eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In a time when there is confusion around what school board directors do and don’t do, this analogy can help clarify the role of the school board. In a time when there is confusion around what school board directors do and don’t do, this analogy can help clarify the role of the school board.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 23, 2023

The post Creating Choice Boards with Book Creator appeared first on Shake Up Learning. More specifically, I am experimenting with ways Book Creator can be used to create and implement choice boards in the classroom. And I have a brand new idea to share in this post: Weekly Choice Board Books! Let me show you!

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this post, we provide suggestions and resources for three powerful white boarding alternatives that integrate seamlessly with Google for Education. Google recently announced that Jamboard is winding down in 2024 (Details here) and educators across the world are now in search of viable alternatives.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

For example, smart board tools such as text to speech, translation, or word prediction can help students overcome language barriers and unique challenges. What’s more, they need to be interoperable and accessible not only on laptops and mobile devices but also on smart boards.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Teachers might really like to make something cool into a coloring book page. You can even upload content when you're done (I uploaded the AP College Board standards for AP Computer Science Principles.) Also, note that there is a math tutor. Many of these tools are just so helpful! Just click Explore at the top left of the screen.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Social bookmarking helps students visualize and personalize their learning in boards, magazines, or walls! The bookmarks turn up as thumbnails on a board. Students can move them around and name their boards of thumbnails. is a web tool and extension to annotate, curate, and bookmark resources in a digital board.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Use social media and class message boards. Set up private social media pages across various platforms just for students and teachers in a particular class. Set up private social media pages across various platforms just for students and teachers in a particular class.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Below are five strategies that I have found incredibly useful for turning a blasé lesson plan into student brilliance: The Bored Board: Extra time, free time, downtime, whatever name it goes by, can be a great time for students to pursue some of their own interests, However, not all students know what to do with this time!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes. But one after another, parents at a July school board meeting did just that. But Funk points out that 50 percent is still failing, so it hardly gives students an incentive to turn in blank pages.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 21, 2023

It also allows you to annotate web pages and PDFs and, using Outliner, you will be able to create structured research hub from links and curated content. You can also insert text and sticky notes directly on any web page. allows you to create as many boards as you want and you can either share them with the public or make them private.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Once every student has had a chance to share his/her post-its and add them to the board, then they must try to group post-its that share commonalities. Once all of the post-its are up on the board and categorized, each member of the group puts 5 dots on their favorite ideas. Questions and comments are shelved for the next step.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

Poll Everywhere is a live student-response tool that offers whole-class participation and assessment through teacher-designed surveys, polls, and discussion boards. Padlet – A Collaborative Sticky Note Board. Poll Everywhere. Tutorial guides can be found at [link] and video tutorials at [link].

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Classroom display board technology is a powerful thing. Along with the widespread adoption of whiteboards, new classroom tech began to link the boards with computers. Teachers could now save content written on the board to a computer hard drive. Interactive Whiteboards: A History. ” Rise of the Interactive Whiteboard.

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Waterford

AUGUST 22, 2023

Get-to-Know-You Jenga : Even board games can be icebreakers if you make a few tweaks. Nature Walk Coloring Page : This coloring page can make for a great brain break during back-to-school season. As students build the Jenga tower, they’ll ask and answer fun questions that are all about them.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2023

It was a normal-looking school newsletter: a three-page PDF with information about upcoming events, decorated with colorful clip art of flowers. A school secretary probably put together the three-page PDF, but it contained an order form from a yearbook company and a flier from the parent-teacher association.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 17, 2023

Post-it Notes : Perfect for quick notes, reminders, or to mark pages in books. Stapler & Staples : Essential for keeping multi-page documents together. Velcro Tape : Perfect for creating interactive bulletin boards or for items that need to be moved frequently. They can also be used for interactive classroom activities.

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Shake Up Learning

JUNE 1, 2022

Did you know you don’t have to have page breaks in Google Docs? This is super handy for tables, choice boards, wide images, and more. If you don’t need “pages” or page breaks, go pageLESS! appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Another AWESOME NEW Google Docs feature alert!

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

If you want to give your students some freedom in choosing a writing assignment, hang up this Writing Prompt Choice Board in your classroom and let them answer whichever prompt they’d like! Use this journal page template to help students structure and compile journal entries.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation Advisory Board–made up of 140+ global educators and IT professionals–has selected three top Hurdles, Accelerators, and Tech Enablers impacting education technology for the coming year.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 28, 2023

The post Choice Board Best Practices (and Checklist) – SULS0192 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode and blog post, I’m sharing a checklist of best practices for creating an effective and engaging choice board for your classroom. Get the Choice Board Best Practices and FREE Checklist Download!

