Here are some great blog posts:
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How To Get Your Students To Show Up For Online Learning – Smart Classroom Management
Forgive me if I ramble or am way off base with my article today. I’m learning just like you. But I do have some thoughts.
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Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers. ? Voltaire One of the most frequently and persistently asked questions about online education is “does it work” or “is it effective.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Free K-8 #RemoteLearning Curriculum from @TeachingMatters
Teaching Matters gives us another week of remote learning materials. Get a weeks worth of student-facing home learning resources aligned to the NYC schools’ remote learning curriculum. It’s also available in Google Classroom.
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How long can the virus that causes COVID-19 live on surfaces? | Hub
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“Doing School” In The Time of Coronavirus – Practical Theory
A lot of folks have reached out asking me to write about what learned about moving online when you can’t be in your building because of what happened to SLA in the fall.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Turn Any Document or Webpage Into a Practice Quiz
On Tuesday I wrote about the new version of Knowt that will let you import any of your Google Docs, Word docs, or any public webpage into a notebook. Once in your notebook it just takes one more click to have a practice quiz created for you.
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Using RAMP to keep kids learning during lockdown – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
This week Motivait published a blog I wrote all about using RAMP to help managers keep employees engage and motivated during these odd times of forced home working. (Click here as you may find it really useful if you run any teams!)
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Free Technology for Teachers: Anchor Offers a New Way to Remotely Record Podcasts With a Group
Anchor is the service that I have been using since last August to produce my weekly Practical Ed Tech Podcast. I use Anchor because Anchor makes it incredibly easier to record, edit, and publish my podcast to all of the major podcast networks at onc…
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When schools were closed in Michigan some elementary teachers in my district wanted to keep in touch with students using a website. I made these two short videos to help them get started. They are meant for beginners. Also, please understand they we…
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Mo Physics Mo Problems: 3 Tools for Virtual Learning
Resources for 3 tools to help support virtual learning
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Free Technology for Teachers: Free Course – A Teacher’s Guide to Creating Common Craft Style Videos
For more than a dozen years Common Craft videos have been used by teachers to help students understand topics including digital citizenship, personal finance, and many big technology concepts.
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Where’s the Silver Lining for Education? | My Island View
With the cloud of the Corona Virus hanging over us and growing by the hour, it is difficult to see any silver lining. Health and safety are our greatest concerns. The stakes are high and the consequences may be fatal to too many.
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Taking Distance Learning Away from the Screen – John Spencer
In education, we often use a metaphor of content delivery. We use terms like “deliver a lesson.” We ask, “did the students get it?” But the last week and a half has proven that teachers are not merely content delivery machines.
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Stay-at-Home Mad Libs! – Mari Venturino
My goal for my blog over the next few weeks is to share out as many resources that will keep education light, fun, and easy on everyone involved. Mad Libs is one of my favorite classroom activities. It’s a goofy review activity that sneaks in parts …
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Holding Class on Zoom? Beware of These Hacks, Hijinks and Hazards | EdSurge News
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The Team at SiLAS has put together some free Social Animations, SEL Lessons and Parent Sheets. If you are a school district, teacher or parent, and would like a Free SiLAS account until the end of this school year, please fill out the google form at…
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Practical Advice for the Remote Teachers & Families
The most important thing to know about remote learning is that it is not simply doing school at home. It’s different. Throw the bell schedule out! Instead: The teacher posts assignments with support materials like instructions and videos. Students f…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Tips for Engaging Families in Remote Learning
Throughout my #remotelearning series, I have tried to provide practical ideas and strategies that can be used now. One aspect that needs more attention, at least in my opinion, is how we can assist parents throughout this ordeal.
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This new app is confusing. Can I get a quick 10 mins? Got a deadline and a line of users ahead of you. Next week?
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Cooped Up With Kids During COVID-19 – Teacher Created Tips
These are uncertain and unprecedented times. You’re doing your best to adhere to all the rules and regulations. You’re following all the safety and health precautions. You’re staying home and hunkering down. You’re also about to lose your mind.
