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Symbaloo: Bookmarks & Favorites - The #1 Homepage for Educators

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Easily save, share, and organize your favorites with Symbaloo; the best online bookmark manager for educators. Use Symbaloo as a homepage on any browser or Internet-enabled device. Create a free account today!

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Turn any photo into a meme...download the app

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Make your own meme

Add funny captions to popular images or your own photos.

Choose your own style

You can choose either the famous Demotivational style or you can choose the popular Advice Animal.
With a few taps you can add captions to any picture and share them with your friends.

Share your creations

Share all your creations with your friends, directly from Mematic: Upload to Facebook and Twitter or send your memes by mail, iMessage and Whatsapp - it's super easy!

Download Mematic now, it's free!

Make your own memes with Mematic, the Meme Generator.
Mematic is available for iPhone, iPad and Android.

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Mematic for iPhone and iPad - Make your own memes!

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Add funny captions to popular images or your own photos. You can choose either the famous Demotivational style or you can choose the popular Advice Animal. With a few taps you can add captions to any picture and share them with your friends.

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Create your own official looking newspaper clippings

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Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. Surprise friends and colleagues, send a birthday greeting or give your next blog post a special look.

To download your newspaper, use the link at the bottom of the generated image. You can use the images as you wish ie. put them on your own website or blog. Please note, that direct linking to the newspaper clippings doesn't work; the images are deleted from the server after a short time span.

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Make a newspaper clipping with your own headline and story. Surprise friends and colleagues, send a birthday greeting or give your next blog post a special look.

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Make newsletters and post them on social media, etc

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Free Newsletter Maker | Newsletter Creator | Email Newsletters For Free

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Great for exit tickets & much more.

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Flip is a video discussion and sharing app, free from Microsoft.

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Flip (formerly Flipgrid) is a video discussion and video sharing app, free from Microsoft, built for classrooms and beyond. Learn more.

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Like Kahoot only better!

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The evidence is in the practice

ESSA Level 3 correlation evidence in math and ELA, earned by teachers running frequent formative assessments.

When teachers run 30+ formative questions a week, the research is clear: they get more data-driven, their students get more engaged. Wayground is built to make that practice enjoyable ot run, attainable to fit a class period, and habitual enough to last past September.

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Quizizz is now Wayground | Teacher AI and Resources

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Find standards-aligned resources that engage every student. Wayground (formerly Quizizz) helps teachers differentiate instruction with AI and track student progress.

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These are Google tools that make your life easier.

Google Keep
Google Forms
Google Translate
Google Classroom

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Guest post by Brad Currie
Over the past year, Google Classroom has taken the educational world by storm. Teachers and students are now able to thrive in a paperless world. School leaders must support this new way of life while respecting the transition from traditional methods. So how can a school leader leverage the power of Google Classroom to promote student and staff success? Let's take a look ...

1. Flip the faculty meeting and create a Google Classroom for staff members. Instead of wasting teachers' time with boring agenda items, post this information on a Google Doc or Google Slide in Classroom. Then, actually utilize this additional time for meaningful professional growth opportunities.

2. Promote sharing of best practices with a Blog of the Week PLC. Send out a Google Form that provides staff members with an opportunity to nominate their favorite blog post pertaining to a best practice in education. Once the blog posts are submitted, send out another Google Form for nomination purposes. Once the blog post with the most votes is selected, begin a conversation utilizing the question feature in Classroom.

3. Move your school forward with a student roundtable. Once a month, a select group of students meets with the administration to be informed of school happenings and, more important, share insights on how to make the learning environment better. The Google Doc agenda leading up to the meeting can be shared out to students and crowdsourced in Classroom. Additional conversations and resources can be posted within the Student Roundtable Google Classroom throughout the school year.

