More amazing blog posts from this past week!
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Xbox Celebrates the Next Generation of Women in Sports, Gaming, and More – Xbox Wire
“Xbox Celebrates the Next Generation of Women in Sports, Gaming, and More”
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Epic Games Is At The Center Of The Metaverse: A look at their assets
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Discovery Education Launches Minecraft: Education Edition Channel — THE Journal
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EVERFI Launches Nation’s First No-Cost, Digital Crypto Education for High School Students
“EVERFI Launches Nation’s First No-Cost, Digital Crypto Education for High School Students”
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40+ Animals You Had No Idea Were Actually Shockingly Massive | WackoJaco
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Free Technology for Teachers: PhET Virtual Workshops for Teachers
PhET is one of my top resource recommendations for math and science teachers. PhET offers more than one hundred online, interactive simulations for teaching concepts in mathematics, physics, chemistry, earth science, and biology.
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Control Alt Achieve: Formatting Text in Google Forms
Recently Google announced some updates that will give you more control over the fonts and formatting in Google Forms. This can: make it easier for your students to read the text in the Form, or allow you to create more advanced questions, or simply …
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Know Your Why!: Collection of Digital Creativity Resources for Teachers and Learners
My “why” has always focused on how the 4 Cs can be used to support student growth and engagement in my classroom. I believe creativity, critical thinking, communication, and collaboration are essential in all classrooms.
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Tenement Museum Virtual Tour | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
The Washington Post published a pretty neat virtual tour of the New York Tenement Museum. The famous New York City Tenement Museum, located near where my father was raised, has just expanded its facility and website.
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Flickr is almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world. Show off your favorite photos and videos to the world, securely and privately show content to your friends and family, or blog the photos and videos yo…
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Team Picker Wheel – Randomize a List of Names into Group
Section 1. What Is Team Picker Wheel? Team Picker Wheel is a random team generator developed by Picker Wheel team. It helps you to split a list of names into teams or groups. It is also known as a random group generator or can be used as a random pa…
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Random Team Generator — Split a list into random groups
Enter each item on a new line, choose the amount of groups unders settings, and click the button to generate your randomized list. Don’t like the first team? Just click again until you do. Fairly pick teams without bias. No need to draw names out of…
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Game Based Learning and the ISTE Standards – Becky Keene
I received my ISTE Certification a few years ago, and I’ve been working in the standards since they were published. One of the things I love about the ISTE Standards for Students is the universal application to any subject or class.
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Infographics Of The Week: Book Bans | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Prettysleepy / Pixabay I’m adding these infographics to The Best Resources For Banned Books Week: You will find more infographics at Statista You will find more infographics at Statista
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Step into the Meroë pyramids with Google
When you think of pyramids does your mind wander to the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt or the Mayan Temples of Guatemala? Great civilizations built each of these pyramids and inscribed their stories onto the walls of them, offering glimpses into their da…
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Like Zombies, After 10 Years, the 60000 Times Myth Will Not Die – CogDogBlog
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getting-ready-for-a-new-school-year-support-for-new-and-veteran-school-librarians
Connecting with Staff One of the ways I do this for staff is through fun little conversation starters at the beginning of the year for staff.
- How To Build Powerful Reasoning Using Problem Strings – Math
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Zombie fly fungus lures healthy male flies to mate with female corpses
A male fly trying to mate with a female corpse held in place by a dab of Vaseline. The fungus has grown out of the rear body segment and is visible as large white patches from which spores are ejected.
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The Metaverse Summer Reading List: Here Are The Books Every Professional Should Read This Summer
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What is Web3 and How Could it Disrupt Education? | GESS Education
“What is Web3 and How Could it Disrupt Education?”
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James Gee’s Principles For Game Based Learning | Legends of Learning
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Three New-To-Me Online Learning Games | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
Geotastic is similar to other games on The Best Online Geography Games that show you images of a location and have to identify the country. You can create your own game, also, but friends have to be on the same device to play against you. Datak is …
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Teaching the Emoji Generation!
Translation activity- How many of these do you know? TMTH SMH LOL ? BTW BRB CU ? ? IDK ? Teach with emoji literature! Great titles include Emojidick and the OMG Shakespeare series. Students can translate literature or the quotes of famous characters…
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Free Technology for Teachers: Try the Fact Check Explorer
Fact Check Explorer is a free tool from Google that anyone can use to explore the veracity of claims made on the Internet.
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A Principal’s Reflections: Leading When You Don’t Have the Answers
There is no shortage of advice on how to lead effectively. The simple fact, though, is that the process is rarely easy. Decisions must always be made, and sometimes delegation and consensus—both powerful elements in building a positive culture—are n…
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Flip Phones, iPhones, And Avoiding Assumptions | Living Avivaloca
One thing that tends to surprise people about me is that I don’t own an iPhone. Or a smart phone of any kind. I am all about the flip phone and the humour that my flip phone stories tend to bring about with them.
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Developing 3D Printing Curriculum in K-12 Education | MatterHackers
Technology Professional Development Specialist, Rebecca Buckhoff creates and implements 3D printing curriculum for Moreno Valley Unified School District.
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