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Using Blog Tools Since 2006

Learning With Lucie

I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. In January 2006, I decided it was time to transition my portfolio/web site to a blog format.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. One such creative project that has blown me away is his Shapegrams projects (grades 2-8), an image challenge for students to recreate images using Google drawings. These grab-and-go Google drawing lessons are so much fun!

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Instructor Spotlight: Tom Driscoll

EdTechTeacher

Did you know that… Tom’s wife is an amazing educator (High School Science 🔬) in RI, and they have two children (Blake & Lydia) that spend most of their weekends in a gym or on a field of some sort… 🤸‍♀️️⚽️ Tom was captain of Vassar College’s NCAA basketball team in 2006-2007.

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How to Teach Bravery

The CoolCatTeacher

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Michelle Cottrell-Williams – Bio As submitted Michelle Cottrell-Williams @ WakeHistory has taught in the Social Studies Department at Wakefield High School in Arlington, VA since 2006. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it.

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TPACK model: Strategies for effective educational technology integration

Hapara

In 2006, Punya Mishra and Matthew J. For example, if your learners have Chromebooks but only use them to type answers to questions in Google Docs, that’s not inherently wrong. Hint, these Google Docs activities are a good starting point. What does the TPACK model focus on? Koehler developed the TPACK model.

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4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking

Catlin Tucker

More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). I share an ongoing self-assessment document with my students via Google Classroom.

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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. I cannot count the number of times I was stuck with a lesson, and another teacher teaching the same content would post a Google presentation or file for any teacher to utilize. Over the past two decades, Twitter has been a mainstay in my instruction. .

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