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http://www.ThingLink.com In this video learn all about ThingLink, a website which can be a great instructional tool for content creation projects. Thinglink allows users to take an image and "tag" it - allowing for linked websites, images, and movies. Teachers can sign up for a ThingLink EDU account which gives them the option to automatically create and monitor student accounts.

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There's a good chance you've done the "write on a sticky note and put it on the wall" activity - or have seen it happen before.
Padlet lets those sticky notes have images, links and videos AND be available with practically any Internet-ready device.
It used to be blocked by my school's Internet filter. This school year, the powers that be have allowed it through on student devices, opening up lots of possibilities in class!

Padlet is a great place for gathering ideas, sharing them and modifying them later. It's like a living, breathing webpage. Users can add links, YouTube videos, files and images to Padlet notes. They can move and arrange them. A link to a Padlet can be shared and Padlets can be embedded into webpages.

Here are 20 ways to use Padlet in class:

15. Collect videos to share in class

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I follow a lot of tech ed forums (like Larry Ferlazzo, Richard Byrne, and Alice Keeler) as a way of keeping up with technology in the classroom trends and what teachers are using in their classrooms. The last few months, it's been Thinglink. I've received more than a handful of questions about this technology in the classroom on my Ask a Tech Teacher Q&A column and it's popped up in many education discussions about inquiry assessments and year-end summatives. I met Thinglink a few years ago and -- like colleagues -- was so excited, it often became a favored part of my technology in the classroom lesson plans to enable students to share their knowledge.

Then, I got away from it. Like Typing Club (a few years ago, this was everyone's go-to online keyboarding program and then fizzled away), the tech ed opinion leaders moved on. Me, too. I read about so many new tools that I got sidetracked from this phenomenally versatile, robust, and differentiated tool. When I went back and took a second look, I again was soundly impressed and came up with lots of ways to integrate it into my workflow.

Before I get into those, let me back up and explain Thinglink: It is an interactive media platform that allows students to use multimedia content and links to share their knowledge and tell their story by tagging images or videos with hotspots that include additional information.

This includes photos, videos, maps, pictures, and drawings. Completed projects can be collected into channels that are then shared with colleagues or select students. They can also be shared via social media, a link, or embedded into blogs or websites. With the new addition of 360-degree images and virtual reality (available on the upgraded platform), it has again become one of the most exciting learning tools in the educator's toolkit.

Sign into your Thinglink account (can be a personal account or an education account, which allows for classes and students).

Click "Create" to start a Thinglink; choose a background from your local computer, the web (after reminding students how to safely use online images), or a variety of Cloud accounts.

Add hotspots that link the viewer to multimedia resources (again, after discussing the safe and legal use of online media). This includes text, images, videos, and audio recordings. Beware: They must be hosted in the cloud and accessible via a link, not on the local device.

Save; share; e-mail; embed.

Thinglink works on desktops and mobile platforms as well as VR systems, and is recommended for ages 13+.

Pros

With the focus on multimedia resources, Thinglink allows students to differentiate for their learning style. Text, images, audio, and other options are all intuitive to add.

Education rates are affordable -- $35 a year for pretty much unlimited students. The free basic covers one class and 100 students -- perfect for a small private school or a homeschool setup.

The site includes a wide variety of tutorials to explain Thinglink's varied tools.

Channels not only include original work by the student, but can be used to curate topical Thinglinks from the community.

Cons

Student logins require an e-mail address, which not all students will have (although, to clarify: Once in their Thinglink account, they can use a teacher-generated code to join the class).

Options for Thinglink hotspot icons are limited in the Basic account.

Educational Applications

Here are ten ways you may find Thinglink perfect for your classroom:

1. Create infographics and graphic organizers to visually explain a complex topic.

2. Design and share interactive digital posters.

3. Write a digital storybook with a connect-the-dots Thinglink (replace with color-coded hotspots or numbers, which may require an upgrade).

4. Curate resources for a topic or project and share with students.

5. Share out an image to students and ask them to annotate it with hotspots discussing what they see. This can serve as a formative or summative assessment.

