Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

The first ‘lite’ option that most educators think of is Google Classroom. You will find yourself most comfortable in the Google Classroom environment if the tools you use are aligned with Google Drive, your browser of choice is Chrome, and your digital device is a Chromebook.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library. This includes not only public libraries but colleges and universities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Take attendance –use a game like Flippity’s Randomizer, Google A Day, or Wakelet’s Scavenger Hunt where student answers serve as their attendance notification. Assess learning –today’s favorite is gameshow webtools such as Kahoot and Quizizz. An alternative is a class reading program like RAZ-Kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

For example, I had to assess “over the shoulder” by looking at what students were doing. Also, I’m able to easily assess and share their work in AR. To get started, a student will just scan the room using his or her digital device (like an iPad, iPhone, or Droid) before starting. But you’re not limited by these libraries.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

Among the tech behemoths, Amazon and Google are forging inroads in cloud-based gaming. Google is testing Project Stream , and Amazon is reportedly leveraging its massive cloud presence to develop its own service. If a school adopts iPads, teachers can only use games that work with the Apple operating system.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free / Age : 4+ 2. Teachers can select from different lesson layouts and attach videos, images, links, assignments, and assessments to their lessons. Compatibility: iPhone/iPad and Android / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age : 4+ 3.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Google Classroom allows teachers to easily manage student work and teaching with Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets and anything Google. Teachers wanting to implement Google Classroom can use these resources to get started, level up their learning, or become a pro at all things Google.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

For example, it’s no good investing in iPads for the school if the broadband bandwidth and Wi-Fi connectivity aren’t up to scratch. Digital whiteboards like ViewBoard check this box while also supporting the most prolific platforms in education including Microsoft, Google, and Apple operating systems and education services.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. The free assessments include Google Docs assessments to copy and digital rubrics to download. These assessments might be used to engage learners in discussion before an inquiry.

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EdTechTeacher

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Many of our Featured Speakers and Presenters for next month’s EdTechTeacher iPad Summit Boston also attended the event including: Reshan Richards , co-founder, of the popular Explain Everything screencasting app. To get a taste of what you might experience at the iPad Summit, we have posted some of their materials below.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. Otus is a free all-in-one mobile learning management system available on iPads and desktops.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Book Creator has long been a favorite app on the iPad, and now it’s available for Google Chrome. Students who use Chromebooks, PCs, Macs, iPads, or any other device can now create books with this versatile, easy-to-use app. Here’s a class library for an elementary classroom. Post sponsored by Book Creator.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

These were the pressing questions of the time – a time 8-months after the release of the first iPad and 6-months before the release of the first Chromebook. Then there was the iPad. Appealing to all ages for all occasions, the iPad topped the market in the following years after its release. Will the cloud continue to reign?

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Teachers don’t have to create classroom videos on different subject matters; they can use suitable videos from an online video library. Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress. Doceri For iPad. ShowMe iPad App.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

AUGUST 27, 2016

Piktochart is my favorite way to create infographics with clipart, templates, fonts, and more in their library. Canva is a free web tool and iPad app for creating social media posters, infographics, digital poster projects and more. Check out this fantastic Google Draw template for creating infographics by John Calvert.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

eSpark works on all devices–desktops, Chromebooks, iPads (with the free app)–pretty much whatever digital device you use in your classroom. In fact, some students can be working on Chromebooks while others use iPads. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use. How to get started.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

The app gives subscribers unlimited access to SmartMusic’s extensive library of over 50 method books, nearly 50,000 skill building exercises, and 22,000+ solo and ensemble titles by major publishers. SmartMusic provides an immediate assessment. It is available on PCs and Macs as well as iPads. Guggenheim Museum.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

If you use my link to sign up for Edpuzzle , you’ll gain access to a curated library of 50,000 free videos to use with your school. Assess the video. And because it links with Google Classroom, just creating an embed code for a video can enroll someone in your class easily. This blog post is sponsored by Edpuzzle.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

People have noticed that I’m strengthening relationships with my students, I’ve designed a curriculum that’s engaging for the toughest kids, and I’m using the iPads I found in a corner. I found out we had a cart full of 40 iPads in a closet purchased with school improvement money. So I took the iPads while no one was looking.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Google Apps and Chromebooks App Recommendations and Substitutions Here is a list of Google Apps and Web Apps to use. 4c6x4p5qplh7 Google For Education Resources [link] Google Classroom - new resource for teachers to manage classes, assignments, student work, and to communicate with students. The process is so simple!

