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Free tools for teaching - printable worksheets, classroom printables and on-line worksheet templates with images

from Tools for Educators. Use these free worksheets to print, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with pictures or classroom materials for kids. They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful. I hope your students (and you) enjoy the resources.

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from Tools for Educators. Use these free worksheets to print, game makers, and programs for teachers to make and print teaching resources with pictures or classroom materials for kids. They are simple, but beautiful, versatile and powerful. I hope your students (and you) enjoy the resources.

Free Word Search Maker with images for hints or with text hints. You choose! Generate a free printable wordsearch with pictures and choose the text that goes in the puzzle. You can make a custom word search in seconds, but it looks great.

The Dice Maker: Generate printable dice with images or text on each face of the dice. You can print one or two dice at a time and even mix and match text and images. These are great for foreign language teachers.

Printable Board Games: make board games with images, images mixed with text, or all text. Use the all text version to create printable math board games. There are currently games for over twenty themes but more to come! Two styles and 4 themes to choose from:
Galactic Challenge, Fantasy Park, Cute Animals.

A looping Board Game - a racing theme game. More board games: Bounce Around

Free Crossword Puzzle Maker with images for hints or with text hints. You choose! Generate a free printable crossword with pictures or choose the text only option to create your puzzle. You can make a printable crossword puzzle in seconds, but it looks great. You can even generate a crossword and word search on the same worksheet!

Free Bingo Board Maker: make bingo boards with images or all text. Use the all text version to create printable math bingo games on-line. There are currently 3x3 bingo boards and 4x4 bingo boards.

Crisscross Bingo is another bingo board creator. It creates bingo boards for use in conversational activities.

Free Maze Maker with content squares to enter text or images in the mazes. Use the text version to create printable math mazes and math games. There are spaces for students to answer questions about the content squares, make sentences, answer math question, or other questions in the content squares.

The Domino Maker: You can make dominoes with text on the left and images on the right. You can print up to 10 per page. Many different

vocabulary categories

to choose from and eventually over 1500 words that match the vocabulary from MES English.

Spelling Worksheet Maker and Reading Sheet Wizard: make spelling worksheets where students select the correct spelling of words or have the students write the correct spelling. There are 3 different reading worksheet makers:

choose the correct spelling, read and choose the picture, read and write

Free Writing, Spelling and Tracing Worksheets: Create spelling practice sheets, free writing worksheets and tracing handouts with images of your choice. Students can write one vocabulary word or a few sentences about the picture. Or create a board where students draw their own picture!

and Award Certificate Maker: create awards for over 70 different themes in 1000+ different styles. All text is 100% customizable so you can make certificates for any occasion: formal, sports, school, holidays, cute, cool styles and more.

The Handout Creator: This worksheet program allows you to choose up to 15 images and place text related to that image below the picture. It can handle foreign languages, so French, Spanish, German, Greek, Japanese and teachers of other foreign languages can make vocabulary handouts for their students.

New! - picture dictionary maker: make vocabulary handouts, exercises and homework that students can collect and use to build their own picture dictionaries.

Free Listening Test Worksheet Makers - choose from 5 different styles to create listening worksheets with images. These are great for language teachers. These are placed on another site in the MES Network and also has several different audio files to match each theme. These are available on 123 Listening . I hope your students enjoy them.

More worksheet wizards from Tools for Educators:

Word bank worksheet creator: create worksheets with 9 pictures and a place for students to write in the vocabulary word. At the bottom of the page there is a word bank where students can find the matching words

Spaghetti String Worksheet Generator: create matching worksheets and matching homework sheets students can trace as well

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Tools for Educators has free online worksheet makers with a library of 1,000+ images to make vocabulary worksheets, printable games and acitivites, and many more types of worksheets!

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The Top 5 Blockers To Your Productivity (And How To Hack Each One)

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Todos tenemos una agenda apretada que cumplir, no solo a nivel profesional sino también personal. Este artículo explica cómo enforcar nuestra atención y nuestras acciones para ser más productivos.

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Does the idea of following an agenda, bullet journaling, or even sending calendar invites make you want to run screaming into the night? Me too, actually. Despite this, I still became a productivity pro and managing editor of a blog literally about productivity.

That's right: I am punctual, I hand in assignments on time, and I communicate effectively with my team and our network of freelance writers.

But all this didn't come naturally to me. I had to adapt my habits to make this happen. Henceforth, I'm sharing my wisdom for fellow slackers.

The bad news is that no one becomes a productivity pro overnight. The good news, however, is that there's still hope for even the laziest among us. Leveraging known frameworks and results from social science can help you to reach beyond your own innate productivity abilities.

To start, the biggest productivity woes can be synthesized into these 5 categories:

1. Prioritization

2. Time management

3. Communication

4. Ability to focus

5. Feeling burned out

So let's break it down.

1. Prioritize Your Priorities

Tell me: is this you? You've got 100 things on your to-do list, but somehow you spend the subsequent 5 hours not accomplishing any of them.

You do a little bit here, and a little there, and then you browse the internet for a while,

then you make a sandwich, then you you spend a few hours down a rabbit hole of some other, entirely unrelated task that's not even on your to-do list.

We've all done this, but why?

Part of your problem here is analysis paralysis. You have so much on your plate that you simply don't know where to start at all.

How To Prioritize With The Eisenhower Matrix

In an analysis paralysis situation, you can actually channel a lesser-known productivity professional: Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Appropriately, Dwight D. Eisenhower was actually a very productive guy. He was a general in World War II, he was President of Columbia University, and oh yeah, the 34th president of the United States!

He was known in his circles for being an exceptionally organized person, and as such he is credited with inventing a framework called the Eisenhower Matrix:

The Eisenhower Matrix is a system of prioritization that can be split into 4 boxes:

Important/Urgent

Important/Not Urgent

Not Important/Urgent

Not important/Not-Urgent

Take all of your tasks and figure out which box they might fall in. For example:

So once you've decided where all your myriad tasks go, what do you do now?

You execute!

Now remember, you had a lot on your plate and you were having trouble figuring out where to start. The order in which you execute the tasks on your lists are:

The Do column: do these first, as they are both important AND urgent.

The Decide column: do these next, or even create a calendar invite or reminder for yourself for when these tasks will be on deck.

The Delegate column: We don't all have personal assistants, but there still may be members of your team or family that can take some tasks off your plate.

The Delete column: When you have a lot of tasks, anything in this list needs to get put to the side. OR, you can use these tasks as your "reward" for completing everything else in the other columns on your list.

You can also turn your Eisenhower Matrix into a Trello board for a visual flow:

Get a more detailed explanation of the Eisenhower Matrix, plus a sample Trello board here:

Practice The Rule of Five

There's another trick you can do for better prioritization- and it was actually one of the fundamental reasons that we invented Trello in the first place!

Trello's co-founder, Joel Spolsky, found that at his software company, Fog Creek, he felt like he didn't know what everyone was working on.

What Joel did was he asked everyone at the beginning of each week to provide him with a list of 5 items:

2 items they were currently working on.

2 items they planned to work on next.

1 item that everyone probably thinks they're working on, but they're not actually doing at this time.

The findings actually surprised him.

What Joel realized when looking at everyone's lists was that the things that people were actually working on were all over the place. A lot of the tasks really didn't align much with the bigger goals that management had.

He realized this was an error in transparency: no tool was showing these lists in a clear, digestible way. So long story short, this lack of transparency was one of the realizations that helped birth the tool that eventually became Trello.

Anyone else just get goosebumps? No? Just me. Okay. Cool. Anyway!

Here is an example of how you can translate the Rule of 5 into a Trello board format.

Traffic-light colored labels to indicate the projects currently being worked on, working on next, and not doing:

2. Time Management

So we've established some methods for how to figure out what you should be doing. But how about when? And for how long?

For example, do you ever feel like you've spent entire days in back-to-back meetings talking about work, but never actually getting any time to do any of said work?

This goes on for days and then suddenly it's the next week and you're in the follow up meeting for something you talked about last week, and someone is asking you about the status of the project. You realize you haven't actually had any time to do any of that work, because you've only been in meetings talking about doing work.

This doesn't yield good results for anyone. So how do you thwart it?

Figure Out If You're A Maker Or Manager

So here's a concept that might help shed some light on why the aforementioned scenario keeps happening: makers vs managers.

This line of thought was first popularized by another famous software engineer turned tech blogger, Paul Graham, the founder of Y Combinator. He realized that most job titles can be broken down into 2 categories: makers or managers.

Managers are just what you think: they're the people that facilitate work. They are the delegators, the project managers, the team leads. They make decisions that help move work along.

Managers sit in meetings to help understand higher-level company objectives. They remove roadblocks so their teams can continue creating. Their calendar is also the sort of thing that gives me hives.

But that's their job. That's how they operate.

Makers, on the other hand, are individual contributors, and their job is to execute on the work that needs to happen. Their job is to sit quietly for long, uninterrupted periods of time and get sh#t done, frankly.

A maker's calendar should look nothing like a manager's calendar:

So which one are you? Figuring this out should help inform the errors in your time management.

If you're a maker sitting in meetings all day, you're not able to be effective. Subsequently, if you're a manager and your makers are in a bunch of meetings, you need to figure out which of those you can attend for them, or just simply identify meetings that your makers need to drop entirely.

Perfect The Pomodoro Technique

Speaking of time blocking, it's one thing to sit here and discuss it. But here's how you actually do it:

The Pomodoro Technique is one of the most popular tactics for blocking your time. It was invented by a guy named Francesco Cirillo while he was in college in Rome. The process is simple:

Take a large task you need to complete.

Break it into smaller chunks.

Pick one chunk to work on at a time.

Set a timer (preferably one shaped like a tomato 🍅) for 25 minutes.

Jam on that singular task for those 25 minutes.

Take a 5 minute break.

Repeat.

Another reason this technique works so well is that it's a great way to trick your brain into getting into the elusive "zone." You know that magical place: it's where you're completely mono-focused on a project and you're completely heads down, working productively.

But research shows it's hard to get into the zone. One study from the University of California, Irvine, found that a typical office worker only gets 11 minutes in between each interruption. And here's the kicker: it takes them an average of 25 MINUTES to return to their original task after the interruption.

So if you're struggling to get into focus mode, give the Pomodoro technique a try the next time you need to go heads down.

3. Communication & Feedback

Tell me if this has ever happened to you: you've been working on a huge project for weeks. You're putting together a big presentation for it for all the higher up people at your company. You're so psyched, and nervous, and eager, and it's all just COMING TOGETHER!

So you give your presentation, and a discussion ensues. Suddenly you realize that a manager or two in the room is raising all these new doubts and before you know it, the conversation has devolved into:

"Yeah... we need to rethink the entire direction of this project."

So you go back to your desk and you're SEETHING with anger and frustration because you realize that you're going to have to come in on Saturday to re-work your entire proposal. It's a terrible feeling, truly.

At Atlassian we call this phenomenon "The Seagull Effect."

It basically means that someone who had no context for the project swooped in at the last minute, and pooped all over your work.

As a way to spin your misfortune: Take this experience as a way to reflect on what YOU could have done differently. Because at the end of the day, that's the only thing you can control.

There's a technique you can use to combat seagulling. It's called the 30/60/90 framework, and it is designed for you to get different types of feedback at different stages of your project.

Let's break it down:

30% feedback: At about a third of the way into your project, you should solicit the team for "big picture" feedback. Remember: don't do a TON of work before you start inquiring if you're on the right track. At this point you should probably have an outline, a rough sketch, or a product spec. Before you go any further you want to solicit some early, higher level feedback.

60% feedback: Once you've gotten a decent portion of work done, it's time for 60% feedback. You should basically have a relatively fleshed out first draft ready for this stage. This is a critical phase, and arguably the longest, so make sure you get as many people in on what you're doing as possible. The next round of feedback is when the project is nearly complete.

90% feedback: So now that you've gone through 2 rounds of feedback at different stages, it's time to put the final touches on everything before it goes out. This is the time to catch any last minute tweaks. This is NOT the time to talk about "the overall direction."

4. Ability to Focus

I hate to tell you this, but your brain is basically wired to get distracted. Effectively, when we encounter a shiny new thing, our brain releases dopamine. And dopamine, also known as the "feel good hormone," is the neurotransmitter responsible for feelings of bliss and euphoria.

That's one of the reasons it's so easy for us to get distracted when we're trying to focus: It actually feels good.

So that's the bad news. The good news, however, is that there are some ways to trick your brain into thinking it is being distracted, when really it is being productive:

You're not going to like this first one, but you MUST turn off or put away anything that is sending you notifications:

If you have desktop notifications, turn 'em off.

Put your phone on silent, AND TURN IT UPSIDE DOWN.

And for the love of all that is holy, you must turn off any Slack, GChat, WhatsApp, Skype, or any other chat app service you use.

Then, and only then, are you putting yourself in a position to get into the zone! You can pomodoro, you can burn through your Eisenhower Matrix, whatever you want.

Grab A Seat At Your Local Coffeeshop

There's another trick to focus mode, and you're going to like this one better. Apparently, your brain really loves novelty. It has a classic case of "shiny object syndrome."

Some researchers attribute this to our evolutionary ancestors. Homosapiens were actually the only group to emigrate over the entire world, which entailed a large risk. Why not just stay put wherever you are?

Effectively, because of this movement researchers characterize humans as craving novelty, or intensity seeking. This phenomenon comes back to that dopamine release: your brain craves something new because it feels good. So how can you hack that dopamine release to work to your advantage?

Switch your location. Engage in what we call, " The coffeeshop effect."

When you're feeling particularly unfocused, you should move somewhere else to do your work. Heading to your local coffee shop is a great place to resettle yourself and get back down to business. Or a library. Maybe for some people it's just moving to a different room.

Whatever your flavor, get moving to get your productivity levels bubbling.

5. Experiencing Burnout

There's one more thing about your productivity that needs addressing: and that's the feeling that you're overextended or burned out.

The truth is, it's common to bite off far more than you can chew. Some jobs are way too demanding, maybe more than you care to admit.

And the sad part is, the feeling of burnout is one of the leading causes of employee turnover, and decreased company culture. If you hate how much you're working, inevitably you're going to hate your job. And that resentment grows over time.

Give Decision Fatigue A Rest

Did you know that on average you make 35,000 decisions every single day? Yiiiikes.

So making all these decisions actually leads to a phenomenon called decision fatigue. Yes, you can actually tire of making choices. The result of this is lower self-control and willpower.

A good example of this is if you're trying to eat healthy, but you've had a stressful day at work and you come home and you literally can't bear the thought of also choosing a healthy dinner. So you order a pizza. Listen, we've all been there.

One famous example of this is leaders who have to make decisions every day becoming notorious for wearing the same thing all the time. Barack Obama, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg have all talked about this.

They do this because they already have far more other decisions to make every day. They're trying to clear the way of distractions.

So that's one thing to consider to avoid burnout: try to limit the amount of decisions you're making every day.

The Real Secret To Productivity...

Another effective way to avoid burnout is remarkably simple, but also really hard.

Are you ready? This is the true spice of a productive life:
JUST. SAY. NO.
Admit it, people: you're not saying no nearly enough!

You want to be a team player, you want to help out, you want to be seen as agreeable.

You are DROWNING in work, and your boss asks you to spearhead a new initiative, and you hear yourself saying "Yes" when inside your head you are SCREAMING "no!" a million times.

The reality nowadays is that focus is about saying no. Because saying yes to one thing is saying no to something else. What is that going to be? What's going to take a hit because you said yes to this new thing?

Is it your other important projects you're already working on? Is it your work-life balance? Is it your time with your family? Something is going to take a hit. You decide what that's going to be.

To learn more about why you're not saying no enough, and can dig into the D.O.C. framework here to learn how to turn down projects at work.

Put The Productivity Power Back In Your Hands

You can take control of your productivity but remember:

There are invisible forces at play all around you that are preventing you from doing your best work. Learning to identify them is a way to empower yourself to overcome them.

Tools and frameworks can help you overcome these obstacles in order to ultimately be more productive.

Leverage research findings from social scientists to dial into better productivity methods.

Stay productive, folks!
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The Top 5 Blockers To Your Productivity (And How To Hack Each One)

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How to Use Digital Word Walls and Dictionaries in Google Drive™

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Muy buenas y fáciles ideas para crear diccionarios personalizados a los que los niños podrán hacer referencia en sus dispositivos.
Las plantillas que se mencionan en el artículo son pagadas pero podemos hacer algo más a su medida con estas ideas y yo desarrollo la plantilla master.

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Are you looking for digital ways students can keep track of their sight words or vocabulary words? Look no further! This post is going to give you a
FREE download and walk you through how students can use a digital word wall in Google Sheets™. I will wrap up this post by demonstrating how a digital dictionary in Google Slides™ can be used to document and work with vocabulary words.

⚠️Important

Before I kick it into high gear with all of my techie talk, I want to mention that these ideas are NOT intended to replace the traditional word wall in any classroom. I strongly believe that there should be a word wall in every classroom for students to easily refer to with a quick glance. These ideas I'm about to mention are to supplement word walls and to get students digitally documenting their words in their Google Drive.

Digital Word Wall

I've seen teachers create digital word walls using Padlet, Thinglink, OneNote and a variety of other programs. THIS digital word wall in Google Sheets™ is just another option. The template is a one stop shop that is arranged by letter tabs (with corresponding emojis😎) that appear at the bottom of the spreadsheet. It will work on any device that supports Google Sheets™.

The image below shows you the "title page" where students can type their name.

Below is an example of some "T" words I typed on the "T" words sheet. Having a digital word wall in Google Sheets™ allows the learner to do all kinds of things to help with recognition of certain words, spelling patterns/features and meanings:

Change the font color of the spelling feature

Add emojis (device's emoji keyboard, JoyPixels extension, Emoji Copy and Paste, etc.) to represent meaning

Highlight the field to review certain words

Link words to various sources

Once students have their own copy, have them type in their name on the "title page". Then they just click on the letter tab they want to visit, click inside of a blank cell and type their word. It is already formatted for the word to align center in the cell using size 24 Comfortaa font.

Click HERE to grab a free copy of this digital word wall.

Digital Dictionary

One of my FAVORITE resources in my TpT Store is THIS digital dictionary template in Google Slides™. It comes with a table of contents that is pre-hyperlinked to corresponding slides for each letter of the alphabet. This digital dictionary can be used on any device that supports Slides!

Many teachers have used this resource in their classrooms and here are just a few of their comments:

I have received requests to create a "bigger" dictionary for students to add even MORE words to each letter page. Therefore, I spent an entire week getting THIS digital dictionary created and uploaded. Holy hyperlinks😮! It took an insane about of time to link all of the pages to one another but I know it will be worth it.

How it works:

Similar to my original digital dictionary, this larger dictionary comes with a table of contents slide that hyperlinks the letters to their corresponding slide. However, each letter has THREE slides available allowing for more room to add items as well as more words to each letter of the alphabet. I also added navigation buttons that come pre-hyperlinked for students to head to the next slide or return to the previous slide if they don't want to click on the thumbnail images or use the arrows on their keyboard.

Students can add all kinds of media and other special elements to their definition boxes. I always like for them to include the word, definition and part of speech. Then they can choose from:

adding images

adding videos

adding links

adding emojis

adding animated gif

adding voice recordings

adding Google Drawing creations

adding pronunciation by creating an audio clip to insert

typing sentences using the words and change the font style of the words to make them stand out

Why use a digital dictionary rather than a paper copy?

no more making copies

can't be LOST

access from anywhere

allows for digital collaboration

easily share with parents via email

images & videos help the VISUAL learner

digital tools like the dictionary and research tool help assist student learning

Quick Video Explanation

If you are interested in using this template, it is available in my TpT Store HERE:

Don't Use Google Slides or PowerPoint?

You could still have students create digital dictionaries in programs/apps like Book Creator! Just have them set up a page for each letter of the alphabet and they could add most everything I mentioned above.

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15 Digital Book Report Ideas Your Students Will LOVE

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Are you looking to jazz up the traditional book report? Your students would have a blast responding to reading with some of these EASY digital ideas listed below. There is a lot of opportunity for differentiation and reaching all kinds of learning styles with these activities.

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Are you looking to jazz up the traditional book report? Your students would have a blast responding to reading with some of these EASY digital ideas listed below. There is a lot of opportunity for differentiation and reaching all kinds of learning styles with these activities.

Friendly Letter: Students can use a program like ABCya's Letter Generator to write a letter written by the main character in the book they are currently reading. Students can choose who their character is writing to for this activity.

The Bad Case of Stripes

Video Commercial: Students can use any video platform to create a video commercial for their book to persuade someone to read it. They will need to carefully plan their commercial (could use one of THESE planning sheets from Classzone) before filming. Some ideas for video platforms include but aren't limited to: iMovie, Windows Movie Maker, Flipgrid, WeVideo, Video Recorder, Pocket Video app, Apple Clips app or just use your device's main camera!

Cereal Box Book Reports: Back in January I blogged about how students could create Cereal Book Book Reports by using a template I created in Google Drawing. Read all about it HERE. Students LOVE this one!

Comic Summaries: Use a storyboard/comic creator tool like Storyboard That to create a summary of the book:

Book Cover Project: Design a Book Cover Collaborative Class Project makes such a memorable activity. Students design a new book cover in Google Drawing, save as a png image and upload to a collaborative Google Slides presentation that has a picture of a bookshelf. They can hyperlink their books to go to a description slide in which they can add a typed synopsis about their book. This entire resource with all of the templates and step by step directions can be found HERE in my TpT Store.

Create a Quiz: Students could use Google Forms to create a quiz about the book/story they read for others to take. This requires a bit of thinking on their end and they will need to be very familiar with the book in order to come up with different types of questions and their answers.

Picture Books: Students could use Google Slides, PowerPoint, Book Creator or Shadow Puppet EDU to retell the story they read using only pictures. As they flip through the book they created, they can retell the story to any audience.

Puppet Green Screen Video Retelling: Students could retell their story using green screen technology. I learned about this idea from Anita over at Goodwinnovate who does some of the coolest things with green screen technology. Click HERE to read my post about Getting Started with Green Screen.

Digital Presentation: This digital book report template in Google Slides™ that can be found in my TpT Store is an EASY option. Just assign the template to students and they have the option of working on it independently or collaboratively. I also have this available in Spanish.

Click HERE for the listing

Click HERE for the Spanish version listing

More Digital Reading Resources You Might Be Interested In:

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Geniales ideas para usar al principio del años con los niños para familiarizarlos con las Chromebooks y la forma correcta de usarlas. Los posters no son gratis y podríamos desarrollar nuestros propios según las necesidades. Yo les ayudo con gusto.