6. World language or ESL/ELL teachers can add audio or video links to images that clarify understanding.

7. Create a class picture with quick student-written information to share with parents or grade-level teachers. This is best accomplished by creating a class account that students access with a common login.

8. Create a simpler-to-build Prezi by numbering the hotspots and have students click through them in order (numbers may require an upgrade).

9. Create a digital portfolio of student work over the course of a year, to be shared with parents at open house or the next year's grade-level team.

10. Create a timeline of events that includes appropriate multimedia resources.

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Thinglink makes differentiation easy, as students select the tools that work best for their communication style.

More on visual learning:
47 Visual Learning Options for your PBL Visual Learning Resources Storyboard That-Digital Storyteller, Graphic Organizer, and more
has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for six blogs, an book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to . You can find her resources at

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Create an avatar
and connect with Your Digital Self through multimedia. Create links to whatever it is that helps you define your digital self. Revisit it often as your digital self emerges.

Answer and Essential Question

Embrace research, learn through multimedia, draw, create and design as you construct knowledge to answer an essential question.

The Gettysburg address has been wordled here to display the most
frequently used words. Kickoff a multimedia exploration into their meaning and gain an understanding of the text.

Vocabulary development is an attainable goal that extends across all areas of the curriculum. The Common Core suggests that it's important to target deep understanding of words that cannot be acquired through independent reading.

Teachers and students can extend the learning by posting messages, holding online discussions, and working with ThingLink images through Edmodo. Publish an interactive graphic to be explored prior to class to front load the learning, provide students with background knowledge and level the playing field to prepare students for success in class

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Spend time planning an organized project then take advantage of valuable instructional time interacting with groups of students engaged in the learning.

I always include built in tech support when designing student driven learning experiences in order to keep the focus on the content, not the technology. Help students be independent problem solvers.

Grab a book jacket and bring a treasured book to life. Collect resources, ask students give students a voice, record a review and be sure to include a trailer. Then publish your collection for all to see and explore.

A ThingLink Toolkit of Resources

I am pleased to offer a ThingLink Toolkit of resources for teachers and students. Watch video tutorials to learn how, integrate with web 2.0 tools, check out more uses for teaching and learning that are aligned to the Common Core. Ask a question.

Susan Oxnevad is an educator, EdTech consultant and designer who is passionate about using technology as a tool for learning. Susan has been a classroom teacher and an active instructional technology facilitator in Chicagoland for more than two decades. She provides professional development for busy teachers via a variety of online and in-person platforms. Susan blogs about thoughtful ways to incorporate technology as an efficient and effective tool for learning on her own blog, Cool Tools for 21st Century Learners. Follow her on Twitter @soxnevad

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When I first learned about ThingLink late last summer, I was immediately impressed. My mind started racing about all the ways that ThingLink could be used by teachers, students and even beyond the classroom. If you're not familiar with ThingLink, it makes images interactive. How do you make an image interactive? You upload a still image to ThingLink, and then you can add little icons on top of the image. Those icons become hyperlinks to other web media- websites, articles, videos, sound clips, and much more. Not only can you link to external content, but students can type their own responses onto an icon. I've embedded a ThingLink featured example by Molly below, so you can see it in action.

Now tell me that isn't AWESOME?!

So, now that you're hooked, what are some of the ways you could use ThingLink in your classroom? I've just included the tip of the iceberg below; the ideas are truly endless.

1. Have students create one for a summative assessment in place of a typical test.

2. Use a book cover image and have students include links about the book, characters, plot, etc. for an end of book project.

3. Use the image of a map, and include links with information about the area, like this one, or this one, or this one.

4. Use an image of a person or character and include links about their life and their important contributions to history or the topic being covered.

5. Include an image of a body system and include links about how it works. For example, the skeletal system.

6. Foreign language teachers (or ESL/ELL classrooms) could use an image of a familiar scene, like a family cooking in the kitchen, and include links to recorded sound clips about what's going on in each part of the picture in the language being studied.

