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I started this fun little edtech toilet training trend called “Learning in the Loo” many years ago.  Back in 2004-2008, I taught 5th grade Social Studies.  I started creating these Learning in the Loo posters for my students as a kind of study guide before our big benchmark tests.  As you can imagine, they were initially met with groans and awkward giggles, but the students quickly came to love them!  I hung them in the student restrooms inside all the stall doors, and yes, above urinals.  At first, I noticed a spike in the amount of bathroom visits, but guess what – I also noticed a real increase in student discussion about the topics, and also in test scores! With a “captive audience” and clear, purposeful information, it really worked effectively as a learning and reinforcement tool.  The students came to enjoy it so much that I eventually turned over responsibility for creating these Learning In The Loo posters to them – talk about pride in ownership!  I still have former students remind me how much fun we all had with that, and how they really DID “learn in the loo”!

Since then, I became an elementary school computer teacher, and am now a Technology Integration Specialist.  As an edtech leader in my schools, I knew that value that these Learning in the Loo posters could have on learning, but in my new role, my ‘students’ are teachers and my content is edtech.  So about 10 years ago, I began creating edtech tips, tools, and tidbits for teachers and hanging them in faculty/staff bathrooms.  I still called it “Learning In The Loo”, and the initial reaction from grown-ups was just the same as it was with the kids…groans and awkward giggles.  Soon enough, though, people started loving it!  To this day, I have staff remind me when I forget to update them.  I’ve had teachers suggest all kinds of topics.  I get tons of emails and conversations with teachers all the time who tell me that they tried something that they “learned in the loo”.  I’ve even recently had one or two brave souls admit that scanned a QR code to access bonus content while they were…ummm…in there.

Back in 2016, I started sharing Learning in the Loo as part of presentations I was doing outside of my district.  I had a favorite presentation called “Innovative Tech PD and Integration”, which I first shared at Bacon Bytes conference in Millville, NJ.  I think every single person who attended ran back to their schools and started creating Learning In The Loo opportunities for their own staff!  I had so many follow-up emails, tweets, and messages about it that I immediately created the now-famous Twitter hashtag #LearningInTheLoo, and soon after developed a Padlet so that everyone who was doing this could share and borrow ideas! There are now hundreds of crowdsourced ideas on this Padlet, thanks to a generous and creative #LearningInTheLoo community!

Well, needless to say, this has REALLY caught on – thanks to Twitter!  If you’re interested in trying it, take a look at this #LearningInTheLoo Padlet and help yourself to ideas that are here! That’s what it’s for.  When you’re ready, you can pay-it-forward by sharing creations of your own.

You can also get a lot of additional ideas by searching the hashtag #LearningInTheLoo on Twitter.  ⚠️ I will say that a few folks have kind of tried to rebrand this idea with a different hashtag or two, including #ToiletTalk and even #PottyPD.  As a true educator, I think sharing in any form is great, but I also believe in proper attribution, so I always kindly direct people back to the original hashtag and the original idea.  You’ll often notice that when I tweet my standard post about #LearningInTheLoo, I immediately follow it with a tweet that links back to another post I’ve written called Innovate, Emulate, Duplicate…A Digital Citizenship Discussion. It’s just my subtle reminder to celebrate good digital citizenship among educators. Oh, and if you see a really awesome Loo idea posted out there on Twitter, no matter the hashtag, you can help the “movement” by kindly asking the poster to share it over on the #LearningInTheLoo Padlet so that we can all benefit from sharing and having a giant collection of crowdsourced resources all in one place!

I very much look forward to seeing your Padlet contributions to our #LearningInTheLoo community!

Thanks so much!

Kathi Kersznowski  ( @kerszi )

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I always imagined having handouts preprinted on rolls. Tear off and go!
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Here is a link to all of my Learning in the Loos from last year! Feel free to use!

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Here is a link to all of my Learning in the Loos from last year! Feel free to use!

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I don't do Learning in the Loo (there's a story why), but my school does a weekly bulletin. Here is a running Doc of my Tech Tips.

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Three Easy things to do with your iPad or Iphone

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Three Easy things to do with your iPad or Iphone

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Learning in the Loo 4.docx - Microsoft Word Online

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I create my Loo posters in Google slides. This deck has 20+ different posters ready to print ... that's 20 weeks of Learning in the Loo!

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I create my Loo posters in Google slides. This deck has 20+ different posters ready to print ... that's 20 weeks of Learning in the Loo!