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Last year I blogged about how I have always created

iPad Promise Posters with classes as a way to establish classroom expectations when using iPads. Students made their promise by adding their thumbprint using the Colorbox Ink Pad (affiliate link) I purchased from Amazon and signing their name above their thumbprint.

Since that post, I have had many requests to create something similar for Chromebooks and Laptops/Computers. Originally I couldn't decide between calling it a Chromebook Covenant or a Chromebook Contract. I took a poll in my Instastories and in a Facebook post. Most educators liked Contract. Liz Reyes even mentioned using the term Chromebook Commitment. Therefore, I created a printable file for a Chromebook Rules Poster that has all three options.

Why the thumbprint?

Great question! Honestly, I think it is more memorable for the kids. They remember "taking the oath" by getting to use the rainbow colored ink pad. Come on...you know that ink pad is pretty awesome 😉(I handwrite their first name above their thumbprint). I like how it has lots of different colors and the ink wipes off very easily with a wet wipe. Sidenote: If you didn't see my posts from last year, kindergarteners trained me to call them wet wipes. They are NOT baby wipes because "they aren't babies". I upset several kinders last year when I handed them a "baby wipe" to wipe off their hands 😬.

I found my ink pad on Amazon. Here is my affiliate link if you are interested:

If you just don't have the time or you work with older kids who you think wouldn't appreciate the thumbprint activity, you could always just opt for them to add their signature.

The Chromebook Poster resource I created has "Chromebooks" with both options!

I also provide 8 universal rules with different color options for the "Chromebook" printables:

No matter if you want to refer to the poster as the Chromebook Contract, Chromebook Covenant or Chromebook Commitment, I've got ya covered! All three options are included along with different color options for the scroll.

This makes a small display so it can easily be attached to Chromebook carts or charging stations. You could also opt to add it to a section of a bulletin board. Click HERE for this listing.

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Geniales ideas para usar al principio del años con los niños para familiarizarlos con las iPads y la forma correcta de usarlas. Los posters no son gratis y podríamos desarrollar nuestros propios según las necesidades. Yo les ayudo con gusto.

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I can't believe it has taken me this long to blog about the iPromise iPad Posters I have been using for YEARS with kindergarten and first grade classes. This year I shared a few images of the posters on social media and had several people reach out asking if I had the template in my TpT Store. It has been uploaded and can be found HERE if you do not wish to create your own. Just print and GO😉

What is the iPromise Poster?

The iPromise Poster is simply just a way to establish classroom rules/expectations with younger students when using iPads. It is never too late to make one! I like to jazz up the process of going over these by having students make a promise to follow the statements by "signing" the poster with their thumbprint (I then handwrite their first name somewhere near their thumbprint). They LOVE using my multicolored ink pad which can be found on Amazon using my affiliate link below. This makes the poster nice and colorful.

There are 5 simple rules/expectations that we go over with the students in regards to using the classroom ipads. I include two different versions in my resource but you could also print one of the blank ipads and write in your own rules/reminders/expectations. With K/1 students I like to use the first version that has pictures replacing several of the words to help them decode the statements.

Once the I CAN statements or iPad Reminders have been discussed, students make their promise with their thumbprint. I then hand them a baby wipe to clean off their hands (the ink from the ink pad listed above comes right off!).

Heads Up☝

If you end up passing out baby wipes like I do, be sure you DO NOT refer to them as baby wipes. Like I said, I have been making these posters for years however this year I was put in my place by a handful of kindergarteners who refused to take the baby wipes I was handing them because "they are not babies". Once I changed my word choice to wet wipes all was good.😂

Discussing iPad Features

Once the iPromise Poster has been completed we also discuss some of the basic features of the iPad. In the iPromise Poster template download I include this checklist printable:

I find it very surprising how many K/1 students tell me "I know all about the iPad because I have one at home" yet still struggle with knowing about many of the items on the checklist above. Some know that the volume buttons are on the side of the ipad but still have trouble identifying the correct buttons. We take the time to practice raising and lowering the volume so students quickly learn that they CAN do these things on their own and do not have to interrupt a lesson to get the teacher's help. I also included on the checklist to teach students how to close out apps once they have finished using the iPad (double click the home button and swipe up on any apps that are open). This helps ensure that the iPads will run at tip top speed since having a lot of apps running in the background can really slow things down. Once they get the hang of it, they really enjoy this part!

Quick Reference

I always suggest to hang the iPromise Poster near the area where students go to grab a device (on a charging cart, on a wall over the iPad station, etc.). Behind me in the picture below is kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Racine's, iPromise Poster that is always in view for students to refer to. I really just wanted to include this picture so you could see my uniform😋Some kids call me Mrs. Smith while others call me "The iPad Lady".Therefore, I had to make a t-shirt. If you want to make one, click HERE to download the image I created (I also included an "iPad Guy"). I uploaded the image to Vistaprint and ordered a shirt during their 50% off sale. If you end up making one PLEASE post a picture on social media and tag me. I would love to see you!

I love how Parkmead Library put together their iPromise Display:

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I can't believe it has taken me this long to blog about the iPromise iPad Posters I have been using for YEARS with kindergarten and first grade classes. This year I shared a few images of the posters on social media and had several people reach out asking if I had the template in my TpT Store.

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Use kids images holding their QR codes to show their knowledge on any subject. The QR codes could even be related to a Seesaw activity.

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Back in 2014 I published the blog post5 Easy Technology Projects which featured the idea of creating QR Kids as an All About Me or Goal Setting activity. This idea came from an ad I saw on Pinterest for business cards:

I got permission to post the image above to my Facebook page saying, "Wouldn't it be neat to create QR Kids that look something like this?" Emily Albis, a 4th grade teacher who I worked with at the time when I was an ITRT in Virginia, saw the post and asked to sign up for a technology lesson to create QR Kids for her Open House. Students created audio recordings of themselves talking about their goals for the year. (Click HERE to read about other options for creating audio QR codes) Mrs. Albis took photos of her students pretending to hold an object, had them printed and students cut out their bodies. She is the mastermind behind using the binder clip to keep the QR Kids standing! When parents came to the Open House, they found their child "standing" on their desk and were able to scan the QR code to listen to their goals for the year.

Fast Forward 4 years...

I brought this idea back to life in my recent post 10 End of the Year Technology Activities and instead of talking about goals, mentioned that students could share their favorite memories from the year. First grade teacher, Mary-Kate Hagmann, read the post and decided to try it out with her first graders using Seesaw to create the QR codes! Instead of creating audio QR codes, she had her first graders videotape themselves reading their animal reports. Seesaw has a built in QR code generator that makes it incredibly easy to turn the media created into a QR code.

A Few Words About Mary-Kate Hagmann

First, I need to brag about this AMAZING educator from California. Mary-Kate and I connected over Instagram. You can find her @hagmannshearts. Mary-Kate's support and kind words on my posts have seriously made me feel like a rockstar. I often think, if she can make ME feel this way about myself through basic digital interactions and typed words, then how in the world does she make her students feel who get to be with her physically every day? Mary-Kate is a Seesaw Ambassador and Donor's Choose Teacher Ambassador who has gone over and beyond to write grants for technology and other classroom supplies. She has already had 15 projects funded!

Mary-Kate posted the following pictures and video of the QR Kids her students created on her Instagram account and educators went NUTS! I then reshared one of her adorable photos on my account and had so many amazing questions. After chatting, both of us thought it would be a good idea to address all of the questions about Seesaw in a blog post so here we are 😃.

Mary-Kate's first graders created QR Kids for their animal research projects. When students scanned the QR codes, they were taken to a video of the report being read aloud that was stored in Seesaw:

Miss Hagmann has the upgraded version of Seesaw (SeeSaw Plus); however, those who have the free account can still do this project. Her class is 1:1 ipads. Even if you have only one device, you can easily carry this out!

Steps Mary-Kate's Class Took to Create Their QR Kids

1. Mary-Kate's students launched Seesaw and videotaped themselves reading their reports within the app (tap + sign>Video) and added their video to their specific student portfolio.

2. Students posed for a picture as if they were holding a box and Mary-Kate snapped their picture with an ipad ( those who had a media release form on file). She then printed their pictures on card stock and cut out their bodies. You could always take student pictures and have them printed at Target, CVS, Walgreens, etc. if you don't have access to a colored printer.

3. Students tapped on the three dots in the lower right hand corner of their video and selected Get Item QR Code.

5. The QR Code appeared and then they selected Print.

6. Mary-Kate asked her students to set the print size to 35% so it would be proportionate to the photos. Print.

7. Then she had students cut out their QR codes and paste them onto their picture cut out.

8. A binder clip (Amazon affiliate link) was attached to the bottom of the QR Kids so they can be free standing.

So Many Possibilities

There are so many different ways you can create QR codes and even more ways you can connect them to various types of media. I love how Julie Zappile had her students link their QR Codes to Flipgrid videos:

Students and parents loved this part of our room for Open House! @JGTechieTeacher @Flipgrid @TCRWP Next year, I am in search of microphones- @hmosertweets pic.twitter.com/9Dmjy5I9vL
- Julie Zappile (@JulieZappile) May 26, 2019

Instead of QR Codes, you could create trigger images in the HP Reveal app to provide an AR experience. Get creative!

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Wheelofnames.com: A Tool Teachers and Presenters Will LOVE

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As an alternative for Flippity, teachers can use Wheel of Names as a random selector tool that is designed for choosing winners/names.
This tool only offers the random selector option but is more amicable and easy to use.

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The other day I was designing a writing lesson in which I wanted to create a digital spinner with different prompts. I first launched wheeldecide.com but quickly realized I had a character limit. Then I tried a few other apps but ran into the same issue. I decided to do a quick Google search to find out what else might be out there and that is when I stumbled upon wheelofnames.com and was BLOWN AWAY. Have you tried this? Wow, there are so many great features. Let's take a look:

What is this tool used for?

Wheel of Names is a random selector tool that was designed for choosing winners/names. However, educators could use this for so much more! I was looking for a digital spinner to add different writing prompts to go along with the book, Troll Stinks (affiliate link). As you can see below, I was able to type in my prompts but the entire question did not show up on the wheel piece. However, when I spin the wheel...

The entire prompt pops up once a piece has been selected. What is nice about this tool is that you can click Remove to eliminate that piece from the spinner if you want to spin again.

Saving Your Spinners

This tool can be used without signing into an account. However, if you wish to use your spinners over and over again or want to create one ahead of time, you can login with your Google account and your lists can be accessed and edited any time under the Open List Tab.

Sharing

There are several different ways you can share your spinners with others to use. One is by clicking Share> Get Shareable Link. The other way is to enter someone's email address by clicking Share>Email List. They can also be embedded into blogs/websites.

Customizing Your Wheel

Under the Customize tab you can choose to add an image in the center of the wheel (If you look above, I added the cover of Troll Stinks to my writing prompt wheel). Other customizations include changing the section colors, spin time, sound and the message that pops up once a name/category has been selected.

This web tool works beautifully on Chromebooks, laptops/computers and has been optimized to run well on most mobile phones and tablets. There is not an app but can be accessed through the following browsers:

Chrome: version 53 and newer

Safari: version 6 and newer

Edge: all versions

Firefox: version 49 and newer

Samsung Internet: all versions

Internet Explorer: version 11 (but you can't save colors and other settings)

Opera: all versions

Importing from Google Forms:

If you are giving a presentation and want to choose a winner for completing a survey, create your survey in Google Forms. Be sure to include a question that asks for the attendee's name or email address. Once information has been collected, click on Summary to create the spreadsheet of responses. Then on your Wheelofnames spinner (make sure you are signed in), select Import> Link Google Spreadsheet. Choose your spreadsheet, select which tab and column you would like to pull from and then all of the information you need will be sent to your digital spinner!

Importing Users from Social Media:
Often times I have attended conference sessions in which the presenter asks attendees to tweet about something from their session using a specific hashtag in order to be entered into a raffle. You can use wheelofnames.com to choose winners! Simply click Import> Import Twitter Users> Enter the hashtag>Click "OK". Users who tweeted your hashtag in the last 24 hours will be imported.
☝However, it only pulls the most recent 20 tweets.

There are many more really cool features that you can read about in the FAQ section of the website HERE.

In the meantime, I need to think of a clever way I could use this emoji spinner I just created🤔:

Update!

You now have the ability to add images to the different spokes of the wheel!

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Wheelofnames.com: A Tool Teachers and Presenters Will LOVE

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Programa online gratuito y súper completo de matemáticas para primaria.
Está clasificado por grado y por tema. Tienen juegos interactivos multiplayer y competitivos.
La versión pagada pide crear una clase e ingresar los alumnos pero como alternativa se puede copiar el link de la actividad que se desea en Google Classroom y desde ahí los alumnos juegan contra otros niños en el mundo.

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Learn How to Use These 5 Time-saving Gmail Features in 2020

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Learn How to Use These 5 Time-saving Gmail Features in 2020

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Some days it feels like I'm playing the world's longest game of whack-a-mole in my inbox. If this sounds familiar to you and you're a Gmail/ G Suite user, there are some things that you can do to tilt the odds of winning that game of email whack-a-mole in your favor. Those things include creating canned responses, scheduling messages, enabling smart replies, and creating message filters.
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Some days it feels like I'm playing the world's longest game of whack-a-mole in my inbox. If this sounds familiar to you and you're a Gmail/ G Suite user, there are some things that you can do to tilt the odds of winning that game of email whack-a-mole in your favor. Those things include creating canned responses, scheduling messages, enabling smart replies, and creating message filters. Those time-saving Gmail features are demonstrated in the video below.

One more time-saver is to make sure that you have your contacts organized into groups. Doing that can save you time when you're trying to send a message to department members, parent groups, or any other group that you frequently send the same messages to.

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Learn How to Use These 5 Time-saving Gmail Features in 2020

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Some days it feels like I'm playing the world's longest game of whack-a-mole in my inbox. If this sounds familiar to you and you're a Gmail/ G Suite user, there are some things that you can do to tilt the odds of winning that game of email whack-a-mole in your favor.

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How to Use the New Creative Commons Chrome Extension

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The CC Search Browser Extension could be a great little tool for students to use to quickly find some pictures that they can use in slideshows and video projects.

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Earlier this week Creative Commons released a new Chrome extension that enables users to find Creative Commons licensed images without having to leave the browser tabs their currently viewing. With the CC Search Browser Extension installed users can find images from more than a dozen hosts of Creative Commons licensed works. The extension not only provides images for download, it also provides all of the attribution information needed for the images. And to help users keep track of their images, the CC Search Browser Extension provides a bookmarking capability. Watch my video that is embedded below to see how the new CC Search Browser Extension works.

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo for sharing the CC Search Browser Extension in his Ed Tech Digest post.

Applications for Education
The CC Search Browser Extension could be a great little tool for students to use to quickly find some pictures that they can use in slideshows and video projects. It should be noted that a lot of the results through the extension come from Flickr so if Flickr is blocked in your school the search results could be limited.

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How to Use the New Creative Commons Chrome Extension

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Es un programa online que permite escoger lecturas en inglés basadas en el tema y en la edad de los alumnos y asignarlo a Google Classroom.
Las lecturas incluyen preguntas, notas aclaratorias, lectura en inglés americano y británico. Todas se pueden editar de acuerdo a la necesidad y también se pueden borrar o agregar nuevas preguntas.
Una vez que el alumno participa con su respuesta, se muestran las respuestas de los compañeros. El programa califica a cada alumnos automáticamente y dicha nota puede ser importada a Google Classroom. Los profesores tienen además la oportunidad de brindar retroalimentación personalizada en cada pregunta y a cada alumno.

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Engage every student in every lesson with Actively Learn's award-winning ELA, science, and social studies curriculum platform.

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We take kids ages 4-18 on free, live and interactive safari experiences, transporting them from wherever they are onto the back of a virtual safari vehicle!

For 45 minutes, kids join safariLIVE and tour two of the most iconic wildlife areas in the world – the Kruger Park of South Africa and the Maasai Mara in Kenya. They interact with our expert naturalists in real time as they drive through the African wilderness, asking questions about what they see.
Live sessions are booked through kidsbookings.wildearth.tv. Follow the detailed instructions on that page to submit your booking request and a representative will be in touch. If you are not contacted within 24-hours please reach out to kids@wildearth.tv as we are likely experiencing an issue with your email address.

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The livestream activity offers an opportunity for educators to address one of the indicators of the Global Collaborator standard, which states: Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

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Stacey Moore knew she couldn't take her 30 Virginia third graders on safari in Africa, so she did the next best thing: She brought the safari to her classroom and connected her students to naturalists who offered narration and answered their questions in real time.

"The wow effect is amazing, especially when they see their names up on the screen as the naturalist answers their questions," Moore said.

The safaris transport Moore's students, who are growing up on the Atlantic coast, to a land completely unlike what they're used to. It connects what they're learning in their science units to the real world.

The live and unscripted nature of the safaris lets students feel like they're participating in an event. And it's a thrill for students to see the naturalists talk directly to them as they answer their questions, Moore said.

SafariLIVE, which brings free virtual safaris to schools, has spread quickly in classrooms around the globe since it was introduced in U.S. schools in 2015.

Live broadcasts twice a day

The safaris are produced by a company in South Africa, but it was Moore's husband, Erik, an edtech specialist in Virginia Beach, who was the catalyst for bringing the livestreams to the classroom.

Erik Moore was poking around the internet looking at livestreams one day in 2015 when he stumbled across a live video showing a pond in Africa.

As he turned his attention to another screen, he heard voices coming from the African site. At first he thought it was an ad, but he soon discovered it was a naturalist answering viewer questions in real time. He decided to type in his own question in the chat box.

"A minute or two later, I hear, 'Oh, good question, Erik from Virginia Beach,'" Moore said. "I was like, you got to be kidding me."

What Moore had discovered was safariLIVE, which has offered twice-daily three-hour webcasts from wildlife preserves in South Africa and Kenya since 2007. Naturalists in open-air vehicles lead the tours as they bounce across the landscape of Kruger Park in South Africa and Maasai Mari park in Kenya.

The live question-and-answer feature made Moore think that it would work well in classrooms. After about of month of watching the webcast, Moore got in touch with the owners of safariLIVE, Graham and Emily Wallington, to see if they were interested in offering the livestreams to schools. SafariLIVE is part of the Wallingtons' larger WildEarth organization, which specializes in live wildlife broadcasts.

The Wallingtons happened to be planning a trip to Washington, D.C., in the coming months and Moore agreed to meet with them. At that meeting, the three hammered out how Moore would pilot a school version of safariLIVE at Landstown High School.

The pilot went even better than expected.

"Some of the teachers told me that kids who never said anything were taking part in it," he said.

Moore was soon rolling out the program to the Virginia Beach district's 80 schools.

"The reception from students, teachers and administrators was 100% positive," he said.

The livestreams are free to schools

The first elementary school class to see safariLIVE was taught by Stacey Moore. She has since made it a regular part of her curriculum.

"You are able to observe the animals in their natural habitats while sitting in a classroom," said Stacey Moore who teachers third-graders at Three Oaks Elementary School in Virginia Beach.
To further spread safariLIVE, Erik Moore made presentations at the Virginia Society for Technology in Education and at the ISTE conference in San Antonio, Texas, in 2017. He also promoted it via social media and Google+. Since February 2016, there have more than 1,400 45-minute safaris beamed into classrooms, libraries and children's hospitals around the world.

Erick Moore has promoted the safaris voluntarily, which is in keeping with safariLIVE's mission. It is offered free to schools and there is no advertising. WildEarth earns its money by licensing live wildlife broadcasts to cable network NatGeo Wild and broadcasters in South Africa, China and elsewhere.

Focus is on inspiration and relaxation

The live safaris are part of the Wallingtons' mission to connect children to nature. They believe that connecting people to nature is good for both people and nature.

"We believe that people need to understand why they should conserve nature and that 'why' is an emotional rather than logical motivator for each individual," Graham said. "Being in nature is relaxing, inspiring and healthy. When people watch our safaris live they experience a similar set of feelings as if they were actually there."

Graham said most natural history media focus on what needs to be done to conserve nature rather than providing something to viewers, such as inspiration and relaxation, which will motivate them to want to conserve it.

"This is even more true for kids who really need to understand why nature should be conserved and the best way to do that is to show them what far-off wildlife, e.g. Africa, can mean to them in their daily lives," he said. "Guilting kids into wanting to conserve nature simply does not and will not work. Each kid we connect to nature is a future conservationist."

The livestream activity offers an opportunity for educators to address one of the indicators of the Global Collaborator standard within the ISTE Standards for Students, which states: Students use collaborative technologies to work with others, including peers, experts or community members, to examine issues and problems from multiple viewpoints.

"I think that children are intrinsically motivated to learn about animals," Moore said. "I think they care for them and they want to know more about them." It also plants a seed in children about conservation and stewardship of the Earth. "I think it's something that grows as they grow," she said.
Jerry Fingal is a freelance writer focusing on education and business.

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8 Virtual Reality Tools to Go Around the World

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8 Virtual Reality Tools to Go Around the World

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For many teachers, the idea of using these types of tools in our classroom bring questions. Fortunately, getting started with many of these tools is quite easy as there are resources available to use as tutorials.
As for benefits, using tools for AR and VR helps educators create innovative learning spaces and transform “how” and “where” students are learning. With different AR/VR tools available, we give students the power to explore objects or places, control their learning and connect with the content in ways that textbooks and videos cannot provide.
Remember we have Cardboads available for you to take out and use with your students!

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As a Spanish teacher, I am always interested in finding innovative ways to teach in my classroom and to create learning opportunities that do more than to engage students solely with the content material. Over the past few years, I have started to bring different tools for learning into my classroom, some of which pushed me outside of my comfort zone as a teacher. One area that has led to greater student engagement and has been well received by my students is the use of augmented and virtual reality.

For many teachers, the idea of using these types of tools in our classroom bring questions, such as how much time do I need to learn how to use them and what are the benefits? Fortunately, getting started with many of these tools is quite easy as there are resources available to use as tutorials. The tools offer ready-made lessons or examples to start with, and of course, our students learn so fast that we can quickly learn from them. I often say that we just need to know enough to make sure that we are aware of any issues with access, and of course, we have knowledge of the safety or security issues. We must also understand how we plan to use it, focusing on the why behind wanting to do so, but then we should leave it up to our students to take it beyond that point.

As for benefits, using tools for AR and VR helps educators create innovative learning spaces and transform "how" and "where" students are learning. With different AR/VR tools available, we give students the power to explore objects or places, control their learning and connect with the content in ways that textbooks and videos cannot provide. Students can now travel around the world, to another country, underwater or into outer space, using these tools and doing so right from their classroom.

