Did you catch these posts last week? Check them out:
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9 Things To Do When You’re Feeling Burned-Out – Smart Classroom Management
Burned-out is the worst place you can find yourself as a teacher. Exhausted, stressed, craving time off. Every day feeling like the day before. It chips away at your peace and makes you dread getting out of bed in the morning.
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Exploring our World with Google Expeditions AR – Mari Venturino
In May 2016 we welcomed Google Expeditions Pioneer program to our school (read about it here), and our students and teachers loved it. I am so excited that we were able to host the Google Expeditions AR Pioneer program at the end of April.
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STEAM Up Learning Outdoors! 15+ Ideas to Try Now or this Summer! – Teacher Reboot Camp
“[Science] is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world.” – Bara…
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Week 10: End of journey – Student Blogging Challenge
Thank you all very much for taking part in this ten week blogging journey with me. As something comes to an end, we usually reflect back on what we have learnt, what we will change next time and so on. So this is what the activities will be about th…
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How should students revise? A brief guide | chronotope
One of the biggest lessons from research is that many students don’t really know how to study.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Sourcera for Google Slides – Historical Images to Use In Your Slides
Sourcera is an Add-on for Google Slides that lets you search for historical images and insert them directly into your slides. Sourcera pulls images from eleven sources including Flickr’s Commons, the British Library, and the Digital Public Library o…
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Free Technology for Teachers: GeoGebra for PowerPoint – Access and Insert GeoGebra Within PowerPoint
GeoGebra is a favorite ed tech resource of math teachers all over the globe. PowerPoint is the default presentation tool on millions of computers in schools. You can use the two together through the GeoGebra PowerPoint Add-in.
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Let’s Play Add-on – Students Collaborating on the Same Doc – Teacher Tech
One of the coolest things about Google Docs is the ability to be on the same document at the same time.
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Google confirms new social gaming startup | GamesIndustry.biz
The company confirmed the startup to Bloomberg, explaining that Arcade was, “focused on mobile gaming with friends.” Arcade is being developed within Area 120, a division of Google where employees can create startups that might eventually become par…
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Gamasutra – Devs share personal touches they’ve hidden in games
Devs share personal touches they’ve hidden in games
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Free Webinars About Assistive Technology
At the beginning of this year I made a decision to spend more time and effort getting to know all of the free tools that Microsoft provides to teachers and students.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Glue vs. tape – A TED-Ed Science Lesson
The back windshield in my truck is currently being held in place by some clear packaging tape. There’s a big crack in it and my local glass shop can’t fix it until Tuesday.
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[Free Digital Citizenship Webinar] The 9 Key P’s of Digital Citizenship @coolcatteacher
On Thursday, May 10 at 5pm ET, join me for a free webinar on the 9 Key P’s of Digital Citizenship. Digital citizenship is a range of behaviors our students must learn.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Docs Teach Adds New Primary Sources About WWI
Docs Teach is a fantastic resource for US History teachers that I have shared many times over the years. I like it so much that I include it in my Teaching History With Technology course.
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I have spent quite a bit of time dealing with excessive claims regarding current global warming impacts made by the media, politicians, and some activist organizations. This comes at some personal cost (e.g., folks at the Seattle Stranger start call…
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10 great education books for summer reading | Ditch That Textbook
Summer is a great time to hone your skills and pick up new ideas for next school year. Here are some of my top picks for summer 2018 reading. Summer … the time when all teachers spend carefree days sitting by the pool and drinking fruity drinks, rig…
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Gamification: Is Activity as good as Engagement? – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
Rate this item: No votes yet. Please wait… Gamification is often accused of creating activity rather than engagement. Whilst this can be true, is it a bad thing? First, let’s look at the difference between activity and engagement.
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On Selecting Better Read Alouds – Pernille Ripp
When the Global Read Aloud was founded, I added the word “Global” because I wanted to connect kids around the world. I wanted to make the world smaller.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 300+ Printable Comic Templates
Make Beliefs Comix is a great multilingual comic strip creation service that I’ve featured many times in the past. One of the features of Make Beliefs Comix that I like is the collection of printable comic strip templates.
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PSA: There’s a new fake Flash Player installer for Macs, and it’s nastier than usual | 9to5Mac
Macs are not immune to malware, but they are pretty well-protected. By default, macOS won’t allow unrecognized apps to be installed, and it needs the user to agree to override this.
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Book Creator Webinar Series for Summer – Class Tech Tips
Well, it has finally warmed up here in the northeast and I’m excited to continue a summer tradition with the folks at Book Creator. From May through August of this year, I’m hosting 10 (that’s right – ten!) Book Creator webinars all about this open-…
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 10 Sites for Online Tutoring/Teaching
Over the last few years online tutoring sites have really boosted in popularity. The reason for this is people just don’t have the time or the money to spend at an actually tutoring center.
