Check out these amazing posts from last week:
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7 Key Characteristics Of Better Learning Feedback
On May 26, 2015, Grant Wiggins passed away. Grant was tremendously influential on TeachThought’s approach to education, and we were lucky enough for him to contribute his content to our site. Occasionally, we are going to go back and re-share his mo…
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Grace is Greater Than Grades | Shake Up Learning
In the midst of the coronavirus chaos, the anxiety, the fears, and the extra time at home, I would like to come back to an idea that Jennifer Pearson shared on a special BONUS episode of the Shake Up Learning Show–grace.
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4 Must-Have Google Classroom Skills for Teachers | Shake Up Learning
Google Classroom is quite a robust platform for teachers and students to communicate, collaborate, and manage assignments digitally. Google is continually updating and giving us new features that make it an even more powerful tool.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Ideas for Building Virtual Tours With Google’s Tour Creator
Google’s VR Tour Creator makes it possible for anyone who has a Google account and a computer to create their own virtual reality tours to view and share in Google Expeditions.
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How To Avoid Parent Complaints About Online Learning – Smart Classroom Management
Online learning increases the possibility of receiving complaints from parents—because they’re now able to see everything their child sees. They can judge and dissect every lesson and assignment as it’s given.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Three Ways to Convert Video into Audio
Earlier this week I had a colleague ask me how she could extract the audio from a video that she had made. Some video editing tools, including iMovie and WeVideo, have an option to export just the audio from your video projects.
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Change is a part of life: Maybe you are a high school senior or a college student and you are graduating. Or perhaps you are a student who is moving to a new school. You might be a teacher who is taking a job at a new school district.
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Climate Science Assessment Tasks | Science for All
The Phenomenal Assessment site features three assessment tasks created for the Climate Science Proviso which has provided climate science education funding in Washington state. You will find an elementary task, a middle school task and a high school…
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Young artists show creativity in a plea to reduce harmful trash in the ocean | Puget Sound Institute
Student artists from across the country are calling attention to the hazards of human trash that washes into the ocean, killing sea creatures large and small.
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Control Alt Achieve: Remote Learning & Pear Deck Webinar
For those not familiar, Pear Deck is an awesome add-on for Google Slides that allows you to add interactive elements to your slideshows.When you run the slideshow through the Pear Deck add-on the students can join the presentation with a code and fo…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Use Whiteboards in Google Meet Without Screensharing
On Monday I published a blog post about a new online whiteboard tool called Whiteboard Fi.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Blur Faces and Objects in Your Videos
One of the topics that I frequently receive questions about is privacy when posting videos online. One option is to post your videos as unlisted or private videos on YouTube or Vimeo. Another option is to blur faces and objects in your videos.
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How to Teach Social-Emotional Learning When Students Aren’t in School – Education Week
Tens of millions of students are dealing with massive upheaval to their educations and daily lives with their schools shuttered indefinitely to thwart the spread of the coronavirus.
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7 Important Questions Before Implementing Digital Portfolios – George Couros
Digital portfolios have been something that I have been work on for over ten years, and I am very passionate about not only the product it can create but, more importantly, the process. Having a space to share my learning and reflections has been po…
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4 Ways to Craft Choice Menus in Distance Learning Classes – John Spencer
I have three kids ranging from older elementary to high school. Each one of them is handling distance learning differently. My daughter, who is also the youngest, initially felt overwhelmed at the list of assignments that popped up each Monday and t…
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Learning math through story: Examples from one teacher’s classroom – Ditch That Textbook
This post is written by Mandi Tolen a math teacher from Missouri. You can connect with her on Twitter @MandiTolenEDU and check out her blog infinitelyteaching.
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Storytelling: Bringing the power of stories to your teaching – Ditch That Textbook
Great stories have a natural structure and flow. There are several great frameworks we can use when we teach — and when students create with their learning. The three-act structure is a common story arc used in books, theater, TV and even jokes.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Map and Connect Spreadsheet Data
Earlier today a reader emailed me with a great question about Google Maps. She wanted to map a set of addresses and then quickly determine the shortest route between all of those places.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Create Complete Sentence Requirements in Google Forms
This afternoon I held an informal webinar for a small group of people who were interested in learning some G Suite tips and tricks. Response validation in Google Forms was one of the things that I showed toward the end of that webinar.
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Climate Clock | Science for All
I’m assuming you are coming to grips with a global pandemic and the introduction of murder hornets. So there is no better time to add on by sharing the Climate Clock. This site features a real-time clock that displays the total global warming to dat…
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Online PD: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning | Science for All
The STEM Teaching Tools team/site recently hosted a Zoom professional development session titled- ClimeTime Professional Learning Session: How to Support Home-Based Science Learning During School Closures…it’s a catchy title to be sure.
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It’s Time For Mastery Learning • Teched Up Teacher
Once upon a time, I was terrified that I wouldn’t pass my drivers test. I wasn’t good at parallel parking to begin with, but as I waited for my instructor to pick me up I realized that I had been practicing on the wrong side of the road.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Loom – Create Screencasts on Your iPad
Loom is a good screencasting that I’ve written about a handful of times over the last couple of years. Amongst it’s many features, Loom offers a Chrome extension that makes it easy to respond to an email with a video.
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Control Alt Achieve: Adding Audio to Pear Deck Google Slides Activities
Also, if you would like to learn more, I am excited to be offering a free 1-hour webinar on “Remote Learning and Pear Deck” where I will go over the fundamentals of Pear Deck for asynchronous learning, share best practices, highlight favorite featur…
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: DOGOnews
DOGOnews is an excellent site for creating Reading assignments for grades K-8 that can then be integrated into Google Classroom. This is done through 1000s of curated educated articles in a wide variety of subjects (i.e. Science, History, Current Ev…
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One of the primary roles that a teacher plays in an online class is the facilitation of learning. Facilitation is the teacher’s ability to clearly communicate learning objectives and support learners as they make progress toward those objectives.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Free Webinar – A Framework for Using Educational Technology
Whenever I’m a guest on a podcast I always asked some variation on the question, “how do you decide what to write about?” The answer is simple, I try to look at new technology through the framework of discovery, discussion, and demonstration.
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seven-distance-learning-priorities-to-consider-before-reopening-schools
When U.S. schools initially closed in March, distance learning emerged as a way to keep kids learning. Classroom teachers scrambled to learn how to put lessons online and tens of thousands of Chromebooks and other devices were distributed in a matte…
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Students as Content Creators in Minecraft | AltspaceVR
PRESENTATION: Minecraft has become an amazing tool for use in education. It allows us to leverage student expertise while meeting our learning outcomes.
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The Power of Class Rituals | Mike Kaechele
The Covid 19 pandemic has turned the world upside down, changing life as we know in ways never dreamed possible. The only comparison that I have is dystopian or disaster movies. In all of the craziness that is now life, we need to find patterns to s…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Protecting Kids During and After Remote Learning
With more and more schools either extending school closures or completely shutting down for the remainder of the academic year, a focus on remote learning will continue into the foreseeable future.
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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) put out hard to swallow guidance about the reopening of schools. Unless there are some big changes in our educational system, we will not be able to incorporate this guidance into our schools.
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Traits of a Successful Online Teacher |
Last week, I had the good fortune of stumbling onto John Savery’s article titled “BE VOCAL: Characteristics of Successful Online Instructors” in which he talks about the unique challenges facing teachers who are working with students in the online e…
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