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 12, 2014

Edmodo, Curriculet, and Google Drive are essential to productive workflow in my class. Students use Google Docs for typing up essays and other assignments. I type up my lesson plans in a Google Calendar which is posted on my class website , and merely copy/paste from my plans to create the daily agenda.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 19, 2016

the digital devices–computer or Chromebooks or iPads–won’t work on the Big Day. Luckily, Common Core–and many State standards–provide an excellent starter list of seven ways to blend technology into your everyday teaching: have digital ebooks included in your class library. Nothing more; nothing less.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. International Children’s Digital Library. Books are made available from a variety of sources including the Library of Congress. Open Library. This includes not only public libraries but colleges and universities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

One of the first curricular tools I built to share—on the first day of school—was a public, student-friendly gradebook on Google Sheets. Yes, this was before Google Classroom existed!) I stepped up my game by adding even more videos and assessment exercises to my class website, mining resources from IXL and CK-12.

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MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

There are so many ways that kids can creatively show you their learning in a timely and efficient manner, and ways teachers can conduct assessments that take away the testing anxiety that plagues so many kids. Creative Formative Assessments Can Help: Save time assessing students. Now, Information is literally at our fingertips.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 13, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. We’re taking Google education summits online! CUE and The Learning Revolution (that''s us!),

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. More information and signup at [link] Google for Education Recordings Available. Is your library mobile friendly?

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 22, 2015

This summer and fall, we want to introduce you to some our EdTechTeacher Instructors and iPad Summit Boston Presenters and in a series called #ETTchat. Since the early 1990’s, she has been involved in educational technology as an Adobe Education Leader, a Google Certified Teacher, and a Discovery Education STAR and Guru.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

A fourth-grade student at Mendez Elementary in San Marcos, Texas, held an iPad out in front of her. Zombies had taken over the school library, and she and her fellow students had to work together to answer various questions about books—such as identifying where the index is located. What if you could make your own? Well, you can!

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Class Tech Integrate

JANUARY 15, 2016

Whether your class is 1:1 with a specific device (Chromebooks, iPads) or you have a BYOD environment (Bring Your Own Device),there are many websites that work as an excellent option for teachers to gather responses from their students. It has an iPad app that is easy for students of all ages to use.

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Class Tech Integrate

JANUARY 15, 2016

Whether your class is 1:1 with a specific device (Chromebooks, iPads) or you have a BYOD environment (Bring Your Own Device),there are many websites that work as an excellent option for teachers to gather responses from their students. It has an iPad app that is easy for students of all ages to use.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2015

Have students use Popplet (either on iPad or computer) to create a mind map. With iPads, they could even speak the word into the Popple using Siri. To further scaffold the experience, students could listen to their words read back out loud to them using either Speak Selection (iPad) or a Chrome extension such as SpeakIt!

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techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

Students are using Google Classroom, BoomWriter, Reach for Reading, and other tools across the curriculum. Samuels also teaches students how to dictate on Google Drive, which integrates with Lucy Calkins’ Teachers College Reading and Writing Project “Writing in the Air” (rehearsing what you want to write by saying it out loud).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. Families are also aided by community groups like the Boston Public Library, which is lending Chromebooks and hot spot home kits to those who need them. “All But there is only so much that the schools can do.”.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Once they had evaluated the source for these 4 elements, they wrote down their answers in a group created Google Doc. Using Mac Books: one student recorded and shared their comments on a Google Doc while the other searched for and viewed the paintings. Links were also provided for students to locate and view paintings.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 26, 2017 Google to Symantec: We don't trust you anymore | InfoWorld → Admins need to consider whether they still want to use Symantec (the cybersecurity firm!) "In these cases, boards need to provide access to a school device. after its repeated mistakes with issuing TLS certificates.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

There’s a CTREX Library Hub for librarians and a CTREX School Hub for teachers. Bloomin’ apps: suggestions for iPad, Android, Google and Web 2.0 And then, and so importantly, there are the bloggers and curators who are my go-tos for discovering new apps and assessing their value in the classroom and the library.

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