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7 virtual resources and a few NARA distance learning suggestions | History Tech
The new normal is fast becoming the normal normal. But it’s always nice to hear what others are doing and using. And I love Jenifer Hitchcock’s suggestions about structuring our normal normal distance learning instruction.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Remote Presenting Guidance
Presenting through online platforms requires unique skills. Presenters need to be able to multitask and know how to troubleshoot in the moment. Below are some best practices to keep in mind while presenting remotely. Roles Roles can be combined depe…
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The Reality Composer app was released by Apple last September as an augmented reality creation tool. The app is available to create on an iPhone, iPad, or MacBook.
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MIT Full STEAM Ahead – Sharing MIT STEAM Learning with the World
Each week we will provide a “package” for K-12 teachers and learners. The package will be a thematic set of videos, resources and online/offline activities for different grades.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Two Ways to Find Free Ebooks to Download
Every day I’m hearing from teachers who can’t get back into their classrooms because their school buildings are completely closed. My own school building has very limited access and only by administrative approval right now.
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Yesterday afternoon a friend texted me to ask if there was a way to check to see if students have looked at announcements or assignments in Google Classroom. Unfortunately, there isn’t a “read receipt” type of feature built into Google Classroom.
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Control Alt Achieve: Video Series: How to Use Google Hangouts Meet
Google Hangouts Meet is an easy but powerful tool for video conferencing. With Meet you can connect with other people using any device including a PC, Mac, Chromebook, smart phone, or tablet.
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4 Ideas to Consider for Online Learning – George Couros
Not only have educators been inundated with information on COVID-19, but they have had to retool, refocus, and rethink completely how they are going to connect with and teach their students.
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Ask Science How | Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
All Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C., including the National Zoo, and in New York City are temporarily closed to support the effort to contain the spread of COVID-19. We are not announcing a re-opening date at this time and will provide updat…
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Schools across the nation are closing in an effort to stop the spread of COVID-19 and in the scramble to provide at-home learning, a major problem has risen to the forefront: millions of American students don’t have reliable access to the internet.
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Next Generation Assessment: Increasing Student Voice and Choice | All Things Assessment
The vital position education holds in the future of a society is rarely debated. However, the nature of this position is a constant source of discourse.
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Free Technology for Teachers: WriteReader Templates Can Help Students Start the Writing Process
WriteReader is a great tool for creating multimedia stories that I’ve featured a half dozen times or more over the years. The last time I wrote about it they had just added some new page styles. Last week WriteReader unveiled a new feature that I th…
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An Appeal to Educators and Scholars of Color: Please Sign This Statement! | Diane Ravitch’s blog
Kevin Kumashiro, leader of a Deans for Justice and Equity, has written an appeal addressed to Educators and Scholars of Color. It invites their endorsement of a statement opposing failed “reforms” that have stigmatized and harmed children of color a…
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Solution to Zoom “Not Responding” on Windows 10
On Friday morning I started having problems with every Zoom meeting that I tried to launch or join on my Windows 10 computer resulting in the annoying “application not responding” message. I didn’t have the same problem on my Mac.
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7 Interesting Ways To Use Instagram In Classroom – e-Learning Infographics
Share works of students, their creative arts, and let other students and families see them. Create a school community and make it a private account for your school only if you don’t want others to see your shares. Let students share photos related t…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Knowt Will Turn Your Notes and Favorite Webpages Into Quizzes for You
Knowt is a great service for turning notes and documents into practice quizzes. When I wrote about last summer you could only use notes that you either wrote in Knowt itself or imported from Google Drive. I gave it another look this morning and saw …
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This Time is Our Opportunity | All Things Assessment
There is an English proverb, “necessity is the mother of invention,” that fits in education today as teachers are forced to become digitally innovative in the face of immediate, and possibly an extended, period of need during the COVID-19 lockdown. …
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Over the last week I’ve spent a lot of time helping some of my colleagues get up and running with Google Classroom. One of the things that they’ve asked about is what a student sees when he or she receives an assignment in Google Classroom.
