Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Sure, in its absence, kids–and adults–could use their finger, but there are a lot of reasons why a stylus is better: It’s faster for notetaking and more precise for drawing. The Logitech Pen is made to withstand kid use. It has a non-slip grip at the top where a lot of kids hold a pencil. Enter the stylus.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Thanksgiving day activities are the topic of our blog post today! The purpose of today’s post is to share with you this handy compilation of Thanksgiving day activities that will definitely add a pinch of joy and a dash of laughter to your holiday. For books, check out our list of best Thanksgiving books for kids.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Thanksgiving games for family are the topic of our blog post today! Maybe the kids are getting restless, or perhaps the adults need something to do besides watching football or browsing through Black Friday ads. Turkey Tag Turkey Tag is an exhilarating twist on the classic game of tag.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In today's post, I am sharing with you some of the best word cloud tools to generate visually attractive wordles for your class. You can also use word clouds to summarize a long text, perform a visual analysis of data, visualize the main content of a website or a blog post, and many more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Gitanjali Rao talks about her learning journey on episode 556 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter She was named America’s Top Young Scientist of 2017 by the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge, with a patent-pending device to detect lead in water faster than any other current techniques.

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EdTech4Beginners

AUGUST 23, 2016

I started making simple online games as a way to amuse my then young kids and I made the games history-related to amuse myself (I was learning programming languages and this was a fun way to practice). Artsology.com began as a side project for me as I was transitioning from working in the art world to becoming a web designer.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Here are eight sites that offer free books for kids to adults: Bookopolis. Kids can even watch book trailers before making a selection. By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference. Bookopolis is a large collection of fiction and nonfiction books for ages 7-12.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

" Tagged on: September 2, 2017 A Classroom of Tomorrow | CURMUDGUCATION → A biting and satirical response to the New York Times' latest article on teacher brand ambassadors. Today, school districts across New York are sitting on $700 million in unspent state money. and Marion L.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2018

There are several top-of-the-line offerings for VR experience, but those typically come with a hefty price tag—often upwards of $500. For more information about advances in learning, contact CalPac today. She enjoys blogging and helping others. Feasibility. Like most technologies, price can be a barrier to adoption.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

A sample Cool Cat Teacher newsletter From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today is the day I send my newsletter subscribers the ideas to help them be better teachers. Five idea Friday isn’t online in a blog post. Blog posts. 2 – Help Kids Be Safer This Summer.

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Neo LMS

MAY 3, 2022

Mary Catholic Academy said holding an off-site luncheon during Teacher Appreciation Week while parents were supervising kids during a schoolwide movie-watching activity was a success. Tags, labels, clip art, quotes, or word cloud posters. For instance, Jennie McClelland, as PTO president of St. Words are powerful.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2019

But kids love technology’s apps and software. With 360-degree navigation, it is fully interactive, including even tags for important parts. The one corner of K-12 learning that is not so obvious is PE — Physical Education. In that class, we think of physical stuff — not digital — like running and exercising.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

" Tagged on: September 2, 2017 A Classroom of Tomorrow | CURMUDGUCATION → A biting and satirical response to the New York Times' latest article on teacher brand ambassadors. Today, school districts across New York are sitting on $700 million in unspent state money. and Marion L.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

A sample Cool Cat Teacher newsletter From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today is the day I send my newsletter subscribers the ideas to help them be better teachers. Five idea Friday isn’t online in a blog post. Blog posts. 2 – Help Kids Be Safer This Summer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Growing increasingly interested in robotics, Kate and her sister tagged along to team meetings and were invited by the older students to join in the build. We had a chat with Kate about her views on STEM education, supporting underrepresented and underserved students, and how learning to fail helps all kids succeed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Notetaking Skills for 21st Century Students – one of my most popular blog posts that incorporates visual notetaking/sketchnoting into how I teach students to take notes. Sylvia Duckworth’s Sketchnote/ Visual Notetaking Blog Post for Beginners. How to Create Awesome Visual Notes [BLOG POST]. Sketchnoting Tools.

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Tech Helpful

JANUARY 24, 2019

In the last two days, Amazon has made our Echo Dot Kids Edition devices more useful in the classroom than ever before! Yesterday, I learned how to "whitelist" Alexa Skills for our Kids Edition Dots that were not specifically made as a kid's skill. Next thing happened TODAY! P.S.-ALEXA, did you read my blog yesterday ?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter The conversation is about Artificial Intelligence. Today's three guests are expert authors of the newly released The AI Classroom: The Ultimate Guide to Artificial Intelligence in Education. She had to tag the ABAB. Is it helpful? But you know what?