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https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vtAha_709HBUf4bDUX2UhHZxPnViXroH3eQ6Hrlw3z4

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I create my Loo posters in Google Slides; the deck has 20+ posters ready to print ... that's 20 weeks of Learning in the Loo for your school!
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1vtAha_709HBUf4bDUX2UhHZxPnViXroH3eQ6Hrlw3z4

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I found these from Jessica Johnston. Shared hers in our "Loos" at my schools and made more on my own topics. It was rather funny though, some people did not want me to intrude on their "personal" time with "school stuff!" So enough was enough for that session - but I am preparing to push on and try, try again!
https://sites.google.com/site/goointheloo/goo-in-the-loo-posters

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I found these from Jessica Johnston. Shared hers in the "Loos" at my schools and created more on my own topics. It was rather funny though, some people did not want me to intrude on their "personal" time with "school stuff!" So enough was enough for that session - but I am preparing to push on and try, try again!
https://sites.google.com/site/goointheloo/goo-in-the-loo-posters

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I posted all of the ones that I had that  weren't specific to our Office 365 platform (which is a lot of them)
I wanted to thank you all for sharing these, and to Kathi for giving me such a great idea. I will say that I can email the same information and get no response, but when it is in the bathroom, I get such great feedback. People even steal them! I've been playing around with QR codes in the bottom of some of them that takes them to screen casts for my more involved tips. I will keep adding them to my website here

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The P.I.T. Stop- Where Pedagogy Meets Technology

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The P.I.T. Stop- Where Pedagogy Meets Technology

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This is my first issue and it has been a hit! Thank you for all of the inspiration. Also, classroomscreen.com will turn you into an instant rock star with your teachers!

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This is the page with all of the Learning in the Loos that I have done at my school, Roberta Bondar Public School in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

I also print off a copy to put in a binder in our staff room.

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Below are the various Learning in the Loos that have been posted at Roberta Bondar 2017-2018 May 7 - 3 Act Math - created by Laura Wheeler based on the work of Dan Meyer March 26 - Continuum of Student Voice - created by Sylvia Duckworth based on the work of Barbara Bray and Kathleen

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@EdTechVal here and here is my collection of Chrome Keyboard Shortcuts.

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Student privacy is an issue that I am always trying to bring to the table. We love all of those free resources out there, but are they safe? This provides some decent bathroom reading for your teachers. @EdTechVal

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This came as a request from our IT Dept. What is the best way to access your help desk? @EdTechVal

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PD in the Potty - I have done about 5 so far and my teachers love them!

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PD in the Potty - I have done about 5 so far and my teachers love them!

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There are SO many fantastic resources on Twitter for educators and I created this little Twitter 101 for our teachers. @EdTechVal

Share the Tweet: https://twitter.com/EdTechVal/status/1005227560555302912

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Thanks for this clever idea shared by my pal Bruce Reicher @breicher

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Windows Tab & organize your life

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Learning in the Loo - Formative Assessment

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Learning in the Loo - Formative Assessment

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Our teachers are always looking for new ways to increase student engagement and  roll out quick formative assessments - these tools accomplish both!

@EdTechVal

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Using @IFTTT

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You have all inspired me. Thanks for sharing all of yours. I finally made one of my own. Yay!

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Here’s my monthly technology update that I post in the toilet

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This is just a cool trick! Keep your favorite pages right at your fingertips.

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"Learning in the Loo" November Issue - Lexington Middle School, SC

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"Learning in the Loo" November Issue - Lexington Middle School, SC

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Shoutout to Melanie LeJeune - I copied her Focus Assist idea (it's called Quiet Hours on our computers).

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Came across this on Twitter from Tan Huynh- very good stuff!

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All educators are teachers of language, but not every educator has time to learn the strategies to teach language. That's the purpose of Bathroom Briefs (BB). Each Monday, I physically post a new BB in the faculty bathroom. They offer a quick, easily accessible strategy that can be used cross-content.

You are free to use these, modify them, translate them as needed. Please just reference that you got them from the site. I'd love to see them and share them on Twitter, so please tag me (@TanKHuynh) in your tweets when you tape them up in your schools or when you create your own.

In the December 2019/January 2020 issue of ASCD's Education Leadership, Bathroom Briefs was featured as something newsworthy for teachers.

I've created classroom-ready posters for these academic command terms for you to post in your classroom. I hope they support your ELs in all classes, not just their English.