8 Tools to Try

Here are eight different tools to explore that I think can be very beneficial for student learning and promote student engagement. Getting started with these will help educators implement some digital tools into the classroom without taking too much time to get started.

1. Google Expeditions
The app is free and can be downloaded from Google Play or the App Store. Google Expeditions offers more than 100 augmented reality and 800 virtual reality tours which students can use to explore careers, visit famous landmarks and locations. They can even use it to find out more about global initiatives. Through the roles of Guide and Explorer, teachers and students can engage with the content in a more immersive way that connects students more closely with the spaces they are viewing, which promotes curiosity. Another option isTour Creator to create a tour specific to student interests or to have students create their own tour to share. Tours are easy to create and share and provide a more authentic way to connect students with places they are studying.

2. Google Earth
Google Earth enables teachers and students to explore places around the world and even zoom in for a closer look in 360 via Street View. For schools that have access to HTC Vive or Oculus Rift,Google Earth VR makes it possible to walk or even fly around the locations and explore more closely.

3. Nearpod offers a library full of lessons in VR and the ability to quickly create lessons that have 3D objects and VR field trips included. Tools like Nearpod help to engage students in a more active learning experience while also providing multiple ways for teachers to assess student learning. It is easier now to take students on trips around the world right from within the classroom at any time.

4. 360 Cities offers interactive panoramic photos and more than 2,400 videos to select from to use in the classroom.

5. Through Unimersiv, educators can find VR experiences for students ranging from exploring space, human anatomy, or places like Stonehenge, Athens, the International Space Station and more. Unimersiv can be downloaded with lessons available for students. New lessons are added every few months.

6. Sites in VR is an app available for download on Android and iOS devices. Locations can be searched based on type including nature, parks, museums, towers and more. Users can choose to explore through the device or with a headset.

7. 360-Degree YouTube Videos
YouTube offers 360-degree videos which can be a good way to hook students at the start of a lesson. There are so manychoices available; one of the first ones that I watched was Lions 360. Videos that were filmed in 360 will provide a better experience.

8. Curated X Kai
Curated X Kai has featured VRfield trips available for experiences such as hurricanes, looking at dinosaurs, the solar system, the human body and many others focused on locations or historical events or places. New field trips are added weekly.

Making the Choice

There are many benefits of using VR in the classroom. In my own experience, it provides students with space where they can take more ownership in learning and creates an opportunity for students to build global knowledge, and explore different ideas and perspectives. We can also use VR as a way to connect our students with classrooms and experts from around the world and build more than content and technology skills. We can also help students develop empathy as they learn about cultures and places different from their own.

There are a lot of options out there to choose from, it is about promoting student choice and helping students to do more than consume content, but to actively engage in learning and even become the creators.

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Rachelle Dene Poth is a Foreign Language and STEAM Teacher at Riverview Junior/Senior High in Oakmont, PA. Follow her on Twitter at @rdene915

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It's been roughly 15 years since the beginning of podcasting-a media format that, despite a slow start, has risen to peak popularity in the last few years. Things began to pick up for podcasting when Apple included a podcast player on the iPhone. Then, the format really gained traction when suddenly, and rather unexpectedly, Serial, the story of the disappearance of a popular Baltimore teen, went viral in 2014. Now in its third season Serial has been downloaded more than 340 million times.

Fast forward five years and there are now a couple million podcasts. More than half of Americans have listened to a podcast, and a third listen monthly. Maybe it's a reflection of our busy lives-podcasts fit into the spaces in between: while working out, while commuting to work, while waiting in TSA pre-check lines (which are now longer than general boarding), and while cooking dinner.

Here's an updated list of our favorites.

By and For Educators

1. Getting Smart Podcast: Check out more than 230 great conversations with innovative educators.

2. EDUtalk: The mission of EDUtalk podcasts is to get educators and students to talk about academia using technology. The site also encourages users to upload podcasts!

3. The 180: From Turnaround for Children, guests like Todd Rose and Linda Darling Hammond discuss using 21st century science to promote whole child learning.

4. OnEducation: Hosted by Mike Washburn and Glen Irvin, OnEducation consists of conversations on teachers, teaching, and the state of education at large.

5. Talks With Teachers: Interviews with America's inspiring teachers, who share their stories, offer practical teaching tips.

6. The Bedley Brothers: Teacher-of-the-year brothers Scott and Tim from California interview high-profile guests on a variety of education topics using engaging anecdotes and practical info.

7. Ed Chat Radio of BAM Radio Network: Focuses on a wide array of education topics with an equally diverse pool of hosts. Make sure to explore BAM's library of podcasts. The volume and frequency of programs will keep you listening for a long time.

8. Shift Your Paradigm: Salisbury Township Superintendent Randy Ziegenfuss (@ziegeran) and Associate Superintendent Lynn Fuini-Hetten hosts a weekly podcast on student centered learning sponsored by Education Reimagined.

9. Harvard EdCast: A series of conversations with thought leaders in the field of education that serves as a space for educational discourse and openness, focusing on the myriad issues and current events related to the field.

10. Educate from APM: Stories about education, opportunity, and how people learn.

11. All the Wonders: This podcast interviews librarians, authors, book lovers, and illustrators about the joys and wonders of reading. It is sure to keep your "to read" list growing.

12. edYou: This podcast, coming in February 2020, is hosted by teachers, for teachers and covers current classroom research, trends, and ideas.

EdPolicy

13. Education Gadfly: Weekly policy and research review.

14. EdNext Podcast: This weekly podcast includes stories, interviews, and discussions of the latest developments in education from ESSA to teacher professional development. Be sure to also check out the Education Next Book Club podcast where Mike Petrilli interviews authors of new and classic education books.

15. The Education Exchange: This podcast from Education Next is hosted by Paul Peterson and covers education policy.

Higher Education

16. To A Degree: The HigherEd podcast of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

17. Stanford Social Innovation Review: Audio lectures shared by Stanford's Graduate School of Business Social Innovation Conversations, co-hosted by Stanford Social Innovation Review's Managing Editor Eric Nee.

18. Times Higher Education: For our international listeners, this weekly UK HigherEd-focused program describes itself as the podcast "at the heart of the higher education debate."

19. Future U: Michael Horn (@MichaelBHorn) and Jeff Selingo (@jselingo) discuss higher education.

EdTech

20. EdSurge: Weekly podcast on edtech covering K-12 and higher ed (owned by ISTE).

21. TechTalk4Teachers: For educators wanting to keep up with the latest advances in educational technologies and their practical applications in classrooms.

22. EdTechTalk: This podcast is called Teachers Teaching Teachers and is a collaborative effort. Teachers discuss new software and tools they are successfully using in the classroom.

23. Ed Influencers: This ISTE podcast focuses on edupreneurs to get the root of the "why" of the work and also to visualize the future they aspire towards.

24. Trends and Issues in Instructional Design: Abbie Brown and Tim Green review clips of the week and peer into their crystal ball.

Tech

25. Tech Blog Writer Podcast: Over 1,000 interviews with tech leaders by Neil Hughes.

26. Blockchain Innovation Podcast: Frederick Munawa (@FrederickMunawa) interviews leaders in crypto and distributed ledger technology.

27. Tech News Weekly: A great hour roundup of tech news (check out the whole TWIT library of tech pods).

28. Tech News Briefing: A daily briefing on tech news from the Wall Street Journal.

29. Marketplace Tech: Another daily briefing on tech news.

30. User Friendly: Weekly podcast from Deloitte on tech and business trends.

Leadership & Entrepreneurship

31. Tim Ferriss Show: Every week, Tim ( 4 Hour Work Week) posts a long interview with leaders in tech and entrepreneurship.

32. Trail Blazers: Walter Isaacson hosts a Dell-sponsored podcast reviewing historical innovations.

33. Curious Minds: Leading innovation podcast with authors, innovators, and entrepreneurs.

34. Startup: A show about startups from Gimlet.

35. The Pitch: Shark tank-style podcast, also from Gimlet Media.

36. Akimbo: Seth Godin's podcast on entrepreneurship and leadership.

37. Killer Innovations from Phil McKinney: Focuses on innovations in technology and leadership.

38. How I Built This: Startup stories from NPR.

39. 80,000 Hours: Long form inspiration for mission-oriented careers.

40. Masters of Scale with Reid Hoffman: How do companies grow from zero to a gazillion? Reid Hoffman tests his theories with famous founders.

41. The Learning Leaders Show: Each week Ryan Hawk interviews well known leaders or authors on sustaining excellence.

42. That Made all the Difference: Brought to you by Bank of America, this show talks to doers about the things that made an impact on their journeys.

43. The Between Worlds Podcast: This podcast, hosted by Mike Walsh, focuses on the future of work-what's a threat, what's an opportunity, and how can we navigate the space in between.

Markets & Economics

44. Marketplace: Daily podcast on markets and popular economics.

45. Make Me Smart: Ky and Molly from Marketplace host a giggly weekly recap of tech and markets.

46. Freakonomics: Weekly economic topics discussed in a way that will make you say, "Wow, I never thought of it that way."

47. Planet Money: Life and money and markets from NPR.

48. Exchanges at Goldman Sachs: People from across the group share their insights on developments shaping markets, industries, and the global economy.

49. The Gently Mad: A triweekly show with honest, meaningful conversations and discussions about "things that matter." Hosted by Adam Clark, It's a show about "life, business & entrepreneurship without the BS."

50. Smart People Podcast: Picking smart people's "oversized brains" is what this podcast is all about. They interview people from various industries to bring their listeners episodes that satisfy those of us with insatiable curiosity.

51. McKinsey Podcast: Weekly discussion of economics and business leadership.

52. Conversations with Tyler: The smartest people on the planet interviewed by polymath Tyler Cowen, from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

53. Equity: An end of week recap on venture capital news from Techcrunch.

AI & Big Data

54. Learning Machines 101: A gentle introduction to machine learning from Richard Golden.

55. Linear Digressions: Weekly discussion of big data and machine learning.

56. Future of Life Institute: Weekly podcast about everything that could go wrong. Podcasts series including AI Alignment and Not Cool, a climate change series.

57. Talking Machines: Hosts Katherine Gorman and Neil Lawrence talk about machine learning and interview an industry leader every week.

58. The Future of Everything: A weekly podcast from the Wall Street Journal.

59. A Glimpse Into the Future: A podcast on the global economy and fourth industrial revolution from the World Economic Forum.

Language

60. Audiria: A podcast for those interested in learning the Spanish language. Each podcast is rated with a difficulty level or listeners can choose podcasts that concentrate on specific areas.

61. ESL: The website, "English as a Second Language," offers a weekly practical podcast that concentrates on everyday topics for those learning to speak English. The podcast comes with a learning guide as well.

62. Poetry Off the Shelf: One of many podcasts by the Poetry Foundation, this podcast extends past the reading of a poem to discuss trends, history, and identity.

News & Views

63. BBC World Service: Browse through podcasts about psychology, science, technology, or politics. The episodes are available for 30 days and updated weekly.

64. Fresh Air: An NPR classic hosted by Terry Gross, who interviews authors, thinkers, musicians, and other creatives in a no holds barred quasi-talk show with no time limit and no BS.

65. Fareed Zakaria GPS: Best "news and views" show on TV, via podcast.

66. The Ezra Klein Show: The founder of Vox Media goes deep with numerous thought leaders in politics, science, and sociology about questions of identity, impact, and the future of media.

67. Longform: This podcast interviews longform journalists about process, reporting, and much more.

68. The Intelligence: A daily global news show from The Economist.

Why We Do What We Do

69. On Being: Krista Tippett boldly takes on the question that we all ask at one point: "What does it mean to be human, and how do we want to live?" On Being is a Peabody Award-winner and Webby Award-winner.

70. Hidden Brain: Social science research brought to life (from NPR).

71. You Are Not So Smart: More social science (a staff favorite of Getting Smart), featuring interviews on topics like tribal psychology, narrative persuasion, and active information avoidance.

72. The Moth: Storytelling at its best. The Moth is a platform to record your own story, and listen to stories told by storytellers at Moth events. It's a community for people who love telling it how it went down, and how it is.

73. The Stanford Storytelling Project: A podcast that explores how we live in and through stories, and how to deepen our lives through our own storytelling.

74. This I Believe: With roots in Edward R. Murrow's show with the same name, this podcast transforms essays from all walks of life into podcasts. You'll definitely find something that inspires you with the 100,000+ library of stories.

75. This American Life: An hour of stories every week about living in America.

STEM & Maker

76. How Stuff Works: You never know what you're going to get with this podcast. Expect topics that range from cars to food to pop-psychology.

77. TED Talks Education: Our team has yet to listen to a TED talk that didn't inspire or ignite us with new energy for an idea or topic. Subscribe to TED's education podcasts to hear from some of the brightest minds in academia today.

78. TED Radio Hour: Consolidates various TED Talks. Tom loves the episode on Memory and Jessica loves the Why We Collaborate episode.

79. Radiolab: Podcasts for the curious mind. Broadcast on over 300 radio stations across the United States, Radiolab explores science, philosophy, and the human experience.

80. Flash Forward: Rose Eveleth explores potential and alternative futures.

81. Astronomy Cast: This website offers a weekly podcast centered on astronomy concepts like planets and cosmology.

82. Big Picture Science: Takes on big questions by interviewing leading researchers and weaving together their stories of discovery in a clever and off-kilter narrative style.

83. Distillations: Produced by the Science History Institute, this podcast explores the human stories behind science and technology, tracing a path through history in order to better understand the present.

84. Math Mutation: Short podcasts that explore mathematics. Topics cover strange and quirky concepts that aren't normally taught in school.

85. NASA Science Casts: These video podcasts are short, fun, and bring unusual science topics to light. Podcasts are based on historical space missions completed by NASA.

86. NOVA: Offered by PBS, the popular TV program also offers podcasts on a variety of science, human interest, and engineering topics.

87. New Tech City: Approaching technology through the lens of the human experience is what this podcast is all about. A program of WNYC, this podcast will turn the mirror on the role of technology in our daily lives.

88. StarTalk Radio: A podcast series that focuses on all things extra-terrestrial. Topics include stars, the big bang, space travel, black holes, and more.

89. The Naked Scientist: Cambridge University researchers and physicians are behind this podcast filled with humor and levity as they explore a diverse set of science topics. Their goal is to strip science down to its bare essentials.

90. Climate One: Host Greg Dalton talks with environmental scientists, policy makers, and everyday people about the state of our climate and the ways to navigate climate change.

History

91. British History: For history buffs, this website hosts regular podcasts that focus solely on the history of England from the ice age forward.

92. China History: Another history podcast that focuses on Chinese history starting 5,000 years ago and proceeding to today.

93. The History Chicks: A fresh look at history through factual and fictional characters. Podcasts go into detail about the time period, culture, and typical lifestyle of the person highlighted in each episode.

94. Revisionist History: Malcolm Gladwell's "journey through the overlooked and the misunderstood." Every episode re-examines something from the past-an event, a person, an idea, even a song-and asks whether we got it right the first time..

Food

95. Bon Appétit Foodcast: A fun cooking/food podcast that ends with the classic question: butter or olive oil?

96. Splendid Table: A slightly more process- and idea-oriented take on a food podcast.

97. A Taste of the Past: This show goes long on food origins and food cultures, and is obsessed with following humankind's tastiest traditions.

Pop Culture

98. Song Exploder: A rare peek behind the curtain of musicians and songwriters on process.

99. WTF: Marc Maron, one of the best interviewers around, interviews everyone from comedians on the comedy club circuit to Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen.

100. Armchair Expert: Hosted by Dax Sheppard, this podcast interviews guests about being human.

What did we leave out? What podcasts should we check out to support our learning, teaching, and knowledge in general? Please comment to build and grow this list.
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Educators today have a lot of responsibilities when it comes to teaching. We have lessons to plan, curriculum to write, assessments to create, and information to share. Because there is so much information being exchanged between home and school, there can be a lack of consistency or it can become confusing with knowing where to access everything that is needed. Technology provides many options for facilitating these tasks and has served to streamline a lot of the workflow in our classrooms and schools.

Teachers now can use a variety of apps and web services for sharing information, delivering content, providing resources, and connecting with families. Teachers may choose to use their own resources or a personal Google Drive to store documents and for managing these tasks, but it can become a challenge to balance between the different platforms. Sometimes the choice is made when teachers are part of a school that uses Microsoft or Google. Having a way to streamline the workflow when it comes to sharing information, providing resources, accessing student projects, and providing students with options for showing evidence of learning, would definitely be a benefit, especially with time being a challenge.

While there are different tools that we can use, there are some that educators continue to find new ways to implement them into the classroom and also into daily life as well. Many of the digital tools that we use in our classrooms can be used by our students and their families for purposes beyond education, which is something that I try to stress in my classroom and when I have time with parents. Finding a tool that serves multiple purposes is highly beneficial in education today.

One tool that has continued to be used more in my own practice and that has educators creating new and innovative ways to use it is. This versatile tool can be used for more than just content curation. It can be used to create a flipped classroom, provide access to different activities and resources for students to use when completing a lesson and much more. It is a great tool for curating content for students or to collaborate with colleagues. We can also have students create their own Wakelet collection to save articles and websites they gather from their research. Beyond serving the underlying purpose of content curation, it builds student skills in digital literacy and learning to process information.

For students who need to create a multimedia presentation, doing the research and putting everything together into a presentation tool can be time-consuming and possibly overwhelming for some. However, when using a tool like Wakelet, students can simply place or curate all of the resources for their project into one collection and then share the link with their teacher, who can then create one class collection. A class collection helps students to gather their information and store it in one digital space that is easily accessible and also promote collaboration. Using digital tools in this way is great because the discussions don't have to end when class does. These tools provide ways to get students talking and sharing their ideas, so that classroom collaboration can occur beyond the physical space and time.

What Can You Do With a Wakelet?

It is always fun to learn about the new features of digital tools we are using in class, whether we happen to come across them on our own or other educators share how they are using the tools in their own practice. With Wakelet, the team is invested in improving their product and does so by continuing to seek feedback from educators as it grows and explores new ways to help educators and students. One recent update that I really like is the creation of Mood Boards. A mood board is a more visual way to organize Wakelet collections. It increases accessibility by enabling the collections much easier to view depending on a person's preferences. I

In Wakelet, there are now four different ways to display information: Grid View, Compact View, Media View, and Mood Boards. My personal favorite is grid view because as a visual learner, I process information by focusing on distinct patterns and layouts and this makes it easier to find what I need. It is easier to look at the images, make comparisons between resources, and quickly find a specific resource because it is easier to navigate. If you want more resources with less space taken up on the page, the compact view shows the link and includes a brief description.

Using the mood board makes it easier to personalize the board in a way that makes sense for you and your students. Media view is great for telling a story, creating a lesson plan with resources, and working on projects together. If you use other tools like Flipgrid, or YouTube, you can play these videos right from the Wakelet page which definitely saves time if presenting material in a classroom.

Ways that I have used Wakelet

1. Brainstorm Ideas: Teachers can create a collection and enable collaborators to post an idea, share thoughts, or ask students to share and create their own resources. It is a quick way to create a collaborative space for brainstorming, problem solving and creativity!

2. Curate Content: There are a lot of different materials I use for my classes in addition to keeping track of the blogs, podcasts, videos, and other websites that I explore for my own research. Wakelet makes it easy to save links, especially with the Chrome extension. It is easy to create Collections and to choose the best layout to meet your needs. I also enjoy saving bookmarks to the Wakelet page.

3. Project-Based Learning: For PBL, my students added their presentations and resources to our class collection which gave them the opportunity to look at the other students' work. It was a good way to also share with our global classroom peers who could explore different interests and topics.

4. Collaboration: It facilitates better collaboration between teachers, whether in the same school or for providing materials for substitute teachers or co-planning. Wakelet provides an accessible and versatile space for teachers who want to collaborate and share resources between their department or within a school. We can also empower our students to build their collaborative skills by using these digital tools in their own learning paths. It is really easy to promote anytime, anywhere collaboration with this tool.

5. App Smashing: One thing I learned about recently was the use of Listenwise and the ability to app smash these two tools together. I recently started using Listenwise in my classroom and you can create a Wakelet collection which includes Listenwise stories within the resources that you have. It's a nice way to give students access to different content and provide options for writing, evaluating or making comparisons between the different resources or primary sources. Also, try Flipgrid shorts videos with Wakelet for a combo that offers a lot of possibilities. Create a video right within Wakelet for providing an opinion based on the theme, offering feedback on a project or discussion, or provide a more detailed explanation for a concept.

6. Student Presentations and Storytelling: Have students create their own Wakelet collection that can be used for a variety of options to build skills in the content area as they gather information. Rather than using the traditional presentation formats, whether tech or no-tech, students can add images, videos, audio, links, text and more into one easily accessible space for class. Students can also tell a story or collaborate with peers to write a story and include various formats to make it more engaging.

7. Group Projects: Finding time to work in the same physical space can be a challenge, which is what makes having tools like Wakelet even better. Whether as part of a group research project or for use as a weekly collection to store all the projects for easy access to display in the classroom.

8. Scavenger Hunts: My friend Laura Steinbrink (@SteinbrinkLaura) came up with the idea to create a scavenger hunt using Wakelet. She gave instructions and added relevant resources to the collection. Using this can be a way to engage students in more active learning and provide a variety of learning materials beyond the traditional ones used in class.

9. Blended Learning: Whether students cannot be in class because of schedule conflicts on certain days or if a substitute teacher is in the classroom instead, Wakelet can help to create asynchronous lessons and used for blended learning. Design the collection with the resources needed and directions for steps to take and students can have a more personalized learning experience and will be able to continue learning on days when a substitute teacher is in the classroom.

10. Digital Portfolios: Students can add samples of work they have done and be able to share it easily with one link. Whether students have projects done using digital tools, want to upload images of non-tech evidence of learning, or record videos, there are many possibilities. A good way to show student growth as they progress through school.

Find out more by checking out the Wakelet website or following on social media with the #WakeletWave. There are many ways to use tools like Wakelet and other platforms.

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Rachelle Dene Poth is a Foreign Language and STEAM Teacher at Riverview Junior/Senior High in Oakmont, PA. Follow her on Twitter at @rdene915

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Educators today have a lot of responsibilities when it comes to teaching. We have lessons to plan, curriculum to write, assessments to create, and information to share. Because there is so much information being exchanged between home and school, there can be a lack of consistency or it can become confusing with knowing where to access everything that is needed.

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25 FREE Google Drawings graphic organizers — and how to make your own

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Sometimes, we just need some help organizing our thoughts - students AND educators.

Paper versions of graphic organizers can do a nice job of that. But by making them digital in Google Apps, they instantly become customizable. Multiple people can collaborate on them in real time. They can be shared with a link, embedded in a website or downloaded as an image file.

