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Classroom Travels with Twitter: An Evolution

Ask a Tech Teacher

Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. I cannot count the number of times I was stuck with a lesson, and another teacher teaching the same content would post a Google presentation or file for any teacher to utilize. Classroom Use.

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Using Blog Tools Since 2006

Learning With Lucie

I would have to say that my experience started in the late 90's when were first learned how to publish on the web using HTML and FTP, but in 2006 when I discovered blogging tool I quickly knew that a new digital portfolio platform had been born. Turn on the classroom TV”. Each classroom had a TV with Cable News available).

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How to Teach Bravery

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s guest, Michelle Cottrell-Williams talks about how she teaches this in her classroom. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. She strives to model vulnerability and empathy so that her students leave her classroom each day a little braver than the day before. Today’s Sponsor is Advancement Courses.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. One such creative project that has blown me away is his Shapegrams projects (grades 2-8), an image challenge for students to recreate images using Google drawings. These grab-and-go Google drawing lessons are so much fun!

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TPACK model: Strategies for effective educational technology integration

Hapara

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Have you ever stepped into a classroom decked out with technology, but the learning goals for the technology weren’t clear? In 2006, Punya Mishra and Matthew J. What are your intentions for using technology in the classroom or your school? What does the TPACK model focus on?

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4 Strategies Designed to Drive Metacognitive Thinking

Catlin Tucker

More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). I share an ongoing self-assessment document with my students via Google Classroom.

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5 Ways to Step Back into the Classroom Better Than We Ever Were Before

The CoolCatTeacher

Understanding these simple principles can help us connect, improve classroom management, and be better teachers. If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. I completed my pre-doctoral residency in Nova Scotia in 2006 where I trained primarily in Cognitive-Behavioural and Narrative approaches.

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