7. Create a "getting to know you" ThingLink using a group photo and include links to teacher's websites, bios about seniors for senior night, etc.

8. Use it as a beginning of the year/course ice breaker by having students upload a picture of themselves and including links to content that describes them and things they like. Students can comment on one another's published ThingLinks.

9. Search the database of ThingLinks others have created and shared to see if there's already something out there you can use.

10. Create an entire lesson in one ThingLink, by including links to sound clip instructions, video content and links to assignments or quizzes. See a great example here.

11. Use the image of a book cover and include a video link to the book trailer to preview the book before reading it.

12. Scan and upload an image of a worksheet, and include links to videos and websites that will help them solve the problems/answer the questions if they get stuck.

13. Have students create a portfolio by linking to their work in all other webtools you use in class: blog posts, videos they created, scanned images or pictures of non-digital work.

14. Depending on how big your school is, you could create and upload a map of your school. Then include a link over each classroom to information about that teacher, like their Twitter handle, class website, class LMS page(s), a written bio right in ThingLink, a recorded welcome sound clip from that teacher, etc.

15. Create an image collage, upload it to ThingLink and then include links about each image. For example, you could create a collage of different geographic land forms like this one.

16. Upload a picture of the periodic table of elements and include a link to a video or information about each element (or the ones you're studying at the time). Sort of like the Periodic Videos site.

17. Include links to videos demonstrating how to preform certain skills, like this push up example.

18. Upload an image of your school and include links to information and videos about your school: clubs and activities you offer, your mission statement, academic offerings, promotional videos, and more. Then embed it on your school's website!

19. Put a twist on Friday's current events discussion by asking students to not only find an article, but find an image that relates to their chosen event/topic, upload it to ThingLink, include a link to the original article as well as other links, videos, etc. that relate to the article and what you're studying in class. You could even ask the students to include a link to an audio recording of themselves discussing their current event.

20. Create instructions for a new website, device, or process like this one.

One of the things I like the most about this tool, is that no matter the project or access to technology, you can incorporate ThingLink into your class. You, as the teacher, could create one that students will use to preview/review information or complete an assignment. Students could work in groups or on their own to create one, depending on their access to technology and devices inside and outside of the classroom. If you have very little access to technology in your classroom and you still want students to create their own, you could assign individual students or groups pieces of the project to research and prepare. Then have the groups take turns adding their links to the full class ThingLink image. As you can see with how all over the board these ideas are, there are so many ways you could use this tool in an educational environment.

How are you using ThingLink with your students and in your schools? If you're using it, please share a link to an example in the comments.

Tech To You Later!
-Katie

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When I first learned about ThingLink late last summer, I was immediately impressed. My mind started racing about all the ways that ThingLink could be used by teachers, students and even beyond the classroom. If you're not familiar with ThingLink, it makes images interactive. How do you make an image interactive?

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"An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail." by Edwin Land

Thinglink was introduced to me when I was at the NC Technology in Education Society (NCTIES) Conference during a presentation by Richard Byrne (@rmbryne). I thought it was a really great FREE web tool but was disappointed it didn't also have an app. A few weeks ago, Thinglink launched their FREE app, which I love!

What is Thinglink? Thinglink makes pictures interactive with text, video, images and links. When you click on a Thinglink image, you'll see symbols such as red video circles and dots where it is interactive. Thinglink has endless possibilities in education. My top 3 ways of using it in education are below:

1. Student Portfolios: Teachers can use a picture of a student and through-out the year, students can add images of their work or video to show mastery of content. By doing this each quarter the teachers, students and parents can see the progress over the year. Each corner of the picture could represent each quarter/semester.

2. Assessment, Projects and Presentation: Students can create Thinglinks to show their understanding for any Common Core or Essential Standard. Teachers can have a rubric setting the expectation for what they want in the Thinglink. For example you could require, two text boxes, a link and a video. Or you can set the expectation that the student must show mastery of a standard, and the student has a little more freedom to determine what that looks like. Having the students creating Thinglinks lets them use all their 21st century skills of critical thinking, creating, communicating and collaborating (if they work with a partner).

