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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Educandy
Educandy is a wonderful site for creating educational games. Educandy is a very easy to use and all a educator has to do is enter the questions for and Educandy turns them into educational games/activities (i.e. matching, word search, memory, etc.).
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Climate Sense: Arctic burns as climate issues gain political attention | Watching Our Water Ways
It’s next to impossible to keep up with all the new information coming out about climate change, but I thought I would share some new reports that I found interesting. For the first three months of this year, I provided a weekly report called “Clima…
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Relationships are the most important factor in your effectiveness as a teacher and your student’s success! Knowing students and them confiding in us and working with us and their peers helps us figure out their interests, strengths, insecurities, st…
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Why Writing Sucks and We Need to Talk About It – Pernille Ripp
Six years ago, I wrote a piece on here called, Why Reading Sucks and It’s Ok to Talk About It. It has shaped my work ever since. It has become a defining feature of what I believe in when it comes to the work we help students do in our year of readi…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Design Posters and Print Them With a Standard Printer
I got my first “back to school” email this week which was a jolting reminder of just how quickly time flies during summer break. The “back to school” email that I received was from a classroom supplies and classroom decorations vendor.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Lewis & Clark in Google Earth – And Lesson Plans for K-12
This morning while browsing through Google Earth looking for a resource about sharks for Shark Week (I found it) I came across a Google Earth voyage about Lewis and Clark.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Five More Handy Features of Google Keep
Last week I published a video that highlighted ten handy features of Google Keep. Since then a few people have emailed me to point out other features that I should have included in that video.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three More Recommended Resources for Teaching Civics and Government
Earlier this week I published a blog post in which I shared the resources that I shared with a reader who had emailed me seeking my recommended resources for teaching civics and government. I made that list completely from memory.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Quick Rubric
Quick Rubric is the wonderful site for creating rubrics from the creators of Storyboard That. This is far and away the easiest site I’ve seen for creating a beautiful rubric where a user can add a row or a column w/ a tap of an arrow button. Everyth…
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Tip of the Week: Six Super Sweet Social Studies Strategies for Back to School | History Tech
It’s been an awesome week! Jump started it on Monday working with a small group of middle school and elementary teachers in the great state of Arizona. And am bookending it today and tomorrow with the fantastic staff at Rockdale County schools outsi…
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Sewage spill in Seattle triggers warnings in Kitsap County | Watching Our Water Ways
It was a tale of two health advisories that created a bit of confusion in Kitsap County following a major sewage spill last week from King County’s West Point treatment plant.
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Interactive step-by-step guides and troubleshooting | Stonly
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Innovation is all about keeping up with the tech, right? – Inspiring learning
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What I am Learning from Playing Fortnite with my Daughter – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
It all started when my 12-year-old daughter noticed it was on my PC. I had downloaded when it first came out, but after one go, decided it wasn’t for me. However, it had been quietly updating in the background, just waiting for my return.
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How to Empower Student Writers this School Year – Class Tech Tips
When you think of the word empower, what comes to mind? Well, I often think of helping someone find their voice or independence, or giving someone space to grow and shine. I sat down with the folks behind Empowering Writers at the ISTE Conference in…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Recommended Resources for Teaching Civics and Government
Yesterday I received an email from a reader who was looking for my recommendation for a few resources for teaching a government or civics course. The following are the recommendations that I made.
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Single Post | ARVRinEDU | Jaime Donally | Professional Development
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Free Technology for Teachers: The 6,000 Calorie Challenge – A Lesson in Sports Nutrition
At the end of June I completed a double century bike ride and in the process ate as much as I possibly could without feeling sick. What I ate was nothing compared to what a professional cyclist consumes during the Tour de France which I’ve been watc…
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Jan Resseger: Eight Essential Facts About Charter Schools | Diane Ravitch’s blog
The Charter Industry has led a sterling marketing campaign to persuade the public that they are public schools, that they are far better than “traditional” public schools, and that they are hotbeds of innovation. None of this is true. They are priva…
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The Nerdy Teacher: Don’t Forget the Introverts #EdChat
I’ve been seeing lots of tweets flood EduTwitter about reaching out to the shy students and engaging every single child because they just need that one teacher to be the one to save them from their silence. The savior complex is just gross at this p…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Alt Text to Images and Videos in Google Slides
Alt text is text that you can add to images and videos to describe what they are and or what they contain. Adding alt text can make your materials that you post online more accessible to more visitors.