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 16, 2021

Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used around the world in board, confer…. Each community has its own page, subject matter, users and moderators. Through voting, users determine what posts rise to the top of community pages and, by extension, the public home page of the site.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2023

For example, create bulletin boards highlighting your students’ favorite books or even your own favorite reads. Next, they read the inside flaps of the dust jacket (including the author bio) and flip through pages. Share your enthusiasm. An avid reader can sell a book to anybody. Teach them how to judge a book by its cover.

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Libraries Strategy Examples Video 135

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2022

It’s a homeschool curriculum and support system, with a somewhat unusual boarding school option that involves taking small groups of students on a kind of educational road trip. Listen to the episode of the EdSurge Podcast on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts, or use the player on this page.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

And last fall, the Fairfax County Public School Board proposed a radical change to the TJ admissions process: Scrapping the admissions test to replace it with a lottery of students who meet a minimum academic standard. You’ll hear rocket launches, protests, and those feisty school board debates.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

First school board meeting into building a movement Cameron wasn’t ready to speak out their freshman year when they first came across that blocked LGBTQ website. Cameron decided to attend a school board meeting to bring up the issues learners were facing in the district. They also distributed hundreds of banned books to young people.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

We have some spooky number facts and questions, a scary number storybook for grades K-1, and an ST Math coloring page (for any age, including adults!). The Big List of Board Games That Inspire Mathematical Thinking There are many fun board games that integrate deeper mathematical thinking into the gameplay.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Superintendents and school boards are at a critical moment, reassessing how to allocate remaining funds and adopt a new approach to operations. The reality is that the tenure of a superintendent and the term of a school board member are finite.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

Each paper is just a dot, and when you have enough dots on the page you start to see what is happening.”. While students reported higher engagement when the instructor looked at the camera than when they didn’t, the transparent whiteboard wasn’t always the most effective.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 9, 2022

Be sure to check out the Shake Up Learning Back to School Resource Page. And for those of you that are intimidated by the more lengthy planning document, I have created the ONE-PAGE template (screenshot below). Carly shares how she used one of my free choice boards in her classroom but it just didn’t turn out like she wanted.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2024

For more news on career-ready skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page This article was originally published by SREB and is reposted with permission. Communication, teamwork and problem-solving are clear priorities among success skills that employers seek, according to a new report by the Southern Regional Education Board.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Whether it’s at the behest of their board, teachers, educators, or families, there will inevitably be additional data needs or requests to fine-tune the district’s approach. Gain leadership buy-in: Superintendent and board support ensures successful district-wide adoption.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 10, 2021

Google Classroom Updates Page. Google Workspace Updates Page. I have some step-by-step directions for the clean-up process on this page. I have a ton of Google Classroom tips and step-by-step directions on this page. Back to School is the perfect time to try choice boards! Updates from Google Blog in June.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2020

Mita’s daughter was taking the AP Calculus BC test in the new online format, which the College Board first announced on March 20. The technical issues affected only a small percentage of test takers, according to The College Board. But in its FAQ , the College Board said these files would need to be converted as JPEGs.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 15, 2020

Like most of the tools here, it has bells and whistles that extend its function including content discovery and saving articles for offline viewing as well as saving pages that might become unpublished. Teachers ave commonly-used sites to a ‘starting page’ to use as portal for your web browsing. Google Keep. Livebinders.

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Buncee

MARCH 26, 2021

We had to brainstorm some ways to make pages out of their stories. We went through the story and “chunked” it by the pages. So we had to talk about what made us want to “turn the page.” They had to learn how to bring in text, layer items, duplicate pages, etc. I showed them a narrative I wrote based on my son, Andrew.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 19, 2022

Watermarks appear behind your text and will repeat on every page of your document. Did you know you don’t have to have page breaks in Google Docs? This is super handy for tables, choice boards, wide images, and more. If you don’t need “pages” or page breaks, go pageLESS! PageLESS Docs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Creating “sounds walls” in the classroom–whether on a bulletin board or digital display–highlighting four to five high frequency words is another great way to help students visualize, practice, and memorize target words. Each week, the words can be swapped out with new ones for them to learn.

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