Here are last week’s picks:
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Our Mock Caldecott Picks for 2020 – Pernille Ripp
For the past 5 years, I have done a Mock Caldecott unit with students as we come back to school in January. And while January is far away, the year is quietly winding down which means the reflection begins on which illustrations took my breath away.…
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Our high school Communications class creates video announcements each week. We have three teams responsible for “features” that are created in advance, usually outside of the studio.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Get Instant Feedback on Your Presentations With Presenter Coach
Presenter Coach is one of best features to be added to PowerPoint in a long time. Presenter Coach is found in the online version of PowerPoint that anyone can use with a free Microsoft account.
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7 Tips To Create Effective Visual Communication In eLearning – e-Learning Infographics
7 Tips To Create Effective Visual Communication In eLearning—Infographic 1. Take Time To Select Images Ponder over specific visuals for your training slides.
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: Improving School:Home Communications With @IFTTT
Recently, I was talking with a few school administrators on how they could better communicate with their parents and the community. One obstacle that many schools and districts face is figuring out the most effective ways to ensure all are well info…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Classic Geography Tool – Overlap Maps
As I mentioned on the latest episode of The Practical Ed Tech Podcast, last week I was reminded of a great little geography site called Overlap Maps. I hadn’t used it in a long time so I went to see if it was still functioning as it did when I was r…
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How To Respond After Losing Your Cool – Smart Classroom Management
You lost your cool and barked at your class—or at a certain student. You had a weak moment and took matters into your own hands instead of following your classroom management plan.
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The difference between memorization and learning | Seth’s Blog
In order to learn something, you must understand it. You might become so insightful and facile with the ideas that it appears you’ve memorized them, but that’s just a side effect.
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Free Technology for Teachers: The History of Thermometers and Barometers
Many moons ago when I was an undergrad I took a meteorology course. It was my favorite course outside of my major. I’m still fascinated by weather and weather forecasting. In fact, for my next career I might become a meteorologist.
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Record Video Directions and Maximize Your Minutes |
Few things are more frustrating than repeating yourself over and over. Yet, many of the teachers I work with repeat the same information and directions multiple times in a lesson. Sometimes this is the result of students who are distracted or not pa…
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Initiating a Change in Grading Practices | All Things Assessment
This is the third of four blog posts about facilitating healthy grading conversations in schools (read posts one and two here).
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Free Technology for Teachers: Plagiarism Explained by Common Craft – Updated
Plagiarism and issues around copyright are topics that I am passionate about. That’s why I was happy to see my friends at Common Craft release an updated version of their video explanation of plagiarism.
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Bring Back Handwriting: It’s Good for Your Brain (But Not Mine!) | Diane Ravitch’s blog
When I was in the early grades in the Houston public schools, we learned penmanship. At the time, we dipped our quill pens into an inkwell. It was messy, at least for me. At some point we switched to pens that had ink reserves, and you filled them u…
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Enhancing Students Learning Experience with Quillionz – Kleinspiration
As a parent of two and an elementary school teacher, I know firsthand the challenges students face when trying to study new subjects and basically learning anything new. Quite often we don’t know where to start and how to tackle the subject to easil…
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The Smithsonian is offering a free eight-poster set on Japanese American Internment to teachers, along with a fairly detailed lesson guide on how to use them.
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The act of reading and decoding text is a complex feat of the human brain. Mass literacy is a recent phenomena, but so much of a person’s chances for academic and professional success depend on their ability to read.
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Character archetypes have power. They elevate characters. Model characters on archetypes and they become more than just people, they become they very embodiments of some aspect of human nature. They become large, legendary, eternal.
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All government agencies must have accessible websites. This means all public schools or schools who receive federal funding must have accessible websites.
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How To Use Game-Based Learning in Your Classroom – Class Tech Tips
If you’ve thought about using gameplay in your classroom, there is a fantastic new book on the topic! Earlier this year at the annual ISTE Conference in Philadelphia, I snagged a copy of an excellent new book. It’s titled Power Up Your Classroom: Re…
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It’s more complicated than you’d think. It’s a deceptively simple question: What’s the difference between a tree and a shrub?
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We are now in the middle of Northwest fog season and the conditions are nearly ideal for low-level fog and low clouds. The nights are getting much longer, allowing good radiational cooling from the surface. We had rain, so the surface is relatively …
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Tools for Recording The Great Thanksgiving Listen
Last week I shared the news that StoryCorps is once again hosting The Great Thanksgiving Listen. This is an annual event intended to encourage people to record family stories during the month of November. StoryCorps offers a free mobile app that you…
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The Balance with Catlin Tucker: Featuring Tiffany Wycoff |
Is your teaching practice sustainable? The answer I hear most from teachers is “no.” Teachers enter this profession determined to do it all – design and facilitate lessons, communicate with parents, monitor and track student progress, provide timely…
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“Teachers Can Implement ‘Equitable Grading’” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Teachers Can Implement ‘Equitable Grading’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Joe Feldman, Julia Thompson, Madeline Whitaker Good, and Andrew Sharos share their ideas on how teachers can handle grading student work.
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OPINION: Separating ‘gifted’ children hasn’t led to better achievement
“For when we tell students they can reach the sky, and provide them with opportunities to do so, amazing things happen.”
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“Grades Should Be a ‘Feedback Tool’” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Grades Should Be a ‘Feedback Tool’ is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. In it, Alfonso (Al) Gonzalez, Cathy Vatterott, Heather Wolpert-Gawron, and Cindy Garcia “kick off” a three-part series on best grading practices.
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Eliud Kipchoge runs marathon in 1:59:40.2 – Yummy Math
On October 12th, Eliud Kipchoge ran a marathon in Vienna in under 2 hours. He has now broken a barrier of what humans are capable of accomplishing. We wondered how record marathon times have changed through the years. Will those record times keep b…
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Two New Interactive Tools For Analyzing U.S. Census Data | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Neighborhood Atlas is from The University of Wisconsin.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 40 Sites/Apps to Learn how to Program or Code
In today’s classroom STEM is a vital topic covered universally. With that being said, more and more students are being introduce to coding and programming earlier then ever before. Best of all, new technology and apps makes it easier and easier for …
