Here are some amazing blog posts from last week:
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Use the SAME Google Form to Poll – Teacher Tech
During a live session with students there are several options for how you poll students. A quick and dirty is to reuse the same Google Form repeatedly. After submitting the Form there is a link that says “Submit another response.
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This flexibility to make their own hours is also giving students a chance to exercise, take breaks, or even be bored, all of which research shows is beneficial.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: An Innovative Vision for the Future of Schools
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidance on reopening of schools will require innovative thinking to re-imagine how schools may open in the upcoming school year and beyond. The key will be agility and flexibility. That’s because we’ve learned t…
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How To Increase Student Online Participation By 50 Percent – Smart Classroom Management
It’s been a tough go, this online learning. Many students are checked out.
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Game-Based Learning Design Competition – Legends of Learning
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Earlier this week I had a reader ask me for advice on sharing videos in Google Classroom with her students without having to use YouTube. My suggestion was to simply upload the videos to Google Classroom as either announcements or as assignments.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Ten Ways to Use Wakelet
One of the reasons that Wakelet has become popular in schools in the last couple of years is that it can be used for a wide range of activities. It’s also popular because it can be used in a wide range of grade levels and subject areas.
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Snowman Army as Live Streamed on MakeCode Mixer channel | We Code MakeCode
This video was live streamed on Wednesday, April 29, 2020 on MakeCode’s Mixer channel https://ift.tt/3cCJbFl. We will live stream a MakeCode show every Wednesday at noon Pacific for the next several Wednesdays. Our shows include MakeCode for Minecra…
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Webjets.io – The new way to collect, organize and share anything
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2 new papers spell a turning point for digital safety & citizenship: Part 2 – NetFamilyNews.org
The timing struck me. Though it seems all of life is at an inflection point now, in the middle of a pandemic, two new papers that represent a pivotal moment for digital safety and citizenship education are published almost at the same time.
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How To Make A Slideshow Video With Photos And Music – The Edublogger
Slideshow style videos can be a powerful way to bring together the best of your school experiences and share with others. Millions of school and college students will be graduating in the coming months. Given the current pandemic, many graduation ce…
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How You Can Use E-Sports and Gaming to Engage Students in Campus Life | Presence
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Five Quick Distance Learning Activities For Teachers In A Pinch • Teched Up Teacher
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How Do I Learn Best – Setting Students Up For Learning Success Beyond Our Classroom – Pernille Ripp
I never planned on teaching through a global pandemic. I doubt anyone did.
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How Esports Can Support Equity • Teched Up Teacher
This was an article I originally wrote for Tech & Learning magazine. They’re a great resource for teachers looking to keep up on the latest edtech and ideas. Check them out!
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Free Technology for Teachers: An Important Setting for Using Audio and Video in Google Slides
Last fall Google finally added an option to insert audio files into Google Slides without the need for any third-party add-ons. While it wasn’t as good as some people hoped it would be, it was still great news for Google Slides users. There are some…
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Video: “What the 1918 flu pandemic can teach us” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
rottonara / Pixabay I’m adding this video to A BEGINNING LIST OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR LEARNING ABOUT THE CORONAVIRUS:
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Add Background Music to Screencastify Videos
Last week I published an article about how to extract the audio from your videos. A related question that I got from a reader was about how to add background music to Screencastify videos.
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Geometry of Castles – A Math Lesson in Google Earth
In the web browser version of Google Earth there is a section called Voyager. Within the Voyager section you’ll find lots of pre-made tours, quizzes, and activities. One of those activities is called The Geometry of Castles.
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30+ FREE PowerPoint education templates + how to make them
Templates are productivity boosters. They can help us get more done in less time. They’re also great lesson design frameworks. They help us craft a path for students to take their thinking — or for them to guide their creating.
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The Building Blocks of an Online Lesson |
Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. The tools teachers use to engage students online are indeed different.
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Super Basic: Create a Minecraft Lesson – Teacher Tech
Engagement matters for making a lesson memorable. While nothing is engaging for 100% of students, we do know that Minecraft is very engaging for many students. Heck, I personally spend hours playing Minecraft and lose all track of time.
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why-grading-policies-for-equity-matter-more-than-ever
Every other day, a McKinney-Vento program coordinator with San Leandro Unified School District travels to the marina on the district’s eastern boundary. There, she drops off meals, hygiene kits and school supplies to families who are sheltering in t…
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“Science Instruction in the Age of the Coronavirus” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Science Instruction in the Age of the Coronavirus is the headline of my latest Education Week Teacher column. Four science educators share their experiences adapting to online instruction, including through collaborative learning and the use of onli…
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Vocabulary Connections with Padlet – Technology Pursuit
When learning new vocabulary, it’s important for students to link that vocabulary to something that they already know. That’s why the ubiquitous Frayer Model includes a square for students to provide or draw examples.
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This is part of a series of posts about the Game Design Club I am running for middle schoolers while school is closed.
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Flash Feedback: How to Provide More Meaningful Feedback in Less Time | 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. My study of feedback began in earnest on a sunny afternoon during my third year of…
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Accountability to What’s Important in Education – George Couros
In this post, I was able to share some thoughts on a tweet by Weston Kieschnickin the post below. You can also check the expanded ideas on my podcast, as well as YouTube. Later this week, I will post a conversation I had with Weston on this topic a…
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Just how contagious is COVID-19? This chart puts it in perspective. | Popular Science
Demystifying the epidemiology terms that help us understand new diseases like COVID-19.