Here are more great blog posts from last week:
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Count Up Checkboxes in Google Sheets – Teacher Tech
My favorite part of Google Sheets is inserting checkboxes! WICKED USEFUL FOR TEACHERS! My daughter is helping me with my YouTube thumbnails (check out her handiwork and subscribe to my channel
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Control Alt Achieve: How Your Students can use Google Drawings to Create Greeting Cards
Google Apps has loads of awesome tools, but one thing that often gets mentioned as missing is a desktop publishing app. If you want to create brochures, newsletters, flyers, greeting cards, and such, there really isn’t a dedicated desktop publishing…
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Roll Up Whiteboard with Marker | Whitey Board Company – Writeyboard
repositionable whiteboard + marker
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Earlier this week a reader asked me if there was a way to quickly scan across all of the documents his students submit in Google Classroom to check for elements of copying between students.
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How To Make Your Online Lessons Irresistible To Students – Smart Classroom Management
Although the school year is quickly coming to a close, chances are that Zoom and other live video platforms will continue to play a role next school year. This isn’t good news.
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ORDER OF RANKS
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Cliff Mass Weather Blog: What is the difference between partly sunny and partly cloudy?
Twice today I was asked about the difference between partly cloudy and partly sunny. And that inquiry is one of the most frequent I get, for reasons I do not understand. OK…let’s settle this for once and for all.
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Google Arts and Culture needs to be in your teacher tool belt | History Tech
I’ve seen it so many times. And you probably do it every day, without even realizing it.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Foster Connection and Interaction in Webinars
Some new to conducting online webinars may feel a void in this environment. Unlike teaching face-to-face you can’t read the room the same way. It may be difficult to pick up on non-verbal cues. You can’t walk over to someone and look over their shou…
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The #1 Most Requested Desmos Feature Right Now, and What We Could Do Instead – dy/dan
When schools started closing months ago, we heard two loud requests from teachers in our community. They wanted: Those sounded like unambiguously good ideas, whether schools were closed or not. Good pedagogy. Good technology. Good math. We made both.
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Thanks to all that attended Live from NCCE on Thursday, May 14, 2020, on “Google Tour Creator: Embed VR Into YOUR Lessons!” with special guest Paul Zimmerman! Below is an archive of that live event.
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Earth’s Ever-Changing Surface | Lesson Plan | PBS LearningMedia
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Activities to keep preschoolers learning during a pandemic – CNN
Three weeks into our extended coronavirus spring break at home, my husband wanted to discuss what we should be teaching our 4-year-old son. Masada Siegel is journalist and a crisis communications consultant.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Quickly Create a Slideshow With Google Photos and Slides
Earlier this week someone sent me a question on Twitter seeking information about an add-on that lets you import batches of photos into Google Slides and have those photos automatically placed onto individual slides. The add-on that I’ve used for th…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Tactiq – Record the Captions in Google Meet
Tactiq is a new Google Chrome extension that lets you record the captions generated by the automatic captioning tool in Google Meet. You can use it to record and save all captions or select just some captions to save.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Pixabay Offers Free Music to Use and Reuse
Pixabay is one of the resources that I frequently include in my recommendations for sources of images and video clips to use in slideshow and video projects. This morning I got a notice from Pixabay informing me of Pixabay’s audio collection.
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Creating a BITMOJI Class Photo by Greers Fantastic Fourth | TpT
I created this fun class picture when I heard we wouldn’t be coming together as a class anymore. I asked all parents to create and send me their students BITMOJI and then created this class picture.
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Kids Are So Over Zoom. Here’s What To Do About It. | HuffPost Life
In the past month, my 5-year-old has gone from being excited about video calls for school and virtual “play dates” to basically hating it all. Sometimes he’s into it — like yesterday, when he was totally engrossed in a 30-minute math class with his …
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Free Technology for Teachers: Move Items from One Google Account to Another
It’s that time of year again when some teachers will be leaving one school district for another. With that move comes the need to move your digital resources as well as your physical resources.
