

Sway is amazing software which can build presentations to any kind of audience with multimedia contents and you can easily share your ideas as it is an online tool.  Teacher can build an online presentation to his students with contents which can easily inculcate concepts in his students. Students can build presentations easily and they can present their research reports, ideas to the class and can share the link with any kind of audience like colleagues, teachers, parents, officers etc..

To create amazing stories –

Students especially in primary classes are more interested in reading stories. Primary class teachers can use Sway to create interesting story books with texts, pictures and audio.  Then students feel like a character in that fairy tale. Sway has special roll over feature like turning one page to another and continues reading. Then students feel like a real story book. So, students can use any device to read the story roll over page by page by touching or clicking with the mouse.

To create Newspapers or Magazines-

Especially Language and literature teachers or any subject teacher can guide their students to use Sway to write articles and publish them digitally as a daily newspaper, weekly paper or monthly magazine more than wallpaper in the classroom as it can easily add text and images. 

Creating lessons organized with all resources-

Teachers can create lesson plans using Sway with all organized resources related to the lesson.  The created online resources in OneDrive with Office Online like notes in Ms – word, Ms-Excel surveys, Ms- PowerPoint presentations etc. can be used in the lesson plan providing links to those resources.  Then teacher can share those lessons with colleagues and students. 

These are some of five ways which can use Sway in the classroom. I have tried Sway with my lesson designs and it was successful. It's easy to create a Sway to bring your ideas.Try it today.