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Fisheries innovations credited with West Coast groundfish recovery | Watching Our Water Ways
The dramatic recovery of many groundfish species along the West Coast is a testament to the innovation, cooperation and persistence by fisheries managers and fishermen alike under the landmark Magnuson-Stevens Act of 1976.
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Developing a Community of Inquiry in Your Blended Classroom |
A consistent theme in my work on blended learning is shifting students from passive consumers in the classroom to active, engaged members of a learning community.
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Randi Weingarten: Corruption and Mismanagement in Puerto Rico | Diane Ravitch’s blog
WASHINGTON—American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten issued the following statement on the mismanagement of Puerto Rico’s public schools by Gov. Ricardo Rossello and former Secretary of Education Julia Keleher:
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Free Technology for Teachers: Crowdsourcing Civil War Document Transcription
Last fall the Library of Congress launched a new online initiative called Crowd. As the name implies, it’s a crowdsourcing project that anyone who registers on the LOC Crowd site can participate in.
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Summer Reading: Ambitious Science Teaching | Science for All
If you are anything like me, then the very end of July and beginning of August is a time when you start thinking about getting back to your “school brain”.
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Starting With Writing Identity First Rather than Writing Skills – Pernille Ripp
As I plan our first exploration for the coming year, one that dives into personal essays, I have been thinking about the writing experience itself. About how personal it is. About how draining it can be.
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Tools for Social Annotation in the Digital Age | Edutopia
There are many tools for social digital and web annotations, including Genius, which is built into the Washington Post’s digital platform. (Genius began as Rap Genius, where a community of rap music fans interpreted, debated, and annotated lyrics.
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Avatar and Star Wars in Social Studies | Using Comics in the Classroom
In my social studies class, we often discuss how pop culture mirrors events in society and that comics, tv shows, music, art, literature, and movies can thus be considered as societal artifacts.
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Assessment Practices and Transforming Our Relationships to Power – Shifting Phases
Today at the American Association of Physics Teachers summer meeting, I presented a 30 min talk on how assessment practices can start to transform our relationships to power — inside and outside the classroom.
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10 Ways To Integrate Technology In Your Class – e-Learning Infographics
If location is out of reach due to logistical issues, you can simulate a virtual trip by using a wide variety of augmented reality apps. To make it easier to give lessons and presentations, use a tool that tracks and displays classroom noise.
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Managing And Protecting Digital Identities
It started with some tweets. I was hurt, confused and shocked. What had I said or done to make people say these things to me? And they came in a flood. Over and over for several days, several years ago.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: BitDegree
BitDegree is a nice site for online tutoring where students can go to find a tutor on a wide range of subjects (i.e. programming/coding, etc). Also, this is a great place for educators looking to earn some extra income by becoming an online tutor.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Stonly
Stonly is an innovative new site that educators can use to create interactive step-by-step guides for their students. This is great way for teachers to introduce topics, create digital handouts, and reinforce for student’s learning.
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Steve Hargadon: Announcing the Library 2.0 “Emerging Technology” Mini-Conference
Ida Arlene Joiner is the Senior Librarian at the Universal Academy in Texas. She is the author of the book Emerging Library Technologies: It’s Not Just for Geeks (Elsevier, 2018). Her forthcoming book on Drones in Libraries will be available in July…
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How I use comic books as a learning tool in my social studies classroom | PBS NewsHour
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Column: How bringing comics into the classroom made me love teaching again | PBS NewsHour
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The Surprising Benefits of Student-Created Graphic Novels | 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. There is no shortage of ways we all can benefit from teaching graphic novels.
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Representation In Comics | Using Comics in the Classroom
On 7/21/2019, Marvel announced, at San Diego Comic Con, that a new Thor movie would be released in 2021, starring Natalie Portman as Jane Foster, Thor.
