Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 17, 2020

For regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher, these are yearly reminders. For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, teaching, meeting with grade-level teams, chatting with parents, attending conferences (to stay UTD), and thinking. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. Your choice.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference. As a teacher, you can manage your class, track what’s being read, supervise equizzes, and more.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers. 5 Ways Teachers Can Stay on Top of Technology. For the entire list, click this Back-to-School category tag. I Got You Covered. 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class. 3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

‘ve talked about gamifying elements here and here (and under this tag ). Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Christian Miraglia, retired educator and now education consultant, goes into depth about simulations–what these are and how to use them. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

The reasons were varied (teacher training, infrastructure, and professional support to name a few), but one of the most prominent was money. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For regular readers of Ask a Tech Teacher, these are yearly reminders. For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, teaching, meeting with grade-level teams, chatting with parents, attending conferences (to stay UTD), and thinking. Check the appearance of your blog on a smartphone and iPad. Your choice.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 9, 2018

Collaboration is one of the most valued features of meeting with other teachers, and projects such as EdCamp have demonstrated how successful this informal style of unconference can be in inspiring and enabling teachers. 5 Innovative ways for teachers to connect with other teachers. National Blogging Collaborative.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The free JotForm Tables addresses the ongoing need teachers and schools have for easy-to-understand, easy-to-customize data to help with decision-making. Customize columns, tags, and more. Parent communication log — track parent-teacher conferences and conversations. View data as a spreadsheet, report, calendar, or card.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Based on our experiences as reading teachers and researchers, we designed Rhyme to Read as a program that would allow all students to be successful as beginning readers. Tagged: App , apps for education , early reading , early reading app , learning , reading , reading app , teaching , tech , technology.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Previously, a price tag was attached but the creators of simpleshow have decided to make the “Classroom” free of charge, in addition to the free basic account. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

An Epic Guide to Wearables From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Physical education teachers are getting excited about biometric monitoring devices. Currently, RFID tags are already helping businesses keep inventory. Voice Activation and Interaction. Improved Prosthetics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Keep in mind, I’m the tech teacher and still, I complain heartily about technology! That means students can use any stylus without ‘activation’ steps and a teacher can use her stylus on multiple Chromebooks in her classroom without changing it out for every student. Another–all those menus! Enter the stylus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, meetings, classes, collaborations with their grade-level team, parent meetings, and thinking. Check post tags and categories– See if you can whittle down the options while still authentically grouping your writing. Update Your Online Presence. Switched jobs?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

It is crowd-sourced and sorted by tag, name, Panorama title, location, brief description, link, with a cell where teachers can note any additional required materials. Use is simple: Teachers plan the VR lesson by searching over 500 resources by subject, topic, or keyword. CoSpaces Edu. Expeditions . NearPod VR.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

6 Tech Best Practices for New Teachers. 5 Ways Teachers Can Stay on Top of Technology. For the entire list, click this Back-to-School category tag. I Got You Covered. 5 Top Ways to Integrate Technology into the New School Year. 5 Ways to Involve Parents in Your Class. 3 Organizational Apps to Start the School Year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Virtual Reality–VR–is the 2018 buzzword among students, teachers, and even parents. Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, Sara Stringer, shares her opinion on the key factors that could affect the importance of VR to education: Opinion: How VR Will Impact Student Education. She enjoys blogging and helping others.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, meetings, classes, collaborations with their grade-level team, parent meetings, and thinking. Check post tags and categories– See if you can whittle down the options while still authentically grouping your writing. Update Your Online Presence. Switched jobs?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Empowering Student Voice : Portfolios give students a medium to express themselves. Weebly also provides a smooth experience for incorporating blogs, making it a versatile choice for reflective journaling or showcasing project developments. Blogging platforms Blogging platforms offer a dynamic way to create e-portfolios.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

The reasons were varied (teacher training, infrastructure, and professional support to name a few), but one of the most prominent was money. Educators sign up with a Teacher account and then set up classes and accounts for students. By setting up an account, readers can add tags to books and organize them according to their preference.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 26, 2014