Bathroom Brief # 6 to 8 will be sharing sentence stems with you. I have found it an indispensable tool to scaffold EL's production of ideas. However, the legendary Jana Echevarría strongly encourages that we differentiate the sentence stems. She recommended that they not be too basic for the more advanced students nor be too complex for the developing ELs. If we have a group of five ELs, there might be three different sentence stems to support ELs to share their thinking.

Here's an article she wrote on the topic called " Are Language Frames Good for Learners?" When Jana recommends something, I listen because she is one of the creators of the sheltered immersion (SIOP) approach.

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Bathroom Briefs | ELL Strategies | Empowering ELLs

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ELL Bathroom Briefs are one page infographs offering quick, easily accessible ELL strategies that can be used across cross-content areas.

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This is the site I created to house all of our Potty PD. Please feel free to download and use.

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This site contains the NEW EdTech on the Go One Pagers and Quick Tip videos. Please feel free to download and use at your school. Follow the #LearningInTheLoo and #PottyPD on Twitter for other examples that people have created.

For any of the resources here, feel free to click the pop out option in the top right corner of the image. Then you can print it, or make a copy to save and share in your Google Classroom, site, etc. Click the Feedback tab to fill out a form if you would like to request a EdTech on the Go be made for you and your school.

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Welcome to the EdTech on the Go website! This site contains the NEW EdTech on the Go One Pagers and Quick Tip videos. Please feel free to download and use at your school. Follow the #LearningInTheLoo and #PottyPD on Twitter for other examples that people have created.

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This is a link to my Google Drive folder for this year's Tech While You Tinkle.

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I'm Kyla Jeter (@kyla_jeter) and I'm a Tech Coach in Spartanburg, SC. Here's my collection of #ToiletPaperTech tips. I publish a new issue every month!

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For an editable collection of my "Things to Learn on the Loo" click the link: http://bit.ly/learnontheloo

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10 Reasons to Stop Hiding in Your Classroom from @mrslepre

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10 Reasons to Stop Hiding in Your Classroom from @mrslepre

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Created in Google Drawings. Feel free to copy and modify

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Hints, tips & nudges to be more effective

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Made with Google Drawings- feel free to copy or modify for your purposes

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How to use the translate tool in Immersive Reader in OneNote

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How students can translate text in conversation space in Teams to their native language.

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In McKinney, TX we’ve been calling this Toilet Paper Tech.  I’ll gladly share my collection of the mini-posters I’ve made!  Thank YOU for sharing! 👍🏼 -@MrsAColwell

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Feel free to copy and edit for your needs! http://bit.ly/Tech2Go

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Here's the view only link to my Keeping up at the Copier for the 2019-20 school year. It is still a rough draft , but feel free to make a copy and tweak it to fit your needs- I am taking Sara Campbell's "Learning in the Loo" as my tech tips!

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See all the wonderful things Mr. G. has made

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Found these awesome one page templates and customized them to my own, teachers love monthly "tissue" haha!

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Use Outlook Calendar to categorize all your PD for the year with simple color codes!

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Use Outlook Calendar to categorize all your PD for the year with simple color codes!

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PD on the GO (played with the idea of calling it Pee-D)

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PD on the GO (played with the idea of calling it Pee-D)

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We decided to make a dynamic QR code so we wouldn't have to go to all the bathrooms in the district each month to update our PD (Pee D?)

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vRQy5CC2pKBYx33rH8SQoRxwRom3G6zVGB9-w0jX3tt5ZdEEsjFz3h6ETGlj3mHZZYu07J3YzCof0Hv/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=60000

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🚽 My latest #LearningInTheLoo went out to faculty restrooms in all the #WTPSEdTech elementary schools today!  It features super fun brain breaks - UJU Brain Breaks playlist on YouTube!  Highly recommend! 

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🚽 My latest #LearningInTheLoo went out to faculty restrooms in all the #WTPSEdTech elementary schools today!  It features super fun brain breaks - UJU Brain Breaks playlist on YouTube!  Highly recommend! 

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Thank you so very much for helping me provide tech tips to my teachers.

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Paula Reed@PaulaReed

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This is a collection of the newsletters posted in the teacher restrooms at RMS.

Social Emotional - Art May 11-15

MECA 2022

"Kissing Sarah Smart" by Justina Ireland

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This is a collection of the newsletters posted in the teacher restrooms at RMS.