Here are another great bunch of blog posts and resources from this past week:
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Connecting with MyMaps – Mari Venturino
Google MyMaps is one of my favorite Googley gems! And, it doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. It’s easy to use, can be accessed from any mobile device, and it’s versatile for a variety of academic and fun uses. If you’re brand new to MyMap…
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Parents – How to Create Great Summer Reading Experiences for All – Pernille Ripp
I know many of us educators (and those at home) have been working hard all year to try to cultivate or protect a love of reading in our learners.
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Originally posted at: https://gadflyonthewallblog.
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Your 2017-18 Smart Classroom Management Report Card – Smart Classroom Management
Before you peel out of the parking lot and into the summer sun, and while it’s still fresh in your mind, it’s smart to do a quick self-evaluation. To identify the areas in which you did well this past year.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Discover Primary Sources by Browsing the World Digital Library Maps
The World Digital Library hosts more than 19,000 primary documents and images from dozens of libraries around the world.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Turn CSV Files Into Heat Maps
Heat Map Tool is a tool for easily creating heat maps or incident maps from a CSV file. To create a heat map all you need to do is upload a CSV file then specify your desired display attributes like scale, colors, and opacity. You can edit the displ…
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What does GDPR mean for our kids? – NetFamilyNews.org | NetFamilyNews.org
You may be wondering what, if any, impact Europe’s sweeping new data law, GDPR (for General Data Privacy Regulation), has on parenting tech users in your life.
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Three New & Accessible Resources About Climate Change | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Climate change in the United States presented in 123 red, white and blue stripes is from The Washington Post. Climate change and life events is an interactive that lets you show how your personal life events correspond to global climate changes.
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We Need to Stop Losing Immigrant Children and Taking Them From Their Parents – GeekDad
There are very few things we’ll write about at GeekMom and GeekDad that touch on the political sphere.
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How To Tell Your School’s Story on Instagram with Spark Post – Class Tech Tips
Earlier this year I had the chance to present at the Magnet Schools of America Conference in Chicago. If you’ve been following along for the past few years, you may already know that I taught at a magnet school in New York City.
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Digital Photography 101 – Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization – Cool Infographics
The Digital Photography 101 infographic from The Backdrop Store is a great primer for newcomers to the basics of photography. I usually advise against full color photos in infographics because they are visually noisy, and multiple photographs add mu…
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Seven Strategies for Improving Student Feedback – John Spencer
We know feedback is important. But what happens when students ignore it? In this article and podcast, we explore how to integrate feedback into every part of the learning process so that students can increase in metacognition during their PBL and de…
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4 Reflection Questions for the End of the School Year
Recently, I wrote the post “3 Reminders for the End of the School Year“, and asked for suggestions from readers. Joann Merrick sent me the following thoughts via email: With her permission, I wanted to build on her ideas, especially on the importanc…
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Tiltfactor | buffalo: the name dropping game
I highly recommend Buffalo to all I speak to. It’s fast, fun, highly replayable, and always a challenge. It’s great for small or large groups, can easily be adjusted for time, can seamlessly add or remove players from the game without upsetting game…
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Study finds popular ‘growth mindset’ educational interventions aren’t very effective – UKEdChat
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Using Google Forms to Streamline Feedback & Document Growth – Teched Up Teacher
A few weeks ago, I was on our New Jersey Google Educator’s Group (GEG:NJ) show called The Suite Talk hosted by Kim Mattina.
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Train Your Students to Think Like Researchers |
While reading Katrina Schwartz’s article titled “How Helping Students to Ask Better Questions Can Transform Classrooms,” I was struck by the line “many older students have forgotten how to ask their own questions about the world, afraid that if they…
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Summer is near and for many high school students that means it’s time to start working at summer jobs. For many students the first real paycheck that they receive comes with a surprise in the form of tax withholding.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Include a Flickr Slideshow in Google Sites
This afternoon I spent time working with teachers to develop new websites through Google Sites. One of the things that many wanted to include was a slideshow of pictures from classroom activities and field trip activities. One way to do this is to e…
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How Group Therapy at School Helps Kids Manage Trauma Anxiety
The idea of teaching social and emotional skills in school is more than 20 years old. Research has shown this kind of intervention is effective and has a lasting impact. One analysis published last year in the journal Child Development reviewed doze…
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Giving Students Feedback Through Video Instead of Text
Fortunately, some simple, creative changes can help.
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Frontloading: The Great Equalizer – Reading By Example
For years, one of my favorite subjects to read and study about has been the effect of background knowledge on reading comprehension and student achievement.
