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5 Steps to Gamify Your Elementary Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Heather Marrs shares how to get started with gamifying your classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter How could you take your whole elementary classroom year and gamify it? What if you can reach those strugglers by making a classroom on mission?

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5 Ways Adobe Premiere Rush Encourages Creativity in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Product Review: Features, Lesson Plan Ideas, and Tips From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Adobe Premiere Rush is a simple to use video creation tool that includes powerful camera features, video editing, and publishing features. This blog post is sponsored by Adobe. Here’s how.

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Anti-Racist Activities for Upper Elementary and Middle School Students

User Generated Education

I am planning to do anti-racist activities with my elementary students (5th and 6th graders) this coming fall. The activities I plan to do (can be completed using social distancing) with my students include: Introduction Using Bitmoji Classroom Antiracist Children’s Talking Books I Am Poem Make a Podcast or Write a Song Quilt.

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Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better

The CoolCatTeacher

Figjam is part of the Adobe Figma suite of tools and is free for educators and their students. Outline of: Fantastic Figjam Makes Brainstorming and Collaboration in the Classroom Better Sponsor: Research Quest Introducing Tom Mullaney What is Figma? Figjam: How Do You Use Figjam in the Classroom Today. What is Figjam?

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Instructor Spotlight: Shawn O’Neill!

EdTechTeacher

Shawn O’Neill is an experienced classroom teacher, curriculum designer, and presenter. She has spent over 24 years teaching in the elementary-level classroom and is currently a professor at Bridgewater State University, teaching in the Elementary Education Department.

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16 Free Resources for Schools Who are Closing Due to Coronavirus

The CoolCatTeacher

Blended learning (having a face to face and an online classroom) is best. We have one more reason– when you already have an online space for your classroom, it is a smaller step to teaching totally online when necessary. They are here on the Adobe Education Exchange. Whether you want to or not, go ahead and set up now.

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Free Spring Renewal Webinars!

EdTechTeacher

March 15th, 7pm ET (Instructor Catherine Atkinson ) If the classroom scene from Ferris Bueller is something that keeps you up at night, come find out why it’s important to put the onus of learning on students. March 16th, 7pm ET (Instructor Shawn O’Neill ) Looking to incorporate STEM into your elementary classroom?

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