Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 6, 2021

It’s World Password Day, Yawn… I know — words can’t express how tedious most people find passwords, how annoying they are to use, and how likely it is 99% of the world will not celebrate this event. Without them, there would be no protection for your privacy, your online information, or even your personal identity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 2, 2020

It’s World Password Day, Yawn… I know — words can’t express how tedious most people find passwords, how annoying they are to use, and how likely it is 99% of the world will not celebrate this event. Without them, there would be no protection for your privacy, your online information, or even your personal identity.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media Company 222

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2019

No longer is it contained within four classroom walls or the physical site of a school building. Here are eleven projects to teach kids authentically, blended with your regular lessons, the often complicated topic of becoming good digital citizens, knowledgeable about their responsibilities in an Internet world. Education has changed.

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Digital Citizenship Internet Safety Social Media Groups 293

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 10, 2019

Welcome to this third post in a series that promotes student inquiry in the classroom. Many times there needs to be a scaffold on words that go into the question and concepts that need to be explored to even develop the inquiry. Part 3: Facilitating Inquiry in the Classroom… Questions, Process, Metacognition, and 15 Pre-search Tools.

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Tools Classroom Wiki Strategy 111

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

While vendors and e-learning service providers promote microlearning as an off-the-shelf solution to be used like a genie’s lamp to solve all the learning and development issues in your organization, they fail to understand that microlearning is not a technological solution—it is a learning strategy. DON´T chunk content; redesign it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As tempting as “punishment” might sound when referring to that student who has scrambled your last nerve, to explain consequences of actions in positive terms goes much further toward student success not only in school but in the ongoing effort to build life-long learners. 90% of US K-8 classrooms use Class Dojo.

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Classroom Android Digital Citizenship Strategy 188

techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

The start of a school year is a great time to set the tone for your classroom climate as a space for students to thrive and create. This is a great time to set the tone for your classroom climate as a space for students to thrive and create. A great tool for students is “ beFunky.”

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 17, 2016

I am now up to 200 ways that educators can use word clouds in the classroom. I also think employing word clouds is a great way to begin technology integration with teachers, and also a wonderful way to travel around the SAMR pool. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs.

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EdTech4Beginners

JANUARY 25, 2017

I think 2017 is going to be an exciting year, there’s going to be a lot more cloud based technology than there was before and when classes and content are delivered in the cloud and via browsers, it means kids can access the same experience and content at home as they can in the classroom.

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Trends Technology Learning Analytics Robotics 100

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 16, 2016

It integrates text, images, royalty-free clipart, background music, and the students’ own artwork into a story they tell and then renders it as a movie to be shared easily through the cloud. Dramatic Question — A key question that keeps the viewer’s attention and will be answered by the end of the story. Sound confusing?

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Tools Adobe Exercises Mobility 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 10, 2016

Welcome to this third post in a series that promotes student inquiry in the classroom. You will discover multiple resources in this series along with some great ideas for finding student success in student owned inquiry. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 30, 2020

Whether you want to run a quick quiz game, create more in-depth assessments, or give students study tools for school and home, Quizlet is going to offer a good enough -- and often great -- experience. Some lean more into play and game shows while others focus on formative assessment and others aim to amp up presentations.

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Classroom Kaplan Libraries Assessment 88

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

They’re trying to reboot their online efforts in what they are calling a “cloud campus,” where educational experiences are designed to be digital first. That has meant developing their own personal assistant for students, a bit like Siri or Alexa, that can remind you to do your homework. What makes “cloud courses” different?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 1, 2024

s words about the power of love and strength. As we dive into the art of giving compliments, remember that this is about sharing small pieces of kindness that can brighten someone's day and when you do, you might just notice a big smile on your own face. Let's do this! Stream by clicking here. Human checked.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Otus - A fantastic and easy to use 1:1 learning solution for mobile classrooms (i.e Stick Around - A great iPad app that can be used for Project Based Learning or Flipping a Lesson by creating puzzles/diagrams and having students label them. iPads/Chromebooks).

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Game-Based Learning Common Core iPad Mobility 74

TeacherCast

JULY 16, 2015

During this time, I met some pretty awesome educators who are creating the building blocks for what education might look like for future generations. OneNote Toolkit for teachers – an interactive OneNote notebook designed for teachers on OneNote best practices in the classroom. OneNote Training. OneNote Class Notebook Creator.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The post 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Shake Up Learning community is always chatting and sharing digital tools and lesson ideas for the K12 classroom. In this post, you will find 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom! in alphabetic order).