4. Create a Google Classroom for best practices in technology integation. Each week, have staff members share different ways they are utilizing various apps and extensions to promote student success. Often, teachers who are in the same hallway-let alone the same building-have no idea what great things are going on in their colleagues' classrooms. This sort of sharing will be a game-changer.
How can you use Google Classroom or another virtual tool to drive change in your school? Brad Currie is the 2017 NASSP Assistant Principal of the Year. He currently serves as the Vice Principal and Supervisor of Instruction for the Chester School District in Chester, NJ. Learn more about Brad by following him on Twitter @bradmcurrie or visiting his website, www.evolvingeducators.com.
There are countless ways that administrators can utilize Google Classroom. It's a great way to enhance communication, disseminate information, and drive change for students and staff. Make it a goal this upcoming school year, if you are working in a G Suite school, to find one consistent way to utilize Google Classroom. Several of these tips and a host of others can be found in my new book titled, Hacking Google for Education. It will make a world of difference!

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Google Classroom: Exploring the Benefits for Teachers

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Technology Solutions That Drive Education

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Google is certainly no stranger to the education market. When it debuted Google Classroom in 2014, the tech giant had high hopes that the tool would streamline daily classroom activities and give teachers more time to do what they do best: teach.

"We have seen the normal constraints that apply to students and teachers being in a classroom every day start to fall away," says Classroom Product Manager Zach Yeskel in an EdTech article on the tool's debut.

In just a year after Google Classroom was released, about 10 million teachers and students had embraced it as a part of their daily routines.

With countless updates since then, Google Classroom has more than solidified itself as a positive instance of technology in the classroom.
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Google Classroom Bolsters Collaborative Learning

Using Google Classroom, teachers can keep their paperwork for all their classes organized in one dashboard. With a few clicks, homework can be assigned digitally to each class roster.

SOURCE: Previewing a new Classroom by Google

In a post on the blog EdTechTeacher, educator Ben Sondgeroth says Google Classroom makes educators' jobs easier because of one simple thing: It eliminates trips to the copier.

"Normally, if a teacher wants to create a worksheet for her students, she has to create it in a word processor, print it out, make photocopies, hand it out to her students, hope that no one loses it (which, of course, someone always does) and then collect it when they're finished," writes Sondgeroth.

This process is streamlined with Google Classroom for education because teachers simply create worksheets digitally.

Google has also made collaborative learning easier. Teachers can share content with their peers in one way - such as through a document that can be edited - and then share a different version with students - a document without editing functions.

Discussions in the classroom are more easily facilitated by a student response system that allows teachers to start question-driven discussions on their class's virtual page.

The Share to Classroom extension lets educators send a website or other content for a lesson to all their students at once.

"The new extension lets me engage my students and help them drive their own learning on 1:1 devices at our school," writes Catherine Davis, director of academic technology at Pilgrim School in Los Angeles, in a Google blog.

In an op-ed from the Alaskan Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman, educator Prudence McKenney indicates that Google Classroom is used at Colony High School "as a platform for students to access daily assignments and provide faster, more detailed and meaningful feedback for students."

She gives the examples of educators giving out and grading a quiz in real time, rather than having to wait to return paper copies.

"Using Google Classroom allows the students to have instant feedback and gives the teacher detailed item analysis regarding which questions were answered correctly or incorrectly by which students," writes McKenney. "At a glance, the teacher can see areas that might need reteaching or clarification."

Also, by using a web-based classroom, students who miss class can easily catch up on assignments.

Advantages of Google Classroom Ease Workflow for IT

Google Classroom is also a good fit for administrators and IT teams. Alerts let them know if there is suspicious activity. IT teams can also control password resets for teachers and students, so the wait time is minimal.

Using application program interface (API), administrators and developers of new ed tech products can easily sync Google Classroom rosters and assignments with other platforms like a learning management system or a student information system.

API also allows teachers to seamlessly use add-ons and other apps within the Classroom environment.

Administrators have access to all kinds of data with Google Classroom. They can track usage trends, active users and classes, and posts created by students and teachers.

