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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. Mentimeter is a great tool that allows you to poll your audience in a variety of ways. You can even create a presentation that has multiple polls. Let’s use the power of social media to crowd source even more examples. AnswerGarden – My new favorite tool!

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Spice It Up! 6 Tech Tools to Transform Your Staff Meeting

Fractus Learning

For instance, for our administrative retreat, we opened with a superhero quiz, sparking our discussion on celebrating our schools through social media. Poll Everywhere. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings. Today’s Meet.

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5 Ways Teachers Can Encourage Deeper Learning With Personal Devices

Edsurge

Your students may not be old enough for social media; it’s also likely banned at your school, but there are other synchronous ways to keep students engaged in real-time learning. Wouldn’t it be great if that could happen in our classrooms during every content presentation we offer?

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Testing Giving You The Blues? Get Creative with EdTech Formative Assessments

MSEDTechie

20 years ago we never would have imagined that the position as a Social Media Manager would be an actual job, and just about every company or organization would need to have someone manage their social media accounts. The data and results that come from testing can show powerful trends about student achievement.

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Draw on Student Interests to Make the Common Core Work for You

Educator Innovator

Poll Everywhere ( [link] ) is a great digital tool that you can use to survey your students about anything, from fun, getting-to-know-you questions to provocative questions related to your subject matter. The problem was that I didn’t let my students teach me. Tap into digital literacy and civic education skills at the same time!

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Tools Harvard Computer Science Students Use to Collaborate, Stay Organized

MindShift

And the silly community events are shared on social media and the course website to help create the community feeling that keeps kids engaged in the academic work. It gives you eyes into what could be a fairly large data set.” Slack : This is a free chat service, but also makes it easy to share media.

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Has Your School Reached an Edtech Plateau? Here’s the Key to Moving the Needle

Edsurge

Then, share the resulting data and respond to the concerns of participants so that the meeting can continue positively and productively. For example, create a live word cloud with AnswerGarden or Poll Everywhere in response to a school-wide question to help focus the discussion. Empower your students/children.

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