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 12, 2014

This conference was packed with experts sharing their knowledge with cool and exciting ways to integrate technology in the classroom. You create an account, upload your video or find a youtube and then start popping up! UJam Record your voice speaking or singing then pick a genre and it turns into a song. Fake twitter feeds.

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Conference Technology Poll Everywhere Common Core 45

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 3, 2012

The students should be stakeholders in their education and have accountability, responsibility, and be actively engaged in and out of the classroom. Teacher Generated Multiple Choice Assessments Some givens for my MC assessments in 9th grade English: All test/quizzes are open resources (notebook & text). see a pattern?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 25, 2015

In this post I showcase some tools that can assist in both providing interactive quizzes/check ups and useful feedback that is essential in a classroom focused on student centered formative learning. Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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Nik Peachey

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

I've just discovered Wordle , which is a really useful site for creating word clouds. The word clouds are created by entering either a text, URL or del.icio.us The site then generates a word cloud based on the frequency of key words in the text or webpage. user name into a field.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. For the fifth year, Tech & Learning presents its awards program that honors great products at ISTE 2018. Please join us in congratulating the following winners. Available with either 15.6-inch inch or 13.3-inch

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

In other words, environmental literacy becomes part of subjects and activities that are already in the curriculum instead of, the organization says, “burdening educators” with another stand-alone and complex area to cover. Again, parents were about the same. 65% said, “It’s not related to the subjects I teach.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2014

Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! But just in case you haven''t, we have final word that Audrey Watters of HackEducation.com will indeed be joining us for our all-day Friday, June 27th, unconference--which used to be called EduBloggerCon and is now called, you guessed it, "Hack Education."

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A great way to engage students and empower their voice is through providing them with spaces where they can publish and share their creations and document their learning experiences. Creating a classroom website or blog is one way towards this goal but is not the only one. You can also publish your newspaper and control its visibility.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I wish my teachers had access to the digital tools and resources available in our classrooms today. As educators, we need to embrace this reality, and allow our classroom learning experiences to mimic what our students encounter everyday. Creative Formative Assessments Can Help: Save time assessing students. So why not use it.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 29, 2022

Great Online Quiz Maker For Basic Quizzes: Google Forms Best Quiz Makers For Game Styles: TriviaMaker Best Online Quiz Maker For Digital Tests: EasyTestMaker Some Benefits of Teachers Using An Online Quiz Maker More Student Engagement Save Time Collecting Results Reuse Quizzes. What Is an Interactive Quiz?

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Gamification Software Assessment Report 64

Nik Peachey

OCTOBER 23, 2015

AnswerGarden is a very simple tool for creating short answer polls and displaying the answers as word clouds. It’s really simple and quick to use and can be used in the classroom or embedded into webpages, blogs or in online courses. AnswerGarden works best when only a single word answer is required.

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Social Media Examples Mobility Laptops 98

Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 23, 2022

In other words, mobile learning supports eLearning and classroom teaching. Mobile learning is more in tune with the learning needs of a generation that has a short attention span given a sea of information vying for attention. As of now, the full instructor-led or eLearning course cannot be moved to the mobile.

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The Electric Educator

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

As we put more and more data into "the cloud," keeping your data safe, secure, and away from prying eyes is more important than ever! Classroom teachers are using tools like Google Apps for Education, iCloud, Moodle, Office365, Chromebooks, iPads at an ever increasing rate. Common Sense Tips to Keep your Data Safe: 1.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 27, 2017

These would be handy across the board, but especially in Google Classroom and Chromebook environments. Draftback : So watching your Google Docs edits may not exactly be binge watch worthy, but it sometimes helps to see the genesis and the evolution or “the archaeology” of your work.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? Business is just like the classroom in that annoying coworkers can never find the right document in the shared cloud repository and want you to email it to them.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The alignment of this popular series of digital professional learning resources to McREL’s model helps educators choose the appropriate classroom tactics for aiding the acquisition and recall of information. Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 3, 2017

In my experience, engaging the student in the material improves long-term comprehension and memory and brings energy to the classroom. Verb : Action word. Preposition : Show relationship between words in a sentence (to, after, on, etc.). Conjunction : Connects words, phrases, clauses, or sentences (and, but, then, etc.).

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techieMusings

AUGUST 16, 2018

Part of that might be due to the fact that, last school year, as much of an effort I made to improve productivity and practice self-care, I just did not do a great job implementing and sticking to boundaries. Summer has flown by faster than seems possible given the number of days and hours we have in a summer.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It is divided into seven sections: Show on a Big Screen Manage the Classroom Assess Student Work Interact with Students Manage Your Files Make Instructional Media Learn New Things You can click the image on the right to download the PDF of Version 2.0. Clicking a website name will open that page in your browser. Can I print it?

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