In short, digital graphic organizers are more versatile.

In Google Apps, there's a highly powerful yet highly overlooked app called Drawings. It gives users a blank canvas where they can add text, shapes, lines, etc. When done, they can save their work as image files or PDF files and can add those images to documents, slides and spreadsheets.
Drawings can be the virtual page where students can gather and process their ideas.

I used to shy away from doing a lot of graphic organizers because it's hard to design them in Google Docs; the moment I learned that you could change the page set-up to 8.5 x 11 inches, my world CHANGED. Now I rarely use Google Docs to make *anything*; I use Google Slides by default because I can add more graphics and have better control of the overall configuration. - Amy Nolan, high school English teacher, Commerce, Texas

Creating graphic organizer templates with Google Drawings

As Amy mentioned above, Google Slides can be used to create these as well as Google Drawings. The difference - Drawings focuses on one single page; Slides has multiple slides, which allows for multiple pages.

I've created 15 of them (see links below) that can be copied, saved, changed, tweaked or completely redone to fit your needs and your students' needs. We have added 10 more that were created by the Ditch That Textbook community and shared with us for this post.

It took me about 90 minutes to make 15 of them so that averages out to six minutes each. (Some were more time-consuming than others, and I got faster at making them as I progressed.)

Sharing your Google Drawings graphic organizers
Once you've created a graphic organizer (or have saved one of mine), there are a few easy ways to get them to your students:

If you use Google Classroom, create a new assignment and choose the option to deliver a copy of your graphic organizer to each student.

You can copy the URL (link) to the graphic organizer and deliver it to students via a class website, SeeSaw etc. You can also make a shorter, easier URL to type with URL shorteners like Bitly and TinyURL. (Check your Internet filter to make sure your shortened URLs come through. I've found that TinyURL works in most schools' filters.)

Using the blue "Share" button, click the "Get shareable link" button and set the document as "Anyone with the link" at the top and "Can view" at the bottom. That way, students won't be able to change your original copy and will have to make a copy of their own.

PRO TIP: When you copy a URL (link) to any G Suite file, it probably says "view" or "edit" at the end of it. If you change that word to "copy", it will force whoever opens that link to make a copy of the file instead of opening your file. That's another trick to keeping your original version from being altered. (If you assign it through Google Classroom, you won't need to do this.)

Here are 25 graphic organizer templates that can be used for many different subject areas and grade levels.

Feel free to make a copy of any of these google drawings templates and adapt them for your own use:

Question: What other graphic organizers would be useful to create in Google Drawings? Can you share a link to a graphic organizer you've created so others can use it, too? Leave a comment below!

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Like the Components of a Chromebook Infused Classroom, no single quality of an infused teacher is more important than another; instead, together they provide the whole that is needed to be a teacher in this age of information and monumental change. Growth Mindset - Educators with a growth mindset live in a state of optimism. They are life long learners and always looking for ways to improve and view failure as a necessary learning experience. [ 921 more words ]

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Like the Components of a Chromebook Infused Classroom, no single quality of an infused teacher is more important than another; instead, together they provide the whole that is needed to be a teacher in this age of information and monumental change.

- Educators with a growth mindset live in a state of optimism. They are life long learners and always looking for ways to improve and view failure as a necessary learning experience. They don't believe brains and talent are all that is needed to succeed, but that hard work and learning are just as important. Growth Mindset Teachers with a growth mindset often have an infectious love of learning and a can-do attitude.

Builds Student Relationships - The number one predictor of student success is often the relationship a student has with a teacher. Classrooms need to be safe social and emotional spaces for kids. Get to know your students personally. Understand their family situations, their challenges, and interests - so that students see you as an advocate, more interested in them as human beings than their classroom achievement. A simple smile, a word of encouragement or a caring gesture can go much further than feedback on content. Maybe put down the red pen and put on a smile if you want to see student scores increase.

Understands the True Art of Teaching: - As a teacher, you see individual distinctions and you are looking for patterns. But to find those patterns, you must invest in each student's personal story. With investment in your students' stories, it's easier to make connections and predictions about what a student might need to progress. You introduce the 'color' or concepts the students need to spark curiosity and experience a transfer of knowledge - that sweet spot where the learning truly sticks. You are at ease living in a continually changing and evolving landscape - making quick decisions and connections. Reflecting along the way, look at the big learning picture and what other elements might need to be incorporated. You view each class as a unique work of art that combines many separate and individual pieces to form something truly enlightening. You understand that all those parts come together to form a complete picture, like a beautiful mosaic.

The infused teacher knows great teaching is both art and science. It is also focused on the learners in the classroom. Your unique enthusiasm and personality become an integral part of learning. As you learn and try new methods, you become more skilled-but you never arrive at perfection. Focused on the development of the student, you are comfortable with how each learner might need a different concept, color or entry point into and throughout the learning. Learn to view a room full of curious learners as a work of art.

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Like the Components of a Chromebook Infused Classroom, no single quality of an infused teacher is more important than another; instead, together they provide the whole that is needed to be a teacher in this age of information and monumental change. - Educators with a growth mindset live in a state of optimism.

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As educators have access to more and more technology in the classroom, we need to rethink the student role in learning.  In a technology-rich classroom, the role of the student as strictly a memorizer and regurgitator of content MUST change. Students need to see themselves as people in control of their own learning, and not just passive receivers of information. … [ 1,215 more word ]

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As educators have access to more and more technology in the classroom, we need to rethink the student role in learning. In a technology-rich classroom, the role of the student as strictly a memorizer and regurgitator of content MUST change. Students need to see themselves as people in control of their own learning, and not just passive receivers of information.

Because we were most likely born BG - Before Google - we have not seen the power of networked learning in action as students - we may only now be beginning to experience its power as adults. Chances are strong that we were not as networked as our students; If you're like me, you probably lived through an era where being online was a cool add-on to what we were already doing. But today, the networking landscape is far different, and teachers must catch up. We cannot view technology-and its various devices-as a nuisance or obstacle to rich and reflective learning. Those days are long gone.

So how do we teach in a new way that we may not have fully experienced as learners? Many of us see this problem, and that is why we turn to any resources we can get. Social media such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have become indispensable and relevant assets for knowledge-thirsty teachers. And while the online teaching and learning community has revolutionized teacher development, it is still difficult to sort through ideas to determine what would best meet our own professional needs and the needs of our students.

The Infused Classroom not only helps teachers rethink their approach to teaching and learning with technology but also turns our attention to the student and their needs in the age of networked learning. A student with a computer has more than just access at their hands, but also an incredible opportunity to become an active and engaged learner. These students no longer need the teacher to disseminate all the information. This may be a difficult adjustment, but put away your PowerPoint, and consider stepping back so students can take charge of their own learning process.

As we guide learners to take ownership of their learning in an access-rich classroom, four parts of the learning cycle shift dramatically to the forefront:

Activity Curiosity: Before before we begin any unit, give students time to peak curiosity by exploring and asking their own questions about the content first. This creates a learning atmosphere that is guided by student interest.

In this phase, students go out and explore some interesting information about the content you need to cover - but they do so in a low stress and fun way. This gives them a chance to activate the curiosity that will help move them through a more meaningful learning experience.
Example of Exploration:
Try an Exploration Text Set (Much like a HyperDoc - but not a HyperDoc)- See this example of a Text Set Refugees HERE from Lisa Highfill and Scott Padway.
Example of Questioning:
Educators no longer need to tell students what they will know at the completion of the unit. But what qualifies as a good question, and how do we learn how to ask it? A good way to spark curiosity is to use The Question Formulation Technique . Rather than standing in front of the classroom and having students raise their hands, begin by giving each student time to ask questions in a structured way. With this expectation, students learn to ask deeper and more meaningful questions, and each student participates. To learn more, visit The Right Question Institute . Students can now pique their curiosity through an exploration or question intro activity and get their brains really interested in what they are about to learn. This process helps solidify learning. It is also important to conduct an assessment of each student's prior knowledge here, so you have a starting point in order to chart every kid's learning journey. This is how we begin the REAL personalization process.

A NOTE ON LEARNING GOALS:: After the student has had a chance to explore the content and you have gathered an assessment of prior knowledge it's time to allow THEM to set their own learning goals. These should be written down and then referred back to at the end when they reflect on their learning.

Manage and Keep Track of Learning: This step asks students to take an active part in keeping track of their learning journey. As students make their way through the learning cycle, whether by acquiring content, constructing knowledge or taking part in inquiry, they keep track of their learning progress. In this way, they watch as their knowledge builds. Later, they use the information as they apply the learning, and reflect on it. To track their own learning journey, students take most of their learning artifacts, check for their own understanding, and curate the artifacts in a useful application like Google Drive , SeeSaw or Book Creator . This way they have an idea of where they started, where they are at present, and how far they progressed by the end. Along the way, a teacher who understands the craft of teaching facilitates the process to make their thinking and learning visible. This will play a crucial role as students reflect on the journey at the end of this process.

Apply and Demonstrate Knowledge This is a very important part of any learning journey. To show and apply their learning, students might create a learning artifact that demonstrates their understanding of the content. For deeper learning, students can take this new knowledge and apply it to a novel or different situation. This is called "Transfer of knowledge", and it's where deep learning begins to take root. This can be done with many apps, but I might use something like Adobe Spark for this - where students can take their learning and wrap it up in a media creation. Here is an example of an Adobe Page from a 5th grade writing assignment.

Reflect Students return back to their learning journal to begin the process of reflection. John Dewey says, "We do not learn from experience... we learn from reflecting on experience." Reflection allows students and teachers to understand and own the full learning journey. The learning should include all assets of the experience; assessment of prior knowledge, where did I start? What questions did I have at the beginning? Which questions popped up along the way? What artifacts of learning did I produce demonstrate my learning? How can I apply that learning to a new or different situation in order to take advantage of an opportunity for a transfer of learning? Finally taking all of those learning artifacts - a student then explains and reflects on the learning process and turns this all in for a grade - instead of taking a multiple choice test. A great way to get at reflection can be using an app like Flipgrid where students articulate in a video response what they have learned and how they reach their learning goals. Students who passively take in information forget it. In reflection , students not only gain knowledge of content, but understand their own learning process, and keep that curiosity alive for their next learning experience.

The multifaceted use of technology changes the game in the classroom. It means that students now have a more purposeful role in their own learning. It also means that we educators must make a shift from the expert to facilitator and guide. This way, the classroom becomes truly student-centered and personalized. It also becomes a springboard for lifelong curiosity and deeper learning. And isn't that what we want for our students?

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As educators have access to more and more technology in the classroom, we need to rethink the student role in learning. In a technology-rich classroom, the role of the student as strictly a memorizer and regurgitator of content MUST change. Students need to see themselves as people in control of their own learning, and not just passive receivers of information.

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Creating Educational Scavenger Hunts Using Google Forms

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Over the summer, my son and I tried to find interesting things to do around Jerusalem. After a little online research, I found a company offering some exciting scavenger hunts around the country. There was a phone number to call and schedule a hunt, and I excitedly started dialing. The "tour operator" explained that the tour is designed for groups of 8-14 members, and costs the equivalent of $400US. Shocked, I thanked the lady and hung up the phone.

When I told my son about the call, he was quite disappointed. After all, this was the only exciting-sounding activity we found. With a Maker attitude, I asked him if he would like to create our own scavenger hunt. "Let's go to the Mall, find interesting shops, snap some shots, and create a scavenger hunt for your cousins". I was delighted to see his face glowing again, and within five minutes we were ready to go. Mobile phone and a clipboard in hand, we headed to the mall.

After completing our short assignment, which included running around from shop to shop, him posing in front of interesting objects as markers, deciding on clues, and what the grand prize would be (ice cream, of course!), I came home and was ready to put the clues and images into Google Forms. I knew that the Response Validation option in Google Forms would allow me to lock areas until answers were entered correctly. From there, it was simple. I entered clues and the correct answer, typed in an error message, and voila! The Hunt was ready in no time. We even decided to create an easy version (with image clues) and an advanced one (without the images)!

My son was so excited to not only run around, take notes, and create a scavenger hunt, but also to be of use to others (his younger cousins, in this case).

Classroom Applications

As an educator, I realized the potential of creating and using scavenger hunts to engage my students and quickly assess their progress (or just let technology do the dirty work...).

There are two versions of these scavenger hunts- an and a one. The active version allows students physically run around and look for clues. The passive one means hunters work from the comfort of their chairs- using their devices, they search for clues within the dungeons and dark corners of the Internet.

I started exploring the classroom application of scavenger hunts by creating a simple, passive " Around the World " scavenger hunt (you can copy it ) , in which students were to find information about different continents by conducting Web search and watching videos. I then moved on to create an active scavenger hunt for new students . It was composed of locations as clues and required file uploads as evidence. The new students were paired with a returning student (their "buddy") and were tasked with finding key locations (Office, Counselor, Lunchroom, etc.) and taking different selfies (sometimes silly, sometimes serious) to show they found the place.

Next, I decided to take it one step further, and look for a more educational application in my classroom. My esteemed colleague, Jill Fenn, was one step ahead of me and already created a scavenger hunt to assess her students' reading comprehension of the fantastic book Freak the Mighty . Willing to share her intellectual property and hard labor, she allowed me to digitize her scavenger hunt and test it on my own 5th graders.

( ; make a ) needed to be more complicated than the previous one, but not as complicated as the scavenger hunt around the Jerusalem Mall. The clues were already made, so all I needed was to decide hunters will show their understanding (taking a picture of an object? Solving a puzzle hidden around school?) I decided to have them reach the place, find a particular marker, and enter it into the Form. Using Response Validation, they will be able to know if they found the correct answer.

Students were extremely excited to get into teams and do the scavenger hunt. Actually, they were so excited, they even forgot to eat their lunch...

What to Look For

When creating scavenger hunts in Google Forms, you need to be familiar with a few features:

Media Use- You will need to insert a variety of media (images, videos, etc.) which would serve as the hunting grounds (where the clues are hidden).

Sections- All questions are entered within the Form's Sections. All questions entered in one section are viewable at once, while questions entered in the following sections are locked until the hunter correctly answers all questions in the previous section.

Response Validation- This option (the 3 vertical dots at the bottom of questions) allows you to set correct answer (or a range), which, until it is entered in the correct spelling/ format, the answer is marked as "incorrect", hence hunters will be unable to move on to the next section until all questions are answered correctly. You can use answers in the format of numbers, dates, letters, etc. Note that the correct format in Response Validation can make it frustrating to students, so make sure your instructions are very clear and specific.

The Benefits

So... Why should teachers create digital scavenger hunts as educational activities? Let's look at their benefits:

Engagement- Kids love running around and finding clues (both physically and electronically). They are so immersed in the mystery and excitement, that they don't even consider it an educational activity.

Collaboration- When looking for clues, the more hunters the better- everyone is valuable, and everyone contributes to a common goal.

Independence- All students need is a device. The rest is already there for them!

Repetition- Digital scavenger hunts allow you to use clues as many times as you want since no one takes them along their hunt.

Assessment- When students solve clues, it indicates they understand the content of the scavenger hunt. When they get stuck on a clue, you know where you need to re-teach!

Ronen Cohen
13 years of international education
Currently: Grade 5 teacher at International Community School of Addis Ababa (ICS-Addis), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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Blog: Blog.RonenCohen.info

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Over the summer, my son and I tried to find interesting things to do around Jerusalem. After a little online research, I found a company offering some exciting scavenger hunts around the country. There was a phone number to call and schedule a hunt, and I excitedly started dialing.

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3 Ways to Encourage Higher Order Thinking with Technology

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As a teacher, I relish the days of summer because I am given the opportunity to learn, rethink, design, and fine tune my teaching with the hope of being able to inspire students and teachers in the coming school year. This summer I have fully embraced the SAMR model of tech integration, fine tuned my ability to align learning experiences to the CCSS and discovered some new flexible and digital tools along the way. Now it's time for me to think about helping teachers embrace the changes that are necessary to encourage and develop students who are deep thinkers, creators and collaborators. A quote from Justin Reich on MindShift comes to mind

Thoughts from MindShift via Kwout

"One simple way of understanding our pedagogical theory of iPads is that we dn't want them to just become replacements for notebooks and textbooks, we want them to be objects to think with. We want students using them to mess around with the world around them and their courses of study."

Thinking with technology and messing around with the world for learning

Here are three ways for teachers to prepare to design learning experiences that encourage higher order thinking through the use of technology as a tool for learning.
Develop a digital toolkit
Explore and play with digital tools yourself to see how each one allows you to express your thinking, then add them to your personal digital toolkit. Introduce efficient tools to students through digital playlists and guided learning resources for exploration. A good place to start is by creating a simple digital playlist with MentorMob. Collect resources with the click of a button and let students explore them live within the playlist.

Design flexible learning experiences

Grab your toolkit, embrace Essential Questions, then build lessons around them. Adopt an online learning platform and publish collections of curated content easily. Why not create a Wikispaces Classroom of live resources for students? How about using a Padlet Bulletin Board to collect student feedback?

Get out of the way and let students create

You can take it one step at a time by working your way up the SAMR ladder and making each stage count along the way. Set high standards that include the CCSS and 21 st Century Skills development. Helps students learn to engage in everyday research to find information, understand it and use it in original ways to construct knowledge and present information and ideas. Get out of their way and experience the benefits of the learning partnership in your classroom.

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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3 Ways to Encourage Higher Order Thinking with Technology | Getting Smart

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As a teacher, I relish the days of summer because I am given the opportunity to learn, rethink, design, and fine tune my teaching with the hope of being able to inspire students and teachers in the coming school year.

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Imagen sobre el uso de los iPads, para imprimir y tenerlo en la clase para recordar a los niños las reglas antes de utilizar los dispositivos.

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(Manual para crear códigos QR)  https://docs.google.com/document/d/16LHXPZARD7otVi3nnEuNqgLsURe80fy5pMGHyGUs3Mc/edit?usp=sharing

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Es una pregunta que casi sobra porque en la vida diaria estamos ya empezando a estar habituados a ver este tipo de "cuadrado", estos códigos, tanto en la prensa como en la calle, en escaparates..., hay muchos ejemplos puesto que se han introducido ya en nuestra vida diaria. En definitiva no son más que un código de barras de respuesta rápida, las siglas corresponden a su nombre en inglés.
Un código QR (quick response code, "código de respuesta rápida") es, según la Wikipedia, un sistema para almacenar información en una matriz de puntos o un código de barras bidimensional creado por la compañía japonesa Denso Wave, subsidiaria de Toyota, en 1994. Se caracteriza por los tres cuadrados que se encuentran en las esquinas y que permiten detectar la posición del código al lector.
Es pues un sistema que nos permite almacenar información de una forma bidimensional, es una matriz que codifica mediante un conjunto de puntos, que están ordenados de una cierta manera, para que al leerse -utilizando normalmente un dispositivo móvil o bien un ordenador- pueda decodificarse la información que contienen. Es similar o la extensión natural del código de barras lineal, o típicos códigos de barras a los que ya todos estamos acostumbrados que identifican todos los productos que compramos.
A este código también se le llama en ocasiones BIDI por la abreviatura de bidimensional, de hecho hay aplicaciones que se llaman Bidi, aunque hay algunas diferencias.
Hay muchos ejemplos de códigos QR que se están utilizando ya de rutina; la mayoría son del tipo más sencillo y más limpio, por tanto son los que contienen menos información, normalmente son códigos en negro con fondo blanco. De forma similar, si el diseño es mucho más denso, significa que hay muchos más puntos en esa matriz de puntos y por tanto contiene más cantidad de información. Cuanta más información hay para albergar, más puntos son necesarios para codificarla, y eso hace que el diseño del QR quede más denso. También encontramos diseños que incorporan por ejemplo el color en las esquinas o bien en los que aparece el color diferente al negro sobre blanco, pero manteniendo tonalidades monocromas alternando dos colores al frente sobre fondo. Hay otros diseños mucho más complejos, con caracteres más especiales, imágenes, o incluso todo un diseño publicitario muy alejado del diseño formal de los casos anteriores. También además de incorporar imágenes hay otras posibilidades más sofisticadas como incorporar gifs animados, etc. Realmente es una tecnología que está en plena evolución y que está dando muchísimo juego sobre todo en el ámbito del diseño, marketing y la publicidad.

En todo caso, para cualquiera de los diseños posibles, en todos los códigos QR hay una característica que se mantiene común, es por lo que podemos saber que es un código QR y no otro tipo de código o bien código de barras. Todos los códigos QR tienen en su diseño tres cuadrados en las esquinas que permiten que el lector del código QR pueda ubicar perfectamente la posición del código y de ese modo recuperar correctamente la información.

@AnaAllueva

Síguenos en el blog o Twitter e iremos compartiendo contigo toda la información y nuestra experiencia con los códigos QR, especialmente en el ámbito docente.

Próxima entrada sobre Qué información puede contener un código QR

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Guía rápida que les mostrará las facilidades de Autodraw.

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Fast drawing for everyone. AutoDraw pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help you draw stuff fast.

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10 of The Best Google Docs Add-ons for Teachers

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We have curated for you below a collection of some of the most popular Google Docs tools we reviewed last year. This list is also great for those of you who are new to Google Docs add-ons and are looking for some teacher-tested titles to try out. We invite you to check them out and share your experience. Enjoy

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Chalkup is a great web tool that allows teachers to create classes and share different study materials on a message board that students can access in real-time. Chalkup lets you post discussion prompts, add comments to discussions, distribute announcements and assignments and view files.

'EasyBib allows you to easily create a bibliography for your research paper. Automatically cite books, journal articles, and websites just by entering in the titles or URLs. Format citations in MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and over 7K other styles.'

3- Easy Accent

'This Add-on allows users to easily insert accents for different languages directly from a sidebar in their Google Doc.When you click on an accent it will insert the accent,move the cursor in front, then allow you to continue typing without re-clicking.'

4- MindMeister

'The MindMeister add-on for Google Docs turns any bullet-point list into a mind map, and automatically inserts it into your document. The first point of your list becomes the root topic of the mind map, while the rest of the first-level points are turned into first-level topics. Second-level points are turned into the equivalent second-level topics and so on.'

5- Lucidchart

"Lucidchart is a visual collaboration tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Work together with an unlimited number of others to create and edit diagrams in real time, with changes merged and synced instantaneously -- great for team collaboration and working with clients. Because it's web-based, Lucidchart is the perfect alternative to Microsoft Visio for Mac, Windows, Linux and more."

'HelloSign makes it easy to sign your Google Doc with a legally binding, business-caliber signature.Need to get your document signed? HelloSign makes requesting a signature from others easy too!'