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The Nerdy Teacher: The #KnightsForge Maker Show Checks Out @MakeDo #MakerEd
Students from the Knight’s Forge Maker Show explored Makedo and how it can be used to create amazing things with cardboard. Check out their latest video on Makedo in the Makerspace.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Speaker Deck – A Simple Way to Share Your Slides
Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Keynote all have options for embedding your slideshows into a blog post or other webpage. But there are other methods for including your slideshow in a blog post or webpage. One of those options is Speaker Deck.
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3 Reminders For the End of the School Year – The Principal of Change
The end of the year can be a stressful time for educators, both work wise and emotionally. As a principal and teacher, there was always this “I forgot to pack something for my trip” anxiety that I had at the end of the year.
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Straight White Male – Josh Stumpenhorst
When a student is struggling with their sexuality or gender, I don’t know what to tell them. When an African American student struggles with society’s treatment of people of color, I don’t have an answer.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Google Offers a Sites Conversion Tool – Domain Admins Take Note
Whether you like it or not, Google is slowly pushing everyone who uses the old version of Google Sites into the new version. For some people this is a source of great stress and for others it’s not a big deal at all.
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And I know other states and school districts are creating similar mission statements. These statements are important, they set a direction. But teachers like you still have to make it happen. So. What can it look like? 1.
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Free Technology for Teachers: An Interactive Story Building Lesson
Word Tamer is a site for learning the process of developing characters, settings, and plots. Word Tamer is set up as an interactive journey through a carnival of literary devices. As students move through the carnival they develop characters, develo…
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Cliff Mass Weather and Climate Blog: The Cottonwood Revelation
There is so much interesting structure to the lower atmosphere that we never see. Eddies and swirls. Deflection around buildings. Large wind speed changes in the lowest few feet above the surface. Generally invisible, with perhaps a hint evident in …
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Lawns are an Ecological Disaster
Neil Tyson often conjectures that maybe aliens have concluded humans aren’t intelligent enough to contact. He’s probably referring to our capacity for war, but lawns may display our talent for fruitless carnage even better.
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Free Technology for Teachers: ClassDojo Introduces a New Digital Portfolio Option
For the last couple of years ClassDojo has offered a digital portfolio feature called Student Stories. This summer ClassDojo is introducing a new portfolio option called simply ClassDojo Portfolios. The new ClassDojo Portfolios will be student-led p…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Develop Programming Skills This Summer
Summer is almost here and it’s a great time to learn a new skill that you can bring into your classroom next fall. One of the skills that seems to be mentioned in almost every education periodical these days is programming or coding.
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The Best Books for Middle School According to My Students 2018 – Pernille Ripp
Infiltrate. Befriend. Sabotage. World War II is raging. Michael O’Shaunessey, originally from Ireland, now lives in Nazi Germany with his parents. Like the other boys in his school, Michael is a member of the Hitler Youth.But Michael has a secret. H…
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How Helping Students Ask Better Questions Can Tranform Classrooms
At its essence, the QFT is a structured way to help people generate questions, categorize them and reflect on how different types of questions elicit different types of information.
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Quick Google Docs Formatting Tip
Google Docs has lots of handy features that are “hidden” in plain sight. Many of those features address common formatting needs. For example, in the far right edge of the editor menu there is a function to clear all formatting.
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10 End Of Year Blogging Activities – The Edublogger
The end of the school year is fast approaching in the Northern Hemisphere. Why not culminate all the wonderful learning that’s been happening in your classroom with some memorable blog posts? Here are ten ideas that you could weave into your end of …
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Free Technology for Teachers: Nine Fun and Challenging Geography Games
Yesterday, I shared the City-Guesser geography game. That game was just the latest in a long list of online geography games that I have tried over the years. Many have come and gone over the years but the following are still going strong.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: 8 Tips for Quality Posts During Conferences & Events
· 4 #EdTech Blogs to Bookmark · 9 Must Read Blogs for Innovative Teachers · 10 Digital Citizenship Bloggers to Follow · 10 Education blogs worth following – eSchool News · 11 Ed Tech Bloggers to Follow · 20 Best Blogs in Instructional Technology · 2…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Digital Leadership is Not Optional
“Leadership has less to do with position than it does disposition.” – John Maxwell I am currently working on a new edition of Digital Leadership for Corwin and I am very excited, as it will be in color.
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Controlling the Solution – The Principal of Change
I thought about this quote in a recent conversation I had with a few administrators. There were focused on some of the ideas being shared were things that would happen in larger organizations, not necessarily ones in divisions with smaller student p…
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April and Mid-May History and Games List | Gaming the Past
Historical Video Games Historical Board Games Twine and Twine Histories Kathleen Crowther, Anne Boleyn Jeremiah McCall, Epoiesen, “Path of Honors: Towards a Model for Interactive History Texts with Twine” The first response essays is up.
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What Is the Point of a Makerspace? | Cult of Pedagogy
This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. For as long as I’ve been aware of makerspaces, I haven’t quite understood them.
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