- Ex of Assessment: The student can draw out any topic, for example the water cycle or a math problem, using the free Skitch app. The student can save it to their camera roll and then create a Thinglink demonstrating their knowledge by adding recordings, text and links explaining their thinking.

- Ex of a project: The students can make book reports by taking a picture of the book cover and embedding a movie trailer that they have created for the book. Or for non-fiction the student could find a picture of the person like Steve Jobs, and they can show their understanding of the book. Click here for my example, I chose to do a favorite quote and speech.

A fabulous teacher, Lisa Maples, embedded her class Thinglink into her wiki, as an end of year project. There are links to various digital projects that the students have created. http://maples.cmswiki.wikispaces.net/Thinglink+2012-2013

3. Lesson Plans and Homework: Teachers can create Thinglinks to help differentiate lessons and homework. Using any image, the teacher can add the content they want the students to know. You can even spice up graphic organizers and info-graphics.

- Ex of a Lesson Plan: The teacher can take a picture of an ecosystem and add all the vocabulary words and/or videos that can help the students learn the topic.

- Ex of Homework: This is a great way to flip the classroom. You can embed videos and practice problems on a topic and have the students complete for homework. Click here for an example using comparing fractions.

Thinglinks are easy to create on both the website and in the app. First create an account at thinglink.com (it is free). If you want to create a Thinglink on the app, download it, and then sign in. Using the pictures in your camera roll, chose one and then tap anywhere on the picture. Here you add the content you want such as video or text, add a title and you are done. You can share it by emailing the link from the app but it also automatically syncs; when you log into your account through the website, you can share it many more ways. If you are creating a Thinglink on the website, click on create in the top right corner and chose an image that is on your computer or for a website (make sure it is a creative commons imagine) and add your content. That is it, I love free and simple!

Any of these Thinglinks can be made into a QR code as well. You can have these posted around the room as helping aids or to inform the students. Just copy the url and paste into any QR code creator such as qrstuff or follow my directions on my blog post about making QR code in google drive.

I would love to hear how you have used Thinglink or want to use it in your classroom, please share in the comments or on this open Thinglink I created by clicking edit and adding your idea. (To make a Thinglink where anyone can add info, click on the edit tab and set your settings to anyone.) Another great way to have students collaborate in the classroom.

Follow me on Thinglink: Edu_Thompson. Here are some more great Thinglinks done by other educators! Click on the links to view.
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A buncee a day keeps the doldrums away- ain't that the truth?! Whether you and your students use buncee to create lessons, digital stories, presentations, research reports, or interactive projects, there is no denying that buncee-ing is addictingly fun. With tons of stickers, animations, multimedia functionality, and great style, creating with buncee brightens the day and makes it easy to express your creativity. We love showcasing all the ways you can use buncee for your class projects and events , and we love hearing all the our amazing educators use buncee, too. Today, though, we wanted to share a few examples of ways you can use buncee every single day in your classroom.
"Morning Meetings"
Wake up your class with a "Morning Meeting." Create an engaging agenda for the day using text, stickers, and animations! It's time for A's, not Zzzz's.
"Every Day Mini Lessons"
Send your students home with a quick lesson review or mini lesson. Record your voice, and turn any environment into a classroom.
"Templates"
Save your time and take advantage of creating with buncee's edu templates for your daily activities! Learn more about our
"Do Nows"
We all need a little exercise, right?! Start off each class with a quick brain boosting exercise to get your students in the learning mood.
"Parent Communication"
Send your students' parents some positive feedback with a buncee! Include student work with pictures, videos, or even student creations.

Pssst... you can use buncee's email tracker to see which parents reallyyy open your emails...
"Imaginative Writing Prompts"
Enhance your students' imaginations and writing skills with fun, imaginative prompts!
"Exit Tickets"
Finished with class and ready to go? End the day with a quick exercise to reaffirm the day's lesson.