7- Tag Cloud Generator

'Tag Cloud Generator creates a tag cloud in the side bar from any Google Docs document that contains 50 words or more. Use this add-on to quickly assess what your emerging theme is, how to best categorize your document, or if it is someone's else's document - find out the theme of the document without reading it. '

8- Lucidchart Diagrams

'Lucidchart is an HTML5-based visual collaboration tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Work together with an unlimited number of others to create and edit diagrams in real time, with changes merged and synced instantaneously -- great for team collaboration and working with clients. '

9- g(Math) (update: no longer available)

'Create graphs and complex math directly from the sidebar in your Google Doc. You can now use Speech to Math in Chrome to talk directly to g(Math) to create the expressions or use Handwriting recognition for expression entry!'
10- Office Editing for Docs, Sheets and Slides

"View and edit Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files -- without needing Office installed on your computer. "

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Chalkup is a great web tool that allows teachers to create classes and share different study materials on a message board that students can access in real-time. Chalkup lets you post discussion prompts, add comments to discussions, distribute announcements and assignments and view files. 'EasyBib allows you to easily create a bibliography for your research paper.

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5 WEBSITES FOR INCORPORATING CURRENT EVENTS IN THE CLASSROOM! AND A FREEBIE!

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5 WEBSITES FOR INCORPORATING CURRENT EVENTS IN THE CLASSROOM! AND A FREEBIE!

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Fuentes de noticias confiables para niños - En este artículo pueden encontrar ideas de cómo promover la búsqueda de noticias en fuentes confiables y motivar que los niños estén siempre actualizados con las noticias y demás información.

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5 Websites for Incorporating Current Events in the Classroom! And a Freebie!

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Esta herramienta online puede ser usada para escoger alumnos al azar, contabilizar tiempo, controlar el nivel de ruido de la clase, publicar instrucciones de texto o dibujos, etc. Para más detalles pueden ver el video.

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Classroomscreen | The #1 online whiteboard for teachers | www-production-classroomscreen-com

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Manage your classroom in a fun and engaging way. Classroomscreen is packed with widgets for teachers: timers, group makers, interactive polls and much more…

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10 Good Strategies to Integrate Technology in Your Instruction

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10 Good Strategies to Integrate Technology in Your Instruction

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Looking for some tips on how to help you better integrate technology in your instruction? The visual below has you covered. It features 10 activities you can do in your class with the help of web technologies. These are: run a virtual field trip, quiet a noisy classroom, use videos for mini-lessons, coordinate live video, add multimedia elements to presentations, use digital exit tickets, study and critique web content, gather student feedback, launch a wiki page or blog for a collaborative assignment. This work is based on Marcus Guido’s post ‘ 25 Ways to Use Technology in The Classroom’.

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Looking for some tips on how to help you better integrate technology in your instruction? The visual below has you covered. It features 10 activities you can do in your class with the help of web technologies. These are: run a virtual field trip, quiet a noisy classroom, use videos for mini-lessons, coordinate live video, add multimedia elements to presentations, use digital exit tickets, study and critique web content, gather student feedback, launch a wiki page or blog for a collaborative assignment. This work is based on Marcus Guido's post ' 25 Ways to Use Technology in The Classroom'.

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10 Good Strategies to Integrate Technology in Your Instruction

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Some Popular Educational Websites for Teachers and Educators

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Some Popular Educational Websites for Teachers and Educators

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The list features some good educational web tools and websites to help you in your teaching. We arranged these resources into the following content areas: science, math, language arts, history, art, physics, music, and social studies.

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Here is another popular compilation of educational websites we featured in the past. The list features some good educational web tools and websites to help you in your teaching. We arranged these resources into the following content areas: science, math, language arts, history, art, physics, music, and social studies. A printable PDF of this infographic is available for free from this page.
Links to the tools featured in this visual together with several other suggested resources are included in this chart. Check it out and share with us your feedback.

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Important Google Search Tips for Teachers and Students

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Important Google Search Tips for Teachers and Students

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The power of Google search engine lies in its hidden features. Getting precise search results requires much more than simply comping up with a random search query and hitting  ‘I am feeling lucky’ button. Google search is a skill that needs to be explicitly taught to students. To this end we are sharing with you this handy visual that features some practical tips to hone in your Google search skills and enable you to effectively search for and find digital content using a wide variety of specific symbols and words.

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Important Google Search Tips for Teachers and Students

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10 Great Academic Search Engines for Research Students

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Niche-specific content is usually not readily available through regular generic search engines. One example is the academic and scholarly content. While running a  search query about an academic topic through a generic search engine such as  Google would probably render fairly decent results, it, however, usually takes digging into so much fluff before finally landing on relevant results. This is where having access to topic-specific search engines comes in handy. Such search engines do not only provide specific content tailored to the topic under study but their content is more likely to be reliable and authoritative. To this end, we have compiled this list of excellent academic search engines that teachers, student researchers and academics can use to quickly locate and access scholarly works and publications. We have only included what we believe are the most relevant and popular titles out there.

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Niche-specific content is usually not readily available through regular generic search engines. One example is the academic and scholarly content. While running a search query about an academic topic through a generic search engine such as Google would probably render fairly decent results, it, however, usually takes digging into so much fluff before finally landing on relevant results. This is where having access to topic-specific search engines comes in handy. Such search engines do not only provide specific content tailored to the topic under study but their content is more likely to be reliable and authoritative. To this end, we have compiled this list of excellent academic search engines that teachers, student researchers and academics can use to quickly locate and access scholarly works and publications. We have only included what we believe are the most relevant and popular titles out there. If you have other suggestions to add to the list please share with us on our Facebook page. Enjoy

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This poster features a set of important search engines for kids. These platforms are designed specifically for younger adults and help them search the net in a safe and secure environment.  We invite you to check them out and share with your colleagues.

(otro link)  https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/10-search-engines-kids-parents-safe-browsing/

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After posting about the 10 most popular academic search engines that teachers and student researchers can use to locate and access scholarly content online, today's post, initially shared here, features another set of important search engines but, this time, for kids. These platforms are designed specifically for younger adults and help them search the net in a safe and secure environment. We invite you to check them out and share with your colleagues.

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After posting about the 10 most popular academic search engines that teachers and student researchers can use to locate and access scholarly content online, today's post, initially shared here, features another set of important search engines but, this time, for kids.

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10 Educational Google Drive Activities You Can Do Using Chrome Apps

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If you are using Google Drive on Chrome, this visual is definitely a must see. It features a number of interesting ideas and activities you can do on Google Drive using a wide variety of educational tools. More specifically, you will get introduced to Chrome apps that will help you : create visual outlines and mind maps, edit PDF documents, electronically sign documents, create and share presentations, design and edit online forms and spreadsheets, work on collaborative projects in realtime, record and edit audio clips, create beautiful visual content, create and share videos, and edit images.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

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If you are using Google Drive on Chrome, the visual below (initially featured here) is definitely a must see. It features a number of interesting ideas and activities you can do on Google Drive using a wide variety of educational tools. More specifically, you will get introduced to Chrome apps that will help you : create visual outlines and mind maps, edit PDF documents, electronically sign documents, create and share presentations, design and edit online forms and spreadsheets, work on collaborative projects in realtime, record and edit audio clips, create beautiful visual content, create and share videos, and edit images. This visual is also available in PDF format from this page. Check it out and share with us your feedback.

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10 Educational Google Drive Activities You Can Do Using Chrome Apps

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If you are using Google Drive on Chrome, the visual below (initially featured here) is definitely a must see. It features a number of interesting ideas and activities you can do on Google Drive using a wide variety of educational tools.

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10 Important Google Drive Tips for Teachers and Educators

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Whether you are a novice or veteran Google user, the visual below provides you with 10 essential tips to help you make the best of your Drive. We have particularly focused on the following areas: how to: access your Drive files offline, customize sharing settings of your folders, connect and manage apps in your Drive, organize and sort your folders,  convert uploaded files to Google Docs format,  quickly search your Drive, change the language of your Drive and finally how to access a list of important keyboard shortcuts to use on your Drive.

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Whether you are a novice or veteran Google user, the visual below provides you with 10 essential tips to help you make the best of your Drive. We have particularly focused on the following areas: how to: access your Drive files offline, customize sharing settings of your folders, connect and manage apps in your Drive, organize and sort your folders, convert uploaded files to Google Docs format, quickly search your Drive, change the language of your Drive and finally how to access a list of important keyboard shortcuts to use on your Drive.

1-Access your files offline

You can access, view and edit your Drive files and folders while you are offline. This feature only works on Chrome browser. To turn on offline access feature, click on 'settings' from Drive's homepage then check the box next to "Sync Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings files to this computer so that you can edit offline."

Drive allows you to add third party apps to add more functionalities to your Drive. Here is how to connect apps to your Drive:

In your Drive homepage click on 'My Drive'

Select 'more'

Click on 'connect more apps'

3- Disconnect apps from your Google Drive

Here is how to disconnect apps from your Drive:

Click on settings icon in Drive homepage

Select 'settings'

Click on 'manage apps' on the left-hand side

Click on 'options' button next to an app and select ' disconnect from Drive'

4- Convert uploaded files to Google Docs editor format

To convert uploaded files to Google Docs format:

Click on settings icon in Drive homepage

Select 'settings'

Check the box next to 'convert uploaded files to Google Docs editor format'

5-Conduct smart in-Drive searches to find any type of files

You can easily search for different types on your Drive using advanced search features. Here is how to access them:

Go to drive.google.com.

Go to the search box at the top and type a word or phrase

Click the drop-down menu and choose from the options

6- Change the language on your Google Drive or add another language

To change the language of your Drive or add a different language:

Click on settings icon in Drive homepage

Select 'settings'

Click on 'change language settings'

7- Adjust sharing settings of your folders

As the creator and owner of a folder, you have different sharing settings at your hand. You can share your folders with specific people via email and allow them to either view the folder or view and edit it. Drive also enables you to prevent collaborators from changing access and adding new people by simply checking the box next to 'prevent editors from changing access and adding new people'. Here is how to access sharing options of your folders:

Right-click on the folder you want to share

Select 'Share'

Type in the email addressees of the people you want to share your folder with

Select whether you want them to either view or view and edit

Use 'advanced' button to access more advanced sharing settings

8- Color code your folders

Color coding folder icons makes it easy for you to organize your Drive content and easily find what you are searching for. To apply a color to your folder, click on the folder in Drive homepage then click on more actions menu button and select 'change color' as shown in the screenshot below.
9- View details of your Drive's activities

This functionality allows you to view the history of your activities on your Google Drive. You can also use it to see details about specific folders in your Drive. For instance: when it was created, modified, opened, where it is located and many more. Here is how to use this functionality. In your Drive's homepage, click on the black circle with letter i located in the top right corner. You can either select 'activity' to see a history of your activities or click on 'details' to view information about your folders.
10- Use Google Drive keyboard shortcuts

Google Drive on the web provides you with a comprehensive list of shortcuts to enable you to quickly navigate your way through your Drive and enhance your overall productivity. To access the list, click on settings button on top right corner and select 'keyboard shortcuts'.

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10 Basic Google Drive Tips Every Teacher Should Know about (Poster)

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Whether you are a novice or veteran Google user, the visual below provides you with 10 essential tips to help you make the best of your Drive.

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Copyrights & creativity for ethicar digital citizens

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Copyrights & creativity for ethicar digital citizens

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Independent learning videos.
Excelent resource organized by lessons that include short videos.

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8 Good Resources to Help Students Develop Spelling Skills

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Last night the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in an eight-way tie! In honor of the eight champions, here are eight resources that can help your students develop their spelling skills.

Making Sense of Spelling
Making Sense of Spelling is a TED-Ed lesson that explains why some words have multiple correct spellings, the relationships between words, and why not all words are spelled the way they sound.

Flippity Spelling Words
Flippity offers a great Google Sheets template that you can use to create custom, individualized spelling games for your students. Watch my video embedded below to see how you can create spelling games with Flippity's Spelling Words template.

Teach Your Monster to Read Minigames
Teach Your Monster to Read is a fun online environment in which students play games that are designed to help them improve the speed and accuracy with which they recognize letters, sounds, and words. Students play the games as friendly monster avatars that they are helping learn to read. If you want something that doesn't require any set-up time, try the minigames on Teach Your Monster to Read. Teach Your Monster to Read Minigames are games that students can play in a short amount of time and can quit at any time. The idea behind this being that students can quickly jump into a game and get a bit of practice in intervals rather than having to play through a longer game. There are six minigames that let students practice sound identification for every letter of the alphabet. There are three minigames that have a basic spelling component to them.

World's Worst Pet
World's Worst Pet is a free iPad app that contains a series of fun vocabulary games. In the app players have to help bring home Snargg, the world's worst pet, who has run away. To get Snargg back players have to fill his food dish by learning new vocabulary words. Each of the six levels in the game contain ten dishes (each dish represents a new set of words) that can be filled. Four games are available for each dish. The games are fill-in-the-blank, synonym identification, antonym identification, and definition identification. World's Worst Pet is designed for students in grades four through eight. The app contains a total of 1,000 vocabulary words.

Knoword
Knoword is a fun and challenging game that tests your ability to match definitions to words. Knoword is played like this; you're presented with the first letter of a word, its part of speech, and the definition. You then have to fill in the correct spelling of the word. If you enter the correct word, you earn points. If you don't get it right, you lose points. Knoword is probably best suited to use by students in middle school and high school. I think many of the words would be too difficult for elementary school students and they could end up frustrated with the game.

Spell It Out Challenge
Vox's Spell It Out challenge presents you with the final winning words from twenty past national spelling bees. You will hear the word pronounced then you have to type it in the spelling box to submit your answer. Before submitting your answer you can hear the word used in a sentence and see the origin of the word.

TinyTap is a service that lets you create educational games for your students to play on their iPads, Android tablets, and in their web browsers. For the most part the style of games that are created on TinyTap are identification activities in which students either choose an answer or type an answer to a question. Recently, TinyTap added the option for students to speak responses to game questions. TinyTap's Talk or Type feature lets you create activities that your students can interact with by speaking.

ABCya offers hundreds of games covering a wide range of topics. The games are designed for K-6 students. One of the spelling games that you might want to try is Submarine Spelling. Submarine Spelling is a based on the Dolch Word List. Students progress through the list by hearing then spelling each word by dragging and dropping letters into the correct order. Spelling the words correctly moves students' submarines through the ocean.

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8 Good Resources to Help Students Develop Spelling Skills

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Last night the Scripps National Spelling Bee ended in an eight-way tie! In honor of the eight champions, here are eight resources that can help your students develop their spelling skills. Making Sense of Spelling Making Sense of Spelling is a TED-Ed lesson that explains why some words have multiple correct spellings, the relationships between words, and why not all words are spelled the way they sound.

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5 Time-savers for Teachers Using G Suite for Education

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Banco de comentarios en Google Classroom

- Uso de Google Keep como banco de comentarios para quienes no usan GClassroom

- También se puede crear un banco de respuestas en GMail! (Canned Responses)

- GForms usado para pruebas auto calificadas

- Seteo de puntajes y requerimientos en GForms usado para pruebas

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Whether it's to indulge our favorite hobbies, to get some chores done around the house (my lawn can stop growing any minute now), or to spend more time on the fun parts of teaching, we all need a little more time. I can't give you more time, but I can help you be more efficient in completing tasks associated with our jobs. If you use G Suite for Education, try the following five time-saving tips.

Use a Comment Bank in Google Classroom
If you use Google Classroom to give Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets assignments to your students, create and use a comment bank to speed up the process of giving feedback to your students. Watch my video below to learn how to do this.

Use Google Keep to Add Comments to Students' Work
Google Classroom is great for giving feedback on final drafts of students' work. But if you don't use Google Classroom or you want to give students feedback on early drafts of their work, then the following method of using Google Keep to add comments to your students' Docs, Slides, and Sheets can be a time-saver.

Use Canned Responses in Your Email
Do you find yourself answering the same emailed questions over and over again? If so, you need to try using canned responses in your email. Canned responses allow you to draft messages that you can save and insert into responses over and over again. Watch my video to learn how to enable canned responses in Gmail (G Suite for Edu mail).

Self-grading Quizzes
If you give multiple choice, true/false, or short-answer quizzes use automatic grading options that are available to you in Google Forms. In the following video I demonstrate how to create a self-grading quiz in Google Forms.

Set Default Point Values and Requirements in Google Forms
Almost everyone who has made created a Google Form has at one time or another forgotten to set a point value for a quiz question or forgot to require a response to a survey question. You can avoid doing that and having to go back and fix the error by creating default point values and a default question requirement for all of your Google Forms. Watch my video below to learn how to do that.

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5 Time-savers for Teachers Using G Suite for Education

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Whether it's to indulge our favorite hobbies, to get some chores done around the house (my lawn can stop growing any minute now), or to spend more time on the fun parts of teaching, we all need a little more time.

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How to Use BoClips to Find and Share Great Educational Videos

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How to Use BoClips to Find and Share Great Educational Videos

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BoClips es un site de videos educativos que almacena más de dos millones de videos de productores reconocidos y avalados.
https://www.boclips.com/teachers

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Back in January I discovered BoClips while walking around the BETT Show in London. It's an educational video hosting site that has quickly become one of my go-to resources. In fact, I like it so much that I now include it in my Best of the Web presentation.

BoClips offers more than two million videos from producers that you're probably familiar with through their YouTube channels. Two of the producers that many people notice right away are Crash Course and TED-Ed. BoClips is different from a lot of the sites that simply hide the "related content" and ads found on YouTube, but really just use YouTube videos for their content. The videos that you find on BoClips are actually hosted on BoClips with the permission of the video producers.

If you want to give BoClips a try, watch the following short video to learn how you can find and share videos from the site.

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How to Use BoClips to Find and Share Great Educational Videos

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Back in January I discovered BoClips while walking around the BETT Show in London. It's an educational video hosting site that has quickly become one of my go-to resources. In fact, I like it so much that I now include it in my Best of the Web presentation.

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Entre las varias herramientas disponibles para hacer comics está Make Beliefs. Además de ser una herramienta útil para los alumnos, tiene varios recursos para los profesores, plantillas, lecciones, etc.

https://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

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April is National Poetry Month. Last week, I shared a couple of Read Write Think resources for helping students create theme poems and shape poems. Those are good resources if your classroom is 1:1. If not, you might want to take a look at the printable templates from Make Beliefs Comix.

Make Beliefs Comix offers more than 700 writing prompt pages. All of the pages are designed to be printed and given to students to write on. Within that collection you will find a small collection of poetry pages. All the the printable poetry prompt pages include artwork designed to spark a student's imagination. Some of the artwork is in color and some is in black and white. A bonus of the black and white artwork is that you're essentially getting a coloring page and a poetry prompt in one package.

Applications for Education
The Make Beliefs Comix printables section is a resource that elementary school teachers should keep bookmarked. Whether you need some new writing prompts to use with your whole class or you want to let kids pick a favorite, the Make Beliefs Comix printables section has something for every elementary school classroom.

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April is National Poetry Month. Last week, I shared a couple of Read Write Think resources for helping students create theme poems and shape poems. Those are good resources if your classroom is 1:1. If not, you might want to take a look at the printable templates from Make Beliefs Comix.

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Google Slides Now Has Native Support for Audio! Finally!

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Google Slides Now Has Native Support for Audio! Finally!

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For years Google Slides users have wanted to be able to add audio to their slides. There have been Chrome extensions that would do it and there are some other hacks that do work, but they always felt like trying to play a cassette tape on CD player. Finally, Google has listened to users and is adding native support for audio to Google Slides.

As was announced by Google earlier today, beginning this month Google Slides will support audio files. The catch is that your audio file will have to be stored in your Google Drive account before you can insert it into a slide. But once that is done you'll be able to re-use the audio file in as many presentations as you want by simply going to the "Insert" drop-down menu then selecting "Audio."

Once you have an audio file added to a slide in a Google Slides presentation you have control over the timing of the audio playback, looping, and location of the audio icon on your slide. You can even hide the audio icon on your slide and still have the audio play as soon as you transition onto a slide.

The new option to add audio to your Google Slides is starting to roll-out now to G Suite users who are on the "rapid release" track. Other users may have to wait until April 18th or later to see the new option to add audio to their slides.

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Google Slides Now Has Native Support for Audio! Finally!

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For years Google Slides users have wanted to be able to add audio to their slides. There have been Chrome extensions that would do it and there are some other hacks that do work, but they always felt like trying to play a cassette tape on CD player.

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Integrating Technology with Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Integrating Technology with Bloom’s Taxonomy

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Creating authentic learning experiences for students is an essential element in online course delivery. Through recent discussion instructors have inquired "How do we provide meaningful learning experiences for students using tools that are intrinsically motivating?" ² Questions as such imply the need to provide instructors with ". . . innovative ways of integrating technology that encourage higher-order thinking skills." ²

Research indicates that "Today's students, regardless of demographics, have shown an interest in digital opportunities to learn, and the range of Web 2.0 tools that make collaboration, innovation, and individual exploration possible is incredible." ² Practitioners within the field of education have thought of unique ways to connect digital tools with the framework of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy, which has led to the emergence of a Digital Bloom's Taxonomy.
Bloom's Digital Taxonomy
The purpose of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy is to inform instructors of how to use technology and digital tools to facilitate student learning experiences and outcomes. It aims, "T o expand upon the skills associated with each level as technology becomes a more ingrained essential part of learning." The use of this adapted version and the examples of tools it provides focus "should not be on the tools themselves, but rather on how the tools can act as vehicles for transforming student thinking at different levels." ¹ Outlined below are the levels featured within Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. Each level is accompanied by a description of its relevance and examples of digital tools that connect with this taxonomy framework.
Infographic Credit: Ron Carranza Summary
Connecting characteristics of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is necessary for creating online learning activities that are in accordance with our students' needs. "Bloom's Digital Taxonomy helps us navigate through the myriad digital tools and make choices based on the kinds of learning experiences we want students to engage in." ² Selecting the most appropriate digital activity will depend on the activity's level of difficulty tied to the cognitive levels stated within Bloom's Revised Taxonomy. As K. A. Meyer writes, "Knowledge is situated, being in part a product of the activity, context, and culture in which it is developed and used. In this way, we can begin to ascertain differences that will help instructors apply the right tool to the right learning goals." ³
References
¹ Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. (2015, January 15). Retrieved May 03, 2016, from https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/blooms-digital-taxonomy

² Lightle, K. (2011). More than just the technology. Science Scope, 34 (9), 6-9.