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 18, 2018

Trevor MacKenzie on episode 315 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Trevor MacKenzie gives us ideas to help kids become excited and curious. Trevor MacKenzie: 5 Ideas to Bring the Inquiry Mindset into Your Classroom Today. Listen Now.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Amazon Prime Day discounts for teachers are the topic of our blog post today! Pentel Pens and Mechanical Pencils (up tp 48%) If you’re on the hunt for quality without the hefty price tag, you’ll want to check out the sale on Pentel Pens and Mechanical Pencils. Let’s dig into the highlights: What is Prime Day?

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Lee Ann Yonker on episode 168 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Google Masters for Kids of All Ages. Vicki: Today we’re talking with Lee Ann Yonker @leeannyonker. The level of independence, and the kids being able to dig around and find tools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Mandy Froehlich on episode 192 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today we are talking to Mandy Froelich about Flipsnack. And then all the content and the videos and the images and links, they’re all in one spot for the kids to access. Vicki: Cool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Christine Pinto in episode 142 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

edmodo so usually things don’t bother me but this is the ad that popped up in my 8th grade son’s social studies feed today. We’re at the age where he comes home and that’s all we talk about—drinking, vaping, what kids are doing. They’re middle-school kids. Today, about half of Hillview teachers use the platform, Treadway says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Yet, kids who can code are better at logical thinking and problem solving, more independent and self-assured, and more likely to find a job when they graduate. This is easily done with a Chrome extension like QR-Code Tag which will grab the QR code for URLs. Coding–that geeky subject that confounds students and frightens teachers.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2016

When they — or a supervising adult — point a smartphone or a tablet at a printed flashcard of an alphabet letter, a beautifully rendered 3D image of an animal corresponding to that letter will pop up on the screen, and kids can hear the sound of the letter. The post 6 Awesome AR apps for the classroom appeared first on NEO BLOG.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2018

Frank Buck on episode 227 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Become more productive today with these seven tools from Dr. Frank Buck. Go to [link] today to get your Free Fire Forensics Kit. Before I close down, I just tag that note “taskclone.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Yet, kids who can code are better at logical thinking and problem solving, more independent and self-assured, and more likely to find a job when they graduate. This is easily done with a Chrome extension like QR-Code Tag which will grab the QR code for URLs. Coding–that geeky subject that confounds students and frightens teachers.

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EdTechSandyK

DECEMBER 16, 2013

Photo by smjbk Used Under a Creative Commons License On December 4th, I was tagged by Carrie Ross and Kristy Vincent. Then, I was tagged today by Joel Adkins and Carl Hooker. So, after four tags, I think it''s probably my turn to participate! Why did you start blogging? I am a softie for kids and animals.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 1, 2017

This is typically an educational blog but sometimes events in the world are so touching and significant that I need to share them out. In the fall, there would be piles of leaves falling from the trees and the kids would play in them. Beach today!” Mr. Cottle showed Justin how to play tag with waves as I sat and watched.

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The Daring Librarian

MARCH 23, 2019

watches Ancient Aliens) This post was inspired by an anonymous blog comment. If a kid really wanted SCAM me to get whatever kind of faux brass key, stuffed animal, sticker or prize.have at it. To get the kid in the door. OR to get the kid to read more. I was that kid. Just landed here? it's OK, I'll wait.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

“ It was January 3, 2010, that I first created a blog post of this title. It was initially inspired by a blog post that I came across on Problogger titled, “Let Me Show You Inside a Secret Blogging Alliance.” I started blogging ideas of what this model could look like on my other blog, Dreams of Education.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 17, 2015

Whether that stuff is blog posts to get a pulse on what is happening in the edusphere or researching new tools to share with teachers, I come across a wide variety of resources that I need to save, catalog and be able to come back to later. Having a collection of unorganized sites, blog posts, videos and more is useless.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 5, 2020

“ It was January 3, 2010, that I first created a blog post of this title. It was initially inspired by a blog post that I came across on Problogger titled, “Let Me Show You Inside a Secret Blogging Alliance.” I started blogging ideas of what this model could look like on my other blog, Dreams of Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2023

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Andrea Gribble will help school administrators and principals create a school social media strategy to drive engagement, build community, and enhance their organization's online presence. Head to Propello and create your account today!

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 4, 2011

How do you drive people toward your blog, and how do you gain a regular readership for your website? I read a very interesting and thought provoking blogpost on popularity earlier today by Ankesh Kothari, who guest writes on the Problogger site under the title of The Secret to Blog Popularity.

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The Daring Librarian

JANUARY 20, 2018

I curate, I share, I write a little, blog, Tweet, chat, plan, dream, and strategize. I curate, I share, I write a little, blog, Tweet, chat, plan, dream, and strategize. Just always remember to keep it kid and professionally focused. Don’t judge me. It’s worth it. Don’t judge me. It’s worth it. Be reliable. I know, right?)

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