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Book Creator for Chrome: Product Review, Tips and Tricks for Teachers

The CoolCatTeacher

They can also send them as eBooks that people can read on their mobile devices or computers. This fantastic addition to your class lets students create audience-facing works for authentic assessment that can also be keepsakes from their year in your classroom. Students will be able to download their books as PDFs and print them.

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5 Ideas for Writing with Technology

The CoolCatTeacher

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Once they have the basics of writing — say middle school or high school — is to take the class and write an eBook. Tip #4: Authoring eBooks. My students did eBooks this semester. You write it.

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Maker culture

Learning with 'e's

The Maker movement, user-generated videos, self-published eBooks, personalized domains, and other platforms have all seen steep increases in recent years. Those who forge collectively ahead will change their courses to accommodate student use of technologies to create their own content, and change their assessment methods too.

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5 Ways to Reach Even Resistant Writers with Writer’s Workshop

The CoolCatTeacher

Owl Eyes has hundreds of free ebooks — the Canterbury Tales, The Odyssey, and all of Shakespeare’s work. But Owl Eyes isn’t just an ebook reader. If you assess along the way, in this way, on your feet, by the time kids turn in those final copies, the quality is that much better because you provided bits of feedback along the way. #4:

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How to Push the Boundaries of School with Dynamic Learning

Shake Up Learning

They can tinker, build, engineer, craft, program, and create with anything from cardboard to sophisticated technology projects.You don’t have to have a fancy Maker Space filled with expensive equipment. Also, check out this great article by Vicki Davis: How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms. Beyond the Due Date.

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