³ Meyer, K. A. (2010). A comparison of Web 2.0 tools in a doctoral course. The Internet and Higher Education, (4), 226-232. doi:10.1016/j.iheduc.2010.02.002
Additional Resources
Center for Teaching - Bloom's Revised Taxonomy https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/blooms-taxonomy/

Fractus Learning - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy http://www.fractuslearning.com/2014/08/18/blooms-taxonomy-digital-print-table/

Global Digital Citizen's Foundation - Bloom's Digital Taxonomy Verbs https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/blooms-digital-taxonomy-verbs

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Integrating Technology with Bloom's Taxonomy - Teach Online

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Creating authentic learning experiences for students is an essential element in online course delivery. Learn how Bloom's Digital Taxonomy can assist you.

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Get access to files anywhere through secure cloud storage and file backup for your photos, videos, files and more with Google Drive.

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Seven Ways to Use Google Docs to Support Bilingual Student Writers

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Seven Ways to Use Google Docs to Support Bilingual Student Writers

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The room is filled with chatter in Arabic, French, and Ukrainian as my class of 9th, 10th and 11th grade emergent bilingual students file into third period, grabbing their iPads off the cart before they settle into reading. Title III federal grant funds from the previous year made it possible for me to create a 1:1 classroom for students enrolled in ESL at Seaholm and Groves High Schools in Birmingham, Michigan, a northern suburb of Detroit. My students are well-versed in our independent reading routine at the start of class and flick open Feedly, a news aggregator app. They begin scrolling through headlines recently posted in their RSS feeds, some written in English or their heritage language, some based on their interests in soccer or technology, and others based on assigned feeds, such as YouthVoices or NPR.

"Folks, as you read, ask yourself what evidence the author uses and whether it seems credible," I say. "Thumbs up if you remember what credible means and can explain it or thumbs down if you don't know."

I wait for everyone to hold out their thumbs before asking several to define "credible" in any language. I also point to the vocabulary poster we made yesterday; it has a picture to symbolize the word as well as an example sentence using "credible." As emerging and developing English language learners, these moves are critical for checking students' understanding before we extend this conceptual knowledge into writing. Michigan, like 38 other states, has adopted the WIDA Standards for English Language Development as well as the accompanying assessments to evaluate linguistically-diverse learners' initial English language proficiency and ongoing progress in accordance with federal Title III requirements. WIDA is a consortium of 39 state departments of education.

After reading independently, I ask students to share with a partner what they read, one piece of evidence they found, and how credible the text seems. The questions are displayed on today's Google Slides with sentence starters and frames to support discussion. Opportunities to dive into mentor texts within the genre we are studying help linguistically-diverse students to dialogue about rhetorical moves more commonly used in the U.S., such as the use of passive voice in informational texts or incorporating outside evidence rather than personal opinions in argumentative texts. Today's discussion helps my students become familiar with the characteristics of a news article, including how to organize details and integrate outside evidence.

Later, I ask them to share with the class by copying and pasting sentences from their readings into a shared document posted in Google Classroom, where they will sort sentences according to what does or does not seem credible. Students will revisit this document later to borrow other authors' sentence stems to introduce evidence while writing their own news articles. As students work, I can walk by anyone's screen and see the whole class's thinking unfold.

Though Google Docs is only one of many digital tools integrated in my paperless classroom, it is arguably the online resource that has made the biggest difference for apprenticing emergent bilinguals, or English learners, into academic writing in English. The ease of sharing Google Docs in real time makes it simple to share resources-as well as our writing with the whole class-in seconds. Even though some of my students may not have regular access to a computer at home, they can access Google Docs from anywhere, including their phones.

Here are seven ways Google Docs can support emergent bilinguals as writers:

1. Access to Mentor Texts: Google Docs make it simple for me and my students to share mentor texts. In the case of this unit, we can add hyperlinks to news articles or copy the article into a shared Google Doc that the whole class can access. Using the "Comments" feature, we can annotate as we analyze the writing and highlight words or phrases to integrate into writing later.

2. Co-Construct Criteria for Writing: As students immerse themselves in mentor texts, they notice common characteristics in how writers compose. I ask students to use this knowledge to construct their writing rubric-listing common elements for "Organization" or "Voice" based on the 6+1 traits for writing-on a shared Google Doc. Later, the rubric becomes a tool for students to refer to as they write as well as for me to provide feedback.

3. Shared Writing: A common framework for scaffolding students' learning is the, "I do, we do, you do," approach. "We do" can be challenging to enact when only one person can hold the pencil during partner work. Google Docs makes it possible for two students to simultaneously write the same piece. If a writer is struggling, she can watch her partner write and jump in when she's ready; students also know I will look at the "Editing History" to hold them each accountable.

4. Real-Time Intervention: Besides making it easy to hold all students accountable just by peeking on my computer screen, Google Docs makes it simple to provide immediate intervention. Using "Editing" or "Suggestions," I can add sentence stems/frames or words to help students communicate their ideas, make grammar corrections, or share links to resources. And I can provide this support without disrupting students' writing or making them feel self conscious about needing help.

5. Integrating Other Supports: Writing is often challenging for emergent bilinguals because they not only need to learn the elements of a particular genre, they have to do so in another language. With Google Docs, they can quickly find the right word for their writing with Google Translate. They can also look up definitions or images for new words with the click of a button. If I notice students are ready to learn a new grammatical concept, I search for the concept on YouTube and find a short, but accessible video to share with the student-without being pulled away from supporting the whole class.

6. Transparent Revision Process: As previously mentioned, the "Editing History" within Google Docs makes it more realistic to hold individual writers' accountable to high expectations. It also makes it possible for me to get an inside look at their revision process. Many times, emergent bilinguals will stare at a blank page, afraid of writing the wrong thing. Google Docs makes it easy for them to start writing, knowing that they won't be encumbered with paper and pencil. I can also look at their drafts to see their thinking process even if they delete their writing. Students can more easily keep their drafts in one place-which they can look across to reflect on their growth as writers.

7. Providing Feedback: Students can quickly "Share" their writing in Google Docs with peers as well as me throughout their writing process. What's more important is that I can provide feedback without drawing dark red lines across their writing, an experience that can be discouraging to many writers (including myself). Instead, we use Comments, Editing, or Suggesting to provide less invasive feedback; we can also share audio feedback right in the document using Kaizena, a Google Doc add-on. Students can receive immediate feedback multiple times throughout the writing process--and I don't have worry about dragging stacks of paper home!

Certainly, these seven approaches to integrating Google Docs into the writing classroom can help all learners, but they provide greater possibilities for bilingual writers. The ease of using Google Docs allows writing teachers to provide more consistent and effective support for language development. Digital-based tools not only help prepare linguistically-diverse students to compose and communicate in the 21st century, but they are also necessary to promote greater equity through increased access to rich and meaningful writing instruction.

Additional Resources
Blogs Digital Writing, Digital Teaching Free Technology for Teachers Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day Writers Who Care Books
The Translanguaging Classroom: Leveraging Student Bilingualism for Learning, by García, O., Johnson, S. I., & Seltzer, K.

Scaffolding Language, Scaffolding Learning: Teaching English Language Learners in the Mainstream Classroom (Second edition), by Gibbons, P.

The Digital Writing Workshop, by Hicks, T.

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Effective integration of technology in education is a two-fold process that consists of two main stages. The first stage is theoretical and aims at providing pedagogically sound theoretical underpinnings to inform any prospective digital practices in instruction. We have already compiled and shared a set of interesting books that theoretical backup. The second phase is practical and this is where theory is put to practice. In this stage, teachers get to experiment with a wide variety of educational web tools and mobile apps that can potentially facilitate their teaching and enhance students learning. To this end, and besides the multiple EdTech resources we have been sharing over the last few years, we are featuring three particularly useful platforms that can help teachers search for, access and find EdTech tools to use in their teaching. Some of these platforms (especially Common Sense) provide detailed reviews and evaluations of web tools written mostly by practicing teachers and educators providing you thus with an insider insight on how to better use technology in your own teaching context.

1- Common Sense Education

Common Sense Education provides teachers free access to a wide range of educational web tools curated and reviewed by teachers and educators. Reviews adhere to a strict review policy set forth by Common Sense and consists mainly of a 15-point rubric developed specifically to evaluate the learning potential of digital tools'. Further more, the rubric focuses on evaluating ' three key qualities essential to great digital learning experiences: engagement, pedagogy, and support, including (but not limited to) how engrossing the tool is to use, whether it promotes conceptual understanding and creativity, how it adapts to students' individual needs, and how well it supports knowledge transfer.' Edtech resources in Common Sense Education are neatly organized into different categories. You can browse content using various criteria such as by: platform, subject, grade, skill, purpose or price. Each product reviewed answers the following questions: How can teachers use it? What's it like? And Is it good for learning?

'Edshelf is 'a socially curated discovery engine of websites, mobile apps, desktop programs, and electronic products for teaching and learning. You can search and filter for specific tools, create shelves of tools you use for various purposes, rate and review tools you've used, and receive a newsletter of tools recommended by other educators.'

3- Scoop.it

Scoop.it is another excellent digital curation tool for teachers. It helps you find out content related to your topics by 'reviewing your suggestion lists and the topics from other curators'. You can also use its integrated search functionality to search for EdTech resources or filter your searches using topics. For instance, when you click on 'Education Technology' in the Categories section you will have access to this curated collection of web resources.
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Effective integration of technology in education is a two-fold process that consists of two main stages. The first stage is theoretical and aims at providing pedagogically sound theoretical underpinnings to inform any prospective digital practices in instruction. We have already compiled and shared a set of interesting books that theoretical backup.

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5 Interactive Web Tools to Use with Students in Class

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One of our favourite resources for student interactives is ReadWriteThink. It provides a wide variety of educational materials to help teachers make the best of technology in their teaching and to enhance students learning. Check out this section to view ReadwriteThink tools we have reviewed so far. In today's post, we are sharing with you the five most popular students interactives in ReadwRiteThink as rated by the site itself. These are tools (we published in earlier post) that you can use in different literacy learning activities in class to help students ' accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language-all while having fun.' Check out links to the interactives below the visual.

1- Story Map
'The Story Map interactive includes a set of graphic organizers designed to assist teachers and students in prewriting and postreading activities. The organizers are intended to focus on the key elements of character, setting, conflict, and resolution development. Students can develop multiple characters, for example, in preparation for writing their own fiction, or they may reflect on and further develop characters from stories they have read. After completing individual sections or the entire organizer, students have the ability to print out their final versions for feedback and assessment. The versatility of this tool allows it to be used in multiple contexts.'

2- Plot Diagram
'The Plot Diagram is an organizational tool focusing on a pyramid or triangular shape, which is used to map the events in a story. This mapping of plot structure allows readers and writers to visualize the key features of stories. The basic triangle-shaped plot structure, representing the beginning, middle, and end of a story, was described by Aristotle. Gustav Freytag modified Aristotle's system by adding a rising action and a falling action to the structure. This interactive version of the graphic organizer supports both Aristotle's and Freytag's conceptualizations of plot structures.'

3- Word Family Sort
'This online activity is designed for beginning and struggling readers to help them recognize word patterns and learn about onset and rime. Students are first asked to select a vowel, and are then presented with a series of words to sort into short-vowel word families. Students can then print their completed word family chart and use it to practice reading the words fluently. '

4- Construct-a-Word
'Construct-a-Word provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words. For each ending, Construct-a-Word prompts students to create between 6 and 14 different possible words, adding an element of fun and discovery. It uses animation and sound to guide students through the steps of creating words, and employs prompts that are clear and easy to master. This interactive tool could be used individually or in small groups, either in one session or across multiple lessons.'

5- Trading Card Creator
'The Trading Card tool gives students an alternative way to demonstrate their literacy knowledge and skill when writing about popular culture texts or real world examples. This interactive allows students to create their own trading card about a real or fictional person, place, object, event, or abstract concept.'

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One of our favourite resources for student interactives is ReadWriteThink. It provides a wide variety of educational materials to help teachers make the best of technology in their teaching and to enhance students learning. Check out this section to view ReadwriteThink tools we have reviewed so far.

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3 Important Google Slides Features for Teachers

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Google Slides has recently added a number of onteresting features that will make it super easy for you to create, edit, and share presentations. Here is a quick overview of these new features :

1- Insert slides from Google slides into Google Docs
This feature allows you to easily insert slides from Google Slides right into your Google documents. And when you link the inserted slides with their source presentation you will have the added benefit of automatic syncing. Every new edit you make on your slides will automatically show up on your inserted slides. Check out this page to learn more how to link a chart, table or slide in Google Slides.

2-Comment on text within individual objects
This is especially a good collaborative feature. In the past, you were only able to add comments to either the whole slide or on the whole object in the slide; with this new feature you are able to add comments to specific texts (e.g., text box) in your slides.

3- Guides and rulers in Slides
'You can now add guide lines for consistent placement and alignment throughout a presentation. These guides will show on all slides in a presentation, and text and objects will snap to a guide to ensure they're aligned. We've also created a new visual ruler, which gives you fine-grained control over the alignment of text, lists, objects, and guides. Indentation markers in the ruler can help you control the alignment of text or bullets within objects.' Check out this page to learn more about rulers and guides
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Google Slides has recently added a number of onteresting features that will make it super easy for you to create, edit, and share presentations. Here is a quick overview of these new features : 1- Insert slides from Google slides into Google Docs This feature allows you to easily insert slides from Google Slides right into your Google documents.

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Wonderful Free Templates to Create Newspapers for your Class

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Check out these five excellent resources where you access free editable newspaper templates.

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Teachers and Social Media – Five Tips That Might Save Your Job

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Social media poses specific challenges for educators. I have thousands of followers on Twitter , almost all of them educators. I also come across many more educators when I participate in Twitter chats and on Facebook. Looking across this fairly large sample of social media sites created by educators, I think it might be useful to provide a few tips that just might help keep someone from doing something that will cost them their job.

1.) Your professional Twitter and/or Facebook sites should be separate from any personal sites you have. Students, administrators, parents, and community WILL use Google to try to learn more about you. I only use Twitter for education-related posts. I avoid taking a stance on politics. I may post something purely factual but stop short of making judgments. I leave that to the reader. My Facebook account is for family and friends only. While you might find a picture of my wife and I toasting with a glass of wine, you won't find anything I wouldn't want my clergy or my mother to see. Even if your settings are set to "friends only" there is nothing that would prevent a friend from retweeting or sharing your post to his or her wider network. Once a post is out there, it is out there forever. This from the Ad Council brings home that point nicely.

2.) Know your school and district's policies regarding social media. It is likely there are policies regarding student images and even mentioning your school or district on social media. While your district may allow you to post pictures of students working in your classroom - don't do it. Parent will have their own personal thoughts on seeing their child's face on a class blog, and some will not like it one bit. Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it.

3.) Never complain about your job, parents of students, or students on social media. NEVER! A comment like, "I can't believe what my principal did today" or "I met so-and-so's parents at conferences last night and now I see where he/she gets it from" will always come back to bite you. According to the National Education Association , "to date, there have been only three court cases involving teachers who claimed that their First Amendment rights were violated by being punished because of their postings on social networking sites. The teachers LOST every case."

4.) Do NOT friend or follow students. Just don't do it. Head this off at the beginning of the year by telling all students that your personal policy is not to friend any students until after they have graduated from high school. The appearance of impropriety is enough to raise questions even though you or the student have done nothing wrong.

5.) Do not your posts with your school location. Geo-tagging will allow students and parents to search by location and lead them to your account.

Social media can be a wonderful thing. It allows people to stay in touch with family around the country and the world. It brings news to your desktop as it is happening. As a former classroom teacher and building principal, I love seeing how my former students have grown into wonderful adults and parents. It is gratifying to think I might have played some small part in their development. The key is that these are former students and they, for the most part, reached out to connect with me.

I have a downloadable poster on my website you might want to have in your classroom. My rule of thumb regarding social media is THINK.

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Social media can be a wonderful thing. It allows people to stay in touch with family around the country and the world. It brings news to your desktop as it is happening. But be careful with your privacy; students, administrators, parents, and community WILL use Google to try to learn more about you.

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Important Chrome Privacy Tips for Teachers and Students

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While the Internet has radically transformed the way we live, connect, interact and learn, and while it has empowered us with unlimited means and resources for growth and prosperity, but this has come with a high price: our privacy. In a digitally focused world where dependence on the net and more particularly on social media websites is becoming bigger and bigger, our personal info become commodities in the hands of corporate giants. As someone has eloquently stated it 'if you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold.' You have probably seen the recent Facebook data scandal and how a political consulting firm (Cambridge Analytica) has accessed private data of millions of Facebook users. If anything, this proves that in the virtual world privacy is almost becoming a 'myth'. The optimistic side of this is that we can, at least, control and monitor part of what we share and with whom we share it.

The purpose of today's post is to introduce you to some useful Chrome features that can help 'enhance' your privacy while browsing the web. You will get to learn how to clear your browsing data, how to view and delete your saved passwords and autofil entries, how to stop Chrome from collecting your passwords, how to block sites permissions and cookies, and how to check the security of websites. All of the tips and instructions below are take from Chrome Help.

This feature allows you to clear either all of your browsing data or just part of it from a particular period of time. Browsing data is divided into: basic browsing data which include browsing history, cookies, and cached images and files; and advanced browsing data that include: download history, records of passwords, your autofill entries, settings and permissions you granted to websites, media licenses, and hosted app data. Here is how to delete your browsing data:

'On your computer, open Chrome.

At the top right, click More

Click More tools Clear browsing data.

Choose a time range, like last hour or all time.

Select the types of information you want to remove.

Click Clear browsing data.'

2- See your saved passwords

'On your computer, open Chrome.

At the top right, click More Settings.

At the bottom, click Advanced.

Under "Passwords and forms," click Manage passwords.

Under "Saved passwords," to the right of the website, click More Details.

To the right of the password, click Preview .'

'On your computer, open Chrome.

At the top right, click More Settings.

At the bottom, click Advanced.

Under "Password and forms," click Manage passwords.

Turn the setting off.'

4- Delete saved passwords

To delete your saved passwords on Chrome do the following:

'On your computer, open Chrome.

At the top right, click More Settings.

At the bottom, click Advanced.

Under "Passwords and forms," click Manage passwords.

Under "Saved passwords," to the right of the website, click More Remove.'

'On your computer, open Chrome.

At the top right, click More Settings.

At the bottom, click Advanced.

Under "Privacy and security," click Content settings.

Click Cookies.

Next to "Block," "Clear on exit," or "Allow," click Add.

Enter the web address.

To create an exception for an entire domain, insert [*.] before the domain name. For example, [*.]google.com will match drive.google.com and calendar.google.com.

You can also put an IP address or a web address that doesn't start with http://.

Click Add.'

6- Change site permissions

On your computer, open Chrome.

At the top right, click More Settings.

At the bottom, click Advanced.

Under "Privacy and security," click Content settings.

Click the permission you want to update.

'On your computer, open Chrome .

Go to a website.

To the left of the web address, click the icon you see: Lock , Info , or Dangerous .

Click Site settings.

Change a permission setting. Your changes will automatically save.'

7- Check if a site's connection is secure

The level of security of a site is shown in Chrome browser via the symbol displayed on the left of the web address. There are three types of security symbols you need to know about:

Secure : 'Information you send or get through the site is private.Even if you see this icon, always be careful when sharing private information. Look at the address bar to make sure you're on the site you want to visit.'

Info or Not secure : 'The site isn't using a private connection. Someone might be able to see or change the information you send or get through this site. '

Not secure or Dangerous: It is suggested that you don't ' enter any private or personal information on this page. If possible, don't use the site.'

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While the Internet has radically transformed the way we live, connect, interact and learn, and while it has empowered us with unlimited means and resources for growth and prosperity, but this has come with a high price: our privacy.

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5 TED Ed Lessons to Enhance Students Creative Thinking

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The theme of this week's list of TED Ed lessons is creativity. We have meticulously selected five excellent videos from the collection that embeds over 30 videos. We tried to include videos that approach creativity from different perspectives. From learning how to write descriptively to exploring the ways scientists' creativity made our world healthier and better, students will get to engage with challenging ideas and insights that will definitely spark their creative thinking. We invite you to check them out and share with us your feedback.

2- Can you solve "Einstein's Riddle"? - Dan Van der Vieren

5- How a few scientists transformed the way we think about disease - Tien Nguyen

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The theme of this week's list of TED Ed lessons is creativity. We have meticulously selected five excellent videos from the collection that embeds over 30 videos. We tried to include videos that approach creativity from different perspectives.

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Here Is A Great Google Tool for Creating VR Experiences in Class

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Virtual and augmented reality programs can provide uniquely immersive personalized learning experiences. http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/feb19/vol76/num05/New-Realities.aspx

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Tour Creator is a new tool released by Google a few days ago which allows you to create your own VR tours. Students can use it to create rich 360 experiences using their own 360 photos or images from Google Street View and Google Maps. The process to create immersive 360 tours is simple and easy. Head over to Tour Creator and click on 'Get Started'. Click on 'New tour' and provide a title and description for your tour and upload a cover photo and click on 'Create'.

Students can either use their own 360 photos or find one on Google Street View. They can also use Google Maps to add scenes and highlight points of interest. Once finished they can share their tours via generated link or through an embed code to use to upload their tours to class blog or website. Tours can be viewed on any mobile or desktop platform or through Google Cardboard viewer.

Watch the video below to see how 'one school in Lancaster, PA is using Tour Creator to share why they love where they live with new friends across the world'.

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Tour Creator is a new tool released by Google a few days ago which allows you to create your own VR tours. Students can use it to create rich 360 experiences using their own 360 photos or images from Google Street View and Google Maps.

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How to "ClassSource” a Simple, Meaningful, and USEFUL Review Document

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Before every major assessment I like to facilitate review activities in class. That being said, I can only handle the Kahoot theme song so much, play so many games of "Chemistry Jeopardy", or figure out another variation of Periodic Table Battleship to satisfy review of the whatever skills we are learning that topic.

Not that there is anything wrong with the above games, or the myriad of variations. Indeed, if I played Kahoot everyday my students would be STOKED!

However, the above review games, in my mind, always fall short in one area: student creation/invention.

This is where Google Forms is a powerful tool! During the past unit on Formula Analysis, distributed a different problem to each team of students.

I then asked each of students to input their solution AND a Youtube video of them solving their problem on a whiteboard into a Google Form.
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Although not as superficially engaging as Kahoot, watching students invent videos to explain their problems, and negotiate not only the problem, but also how to teach it, was incredibly inspiring, and IMO, much more engaging from an outside perspective.

