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Unleash The Superhero In You - NYSCATE 2016

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As Chromebooks catch up to (or surpass) iOS devices, the Google Apps For Education ( GAFE ) suite of tools is clearly permeating state-wide districts. Every teacher we met was excited to try a new web app or a backchannel to decentralize daily instruction. See you in 2017. Source: NYSCATE.

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Make Reading Relevant with Thematic Units

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Older kids might focus on a particular event in United States history, aspects of a specific culture, or a general interest topic like skateboarding. Students share all of their work with me using the Seesaw eportfolio app. For younger kids, themes might be animal life cycles, holiday celebrations, or pets.

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Make Reading Relevant with Thematic Units

Graphite Blog

Older kids might focus on a particular event in United States history, aspects of a specific culture, or a general-interest topic such as skateboarding. Students share all their work with me using the Seesaw eportfolio app. For younger kids, themes might be animal life cycles, holiday celebrations, or pets.

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Top 100 Sites/Apps of 2014

Technology Tidbits

iPads/Chromebooks). WeLearnedIt - An excellent free iPad for the mobile classroom, ePortfolios, and Project Based Learning. littleBIG History - One my favorite timeline apps for the iPad that covers areas from the Big Bang Theory to Current Events. This is a great way to introduce digital storytelling to the classroom.

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Read-Along Storybooks Using Audio in Google Slides

Shake Up Learning

Mike is also the author of one of the most popular blog posts on Shake Up Learning, How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites. For the scientific explanation, it needed to relate specifically to the events in the story. . Related: 13 Tools to Record Audio on a Chromebook. Click To Tweet.

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