Here are last week’s selection of amazing blog posts:
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Mo Physics Mo Problems: Pear Deck, Quizlet, GimKit Appsmash
An going from Pear Deck Vocabulary to Gimkit via Quizlet
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Critical Thinking Curriculum for Current Events | Current events for the curious classroom
Thinkalong is a web-based learning program that uses resources from PBS, NPR, and other public media stations to engage middle and high school students in discussions about current events.
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RECIPE: to Make Teachers & Parents “Sick”
According to the Tennessean, Lovell quickly gained a reputation as a party boy in Nashville. At a legislative reception, “he was seen visibly intoxicated…dropping cash on the floor as he spoke with the women tending bar.
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Choose Your Own Adventures with Google Forms – Mari Venturino
Technology can take us on adventures, far and wide! Where will you go? I love working with teachers from all over the country, and helping them find meaningful ways to integrate technology into their classroom. So often, I come in for a day or a cou…
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Test Corrections Review and Standards Based Tools – Classroom Powerups
A few weeks ago I wrote about an “Enhancing Multiple Choice” questions with a graphic organizer that forces students to really think about the information contained in the question.
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Seven Myths Keeping Teachers from Implementing Creative Projects – John Spencer
Every year, I ask my pedagogy students about their most memorable learning experience as a student. Inevitably, it involves a creative project. These were the moments when learning stuck and often it was when they fell in love with the subject.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Coding the Musical
Coding, the Musical is a free iOS designed for girls ages 4-8. This is a fun way to introducing Coding/Programming to young students by creating their own musical through logical thinking and sequencing.
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Let’s Make Assessment Personal: Building Students’ Personal Efficacy | All Things Assessment
Many experts define personal efficacy as, “the confidence or strength of belief that our capabilities can lead to goal attainment and realized achievement” (John Hattie 2015 et al.).
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Make Interactive Videos
For many years I helped teachers and students use YouTube’s annotations tool to create series of interactive or choose-your-own-adventure videos. Unfortunately, YouTube discontinued that service about eighteen months ago.
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Chrome Extension for Clutter-free Reading and Printing
Mercury Reader is a Chrome extension that removes sidebar content from articles that you view in your Chrome web browser. It will hide banner ads, suggested “related” articles, and anything else that is not a part of the primary article on the page …
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Free Technology for Teachers: Questions to Ask When Planning a Classroom Video Project
Making videos can be a great way to get students excited and invested in the process of researching a topic and presenting their findings for others to see. But before you dive headlong into a video project with your students take some time consider…
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The Importance of Value and Purpose – The Principal of Change
I have discussed the importance of relationships in education and see them as the core of excellent teaching and learning.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated 51 years ago today.
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Every classroom has a few eager students who always participate and a less enthusiastic majority content to sit back.
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California: The Latest Charter Reform Is Unlikely to Change Much | Diane Ravitch’s blog
When the California Teachers Association and the California Charter School Association stand side-by-side to applaud a law about charters, you have to wonder who wrote the law and whether it will rein in charter corruption.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Share Google Slides via QR Code
Earlier this week I published a video and blog post about how to share Google Forms through QR codes. In response to that video a follower of my Facebook page asked for some help sharing Google Slides presentations via QR code.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create QR Codes for Google Forms
Now that Google has shutdown Goo.gl many people have been looking for a new way to create QR codes for Google Forms. Goo.gl was convenient because you could shorten a URL and get a QR code in one place. My recommendation now for making a QR code for…
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: What you Need to Know about K-12 Fundraising Tech
Almost all parents, teachers, and administrators at K-12 schools have been involved in school fundraising efforts, often trying out many different types in search of the right fit.
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Phaser – A fast, fun and free open source HTML5 game framework
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Free Technology for Teachers: Poetry Comics from Make Beliefs Comix
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 print…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Google Slides Now Has Native Support for Audio! Finally!
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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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Commaful
Commaful is a fun site for digital storytelling that I just found out about from Shelly Terrell. Commaful is simple to use and lets a user select a background/gif or upload their own and then type over it. Once finished, it generates a link allow us…
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NewseumED’s Foolproof Guide to Media Literacy |
Our students are inundated with media, but how many of them are able to differentiate between a news article and an opinion piece or recognize bias in the media? I would argue this is a critical skill we need to be teaching in schools to ensure that…
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Help Kids Build Financial Literacy This Year – Class Tech Tips
As educators, we spend time thinking about how to best prepare students for the future. During my time as a teacher, I tried my best to make connections between content in our math curriculum and the world outside of our classroom.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Feedback Should Be a Dialogue, Not a Monologue
Feedback can bring people together in the pursuit of a shared goal. Criticism, on the other hand, can drive people apart. In many situations going with the former is the better course of action.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Increase Screen Time to Increase Literacy Proficiency
Like it or not, educators and parents of young schoolchildren know (or will soon find out) the rigorous literacy demands being placed on students today. A friend shared she was surprised by the reading level and number of books her six-year-old was …
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3 Tips on Dealing with “Teacher-Stress” – The Principal of Change
There are a lot of tweets on Twitter, or things heard at conferences or in staff rooms, that can make educators feel guilty about how they do their job.
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To Boost Learning, Just Add Movement | 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. If you were to start singing “The Itsy-Bitsy Spider” right now, I bet you’d have a…
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Your Feel-Good, Recovery Day Workout | MyFitnessPal
Instead of skipping exercise altogether on your day off from training, try doing a light, easy and low-impact workout because it can actually speed your recovery.
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