Although this post is represents an extremely simple application of Google Forms, one I'm sure many of you have already done before or experimented with in the past, the power of immediately sharing the output formula with students, containing live links to the videos THEY created, was worth sharing.
cross posted at www.cyclesoflearning.com Ramsey Musallam teaches science and robotics at Sonoma Academy in Santa Rosa, California, with the aim of fostering inquiry-based learning environments fueled by student curiosity. He presents widely on sparking student curiosity and teaching with technology. Musallam is a Google Certified Teacher, a YouTube Star Teacher, and a Leading Edge Certified Teacher. Watch his TED talk here and read his blog at www.cyclesoflearning.com.

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Before every major assessment I like to facilitate review activities in class. That being said, I can only handle the Kahoot theme song so much, play so many games of "Chemistry Jeopardy", or figure out another variation of Periodic Table Battleship to satisfy review of the whatever skills we are learning that topic.

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Google Adds New Classroom Features. Use Them Responsibly.

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"With great power comes great responsibility."

All the MCU fans out there know that this phrase was first used in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15 issue and then later by Uncle Ben in the 2002 Spiderman movie.

But history nerds know that different versions of the phrase have been around for much longer. Winston Churchill. Teddy Roosevelt. And this guy - Henry W. Haynes from the public library of Boston in 1879:

The possession of great powers and capacity for good implies equally great responsibilities in their employment. Where so much has been given much is required.

So.

Yes. Google has added some new features to Classroom. And yes. There may be a need for them. But . . . we need to use these new features responsibly. Yes. These features will make life easier for teachers. But here's the problem.

Like any edtech tool or feature, these new Classroom additions can be abused, focusing not on historical thinking skills but low level learning. Focusing on teacher centered, standardized learning rather than student centered, authentic learning.

Especially the one feature that has most caught the attention of teachers.

Locked quizzes.

Soon you'll be able to keep your students focused by creating locked quizzes using Google Forms while in Classroom. Meaning once started in the Form, kids will not be able to leave the tab or open other windows. (Right now, this new lock mode only applies to "managed" Chromebooks that your school has full control over.)

Yeah, I get it. It's fairly easy for kids to "cheat" while asking them to complete online Google Forms and other types of digital assessments. Kids open another tab or browser. Do a quick Google search. Find the answer. Check the box. Copy and paste. Ace the quiz. And tick you off in the process.
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So Google finding a way to lock down a Google Form quiz delivered in a Google Classroom course seems super handy. And it is.

But think about it for just a minute or two.

What kinds of questions are most used in a Google Form assessment? Yup. Multiple choice. True or false. Fill in the blank. Basic low level kinds of questions.

So if all we're doing with the new and improved locked quiz feature is to make it easier for us to create and assess a low level test of multiple choice questions, well then . . . what's the point? If all we're doing is creating learning and assessment opportunities that are not high level and authentic, then maybe we're all in the wrong business.

Marco Torres once asked a room full of social studies teachers to describe their curriculum and instruction. After hearing long lists of dates and places and people and events, he came back with another question:

If I can Google everything you just said, what value are you adding to the learning that takes place in your classroom?

At the 2013 ISTE conference, Will Richardson asked a similar question:

If we're asking questions kids can answer on their phones, why are we asking the questions?

So . . . take full advantage of the new locked Google Forms option that's rolling out thus summer. But be careful how you use it. What can that look like?

Easy answer?

Yes. Use it to measure basic understanding of content knowledge. It's up to you to decide whether to actually record that data as a grade. My suggestion? Don't. Use it for formative assessments, not summative. Low level questions mean low level impact on actual grades. So use the Form as a way to help kids see gaps in their knowledge base not as a way to add data points to your grade book.

Harder answer?

Think about SAMR and historical thinking opportunities. I'm guessing you know about SAMR - using edtech tools as Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. I love Sylvia Duckworth 's version:

Using a locked Google Form to measure foundational content knowledge is simply substituting an online Form for a paper and pencil MC test. Move along the SAMR continuum - use the Google Form to modify and redefine how kids use and share information. Make it more interactive. More authentic. More student driven.

So try some of these ideas:

Primary Sources evaluation / Argumentative writing
Create a Form with primary sources embedded. Ask kids to use their historical thinking skills to evaluate the sources and create an argument using evidence found in the sources. Your documents can be typical kinds of things such as diaries and speeches. But don't be afraid to have kids look at

Media Based Questions
I love the idea of embedding multimedia such as photos and videos into a Google Form. Not sure what MBQ is? This older post can help.

Writing prompts
Create less complicated prompts in your Form. It could be an exit card. A response to a class conversation or. It could even be a response based on small group discussions.

Text-Based Interactive Fiction / Non-Fiction
Using Google Forms, you and your kids can create simple versions of interactive fiction / non-fiction without any coding skills at all. Check out a quick Gettysburg example and one on the Oregon Trail. Then head over to a tutorial for creating your own.

Explorable Explanations
Bret Victor calls Explorable Explanations an umbrella project for ideas that enable and encourage truly active reading. His goal is to change people's relationship with text. People currently think of text as information to be consumed. Bret wants text to be used as an environment to think in.

You're getting the point. Don't let the ease of use with a locked Google Form move you away from doing what's best for kids. Great power = great responsibility.

And if you're curious, there are a few other new additions to Google Classroom. These are a lot harder to screw up:

Create and reuse assignments and questions in one location. Organize the assignments and questions by grouping them into modules and units. Teachers can plan their curriculum for the semester by reordering work to match their class sequence.

Google introduced a new collapsed view of classwork items so teachers and students can see more content on a page. This will help the Stream become the conversational hub of Classroom between students and teachers.

View all teachers, students, and guardians on the new People page. Teachers can view, add, and remove students, co-teachers, and guardians in one handy place.

Control general Classroom settings in one place. Teachers can edit the class description, change the course code, manage Guardian summaries, and set the class location. They can also control how students post and comment on the Stream page.

cross posted at glennwiebe.org Glenn Wiebe is an education and technology consultant with 15 years' experience teaching history and social studies. He is a curriculum consultant for ESSDACK, an educational service center in Hutchinson, Kansas, blogs frequently at History Tech and maintains Social Studies Central, a repository of resources targeted at K-12 educators. Visit
glennwiebe.org to learn more about his speaking and presentation on education technology, innovative instruction and social studies.

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"With great power comes great responsibility."All the MCU fans out there know that this phrase was first used in the 1962 Amazing Fantasy #15 issue and then later by Uncle Ben in the 2002 Spiderman movie.But history nerds know that different versions of the phrase have been around for much longer.

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Teachers can deepen student learning by making the most of classroom technology.

Blended learning continues to grow as an approach to meeting learner needs, especially as schools put more computers and other devices into student hands. The growth of blended learning is generally paced at the comfort of teachers as they expand their use of digital tools for teaching and learning-at present learning to teach with digital tools seems to be the greater focus than exploring how to deepen students' learning.

Learning how to teach through blended learning makes perfect sense when the teacher is the learner, seeking to expand their toolbox of instructional practices. But opportunities exist to further transform practices by placing learning into students' hands.

Having visited many schools that incorporate blended learning, I've come up with four categories for the application of instructional technology. Viewing blended learning practices through the lens of these categories can show us how to deepen student learning.

4 Categories of Tech Use in Blended Learning

1. Managed learning: Management of instruction and assessment is just as important online as it is in the physical classroom. Online platforms such as Schoology, Google Classroom, and Blackboard CourseSites enable teachers to communicate about and collect assignments, give feedback, and offer learning resources to meet diverse learners' needs. Teachers and administrators can communicate with students, parents, and other stakeholders in a rich dialog that places the learner at the center of the conversation.

2. Orchestrated learning: Teachers frame learning by directing students toward controlled experiences. Following the teacher's lead, students participate in directed instruction and practice. Examples include completing digital worksheets, posting reading responses on discussion boards, taking notes from video tutorials or teacher-recorded lectures and demonstrations, or participating in whole class reviews using Kahoot or Edpuzzle.

These first two categories of using technology for learning are a good foundation to build on. When adding the next two categories to the mix, teachers empower students to lead, which can bring deeper challenges-and deeper learning.

3. Collaborative learning: Student-led learning experiences-both individual and group activities-can promote collaboration and critical thinking. Teachers and students can work together to personalize learning based on students' needs through an immense treasure trove of online resources. Use networking portals like LinkedIn and Twitter to connect with experts who can provide guidance and/or share their expertise with students. Using video conferencing, students can follow up with these experts, further linking curriculum to real-world interests.

Sometimes students need personalized support. Teachers can keep this personalized support manageable in a couple of ways. After building a resource library based on common need areas, a teacher can expand it to address needs that come up less frequently, and advise individual students or groups about these helpful resources.

In addition, try giving students voice as to how they demonstrate learning-for example, give them access to a list like my " 100+ Tools for Differentiating Instruction Through Social Media," and let them choose from that list or propose something else as a basis for creating a learning product.

Students need coaching and practice to deepen collaboration skills as part of digital citizenship. Share useful examples of comments on articles and well-crafted product reviews. And share feedback prompts students can use in online discussions about their ideas and learning products-for example, stems like "I like _____," "I wonder _____," and "What if _____?"

4. Authentic learning: Learning should be made public. Students raise their game when they have to share their results with an interested outside audience-whether in live events or publications. Engage learning based on an authentic audience beyond the classroom to give a context for how curriculum applies to real-world situations.

Use private sites like wikis, Schoology, and Google Hangouts so students can practice sharing work internally. Present student work on public sites, like blogs and social media platforms, when they're ready to share their voice with the general community or a targeted audience.

After networking via LinkedIn and/or Twitter, as described above, take those relationships to the next level. Provide students with "game day" moments, such as shark tanks, live-streamed presentations, or product presentations for a client. Students demonstrate what they know and can do for an audience that has an interest in the topic.

Conduct feedback protocols and collaborative learning sessions with professional partners or clients. Video conference tools create access between any location or time. Real-time examples include WhatsApp, Google Hangouts, Skype, and Zoom. Asynchronous examples include discussion boards, tweets with hashtags, and the commenting feature on blogs, YouTube, and other social media platforms.

Learning Is Complex

Success requires a highly qualified teacher who uses their expertise and assessment tools to diagnose learner needs, and then crafts targeted instruction with the available resources. Only then can blended learning be transformational, when instruction is not a reflection of traditional practices and is instead a set of dynamic experiences in students' hands.

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Teachers can deepen student learning by making the most of classroom technology. Blended learning continues to grow as an approach to meeting learner needs, especially as schools put more computers and other devices into student hands.

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With many schools back in session or due to start soon, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has released a list of five emerging tech trends for educators to watch this year.

ISTE CEO Richard Culatta has said that the use of technology in education is at a critical moment. "With improved connectivity and increasingly impactful educator professional learning around the use of technology, many students will have new experiences as the bell rings to start a new school year," Culatta said in a statement.

To help start the conversation around edtech, ISTE - which serves about 100,000 teachers, administrators and edtech specialists globally - suggested five trends for its stakeholders to keep an eye on throughout the coming year.

First is coding for every student. "Coding is the international language of problem-solving. Young people need to learn the basics of computer science in order to be the effective problem-solvers of tomorrow," ISTE leaders wrote in a release.

Second is the ability to give and receive real-time learning feedback. With everything digitized, teachers don't have to wait on statewide assessments to evaluate their students' performance. They can use electronic devices to assess students early and often, allowing for proactive intervention and additional help where needed.

"Tools that can visualize student progress in real time and recommend learning activities based on individual student progress are just becoming available," Culatta said. "This will allow teachers to intervene and adjust more quickly when students are struggling to comprehend difficult subjects."

Another trend is virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). With such tools, students can visit the Parthenon in Greece or explore the chemical makeup of a water molecule in more intimate, interactive ways than ever before - their teachers just have to figure out how best to leverage this technology in the classroom.

"This school year will likely be the year virtual reality and augmented reality make a real impact in the classroom," Culatta predicted.

A fourth "tech to trend to watch" is media literacy. With the emergence and rapid spread of fake news, "there's a great need to build our muscle around deciphering between accurate and false information online," ISTE officials wrote, adding that it's important for students to be able to recognize credible sources and interpret data themselves so they are not misled by sensationalized news on the internet.

Finally, ISTE suggests that the conversation around digital citizenship will shift this year. In the past, most people talk about digital citizenship in the prism of online safety - telling students what not to do and how to protect themselves in the digital world.

"While online safety is critical, it's only a small subset of digital citizenship," ISTE officials wrote. That focus will likely change this year by giving more attention to using technology for positive change and humane contributions, they anticipate.

"When students take a positive view of using online tools, they become more active citizens and community members," they wrote. The ISTE Standards define digital citizenship as recognizing both the responsibilities and opportunities of an interconnected digital world."

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With many schools back in session or due to start soon, the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has released a list of five emerging tech trends for educators to watch this year. ISTE CEO Richard Culatta has said that the use of technology in education is at a critical moment.

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Several years back, when I first began consciously observing and digging into the research around how technology use might disrupt relational and personal depth and maturity, I became very depressed very quickly. The news didn't seem good. To improve my outlook and mood, my kids encouraged a technology-free evening. We got out a box of old Life magazines in the hopes of thinking about simpler times. The ads claiming that powdered orange drink was more nutritious than orange juice, foods fried in vegetable oil were more healthful, and that is was never too early to start your babies on all manner of sugary drinks told the story of American's tendency to latch on to trends affording convenience. Not a country of moderation, we Americans bought into false claims and repeatedly turned what could have been a fine side dish into the main course meal.

Ten to twenty years later, scientific research caught up with the public health crisis caused, at least in part, by the over consumption of convenience foods. Might a similar dynamic be at play with digital devices? It seems rational to wonder how our full-scale adaptation to technology-based education, entertainment, and communication might be creating a reality ripe for consequences in ten to twenty years that will be difficult, if not impossible, to curb.

To help Americans make healthier food choices and counteract the widespread epidemic of obesity and other health concerns related to convenience foods, the United States government created the food pyramid. While this tool hasn't solved all of our problems, it has gone a long way in helping us consider what a healthy diet might look like. Similarly, I suggest that the first step of any plan to alter our technology engagement begin with a consideration of what I refer to as a "technology pyramid."

Just like the older version of the food pyramid, the technology pyramid I suggest recommends a greater proportion of healthy engagement with platforms, devices, and apps that deliver technologies that have less potential to hurt or limit us-and less engagement with those that have greater potential to hurt or limit us.

When exploring the idea of a technology assessment using the technology pyramid or any other possible tool, I stress considering the quality of the devices, platforms, and apps being engaged. Ideally, more time should be spent in digital spaces that encourage connection to embodied people within one's social and relational sphere or ones that are truly educational in nature. The educational sites, apps, and programs that are beneficial to spend more time in are those that best reinforce effort and allow mistakes to be a part of the learning and creation process, thus reinforcing a growth mindset.

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6 herramientas Chrome para niños que tienen dificultades con las matemáticas

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Si su hijo tiene problemas con las matemáticas, existe tecnología de asistencia que puede ayudar. Estas son seis aplicaciones y extensiones Chrome que puede revisar (las extensiones añaden funciones al buscador Chrome). Pueden ser usadas en Chromebooks o cualquier otro dispositivo que tenga el navegador Chrome. ¿La mejor parte? Casi todas son gratuitas.
El precio y la disponibilidad pueden variar pero fueron correctos al momento de la publicación el 3 de octubre de 2016. Understood no promueve ni recibe ninguna compensación financiera por la venta de cualquiera de estos productos.

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Educational YouTube Channels for Science Teachers and Students

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Here are three oldie but goodie YouTube channels for science teachers and students. You can use them to access and find a wide variety of educational video content to use in your classroom. The videos are professionally designed with beautiful animations and visual illustrations that make science learning fun and engaging.

1- Crash Course Kids

Crash Course Kids is created by the same folks who have created the popular Crash Course channel. This channel provides educational video content to introduce kids to key scientific concepts through the use of short and professionally animated lessons. Video content in this channel is organized along five major categories: Engineering, earth science, life science, physical science, and space science. Click on any of these categories and you will access a collection of video lessons related to the topic under study.

2- Life Noggin

This is another great channel where you can access videos covering various scientific phenomena. Life Noggin is basically an animated educational series that provides entertaining yet intellectually challenging explanations and answers to some vexing questions such as : what if the earth were twice as big? what happens inside your body? what causes cramps... and many more. There is also a section called Myths Debunked that features some very informative videos regarding popular scientific myths. Browse through the collection and see what works for you.

3- It's Okay to Be Smart

This is a channel created by Joe Hanson, Ph.D. Joe takes you into a journey to explore the world of science and space through short informative video clips. In each of these clips, Joe tackles a challenging question or concept related to areas such as biology, physics, space, and earth. You may want to go through some of his collections and you will definitely find something interesting to share with your students.
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Most of the requests we recieved from our readers here in EdTech and mLearning during the last few weeks revolve around one theme:student interactives. We have reviewed several of these tools in the past, however, one of our favourite source of educational interactives to use with your students in class is ReadWriteThink. It features tons of student interactives designed specifically for use in educational settings. The great thing about these interactives is that they usually come with a detailed description of how you can employ them in your class, grades they target, extra learning materials, and sometimes a planning sheet with instructions on how to use the tool.

Student Interactives in ReadWriteThink are provided for free. No registration or software download is required. You can simply use the search tool in the site to search for and locate relevant tools. Alternatively, you can use the menu on the left hand side, it has a category called 'Student Interactive Type' which includes a wide variety of tools organized into the following themes: organizing and summarizing, inquiry and anaylysis, writing poetry, writing and publishing prose, and learning about language. Using these tools will enable you to 'engage your students in online literacy learning...that help them accomplish a variety of goals-from organizing their thoughts to learning about language-all while having fun.' Click here to access all student interactives in ReadWriteThink.
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Here Is An Excellent Web Tool for Creating Class Newspapers

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Over the last few years, we have reviewed a number of interesting web tools and applications teachers and students can use to create digital magazines and newspapers. In today's post we are bringing to your attention another important tool in this regard. Printing Press, from ReadWriteThink, is one of the most popular web tools for creating classroom newspapers, informational brochures and flyers to use in your instruction. It has been designed specifically for K-12 students to help them unleash their creative writing and engage in multimodal literacy activities.

Printing Press is very simple and easy to use. It provides several pre-made templates with multiple lay-outs to choose from. There are templates for creating newspapers, brochures, flyers, sign, and posters.You simply choose the template that works for you, type in your text and add images. When you are done, you can share your final product in PDF or .rwt format through email or you can save and print a copy. There is also a basic planning sheet that comes with this web tool to 'help students gather ideas before working on this interactive tool.'
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For those of you who havven't see them yet, here is a collection of some very good templates you can use to create visually engaging presentations. These templates are provided by Google Slides for free and can be accessed in the new Google Slides Templates Gallery. They come pre-designed, you only need to tweak them a little bit to fit your own presentational needs. You can change text font, import images, delete or edit slides and when you are done, you have plenty of options on how to share your presentations with others. To access these templates, head over to slides.google.com and click on 'Template gallery' in the top right. They are located under the category 'Education' in the bottom of the page.

This is a great template to use for lesson plan presentations.

2-Students Certificate

This one is for creating customized certificates to reward students for their achievements.

This is another excellent Slides template students can use to showcase what they have learned during a field trip

This handy template allows students to easily create and share book reports

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I am excited to introduce you to my new project idea that I hope will result in some engaging content for our classes. It is collaborative in the same way the Interesting Ways resources are and I will need your help to make it a success.
Elevator Pitch

Using Google Maps.

Maths activities in different places around the world.

One location, one maths topic, one map.

Activities explained in placemarks in Google Maps.

Placemarks geotagged to the maths it refers to. "How wide is this swimming pool?"

Teachers to contribute and share ideas.

Maps can be used as independent tasks or group activities in class.

Maps can be embedded on websites, blogs or wikis.

Tasks to be completed by students and recorded online or offline.

Some background

Four years ago I created Google Earth resources for the classroom and posted them to the GE Community Forum. Two of them were called Maths in Madrid and Maths in Las Vegas. These were based on the fact that there is maths all around us, every day, everywhere we look. Google Earth (and Maps) gives us a great perspective on it all. It also provides easy access for our students to see rich visual content that depicts everyday maths. I have always loved the idea of children seeing the maths they are working on.

The only issue with Google Earth is that it is restrictive in two ways. It is not browser based and it is impossible for me to create a resource for others to collaborate on.
Luckily Google Maps has caught up and using the collaborative features I can now invite other teachers and educators to help build on these resources. It is exciting to return to these old ideas and work on them with you all.
How can you contribute?

1. Explore the maps below for the ideas already added, follow the links to open them in a new window.

2. Send me details of which map you want to edit and your Google email address and I will add you as an editor, follow the link from the email invite.

3. Click on EDIT in the left panel.

4. Zoom close to the city and it's surroundings. (Don't forget Streetview)

5. Find some TOPIC ideas you can see.

6. Add a placemark (use the right colour for the age group it is best for - see purple pin)

7. Explain the activity in the description.

8. Change the title to show how many ideas there are.

9. Send out a Tweet or write a blog post to highlight this resource and encourage others to contribute.

View 13 Addition Activities in Adelaide in a larger map View 7 Data Handling Activities in Nottingham in a larger map View 55 Shape Activities in Paris in a larger map View 27 Measures Activities in Madrid in a larger map

View Maths in Edinburgh in a larger map
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View Bradford Maths Maps in a larger map
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Chromebooks are making huge inroads in the world of education and are becoming essential learning tools in several classrooms, at least here in the north American sphere. If you are new to Chromebook, or are planning to integrate these versatile devices in your instruction, the tips below will definitely help you understand what Chromebooks are, what you can and can not do with them and how to make the best of them in your teaching. The visual features answers to 10 important questions related to the basic features and functionalities of Chromebooks. To access more details about each of these questions and learn more about other advanced functionalites of Chromebook, check out this resource from Google that we have drawn upon in the creation of this visual.

1- What's the difference between Chromebooks and other computers, like Windows or Mac OS?
Chromebooks use a specific operating system called Chrome OS that is lightweight and is supposed to help you perform tasks much quicker.

2- Do Chromebooks work offline?
Yes.There are a wide vareity of apps that you can use offline on your Chromebook. Some examples include: Offline Gmail, Google Keep, Google Calendar, Google Drive apps (Docs, Sheets, and Slides) and many more.

3- Does Microsoft Office work on a Chromebook?
Yes it does. You can use Chromebook to access, edit, view and work on your Microsoft Office files.

4- Does iTunes work on a Chromebook?
No it doesn't but you can use iTunes to add music to your Google Play Music library.

5- How do I store and organize photos?
The best option for you is Google Photos, where you can safely save and organize your photos for free.

