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This is a great way to get started if you need a few ideas. It includes I CAN statements and read aloud options.

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Changing usernames to all lowercase using  Google add-on 'change case.'

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Changing usernames to all lowercase using  Google add-on 'change case.'

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There are pre-made breakouts and you can create your own with various games.

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Deck.Toys - Learning Paths for Lesson Adventures

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Just drag-and-drop your teaching content to build paths and activities for your students.

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GIVE ME 5 posters that we saw at the Whitesides Lab

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This file contains full page posters to be displayed on the wall or bulletin boards. Each page contains a rule and clipart. Give me 5 Save your work and exit the programs Put your headphones away Straighten your keyboard and mouse Gather your materials and trash Push in your

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Book lists for various tech topics, such as: Digital Citizenship, Online Safety, Coding, etc.

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In 2016 I wrote a blog post about 10 Techie Themed Read Aloud Books and my list keeps growing! I wanted to compile all of the elementary picture books arranged by topic in one area. Let me know if you have any recommendations we can add to this list! **All links are Amazon affiliate links**

Also be sure to check out my post:5 Reasons to Use Technology Themed Picture Books to Help Reinforce Digital Citizenship.

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Online Safety

Reliable Sources

Digital Footprint

Email Etiquette

Other Books with "Techie" Themes

Calandra Jackson
Renuka Senaratne

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This blog is intended to give helpful tips and tricks for incorporating technology into your classroom.

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Kindergarten teacher, who integrates lots of tech. Great resource for tips for using GSuite with younger students.

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Cross Posted from innovatingplay.worldWritten By Christine Pinto and Jessica Twomey We are THRILLED to share THAT WE ARE WRITING A BOOK, and are SO honored and grateful that Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc. is representing us with this opportunity.

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Lots of great GSuite resources.

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Alice Keeler Teacher Tech blog provides tips and resources on teaching with Educational Technology EdTech.

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Website and blog. You can sign up for a newsletter and google classes and tutorials.

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Shake Up Learning in your classroom today!

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There are links to her TPT account and you can sign up for a newsletter. She sends free stuff sometimes and gives tips that are worth reading especially if you are new.

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Technology Teaching Resources with Brittany Washburn

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Quiz Making Tools

You can manage classes and quizzes, attach multimedia files to questions, utilize robust report tools, and make quizzes in multiple languages.

Create exams & assessments with advanced quiz settings such as time limits, public & private test access, randomize questions, instant feedback, video, audio, and ability to embed exams in Wordpress & Google Sites. Essay, multiple choice, matching, short answer & more question types.

This one has a question bank and templates as well as custom quiz creation, and includes aesthetic customization options. Randomize questions, shuffle answer options and set a time limit for answers. Add feedback for each question based on learner scores.

Visually appealing quizzes plus in-depth reporting and analytics. The platform also allows you to create other learning tools such as mind maps, flash cards, slides and even a full course builder.

Great for chromebook and otherwise Google dependent classrooms. You can insert files from Google Drive, choose from ten question types, and make an answer key on certain question types. Flubaroo quickly grades multiple-choice or fill-in-blank assignments.

You can create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises. It also allows you to set time limits, assign weights to different question types, offer hints at the expense of losing some points and set penalties for incorrect answers.

Quiz Makers for Engaging Test Prep & Review

Great for both in-person and distance learning, since students answer questions on their own devices.

Host live events where students answer timed questions or give student-paced challenges. You can create a quiz from scratch, use their question bank to mix and match questions, edit a template, or reuse existing games. Visual reports help you assess how the class performed, and identify difficult questions.

Students answer questions at their own pace, and each student will get exposure to the questions multiple times to ensure mastery. Assignments are taken care of and graded for you. Remote lesson plans with your content can be created in minutes.

You know what will work best in your classroom. If you try one thing and find it isn't working as well for you as you'd hoped, then try something else next time. Whenever you are considering a new quiz maker, here are the things you should be on the lookout for:

Supporting all the question types you may need

Auto-grading

Ease of quiz creation

Ease of login for students

Meaningful student data

Functionality such as changing due dates for absent students, or allowing retakes

Students and parents can log in to see graded quiz results

Ability to copy quizzes for re-use in other years/classes

Option to include images, sound bites or media clips

Engaging options for conducting quiz-like prep & review sessions

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Back to School Technology Activities to Jumpstart the School Year

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Quiz Making Tools You can manage classes and quizzes, attach multimedia files to questions, utilize robust report tools, and make quizzes in multiple languages. Create exams & assessments with advanced quiz settings such as time limits, public & private test access, randomize questions, instant feedback, video, audio, and ability to embed exams in Wordpress & Google Sites.