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A Principal’s Reflections: 8 Non-Digital Remote Learning Ideas
Before our eyes, we are watching districts and schools valiantly roll out remote learning plans to support all students during extended closures. Equally as important have been the many innovative ways to make food available to our most disadvantage…
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I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles, a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Episode 002 is below.
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Maslow Before Bloom’s: Clarifying Our Priorities As Teaching Goes Online is the topic of my latest ten-minute BAM! Radio Show. Lorie Barber, Cathleen Beachboard, Amy Roediger and David Sherrin join me in the discussion, and they have all also contri…
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How to Set Up Virtual Office Hours with Google Meet – Classroom Powerups
I have many thoughts about this new “eLearning” model we have had suddenly thrust upon us. I absolutely DO NOT see this as any sort of opportunity. We are making the best of a terrible Coronavirus situation.
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We’re Only Getting Out of This Together – dy/dan
Desmos closed its San Francisco office on March 9, about a week before the surrounding county issued a “shelter-in-place” warning.
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Getting Started with Google Forms – Mari Venturino
My most popular blog post is my Daily Check-in with Google Forms post, which includes a force-copy template of my daily check-in Form.
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Social Distance Learning, or So You Want to Record Your Lectures, huh? – Classroom Powerups
I have been Recording and “Flipping” my lectures in some variation for almost a decade. This is all completely anecdotal but I have developed a few guiding principles. These principles come from my limited data in student completion, testing data, a…
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I’m Releasing a Free Audio Book for Middle Grade Students – John Spencer
Before getting started, I just want to point out that teachers have been amazing over the last few weeks. I’ve watched entire districts mobilize to provide online and long-distance instruction while also providing a safe way for kids to get breakfas…
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Timixi
Timixi is an excellent site for finding or creating timelines w/ lots of robust features. For example. a user can create a timeline by adding a detailed description w/ images, switch between a detailed view and general overview, and much much more.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Hatch
Hatch is a wonderful educational iOS app that combines game based learning w/ studying/reading/homework to help increase a student’s love of learning. The way this works is once Hatch is launched a student selects between 5 – 120 min to read/study/h…
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3 Ways to Use Video Conferencing with Students Learning Remotely |
Thank goodness for Zoom and Google Hangouts! During this time of social isolation and remote learning, these video conferencing tools are lifesavers. They make it possible for teachers to maintain a human connection with their students and guide the…
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Resources for Supporting Science Learning During School Closures | Science for All
Our friends at STEM Teaching Tools have organized some resources from Council of School Science Supervisors (CSSS) to support families with science learning while practicing social distancing at home.
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Video: How to See Germs Spread | Science for All
This video by Mark Rober (Check out some of Mark’s other science videos) is nicely done and could be pushed out to students as part of some online science learning.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Free K-8 #RemoteLearning Curriculum from @TeachingMatters
Launching remote learning? Get a weeks worth of student-facing home learning resources aligned to the NYC schools’ remote learning curriculum. More coming…next week. Visit the Teaching Matters Site to download the curriculum for your grade and sub…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Creating Interactive Lessons Through App Smashing
Remote learning has been thrust upon school districts. The result has been disruptive change like we have never seen before. In a previous post, I shared some broader ideas to help navigate these uncharted waters.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Two Collections of Hands-on Science Lessons Students Can Do At Home
Online lessons and virtual meetings with students and parents can be good, but at a certain point students are going to want to do more than just look at their screens and answer questions.
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CHECK OFF Student Participation – Teacher Tech
You’ve asked students to complete several things digitally. Digital, unlike paper, can be completed at different times. This can make it challenging to keep track of what students have and have not done. Google Sheets can help with keeping track.
