Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 9, 2016

Turnitin , a global leader in evaluating student work, is having a free Virtual Conference, April 18-22nd. WritingXTech 2016: The Writing Mindset. Do your students think writing is just conventions and words on a page? Join us to explore how thinking differently about writing can engage your students and set them up for success. . It’ll include nine sessions with questions like: How can we encourage students to understand that writing is more that merely following conventions?

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TeacherCast

APRIL 9, 2016

Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members. for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students. each and every day in your schools. Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members. for NJEA members.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 9, 2016

April 9, 2016 Google Classroom has recently introduced a new polling feature which enables teachers to create polls for a wide variety of educational purposes including comprehension check in.read more.

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TeacherCast

APRIL 9, 2016

Welcome to a the Jersey Educator Podcast, a show created by NJEA members. for NJEA members. Whether you are a teacher, an education support professional, or a New Jersey Student Education Association member, this show will serve as a platform to help YOU bring out the best in your students. each and every day in your schools. The post Do You Have What It Takes To Be The State Teacher Of The Year?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

APRIL 9, 2016

April 9, 2016 Over the last few years we have reviewed a number of powerful presentation tools to use with students in class. These include tools such as Haiku Deck, Prezi, Google Presentation,read more.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 9, 2016

Timelines are a perfect tool for inquiry projects. They force students to see contexts; to make critical decisions about relative importance; to make connections among people, events and movements; to visualize history and processes; to discover patterns and sequences; to examine cause and effect; and to juxtapose content from across disciplines and media.

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The Innovative Educator

APRIL 9, 2016

For the second week, the post that helps you determine if you're an innovative educator is at the top. Just one question will help you figure out if you are and how to move more in that direction if you’re not. Next up is a post that responds to a story about an uninformed school headmaster who mistakenly attributes his school’s success to the fact that he banned laptops.

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Adam Welcome

APRIL 9, 2016

This is probably the most common question kids get each day when they see their parents after school. It’s now a question I’m asking to educators as well. What you did today is simple yet profound. It speaks to where you are, where you want to go and what you believe is capable. It speaks to - how you engaged your students - interacted and collaborated with your colleagues - how much professional development you accessed on Twitter that can help to innovate your classroom - how many smiles and h

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Learning with 'e's

APRIL 9, 2016

We should share more. The picture on this page of two children sharing was shared freely by its author on Wikimedia Commons. I'm using it freely because he gave his permission in a Creative Commons licence on the site. Freely does it. The image will get a lot more exposure than those by other photographers who don't freely licence their work. Yes, I know photographers need to earn a living just like everyone else, but giving one or two images away for free is actually good practice.

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