More great blog posts from last week:
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Free Technology for Teachers: The Easiest Way to Use Jamboard in Google Meet
A few weeks ago Google announced that Jamboard would be integrated into Google Meet. Earlier this week that finally happened in all of my Google accounts. This makes it easier than ever to use Jamboard in Google Meet. The old method that I used was …
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Evidence of Mastery Presentation in Flipgrid
One of the summative assessment options I love is something I’ve termed Evidence of Mastery or Mastery Defense Presentation. In this, students will present evidence from the unit to show that they have mastered all unit outcomes and present it to me…
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Earlier this year, we announced that Access checker would check permissions when you inserted Drive-stored audio and video files in Google Slides.
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A year or so ago, I sat with a group of upper elementary teachers and asked them to read an article titled How Do We Teach With Primary Sources When So Many Voices Are Missing? Published by Education Week, the article highlights the difficulty in te…
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More educators are teaching the brutality of Christopher Columbus and colonization by having students role play a trial in which Columbus, his crew, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand are on trial for the murder of millions of indigenous Taínos.
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What Would Mario Do – A Simple Decision Tool! – Gamified UK – #Gamification Expert
Super Mario Bros on the NES has been around for a very long time now, yet still, it exudes class and is a masterclass in game design. One of the reasons for that, in my view, is the simplistic choices that Mario has to make in the early stages of th…
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Finding out what your students are really learning remains indispensable to teaching. Here’s what teachers are doing to check for understanding online.
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I hope you have half as much fun watching this webinar as I had recording it! I am joined by Adam Parker Goldberg and George Melookaran, from the Flipgrid engagement team and Doug Little, Sr. Public Relations Manager at Wacom.
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5 Ways Paragraphing Supports Story
If the last time you thought about paragraphing was when you learned that a paragraph was comprised of a topic sentence, three supporting sentences, and a conclusion, listen up: that staid structure will not have the power to draw readers into your …
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The closure of school buildings in response to the coronavirus has been disruptive and inconvenient for many families, but for those living in homeless shelters or hotel rooms — including roughly 1.5 million school-aged children — the shuttering of …
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For years I used the Easy Bib add-on to add citations and create bibliographies in Google Docs. A couple of weeks ago Google added an updated citation tool to Google Docs that makes the Easy Bib add-on redundant.
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What if Rube Goldberg Played Fortnite? by @mr_isaacs – Teacher Tech
What if Rube Goldberg Played Fortnite? Guest blog post Steve Isaacs Fornite in the Classroom? Are your students playing Fortnite? Silly question, right? Here’s another question.
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Back to Basics: Lesson Planning for the Concurrent Classroom |
Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously.
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Free Technology for Teachers: Poe, Halloween, and Phys Ed
We’re a full week into October and I haven’t shared any Halloween-themed resources. That’s unlike me. My excuse is that 2020 has been a year unlike any other.
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How to make an FAQ page for parents and students – Ditch That Textbook
An FAQ (frequently asked questions) can save us time and provide resources for parents and students. Here’s how to make one. As educators we field a LOT of questions — from students and from parents.
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New Article: Historical Problem Space | Gaming the Past
Game Studies, I’m pleased to say, published my article in late September, The Historical Problem Space Framework: Games as a Historical Medium.
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Teachers Decide What’s Money – dy/dan
The question about those images was, “What stays the same? What changes?” And people did not answer like seventh graders.
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I have over 2,100 frequently revised and updated “Best” lists on just about every subject imaginable, and you can find them listed three different ways in three different places (see Three A…
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Free Technology for Teachers: 5 Digital Mapping Activities
On Monday I shared a couple of tutorials about measuring distances in Google Maps and Bing Maps. Yesterday, I shared a few resources for helping students understand map projections.
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Free Technology for Teachers: G Suite Becomes Google Workspaces – What’s That Mean for You?
Yesterday, Google announced a rebranding of G Suite. G Suite will now be called Google Workspaces. That change is happening now for some domains, but won’t happen until months from now for G Suite for Education users.
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Two New Automatic Citation Generators | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Anytime I’ve gone to Google Docs recently, I’m getting notified of a new citations feature it added. You can read about it at Easily add and manage citations in Google Docs. Bibcitation also just came out. Here’s a video about it:
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Fortnite Challenges: Re-Frame ‘Victory’ – Classroom Powerups
I have wasted many an hour during the pseudo-Quarantine on this game and, honestly, mediocre is a vast improvement. When I started I was dreadful. I think there is a lesson here! My initial hesitation with Fortnite was based on the hype surrounding …
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More Picture Books to Teach and Practice Inference – Pernille Ripp
5 years ago, I wrote a post sharing a few great picture books for practicing inferencing. Looking back, I realize it is time to update the list with a few new favorites as I have expanded my own collection of stories focusing on a broader worldview.