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This is the complete Instructor Handbook of Unplugged and Online Lesson Plans. It is 495 pages so bookmark it.

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Login Card template for more than one password

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Login Card template for more than one password

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VIA-Ms. Dentzman

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Here are do it yourself scratch cards attached. I printed and then laminated these so that students could use dry erase markers on them. I put velcro on the back of some to that they could 'code' a classmate who was wearing a cardbord strip where the blocks could be placed. It's a cheaper option anyway VIA-Ms. Waldron

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Kahn Academy has just published a cool challenge called Learn Storm. It is designed to help students in grade 3-12 to develop a growth mindset and start the year off strong! Check it out and share it will teachers. VIA-Emily Elliot
http://www.learnstorm2017.org/

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Khan Academy LearnStorm is a free, six-week learning challenge that helps students build skills and mindsets for a successful school year. Sign up opens Aug 15 and the challenge starts on Sep 12.

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It enlarges text that you want to display. Class codes, URLs you want kids to type.

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This extension allows the user's text to be displayed on screen on top of a web page in large type

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Here are two DC "games" that are great for your older students.
Friend Finder
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/games/off-site/ogol/_friend-finder.html
Invasion of the Wireless Hackers
https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/sites/default/files/games/off-site/ogol/_invasion-wireless-hakers.html

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Every day we are finding awesome uses for Google Apps, whether it's collaboration, individual creation, or perhaps a mix of both. With the volume of people working within the Google Apps ecosystem, why reinvent the wheel when many visionary educators have created great templates for students to use as a springboard for their work.

For those who know me, you know I'm going to say that there is a time and place for everything. Giving a student a template and expecting them to fill it with everything you want takes the creativity, personalization, and fun out of the work. I like teaching students about templates, perhaps providing a few options, and encouraging students to create their own if one doesn't fit their needs or style.

All that said, here are 5 templates that I've found in Google Apps that I love. For convenience, there is a Preview and Copy link provided for each.

What are your favorite templates? Leave them in the comments!

This magazine template is really full featured. Several pages are included in the layout and gives students a great opportunity to think about content and how to feature key pieces of information to make the reader want to keep reading.

Looking to create a quick student certificate in Google Docs? Use this template to create and either print or share with students digitally

Use this great infographic to have students either investigate the differences between two different concepts, things, people, etc. or to state a claim or idea and then unpack and explain the rationale. So many options here!

Students love Instagram. Pique their interest in a safe way by having them create an Instagram post that demonstrates their learning. Everything in this template is editable (username, comments, photo, etc).

Practical application posters like these have been around for a long time. This template is a great way for students to understand contextual creation and also do so in a expedited way (you know, instead of busting out the tagboard and markers - not that you shouldn't do that sometimes, too). Great for Social Studies lessons and portraying the antagonist in many novels in English.

One of the most important parts of the Breakout is the reflection process. Have students use this template to think about what worked and what didn't. How will that impact their decisions and future planning on working with groups?

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5 Awesome Google Docs, Slides, and Sheets Templates to Use With Students

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Every day we are finding awesome uses for Google Apps, whether it's collaboration, individual creation, or perhaps a mix of both. With the volume of people working within the Google Apps ecosystem, why reinvent the wheel when many visionary educators have created great templates for students to use as a springboard for their work.

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I learned from Christine Pinto an idea of modifying the slide layout to create layouts with different colored backgrounds. This allows different groups to contribute to the same Google Slides. Students are assigned to a color group and any slides that group contributes to the collaborative Google Slides utilizes that colored slide.

Template

alicekeeler.com/groupslides

Slides

Share the same Google Slides template with the entire class. Google Classroom users will be able to use the option "Students can edit file." Non Google Classroom users will want to click on the blue share button and change the sharing settings so that anyone with the link can edit or to explicitly share the Slides with edit access to the students in the class.

Groups

It is easier to share group work when all groups do their work in the same Google Slides presentation. After groups are created assign each group a color: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple.

Layouts

In the upper left part of the toolbar is a plus icon to add a slide. Next to the plus icon is an arrow to choose a layout. In the template, the layouts have been edited to be identical except for background color and group number in the bottom left. Students in the red group would choose the red slides to contribute to the collaborative presentation. Students in the yellow group would use the yellow layout.

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Google Slides Collaborative Template - Teacher Tech

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I learned from Christine Pinto an idea of modifying the slide layout to create layouts with different colored backgrounds. This allows different groups to contribute to the same Google Slides. Students are assigned to a color group and any slides that group contributes to the collaborative Google Slides utilizes that colored slide.