6- Do I need to store files online or on Chromebook?
It depends on which option you want to choose: You can store photos on your Chromebook or you can store them in a cloud-based file storage platform such as Google Drive. The latter option allows you to access your stored files across different devices.

7- Do Chromebooks have CD or DVD drives?
'Chromebooks don't have a CD or DVD drive, but you can play saved music and movie files in any of the compatible file types with the media player. You can also play files from a USB drive or SD card.'

8- Can I print with a Chromebook?
'Yes, you can. To print with a Chromebook, set up your printer or set up Google Cloud Print.'

9- What kinds of accessories can I use with a Chromebook?
'Mac or Windows USB drives, computer mice, keyboards, and external storage devices work well with Chromebooks.'
10- Where can I find apps to install on my Chromebook?
You can use Google Play Store or the Chrome Web Store to search for and find apps to install on your Chromebook.

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This week I had the opportunity to work in an eighth grade science class. I was there to help their teacher help them learn new ways to make presentations. The topic of their presentations was "forms of energy." That topic lends itself to having students making illustrative animations. In this case I taught the students how to use Brush Ninja to make animated GIFs that they then inserted into Google Slides. Click here for video directions on how to use Brush Ninja.

After making their animations of forms of energy the students inserted them into Google Slides. Those animated GIFs were positioned to take up about half of a slide. Once the animations were in the slides we moved onto using Screencastify on their Chromebooks.

The students used Screencastify to record short, 15 to 30 seconds, videos in which they gave explanations of the concept that their animations illustrated. Screencastify automatically saved their videos into their Google Drives. Then they were able to insert their videos into their Google Slides right next to their animations. My sample slide is embedded below (the students did a better job, but I didn't get permission to share their work on this blog).

If you'd like to have me work with teachers at your school, please get in touch with me here.

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I run a column over on my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher, where readers ask questions about technology in the classroom. One frequent thread revolves around technology in the classroom goals for students. As a teacher, it's tempting to phrase goals like:
4th graders can create a chart in a spreadsheet
or:
80 percent of 5th graders can complete 10 skills in MS Word (or Google Docs)
But that's not what technology is about. Technology supports a curriculum. It's the pencils and books of our digital world. It scaffolds learning, making it blended, normative, rigorous, and granular. The metric for measuring technology skills isn't a rubric with a list of skills (i.e., add a border, include a hyperlink, and changed the font color). Rather, it's evidence of the transfer of knowledge: Did the student use technology to further his/her educational journey?

Here are seven authentic technology in the classroom goals that are scalable to your needs and can be spiraled up or down as required:

1. Student demonstrates age-appropriate keyboarding speed and accuracy

It's tempting to assign a goal -- say, 3rd graders should type 15 wpm -- and then assess based on student ability to meet that goal, but that's not practical. It doesn't take into account where students are in the learning curve and what their personal learning style is. A more purpose-built goal is to assess based on progress. How much has the student improved? If a student starts the year at 5 wpm and ends with 12 wpm (with a goal of 15 wpm), statistically, they're average, but practically, they improved by 140 percent. Their grade should reflect that.

2. Student demonstrates the ability to solve the most common tech problems

Everyone who uses technology knows it breaks down. One study predicted a 114 percent chance of having tech problems when using a computer. There's always something that doesn't work. Technology's worth is often measured by how quickly users can resolve problems and continue their project. In the classroom, there is a short list of about 20 problems that cause most workflow stoppage. Make sure students recognize these and can solve them wherever they are -- class, home, or at a friend's house. Assess whether students meet this goal by observing them in class and having other teachers/parents anecdotally report successes (or failures).

3. Student demonstrates use of tech tools outside of class

Using a webtool under the watchful eye of a teacher, surrounded by classmates who can help, is much different from using it when the only one there to assist is the student themselves. For our purposes, we'll define "use" as the ability to blend the tech tool into learning. Some great examples of this are digital note-taking, PDF annotation, and grammar tools. To measure this goal, anecdotally observe students as they work. Do they take notes digitally or search for a pencil and paper -- and sharpener and eraser? Do they correct grammar on the fly with a right click, or do they ignore the green squiggly lines?

4. Student differentiates between tech tools -- understanding how each is uniquely suited to a task, purpose, and audience

When starting a project, don't assign the tech tool; ask students whether the goals of the project are better served by a word processing program? Or a slideshow? Or a video? Or maybe a spreadsheet? Get students to think about how each tool's particular characteristics differ from other tools and how it is best-suited to audience, task, and purpose. The first time you do this, build a formal compare-contrast chart and discuss how each program satisfies the lesson's big ideas and essential questions in different ways. Then, let students pick the one that fits their communication style.

5. Student can transfer knowledge of technology from known skills to unknown skills

Expect students to use unknown (meaning untaught) tech tools by transferring knowledge from other tools they've used. Many programs have similar toolbars, canvases, drag-and-drop features, and more. Before students ask for help, remind them to make these connections and see if they can be their own problem solvers.

6: Student can transfer knowledge of technology from tech class to other classes and home

Expect students to include technology as a strategy for all of their research, writing, and learning -- even when they're not in your class. A great example of this is vocabulary. A significant purpose of most reading standards is to learn new vocabulary. Technology provides tools for decoding words quickly and efficiently, while students read, rather than by memorizing a word list for homework. Make this an ongoing goal: When students encounter an unknown word, they take 10 seconds to decode it before returning to their reading.

7. Student is a good digital citizen

From the moment students cross the virtual threshold of the Internet, they enter a neighborhood as transformative as the physical one, albeit larger, deeper, and more agile. Teach students what they need to know at each grade level to be good citizens of that digital world. This requires a thorough understanding of age-appropriates rights and responsibilities. For example, by 3rd grade, they understand how and when to cite images as well as text. Kindergartners know cyberbullies are as painful as playground bullies. And 8th graders understand the nuances of their digital footprint, online purchases, and social media.

All seven of these goals are measurable by anecdotal observation and daily accountability. Expected learning outcomes revolve around success in the grade-level curriculum rather than anything with the words "Technology," "IT," or "Digital." You will know students have reached their goals because they will excel in all related academic areas.

For more on the future of educational assessment, read this excellent article by Dr. David Hawley.

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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7 ninja Google Keep tricks for teachers and students

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As vast as the Internet is, it's good to have a way to archive things you find - and the ideas that it sparks.

For me, that all comes down to Google Keep. It's like digital sticky notes you carry with you in your phone, computer or Chromebook.

I'll jot down a fleeting thought, capture an interesting article or list things I need to do.

Keep has the same superpowers for both students AND teachers. Some of those superpowers can be used to do some awesome learning in the classroom. (Here's a post I wrote about how Google Keep can streamline life at school.)

And some of the hidden features - the stuff you might not easily notice - REALLY feel like superpowers!
Here are seven of my favorite Google Keep ninja tricks. I'll bet there's something in there you didn't know about!
Use the time stamps under the embedded video (below) to find the parts you want to watch most - and skip to those. Or just watch the whole video start to finish ... that's always OK, too!

0:42 - What is Google Keep?

1:53 - Take notes on mobile, work with them on a laptop/Chromebook

2:28 - Annotate images in a note (great for digitizing agendas for meetings or handouts!)

4:01 - Add drawings to photos in a note (Snapchat style!)

4:47 - Organize to your heart's content! (color-coded notes AND labels)

5:43 - Convert Keep notes to Google Docs (when they get really big)

6:29 - Convert text in an image into editable text in a note (you can copy/paste that text anywhere after that!)

8:02 - Add lines/dots to your drawings to keep content straight

9:37 - Put Keep notes in a doc/slide (kind of like a digital sticky note brainstorming session!)

12:40 - Capture voice recordings as audio AND transcribe it to text in a note
PS: Did you notice that my numbering skills are a hot mess in this video? In the video, the graphic says 10 tricks ... the title and graphic in this post say 7 tricks ... and there end up being 8 tricks in the video! Yikes ... I'll do better on that next time. Owning my mistakes and being transparent here! For notifications of new Ditch That Textbook content and helpful links: Interested in having Matt present at your event or school? Contact him by e-mail! Matt is scheduled to present at the following upcoming events:

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Using Google Slides to create Instagram Stories in class

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Instagram is social media behemoth, and it keeps growing. It has eclipsed 1 billion users, and it's the second most popular social media platform with teenagers behind Snapchat, according to a report. (Although one statistic says it has more daily teenage users than Snapchat.

It's just one of a variety of social media and other apps that many students are familiar with - either as users themselves or because (as young children) their parents and siblings use it.

Instagram Stories is a pretty popular feature, and it's a great storytelling tool. Users can capture important moments of their lives in photo or video and string them together for others to watch one by one.

This might beg a pretty common question among teachers who want to create amazing classroom experiences ...

"How can we use that in the classroom?"

I've thought about how cool it would be to show what Juliet's Instagram story would look like after Romeo dies in Romeo and Juliet. Or how cool it would be to show a science lab with an Instagram story.

Thankfully, there's an easy answer to that question.

If what we really want is the experience that comes with the app, we don't need the app for that.

We don't need the app to create the experience!

There are lots of hurdles if you use the app ...

It certain requirements (age, etc.).

It might be blocked by the school's Internet firewall. (OK, let's be honest ... it probably is!)

It requires you to have a device, which not all students have.

Instead, let's use a digital tool that students have access to ...

... like Google Slides. (Or PowerPoint ... whatever works for you!)

Using Google Slides for Instagram Stories in class

What would this look like in class? Allow your mind to wander in this direction ...

Characters for a story you've read (How would they react to the story's events in an Instagram story?)

Historical figures (How would those characters show what happened in an Instagram story?)

Replaying a science lab (How could students show various parts of the lab?)

Demonstrating a skill (How could students teach others with photos and video?)

"A Day in the Life of ..." (How could students show what happens in their lives?)

First day/week back to school (How could students get to know each other better?)

Practicing a foreign language (How could students get repetitions in the spoken/written language?)

And that's just the tip of the iceberg!

How to create Instagram Stories in Google Slides

These step-by-step instructions are from a slide deck I made in Google Slides. Feel free to check it out and even go to File > Make a copy ... if you'd like! (But please, please, please ... don't request access. Just make your own copy. Thanks!)

Step 1: Plan out videos to include in your story.

Trying to create an Instagram story about class content on the fly can be a disaster. A little planning ahead can help to ensure success.

Using a simple storyboarding concept - a sketch and a few lines of text for each scene - helps students think through the whole process cohesively.
Here's a storyboard template you can copy from Google Drawings!
Step 2: Create a Google Slides presentation.

You could have students create a brand new slide presentation and build the whole Instagram Stories interface from scratch.

But who has time for that?
I've got you covered. Just make a copy of my Instagram Stories template.
Once you've done that, feel free to duplicate the slides as many times as you need (or delete out the extras you don't need).

Step 3: Add the Webcam Record extension.

Do you want your students to be able to add short videos to their Instagram Stories in addition to images?

(Hint: The answer is YES.)

If you're using Google Chrome (hopefully the answer here is "yes" too!), add the Webcam Record extension by Alice Keeler. It lets you add video clips of 30 seconds (or less), which are PERFECT for Instagram Stories.

You should only need to do this once. Once it's installed, it'll stay there until you remove it.

Step 4: Record some video (and/or add some images).

Now's where it gets fun.

Students can use the Webcam Record extension to record videos. They're saved in Google Drive. Once they're done recording, have them go to Insert > Video > Google Drive.

They can also go to Insert > Image > Camera to shoot a still image with your Chromebook/laptop's webcam. (If you're using the Google Slides app, just shoot a photo with the camera app and insert it from the camera roll.)

Students can also use images they find on the web ... but be certain that they have the rights to use them. Creative Commons images (with attribution) and public domain images (no attribution needed) are useable. One of my favorite places to get images is Photos for Class ( photosforclass.com).

Step 5: Insert videos from Drive.

If student shoot videos with Webcam record, they're saved into Google Drive.

Students may try to insert those videos and they may look totally black.

Here's the problem ...

Often, it takes those videos a little time to process before they're totally ready. If the videos show up as totally black, they're just not ready yet. Leave them in the oven a little longer to finish cooking. 🙂

Also, once the video is finished, it's a good idea for students to go into Drive and rename the file so they know which video is what later.

Step 6: Make videos autoplay when presenting.

When students add videos, it's good if they click on the video and then click the "Format options" button in the toolbar (see image above). They should select "Autoplay when presenting."

This isn't a deal-breaker if they don't do it. However, it DOES make the experience more like real Instagram Stories because those videos DO autoplay.

Step 7: Add videos and images to the template.

Have students add as many videos and images as they need.

If they run out of slides, they can always duplicate the ones they have to make more ...

Laptop/Chromebook: Right-click the thumbnail on the left and choose "Duplicate slide".

Laptop/Chromebook: Select the slide you want to duplicate and push Ctrl+D (Windows/Chromebook) or Cmd+D (Mac).

iPad app: Long-press on the slide you want to duplicate and copy it. Then paste it.

Step 8: (Optional) Add annotations and extras to images.

Adding icons, text, speech bubbles, emojis, Bitmojis and more can make your Instagram Stories even more fun!

Here are some tips for adding them:

Icons: There are LOTS of sources for icons, but my favorite is TheNounProject.com. If you use their icons for free, it's under a Creative Commons license and you'll need to provide attribution. (A simple, small text box at the bottom of a slide will do it.)

Text: Simple text boxes are great, but don't forget word art! (Insert > Word art) This gives you more control over the appearance of the text, including a border around letters.

Speech bubbles: Just go to Insert > Shape > Callouts for several speech and thought bubbles.

Emojis: If you're using a mobile device, this is no big deal. With a laptop or Chromebook, use an emoji keyboard extension for Google Chrome like this one.

Bitmojis: Go to bitmoji.com for these fun cartoonish characters that look like you! You'll need the mobile app to make one. Caution: Not all Bitmoji images are appropriate for school! If you'd like to provide appropriate ones for students that you choose, this post shows how you can do it!

Step 9: Present slides to watch your story!

Clicking the "Present" button will put the Instagram Stories magic on display.

When in presentation mode (if you selected it), videos will autoplay. Students can click through slides with images.

Have students present their stories in front of the class on a projector or smart display!

Or ... if you want to try something different ...

Try a gallery walk. Have students bring up their Instagram Stories on their own devices and set them on their desks. Then, everyone stands up and walks around to each other's devices. They click "present" and flip through each other's stories.

It gets students out of their seats. (We all know that being too sedentary isn't good on kids - or anyone! - and movement has physical and cognitive benefits.)

Step 10: (Optional) Have students add comments.

If students share their Instagram stories with the class, they'll be able to interact with each other through comments! It's an easy way to add a layer of collaboration and communication to the activity.

An easy way to do that:

In Google Classroom or your learning management system, add a new announcement for their Instagram Stories assignment.

Make sure students can add comments to the announcement.

Students open their Instagram Stories and click the blue "Share" button in Google Slides.

They change the sharing settings to "Anyone with the link can comment" or "Anyone in [your organization] can comment".

They copy the link to their Instagram Stories slide presentation.

They paste the link in a comment in the announcement in Google Classroom or your LMS.

They click each other's links to open them and add comments.

That's it!

Follow those step-by-step instructions and you'll be on your way!

You and your students will be creating with the content they're learning in your class. Plus, if they're familiar with Instagram Stories, they'll be tapping into a skill they already use in their everyday lives - creating stories!
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10 ways to make good Google Classroom assignments better

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If you've used Google Classroom for long (or even if you're just beginning to use it), you're likely to see that there's not a lot to it.

Google Classroom was created to help teachers teach and learners learn so that tech stays out of their way to do it. Less tech, more teach.

And Google Classroom delivers. Here's how its workflow basically works:

Teacher creates assignment.

Student completes assignment and turns it in.

Teacher collects assignment and provides feedback.

Teacher assigns a grade and returns the assignment.

Feedback and collaboration happen throughout.

The magic is not in Google Classroom itself. It's in how teachers and students use it and how learning is improved. Clicking the "Assignment" button to create an assignment isn't enough.

For that reason, not all uses of Google Classroom are equal. It can be used poorly, and it can be used to supercharge teaching and learning.

If we understand its features and how they can support solid teaching and learning, we can create better learning experiences.

Here are some ways to Google Classroom's features to make good assignments even better:

1a. Leave great instructions. This is something I've fallen victim to many times. I would create the assignment and give it a title, then get students working on it. But if I failed to write solid instructions, absent students suffered. Students who didn't finish work in class suffered. Students who didn't pay great attention to my verbal directions - or those who were unclear - suffered. It all could have been averted. It's a simple idea, but take the time to write out detailed instructions. Everyone benefits.

1b. Revise your instructions. When something changes with an assignment, update the instructions in Classroom. This helps you - and students - avoid assignments that don't reflect the most recent changes.

2. Make your instructions easy to read. No one likes to read a huge block of text. It's hard on the eyes. Our brains like to look on a page for white space where our eyes can rest. Break up your instruction with double returns. Don't just hit return once; hit it twice to create that line of space. And add bullet points. Classroom doesn't support them (or rich text formatting), but you can create them with hyphens or something else. (Emojis make fun bullet points, and Classroom supports them!) See examples in the image below.

3. Add the right amount of attachments. It's super easy to add attachments to Google Classroom assignments. But we don't want it to become a dumping ground for lots of stuff your students realistically won't use. Don't add them because it feels like you should; add attachments because they serve a purpose.

4. Add a layer of collaboration with attachments where everyone can edit. Some of the best attachments may be files where you don't do much more than create them blank. Create an empty collaborative space for students in a Doc or Slides. Then attach the file to the assignment. Be sure to think ahead about ...

How collaboration enhances the assignment

What students should do in the space

What behavior is appropriate for the space

This shared Google Slides activity I posted about gives a great framework for establishing a space and how students can use it.

5. Add "make a copy" attachments when students need to do individual work. If students need their own personal space to think through an assignment or reflect, making a copy is great. When you attach a file and choose "make a copy", it automatically distributes copies of that file to each students AND adds the students' names to the file name.

A word of caution: This is a great way to distribute digital versions of mindless electronic worksheets. Resist the temptation to do that. Remember that classroom technology is an opportunity to teach differently, to improve what we do. When we use technology to teach the same way we did without it, we're squandering the gift - the opportunity to do something amazing. Keep asking yourself, "How could the technology make the learning experience better?"

6. Be concise. Let's go back to instructions. You can be detailed as well as concise. Students don't need flowery prose in instructions, and many times, they don't need a lecture or a longwinded speech. They need exactly what they need to get started.

7. Create a Frequently Asked Questions section (or document). If you're creating a bigger, longer assignment, students may come to you with the same question multiple times. Instead of answering the same questions over and over again (the bane of the teacher's existence), try a FAQ. Here are a couple of models:

Anticipate questions that students may have and add answers to them in the instructions section (below the directions we talked about above).

Create an "anyone can edit" FAQ document for frequently asked questions. When any student asks a question, type your response (and the question) in the document. Or ask the student to type a summary of your answer in the document for other students! In fact, students can be encouraged to add questions their peers might come across with their own responses.

8. Make friends with "Mark as done". Students can mark an assignment as done without turning in a file (like a document or spreadsheet). This can be useful in many ways ...

Create a Classroom assignment for a physical product (hands-on project, paper assignment) and have students "mark as done" when complete. This opens a channel of communication through private comments and gives you a digital space to leave a grade.

Use an ungraded "mark as done" assignment as a check-in or reminder on a longer assignment. Schedule an assignment called "Check-in: One week left!" for a week before a project is due. Have it publish automatically by clicking "Schedule" (later) instead of "Assign" (now). Students mark it as done when they see it as a reminder.

9. Organize with topics. This can save everyone time in the end and make classwork less painless. Use the topics in the "Classwork" section of Google Classroom to organize items in Classroom. Organize by chapter or unit. Organize by type of work. Create subtopics to further organize that look like this:

Chapter 1: Animals

Chapter 1: Plants

Chapter 1: Other living things

This keeps a topic for a single chapter from becoming bloated and unwieldy.

10. Create a parent corner. I learned about this tip from the incomparable Alice Keeler, one of the world's foremost experts in Google Classroom. She suggests that, in addition to writing instructions for students, we add a "parent corner" geared specifically toward them. Here's how Alice puts it:

Consider when creating assignments to also specifically consider how parents will understand what their child is doing and how they can help support their child in learning. Including a parent corner where you can write a note to the parent to explain the activity and the goals provide parents a clearer window into our classrooms. Without having to decode the assignment from the student perspective, writing a few sentences directly aimed at parents can help them feel included and more clearly understand what their child did that day.

Check out her post about the parent corner here.
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“One simple way of understanding our pedagogical theory of iPads is that we don’t want them to just become replacements for notebooks and textbooks, we want them to be objects to think with. We want students using them to mess around with the world around them and their courses of study.”

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As a teacher, I relish the days of summer because I am given the opportunity to learn, rethink, design, and fine tune my teaching with the hope of being able to inspire students and teachers in the coming school year. This summer I have fully embraced the SAMR model of tech integration, fine tuned my ability to align learning experiences to the CCSS and discovered some new flexible and digital tools along the way. Now it's time for me to think about helping teachers embrace the changes that are necessary to encourage and develop students who are deep thinkers, creators and collaborators. A quote from Justin Reich on MindShift comes to mind

Thoughts from MindShift via Kwout

"One simple way of understanding our pedagogical theory of iPads is that we dn't want them to just become replacements for notebooks and textbooks, we want them to be objects to think with. We want students using them to mess around with the world around them and their courses of study."

Thinking with technology and messing around with the world for learning

Here are three ways for teachers to prepare to design learning experiences that encourage higher order thinking through the use of technology as a tool for learning.
Develop a digital toolkit
Explore and play with digital tools yourself to see how each one allows you to express your thinking, then add them to your personal digital toolkit. Introduce efficient tools to students through digital playlists and guided learning resources for exploration. A good place to start is by creating a simple digital playlist with MentorMob. Collect resources with the click of a button and let students explore them live within the playlist.

Design flexible learning experiences

Grab your toolkit, embrace Essential Questions, then build lessons around them. Adopt an online learning platform and publish collections of curated content easily. Why not create a Wikispaces Classroom of live resources for students? How about using a Padlet Bulletin Board to collect student feedback?

Get out of the way and let students create

You can take it one step at a time by working your way up the SAMR ladder and making each stage count along the way. Set high standards that include the CCSS and 21 st Century Skills development. Helps students learn to engage in everyday research to find information, understand it and use it in original ways to construct knowledge and present information and ideas. Get out of their way and experience the benefits of the learning partnership in your classroom.

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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As a teacher, I relish the days of summer because I am given the opportunity to learn, rethink, design, and fine tune my teaching with the hope of being able to inspire students and teachers in the coming school year.