"With these reports, as well as new ones to be added in the future, we hope administrators will have the insights they need to provide the best support possible to their teachers and students," writes Andrew Garrett, a software engineer for Google Classroom, in a blog announcing the update.

Google Classroom Updates Stay in Line with Trends

Google has kept Classroom updated with the current learning trends, including personalization. A recent update lets teachers easily create assignments for individual students or groups. Google touted it as a discreet way to provide extra help to students who are struggling.

Using Google Classroom in conjunction with Chromebooks and G Suite for Education apps has allowed students to take charge of their own learning, a key component of personalization.

Google Chat has helped to foster a constant dialogue between students and teachers at Maine Township High School District 207 in Illinois.

" Teachers can give real-time feedback that is impossible in a strictly pencil-and-paper world," says Assistant Superintendent Jason Klein in an EdTech article.

Google tools and apps have created an environment of collaboration that encourages even the youngest students to reach out to their teachers if they are struggling. Second-graders at Arcadia Unified School District in California are even emailing their teachers if they have trouble with homework.

Google Classroom has expanded to unconventional learning opportunities such as after-school programs and workshops for adult learners. Google also explored using Classroom to connect students via an international exchange program and found the tool eliminated the technological intimidation factor.

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Google Classroom: Exploring the Benefits for Teachers

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Google is certainly no stranger to the education market. When it debuted Google Classroom in 2014, the tech giant had high hopes that the tool would streamline daily classroom activities and give teachers more time to do what they do best: teach.

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6 Reasons Why Google Classroom is a Great Tool for Teachers

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By Kara Masterson
In today's changing world, students need to leave school with a set of technological skills that can help them compete in the world's job market. For teachers, there's a free fantastic resource that can help us give students those skills: Google Classroom.
Here are six benefits of this tool when used in the classroom:
1. Exposure to an Online Learning Platform
Today, many colleges require students to take at least one online class during the course of their degree work. In fact, if you get a master's degree in education, some of your coursework could be online. Unfortunately, many students have never had any experience with online education. That is why you really want to make sure to give your students as much exposure to it as possible at a young age. Google Classroom is an easy way to help students with this transition because it is super user-friendly, making it a great intro to technology.
2. Easy Access to Materials
Because everything is posted online, Google Classroom gives students access to materials no matter where they are. Gone are the days of lost rubrics or worksheets. Students who are absent can easily access classroom materials from home if necessary-this can really help save both you and your students a lot of stress in the long run.
3. Differentiation
Because you can set up many different classrooms, Google Classroom is a great tool for differentiation. If you're working on a concept in class and have groups working at two different levels, simply create two different classes for that unit. That way you can better reach out to those who are struggling with their own kind of work without making them feel bad or stupid.
This can help you give out assignments on a more individual basis and really reach out to certain students as well. You can even split everyone into groups that you think they will be able to work the best in. Google Classroom is a great, flexible way to ensure that every student gets just what they need, and you can easily delete and recreate classes as you see fit.
4. Less Paper
When used to run an entire class, Google Classroom can virtually get rid of paper consumption. As long as students have access to the internet, all classwork can be handled online. This means no copies and ultimately less money for your district.
5. No Lost Work
Students can't lose work if they don't physically have it in their presence. Since they are usually working in Google Drive, everything saves automatically and excuses dwindle. With a few short lessons concerning how to properly use these online tools, students can experience more success getting organized.
6. Engagement
It's been proven time and time again that students are engaged by technology. Google Classroom can help students become and stay engaged in the learning process. If you have students answer questions in Classroom, for example, other students can comment on these answers and deepen thought for both students.
Overall, using Google Classroom is definitely worthwhile. It can save you a lot of time and energy, and can help you to better prepare your students for the future.
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By Kara Masterson - Here are six ways that teachers can use Google Classroom to save time and energy while improving education outcomes.