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Over the past 9 months, we’ve seen wildlife roam free while people isolate to stay healthy. Whales have changed their migration patterns due to fewer ships, sea turtles have laid record numbers of eggs on beaches empty of humans, and wild monkeys ha…
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See what this score means and how the U.S. stacks up As Americans, we have strong tools to prevent our democracy from declining into a more authoritarian form of government. Those tools are rooted in our Constitution and system of checks and balance…
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Resources for Chawanakee Academy (Responses) – Google Drive
In Mission to the Mesozoic, team up with a scientist to explore Earth millions of years ago. To complete each quest, identify different animals and plants and snap their photos.
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Now that many meetings have quickly gone virtual, there’s no lack of advice about how to run them productively and efficiently. But there’s an emotionally intelligent step that can easily be missed.
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Microplastic pollution harms lobster larvae, study finds | NSF – National Science Foundation
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Free Poker-Sized Card Templates – Fairway 3 Games
I’ve built some free-to-use, full-bleed card frames to help folks design games for The Game Crafter. In many cases I’ve provided a PNG-only file that you can add your art and text to. These will lack some of the more advanced features.
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CleanPNG – HD png images and illustrations. Free unlimited download. – CleanPNG / KissPNG
Transparent PNG Art at Your Fingertips
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Strategies for Implementing Online Culturally Responsive Teaching
Four educators offer suggestions on how to provide online culturally responsive teaching, including by providing choice and opportunities for self-reflection.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Arcademics
Arcademics is a wonderful site for educators looking to integrate game based learning into their K-8 classrooms. Arcademics games cover subjects such as Math, Reading, Geography, and more.
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Dear Teenagers, Here’s How to Protect Your Emotional Well-Being – The New York Times
Dear teenagers, you are right. And I’m so glad you asked. Here’s my guidance on what you can do to keep yourself steady in the turmoil of the pandemic. Teenagers experience feelings more intensely than adults do, both negative and positive ones.
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PBS NewsHour Extra: What students can take away from the first presidential debate — Pear Deck
What’s in this pack? Middle & High School The first presidential debate of 2020 took place on Tuesday, September 29 in Cleveland, Ohio, between President Trump and former Vice President Biden.
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Free Technology for Teachers: How to Disable or Limit Google Classroom Notifications
If you’re like a lot of the teachers I’m hearing from this fall, you’re using Google Classroom more than ever. And if that’s the case you might be feeling like you’re getting overrun with notifications from Google Classroom.
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Lisa Nielsen: The Innovative Educator: Gesticulation As A Strategy to Engage Learners
Hat tip to Cornelius Minor for sharing the importance of gesticulation in a recent share session where he also provided an example of an excellent teacher who incorporates this into her work. Click on the video to go to the Outschool website where y…
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This activity was designed for remote learning during the 2020 pandemic, though it is based off a similar worksheet that students would complete in class.
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WSTA-Washington Science Teachers Association – Exhibitors and Sponsors
The 2020 OSTA/WSTA Virtual Fall Conference is expected to draw up to 1000 science educators from across the Oregon and Washington for two days of professional development and networking. Exhibitors are invited to share their resources with our confe…
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What Anti-racism Really Means for Educators | Teaching Tolerance
Anti-racist work in all schools is essential. It is the exercise of hope, the practice of undoing and dismantling systems of oppression, the practice of freedom and of truth-telling. Anti-racist work is the practice of healing and of restoring; it i…
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How to make the most of online school with young children – Los Angeles Times
Another day in Zoom school, another meltdown and another reminder of what parents already know: Online school is especially challenging for younger students.
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Student Guide to Google Classroom 2019 by Alice Keeler – Google Drawings
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Free Middle School Science Lessons
These lessons are free to use for you and your students. In the present day, we need good solid lessons for continuing instruction at home. To that end, we have compiled lessons, process tools and assessment tools. This is a work-in-progress and add…
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A Principal’s Reflections: Time is What Teachers Need Right Now
At first glance, this post’s title might be perceived that hybrid learning is not working in many districts and schools. I can state unequivocally that it is based on firsthand experience coaching in schools the past couple of months.
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