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The Epic E-Book of WebTools

The CoolCatTeacher

Wipebook flipchart is a fantastic addition to your classroom teaching toolkit – especially if you’re teaching from home. She is an international speaker on the libraries and the Maker Movement, and has presented at conferences including ISTE, AASL, ALA, and NYSCATE. during the National Week of Making.

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Doing More With The Classroom Makerspace

The Web20Classroom

The idea of students looking away from ridged content focus all throughout the school day and giving them back some time to explore and make is gaining a foothold in many classrooms. Sometimes when I am at a conference or read an article on the topic it seems there is more emphasis on the stuff rather than what to do with the stuff.

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Awesome Atlanta Education Conference: STLinATL – July 26-27, 2018

The CoolCatTeacher

STLinATL is an exciting education conference hosted at Woodward Academy in Atlanta this summer July 26-27. I’ll be speaking along with Jay McTighe, Dr. Janet Zanida, Suzie Boss and more at this affordable conference ($295 including meals and conference attendance.). Conference enrollment will be capped at 400.

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The ‘Maker’ Movement: Understanding What the Research Says

Marketplace K-12

The Maker Movement has its roots outside of school, in institutions such as science museums and in the informal activities that everyday people have taken part in for generations. The list is drawn in part from work presented recently at the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, held here.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

Classroom management can be a challenge. In this post, I’ll share twenty-two of my top tips and ideas that have helped me have an awesome classroom. Classroom Management Tip #1: Build a Partnership With Your Students It’s true that you must relate before you can educate. I want them to join Google classroom.

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‘Maker’ Movement Draws Attention at SXSWedu, and littleBits Shifts Into K-12

Marketplace K-12

One way to gauge the K-12 activity that is most intriguing to ed-tech aficionados and others gathered at this conference is also one of the simplest: look at the agenda. LittleBits offers electronic building blocks for maker spaces; its STEAM package includes 38 accessories for students in grades 3-8.

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The Classroom or Library as a Maker Space

User Generated Education

Makerspaces, Maker Education, STEM, and STEAM are gaining lots of traction in Kindergarten though college level education. Articles, resources on social media, and conference presentations on these topics are proliferating at a rate that most educators are now familiar with maker education.

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