There are a million reasons to create with buncee everyday. Just find your inspiration, and let your creativity fly. Buncee is the perfect creation tool to make the ordinary extraordinary. Tell us what your daily buncee activities are! Reach out via social or email: info@buncee.com
*Bonus Activity* "Student of the Week"
Highlight a student every week to encourage hard work, perseverance, and good behavior. Copy and create to save time, and upload a student photo to personalize your buncee.

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10 Things Students (and Teachers) Can Do with Buncee

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Buncee is a web- and iPad-based creation tool for both teachers and students. With it, teachers can prepare engaging lessons, newsletters, and how-tos. Students can write interactive digital stories, easy-to build presentations, and more. The drag-and-drop interface makes it simple to put exactly what you want where it fits. If you ever struggle with getting PowerPoint to do what you want, you won't with Buncee. It's intuitive, aligned with other programs you already know how to use, with virtually no learning curve.

Here's how it works: You log into your account and set up your class. You can invite up to thirty students (no student email required) and then manage their activities, assignment responses, and classwork from the teacher dashboard. A project is built like a slideshow-add new slides that appear in the sidebar and build them out with a wide variety of searchable multimedia-Buncee artwork, stickers, photos, videos, freehand drawings, audio, text, animations, YouTube videos, and links. You can add images from the web, your computer, or your DropBox account. You can even record your own voice as an overlay (requires premium) for a how-to video or a digital storybook. Completed projects can be saved as jpgs or PDFs, and then shared via email, QR Code, social media, or embedded into blogs and websites.

Pros

I love that the site is easy enough for kindergartners, but sophisticated enough for teacher lesson planning. It's the rare tool that blends simplicity with suave well enough that all stakeholders can feel proud of their work.

The site provides a library of prepared projects that teachers can use on everything from reading to math to science. Slide backgrounds include KWL charts, chalkboards, lined paper, calendars, desktop, outer space, and more. There are also a vast number of YouTube videos showing how to do many of the Buncee features (though most are simple enough, you won't need the help).

Buncee offers only kid-safe presentation pieces. You never have to worry that a search will end up with inappropriate items on student screens.

Cons

As any teacher knows, desktop publishing and slideshows suffer if students simply throw multimedia at a canvas. Because of the ease in creating projects, it's tempting to do just that with Buncee. I'd like to see student-oriented videos with suggestions on design, layout, color, and how to blend these into a useful canvas.

Buncee uses the freemium model-free for a taste and fee for the full package. This is not so much a negative as what we've come to expect. The extras of a paid subscription may be exactly what you need in your classroom.

Insider information

I like that a search of any key word includes all media related to the topic. That makes it quick to come up with everything you need for a flier themed to wildlife, science, history, or any other topic.

Buncee is COPPA compliant, so if a student is under the age of 13, they need parental consent to sign up.

Education applications

Here are ten ways Buncee can be used in the classroom:

Assign a project to students, review and grade submissions, and track progress.

Create a lesson that includes elements of all communication styles-text, audio, video, color, and more. Students learn many different ways. With Buncee, you can address all of them without adding hours to your lesson planning.

Cards, fliers, newsletters, and announcements

Greeting cards and fliers are quick, authentic projects that reinforce student writing skills. They can be adaptive projects for youngers or class exit tickets for olders. Have students create fliers for an upcoming Movie Night or birthday cards for family and friends. Teachers: You can build a visual, engaging parent newsletter in minutes (well, about thirty, but with none of the stress that usually comes with newsletter creators) or announcements for upcoming school events.

Each slide includes just a few sentences, images, maybe a video, and a voice overlay. Then, play the Buncee on auto-advance to read it like a storybook.

Mix illustrations and audio to create purpose-built, step-by-step directions for any skill. These can be created by teachers for students, or by students to reinforce essential sequencing skills.

Have students create one slide a day, with a blend of multimedia elements. By the end of the school year, they have a movie of their accomplishments for Open House.

