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20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Student Engagement I’m in social media groups where frustrated teachers recently commented that their grade books looked like “Swiss Cheese” and that many students were just missing during online learning sessions. You can create a community of learners in your school, your department, and through social media.

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Five digital citizenship activities everyone should know about

Hapara

Each video is aligned to learning standards and includes instructional resources such as viewing notes and handouts with questions learners can answer as they watch the video. You can also assign the videos directly to Google Classroom. Other resources include educator guides, background reading for learners and glossaries.

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Meet Your Stakeholders Where They Are

A Principal's Reflections

An added bonus is that there are so many free tools such as Twitter, Google+, blogs, Facebook, and Remind that are free for all to use. To use social media effectively, you need to see yourself as a learner, not just a leader. Digital communications act to amplify the successes that are taking place in schools every day.

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How to educate students on online behavior in a digital learning environment

Hapara

We will use respectful language online, in email, on class message boards and in Google Documents. In a Google Doc, I don’t add private information like my password because. When I’m posting on our school’s social media account, I’m aware of how it will affect my digital footprint.

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The Future is Now: Preparing Our Youngest Scholars for a Digital World

The CoolCatTeacher

I'm doing things now that I would have never imagined doing five years ago, and a lot of that is due to the people I've been connected with through social media. Are they in a Google doc or Google slide? And I've gotten to feel so much richer in what I do because of those experiences. Or where are those?

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Differentiate with Google Classroom | Episode 5 of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast

Shake Up Learning

The post Differentiate with Google Classroom | Episode 5 of The Google Teacher Tribe Podcast appeared first on Shake Up Learning. How to Differentiate With Google Classroom (Episode 5 of the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast). In this episode, Matt and I discuss differentiation strategies with Google Classroom.

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#06: The 6 Most Motivating Sketchnotes in Education Today

The CoolCatTeacher

Register for my free Differentiating Instruction with Technology webinar sponsored by SMART Learning Suite next Thursday, February 9 at 4pm. Free Webinar on Differentiated Instruction [link] technology. She and her students love Google Apps for Education and can’t imagine life without them. Sylvia Duckworth.