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Three Education-Related Star Wars Resources | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
First, awhile back I wrote a column for Education Week headlined What ‘Star Wars’ Can Teach Educators About Parent Engagement. Thirdly, Latest ‘Star Wars’ Teaches The Value Of Failure is from NPR.
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May the 4th Be With You! 20+ Ideas for Teaching and Learning with the Force – Teacher Reboot Camp
May 4th is Star Wars day and what better time to teach and learn with the Force as you end the school year! Students of all ages enjoy Star Wars.
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Free Technology for Teachers: MOOO – Museum of Obsolete Objects
Do you remember using the end of a pencil to dial your rotary phone? Did you have an answering machines that used cassette tapes? Do you remember the annoyance of having your mouse connected to your computer? If you said yes to any of those question…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Create Your Own Geography Game With Mission Map Quest
Mission Map Quest is a free tool for creating geography games. The concept is simple, you create a series of clues that your students need to follow to identify places around the world. You can add as few or as many clues to your Map Quest as you li…
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Apps in Education: CoSN Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board
You may be aware that the Horizon Report was recently discontinued. I have previously published an infographic on the Horizon Report 2014. It was always an insightful read each year when it was released.
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Free Technology for Teachers: 17 Audacity Tutorials for Beginners
Audacity is a free, open-source program for recording and editing audio. It’s available for Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. For classroom podcasting projects or other classroom audio recording projects, it is hard to beat Audacity.
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5 Reasons Why your Technology-infused Lessons Don’t Work . . . and How to Fix Them – Teach with Tech
We’ve all been there. We learn about a new technology tool and we pick the perfect lesson in which to use it. We are excited to see what the students produce and then, suddenly, the whole lesson falls apart.
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The Seattle Avengers (of which I am a member) were invited to help Seattle Cinerama with their Thursday night premiere of Avengers: Infinity War.
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A book for wise (digital) parenting – NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org
The Art of Screen Time, by NPR’s Anya Kamenetz, could not be more timely. What with hearings and headlines about digital privacy, so much talk about “tech addiction,” and bad advice about “screen time,” parents deserve this haven from the storm.
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How To Increase Teacher Pay – No More Summers Off! – The Edublogger
I’ve been watching in awe and admiration of the teacher walk-outs around the US as we grapple with the results of decades of underfunding (and a more recent all-out attack) of our public schools.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Old Google Sites vs. New Google Sites
Last week I published a video about converting old Google Sites to the new version of Google Sites. That post prompted a lot of emails from readers who wanted to know what would happen when they switch from the old version to the new version of Goog…
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The quizzes setting in Google Forms makes it easy to quickly score quizzes and return quiz scores to your students. The Google Forms Add-on called Certify’em makes it possible to not only give students their grades right away, it also issues them a …
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Best Books of 2018 (part 1) – Josh Stumpenhorst
It is that time of year when lots of folks share their “best of” posts for the 2017-2018 school year. I love looking at the best books lists just to see what others are reading and enjoying.
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So whether the project will ultimately result in a website, a speech, a three-dimensional model or an academic paper, there are certain thinking skills like identifying evidence or choosing a focus that can be embedded across subjects.
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Stack Overflow: 10 Comic Books for Kids – GeekDad
I’ve been reading a bunch of comics lately, so many that I can’t fit them all into one column! But I’ll dig into some of them today, starting with those for younger readers and middle grade readers. Here are ten titles that I enjoyed!
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Resources for Primary and Secondary Students – ABC Education
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Animals: Facts, Pictures, and Videos — National Geographic Kids
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Free Technology for Teachers: TodaysMeet Is Shutting Down – Six Alternatives to Try
TodaysMeet is shutting down. James Socol, the creator and only developer of TodaysMeet, has announced that he’s shutting it down on June 16th. I’m going to miss it and I know that a lot of you will too.
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This company wants to send kids to college by putting esports in high schools – Polygon
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Week 9: My best work – Student Blogging Challenge
Well, this is our second last week in the March challenge for 2018. Over the last 8 weeks, you have learnt a lot about blogging if you have done most of the activities and checked out the links included in my posts.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Preparing Learners for the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Do you like change? If you do, then living in the present is an exhilarating experience. For those who don’t, buckle up as we are only going to see unprecedented innovations at exponential rates involving technology. You can’t run or hide from it.
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Legends of Learning Science Games for Kids – Class Tech Tips
What does gaming have to do with test prep? The team at Legends of Learning have created a set of online resources for students and teachers.
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A Little-Known Teaching Strategy That Makes Learning Easier – Smart Classroom Management
I’ve spent many years observing teachers. And there is an odd phenomenon I’ve noticed among a large percentage.