With the infinite canvas created by endless slides, you can easily build, add to, organize, and rearrange a lesson plan. This is especially important if you run a flipped classroom and your students work independently the night before class.

Anytime you think of using slideshows, use Buncee instead. It is more intuitive, easier to share, with none of the typical sticking points that frustrate students and prevent them from communicating their great ideas.

Create a slide with the words or phrases. Add a voice over to clarify pronunciation.

Teachers can write anything from words to formulae and then decode them with a voice-over. Or, students can share vocabulary words and record their own voices using them in authentic sentences.

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With Buncee, it's easy to make any lesson dynamic and adaptive to each student's learning style. It is a great addition to your teacher toolkit.
-published first on TeachHUB Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum, K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. She is an adjunct professor in tech ed, CSG Master Teacher, webmaster for six blogs, an Amazon Vine Voice book reviewer, Editorial Review Board member for Journal for Computing Teachers, CAEP reviewer, CSTA presentation reviewer, freelance journalist on tech ed topics, and a weekly contributor to TeachHUB. You can find her resources at Structured Learning.

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I stumbled upon wizer.me earlier this year, and immediately put it on my "to-check-out" list. I typically steer away from "worksheets," and try to create interactive activities where my students can apply knowledge of course content. To do this, I create "modules," which are really just assignment bundles, that I digitally assign my students through Google Classroom.

Lately, I've been thinking about how I can jazz up the modules I share with my students, to include more interactive content to enhance their learning experience.

I thought about creating mini eBooks for each unit using Google Slides - maybe a techified version of interactive notebooks ... and this is still a possibility.

However, I looked back to my "to-check-out" list ... which is really just a Pinterest board ... and remembered wizer.me.

My immediate take-a-ways? WOW! This is an AH-MAZING tool for classrooms! It's so easy to use!

AND...I can assign these "interactive-sheets" through Google Classroom! Bam!

Lots of exclamation marks, I know ... but wizer.me really is fantastic. Here's a quick guide to help you get started.

->> Access wizer.me

->>Select Start Now!

->> Sign in with Google ... if you are a Google user, of course! The Google single sign-on is a feature that I look for (and LOVE) in EdTech tools.

->>Select "EXPLORE" at the top of the screen. Search already created worksheets to get inspiration or to use with your students!

->>Select "CREATE" to begin the super-simple task of creating your own interactive worksheets!

->> Enter information about your worksheet

->> Choose your background image, colors, and font ... get creative!!! Choose from many different background images and GOOGLE fonts!

->> Insert questions/activities/videos - set point values for each section you create

->> Assign to students - when you are finished with your awesome interactive worksheet, assign it to your students! Simply click "enter group," type the group/class name, then choose how to assign your activity.

->> Assign through Google Classroom - select the Classroom icon, select your class from the list, and choose how to share the activity with your students

->> Share your worksheet with ANYONE!

->> View student work

As you know, I'm a HUGE fan of great tools like Nearpod and EDpuzzle. I can include lessons from these great sites in interactive worksheets I create with wizer.me by adding an embed code to my activity. I created a study guide for my dual credit Western Civilizations summer class with wizer.me, and was able to include all of the Nearpod presentations from the course on the study guide. My students loved it!

The only learning curve I can forsee with wizer.me is that student progress doesn't save automatically. My students are so accustomed to working in Google Drive where all of their work is saved without selecting a save button. However, simple reminders to save work should solve the issue 🙂

Check out my Western Civilizations Study Guide here for an example of wizer.me in action!

I will most definitely be using wizer.me during the school year! I'm so excited to share these interactive activities with my students!

Thanks for reading 🙂

P.S. Don't forget to check out my Google Chrome eCourse, now available for only $15! My Google Classroom eCourse is in the works, and should be ready soon!

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I stumbled upon wizer.me earlier this year, and immediately put it on my "to-check-out" list. I typically steer away from "worksheets," and try to create interactive activities where my students can apply knowledge of course content. To do this, I create "modules," which are really just assignment bundles, that I digitally assign my students through Google Classroom.

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