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Many students take notes, because the teacher requires it, but many do not know how to take notes effectively. The right tools and apps make research quick, engaging, and interactive by allowing students to bookmark, curate, tag, categorize, and annotate. – Robert Frost.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2019

But, how can teachers use the technology students love to encourage physical education? With 360-degree navigation, it is fully interactive, including even tags for important parts. Coach’s Eye is one of the top apps I heard about from lots of PE teachers. Here are my favorite websites and apps: AnatomyYou. iOS, Android.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2020

classroom teachers, students, parents, practitioners and researchers of color, and those with education equity expertise) as advisors, partners, presenters, and attendees. To develop these equity pauses we need to plan with voices silenced in the past, including those with context expertise on our own staff.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 26, 2014

I am not a teacher, but an awakener. Many students take notes, because the teacher requires it, but many do not know how to take notes effectively. The right tools and apps make research quick, engaging, and interactive by allowing students to bookmark, curate, tag, categorize, and annotate. – Robert Frost.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2017

For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, meetings, classes, collaborations with their grade-level team, parent meetings, and thinking. Check post tags and categories– See if you can whittle down the options while still authentically grouping your writing. Backup and Image your computer. Switched jobs?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 8, 2024

The Quick Capture feature is a gem, enabling you to swiftly jot down ideas using text, voice, ink, or images. Google Keep Google Keep is another fantastic memo app for Android that I often recommend on my blog, especially for its simplicity and efficiency. It’s the epitome of capturing thoughts on the go.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2016

For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, meetings, classes, collaborations with their grade-level team, parent meetings, and thinking. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile –your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, your PLN.

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EdTech4Beginners

MAY 1, 2017

I would place it in the category of Augmentation (as part of Puentedura’s SAMR Model), mentioned in a previous blog post, that enhances learning without necessarily transforming the pedagogical landscape. It allows the teacher to move the discussion forward while students have their final say on a given topic.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 8, 2015

For most teachers I know, life zooms by, filled with lesson planning, meetings, classes, collaborations with their grade-level team, parent meetings, and thinking. The end of the calendar year is a good time to do these: Update your online profile–your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, LI, professional groups, your PLN.

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My Paperless Classroom

AUGUST 27, 2014

Kaizena feedback continues to grow and develop into an ever more useful tool for teachers. Today they launched tags. Now teachers can tag comments in student writing to help identify trends and track growth over the semester. What can you do with tags? Here are some great ideas from the Kaizena blog.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2015

So far this year, almost 39,000 teachers are participating across the globe: As I did last year, I’ll be giving you a complete selection of activities by grade-level with lots of innovative ideas on what will make coding both fun and easy to your students. Automatically publish class blogs and webposts to a school blog or website.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The easy tool educators are using every day From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Google Classroom allows teachers to easily manage student work and teaching with Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets and anything Google. Blog Posts. How to Manage a Classroom in Google.

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The Web20Classroom

JUNE 8, 2010

25 Google Wave Resources | Teacher Reboot Camp tags : googlewave , favorite Blogs as Web-Based Portfolios « Libraries and Transliteracy tags : eportfolio , blogs , favorite TLN Teacher Voices: Outrageous Student Engagement Teaching Content Outrageously: How to Captivate All Students and Accelerate Learning tags : teaching , favorite Be the Change.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

Coding–that geeky subject that confounds students and frightens teachers. Ask a student (or several) to explain required steps using another teacher as the ‘robot’. This is easily done with a Chrome extension like QR-Code Tag which will grab the QR code for URLs. million coding jobs and only 400,000 applicants.

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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. She is the author of The Canva Classroom, The Quiver Classroom, Teachingland: A Teacher's Survival Guide to the Classroom Apocalypse, Zom-Be A Design Thinker, and Markertown. Is it helpful?

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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. It also incorporates rubrics so teachers can provide meaningful, qualitative feedback to encourage the writing journey. Voice Typing in Google Docs. Listen Now.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 12, 2016

It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.” In November, I spent the month training teachers around Venezuela to integrate technology in the classroom. One of the most practical and favorite training sessions was introducing teachers and professors to teaching with word clouds.

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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. FlexPath – only at Capella University – lets teachers work at their own pace to earn their MEd in a competency-based learning format. The students or the teachers or whatever.

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