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Certify’em is a Google Forms add-on that I’ve been using and recommending for a few years. Certify’em makes it easy to automatically send certificates to students when they get a minimum score on a quiz conducted with Google Forms.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Virtual Bitmoji Classroom Help
Have you created your Bitmoji classroom yet? If you have not and you want to, then you’re in the right place. Here you’ll find an article and two videos that outline the process. I’ll also share how you can check out Bitmoji classrooms on social med…
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Awesome teacher summer: PD bingo choice board – Ditch That Textbook
Summer is a great time to learn what YOU want to learn. This PD bingo choice board gives you LOTS of options! Summer is a time for rejuvenation and relaxation. It’s a time to focus on our lives outside of education and recharge.
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Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: Differentiation strategies to support learners
This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog “Kathy Schrock’s Katch of the Month” in May 2018 and is re-posted here with permission. _______________________ Differentiation of instruction for all students in your classroom is som…
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Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: Creating with Discovery Education
For the past few years, I have focused my energies on supporting teachers who are creating assessments, both formative and summative, which target student’s higher order thinking skills.
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Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch: Thinking processes and STEM
The hundreds of quality STEM-related videos and materials in the Discovery Education online collection make it easy to find content to use for your lessons and units. However, take time for students to develop a solid thinking process before startin…
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Litehouse
Litehouse is an innovative new site for creating stunningly beautiful digital stories. Litehouse incorporates a easy-to-use story editor that lets users add: text, audio, images, maps, are more to create a dynamic story.
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Naraview
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In last week’s episode of Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff Rushton shared a neat site called Naraview. Those who stayed on for the “overtime” of the webinar got a detailed overview of the service from one of its designers.
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Blogging About The Web 2.0 Connected Classroom: 5 End of the Year #RemoteLearning Celebration Ideas
This school year has been anything but normal. Many educators have settled into a grove of creating the best learning experiences they can for their students while still providing some meaning during distance learning.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Circly
*Circly’s collaboration features make it an ideal tool for “remote learning” while schools are closed down due to the virus. Students can even use it to do group projects from home.
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End of the Year Project: What Are YOU Curious About? |
The last couple of months have been exhausting on a lot of levels as teachers and students shift to online learning. I would venture to guess that everyone is ready for a much-deserved summer break.
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Seven Teacher-Tested Ways to Find Renewal During Distance Learning – John Spencer
Last week, I created the following goofy video as a reminder about the differences between teaching in-person and teaching from home: While this video is a little goofy, it points to a reality that teaching from home is vastly different from teachin…
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40 years later, Mt. St. Helens looms as a marvel and threat – Los Angeles Times
By Seattle Bureau Chief TOUTLE, Wash. — On the morning of May 18, 1980, an earthquake shook Mt. St. Helens and the mountain’s north face collapsed in one of the largest debris avalanches ever recorded.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Convert a PDF Into a Google Document
On Friday during Two Ed Tech Guys Take Questions and Share Cool Stuff someone asked if there is a tool that I would recommend for converting a PDF into a Google Doc. Fortunately, you can do that without having to use any third-party tools.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Which Video Conferencing Platform is Right for Your School?
· 4 #EdTech Blogs to Bookmark · 9 Must Read Blogs for Innovative Teachers · 10 Digital Citizenship Bloggers to Follow · 10 Education blogs worth following – eSchool News · 11 Ed Tech Bloggers to Follow · 20 Best Blogs in Instructional Technology · 2…
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Use Kahoot in Google Classroom
This is the time of year when many of us are looking for fun ways to conduct end-of-year review sessions with our students. Playing Kahoot quiz games is one of the most popular means of doing that.
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A Principal’s Reflections: 8 Key Focus Areas for Developing a Re-Entry Plan
The COVID19 pandemic has radically disrupted both society and education as we know it. The chances of many things going back to the way they were are slim. I can say with confidence that a mentality of TTWWADI (that’s the way we’ve always done it) w…
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What if students had a choice in their daily class schedule? – Practice What You Teach
Typically, in May, as the current school year winds down, I start to make plans for the following year.
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