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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

Each collection can include web pages, images, documents, eBooks, and more! A guide for AP US History supported work around document-based questions or DBQs. We combined those interviews with newly scanned old community documents and maps and hosted our archive in a Ning. Collections can also be shared publicly or kept private.

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Spruce Up Your Centers with Technology

Learning in Hand

You can do this with any video, so maybe you want to use a document camera stand so that your video includes a demonstration. One handy way to collect weblinks onto one page is by making a Blendspace. You’ll probably want to assess it. As part of a center, students could contribute to a collaborative document.

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22 Digital Tools You Must Have in Your Classroom

Ask a Tech Teacher

The benefits of students blogging–developing writing skills, honing speaking and listening skills, and providing a collaborative sense of community–are well-documented and long-accepted. Online quizzes are no longer the purview of teachers requiring summative assessments. Google Apps. 3rd-8th, optional, 3.

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Teacher Play – 6 Apps to Explore This Summer

Fractus Learning

Devoting a few rainy afternoons to “teacher play” can pay off big in the fall: you can update your curricula or even develop new activities and assessments, and you can also test-drive apps to determine which ones would work well for your students to use. Blendspace (web). Canva (web, iPad).

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?? Do you teach with a paper-based mindset? ??

The Electric Educator

How to break out of "the box" in your classroom: Use tools that don’t feel like paper (Video, Prezi, Google Drawing) Transform your paper worksheets using tools like Blendspace, EdPuzzle, or Quizlet If you use Google Docs, remember that you can change the size and color of your document to fit the project.

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Do You Teach With a Paper-Based Mindset?

techlearning

How to break out of "the box" in your classroom: Use tools that don’t feel like paper (Video, Prezi, Google Drawing) Transform your paper worksheets using tools like Blendspace, EdPuzzle, or Quizlet If you use Google Docs, remember that you can change the size and color of your document to fit the project.