The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 1, 2021

How We Published the Book. We co-wrote the book in Google Docs over several months. Successful Self Publishing: How to self-publish and market your book by JoAnna Penn has been my self-publishing guidebook.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 8, 2020

Reflection Students learn by reflecting, so I’ve included a document that can be adapted and put in your Google Classroom or can be printed for reflection purposes. Each audience member will have a limited number of movie tickets they can use to “purchase” to see the movies pitched at the event.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Understand how to start and run an organization. Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. Value innovation.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. From there, students have been using time in class, and we’ve also partnered up with our media specialist. It’s really happening organically.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. They have been using the ChromeBooks in our classroom to do Google searches.

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The Daring Librarian

APRIL 13, 2019

You can take baby steps into the Maker Movement. I'm not 100% sold, even after 7 years of talking about the Maker Movement, that it's something that's here to stay and not just a fad. Big or small, lavish or little, it's all about the maker mindset. Now.having said that. WARNING: Controversial Opinion Ahead.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And the one thing that Flipsnack cannot do it … it cannot be worked on simultaneously like Google docs where two students can work on it at once. But, one of the other benefits of Flipsnack is that you can create the books in something like Google Slides. How to get started.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Project Pals connects with Google Classroom but also lets me see detail on which students are contributing and participating. She has authored three books on how to integrate technology into the elementary music classroom. Stream by clicking here. Amy Burns’ Bio As Submitted. Maarten, and Australia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Jacqui Murray shares how we can encourage an improvement in writing using technology. These creative ways will help you think about how to help children, particularly those who struggle with handwriting and typing. Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. You write it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

If I pick their teams, they don’t develop the opportunity to learn how to form groups, how to negotiate, how to determine which students are like minded in their desire to improve the world. Students need opportunities to negotiate, share ideas, experience failure, and setbacks, and learn how to work with others.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

The idea behind the Maker movement includes allowing students to imagine, envision, create, innovate, play, learn in a formative manner, experiment, collaborate, share, and most of all dream of possibilities. As you set up or evaluate the Maker movement in your school or district I ask you to think about the ten ideas I have below.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We put a platform out there for you to get some ideas of how to make Virtual Valentines with your students. So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids. You can make it as a whole group.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 26, 2019

Ready to learn how to meaningfully and practically integrate technology into your classroom?! 12:07] – Kasey breaks down the dynamic learning framework, briefly explaining how to understand the graphic included with these notes. [12:54] How to Get Google Certified! , How to Get Google Certified!

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The Principal of Change

JULY 17, 2017

He has spent the last two months interviewing experts throughout the maker movement with the goal of creating a self-paced course for anyone who wants to design a makerspace. She spent her free time in class looking up how to set up lead magnets and create funnels for an email list. She had a maker mindset.

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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. How Does Book Creator Work? I made the above tutorial to show you how to set up Book Creator, but honestly, you don’t really need it. Post sponsored by Book Creator. All opinions my own.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 11, 2016

On the first day of March Maker Madness, I witnessed the makeover of a traditional industrial shop class into a 21st Century MakerSpace. The students were still sitting at the big shop tables when I saw them on an eight-way Google Hangout, but they were not sawing wood or soldering electrical connectors.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

Here’s how. Teach Camera Use and Shot Composition First, before teaching video making, Adobe Premiere Rush can teach students how to compose a shot. When students first open their device, a simple tutorial teaches them how to use Adobe Premiere Rush and gets them started. You can use this format in your Google classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. I want them to join Google classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Check out 3D Bear How are teachers using AR to teach? Recently, I hosted a webinar (embedded above) with some Augmented Reality Teaching enthusiasts who had a lot to say about AR, how to teach with it, and where they think it’s going in the future. How does AR work in 3D Bear? You can use it and learn. Try out 3D Bear right now.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2014

Learn more about the conference and how you can get involved at [link]. Each week we interview teachers, principals, superintendents, authors and presenters to learn about how to become more effective educators! Other educators must present with a member of one of the aforementioned Google affiliated groups. Thanks, Oscar!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

$W021 | Making Makers Mainstream … Connecting Curriculum Standards and the 4C’s. The makers movement across education has made a significant impact, allowing students to do and create. Sunday, January 27, 2019 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM. Venue: Orange County Convention Center. Room: NORTH 220F.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

It’s like the maze of the Minotaur, where you need to put a string on someone’s toe and pull it so they’ll know how to get out. Now, you might wonder how to set up the Acer Windows Mixed Reality Headset. It almost feels intrusive to have someone tap on your shoulder to get your attention. It’s that immersive. A Valuable Tool.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 18, 2016

As you are probably already aware, there is a growing Maker Movement across the nation. In fact, you can see Maker Spaces finding room to serve the surging Maker population in both small and large towns alike. Kids develop an understanding of how to learn from failure and setbacks in order to experience eventual success.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Some makerspace activities may be focusing on how to use the resources available and may not be connecting the activities to the curriculum or around a real world problem. The educator can assist learners in the interview process including how to develop interview questions. Barbara actively blogs at [link] and tweets at [link].

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Kids develop an understanding of how to learn from failure and setbacks in order to experience eventual success. It seems you end up with HowToons, a place of engaging content that teaches kids how to build things, combining instructions with storytelling. In fact, how might your students think outside the box and Make!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: 10 Classroom Tools for the Maker Movement , Discover the maker movement and find out how to harness its power to bring new tools and technology for hands-on learning to all grades and content areas – especially STEM and STEAM. Tune in live at [link] or [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

So, you could use a Google Map, for instance, and you start looking at how far food has traveled to get to you. So, for example, here in Maine, we have one that provides free summer training to teachers about how to better integrate food production into their classroom. Many states have a statewide Ag in the Classroom component.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah, today, we’re going to talk about how to use technology to make science more exciting and more effective. Leah: Well, I think that both of them — and really any technology that I would use — there is that beginning time period where it’s like sandbox time where they’re just learning how to use it. Whatever works.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 23, 2018

They did actually recommend — several of them set up Google Remind accounts, like remind.com, and they used Remind instead of a group chat. Like have a really clear conversation about who is going to be in charge of what, and how you are going to make sure it happens, first? So just GO. Vicki: (agrees). Vicki: Yeah.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2018

At one point, Mrs. Carela even got in on the action to learn how to code using Scratch, Jr.! Throughout the hour-long session, Mrs. Carela kept remarking about how engaged her students were and that some of her ESL students who never make a peep in class were talking a blue streak with their 4th grade buddies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

Of all the learning trends of the past 20 years, one of the most sweeping and impactful has been the rise of the maker movement. After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 8, 2017

Embracing a Maker Culture can take the standards in our curriculum and make them come alive as students practice the 4 C’s, venture to the top of Blooms, and experience the real depth found in Webb’s. Based on the concept of the Google 20% program, students should be provided time to learn and make in regards to their interest.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I have been working with ASCD for the past few years to publish my book, Learning in the Making: How to Plan, Execute, and Assess Powerful Makerspace Lessons. Below is an except – Chapter 5: The Role of the Educator as a Maker Educator. It has finally been released for sale!

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 8, 2018

We’re actually teaching about how to collaborate, how to work together. I create a template or a hyperdoc in Google Doc. Complete the Google Doc. They have to keep it to 50 words because if they were going to have their app in the App Store, that’s pretty much how many words it would be. What’s going on?”.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

And once taught the skills of how to invent, there is no stopping them ( Opinion: Every student can be an inventor ). They then took images, posted them on their own individual Google Sites, and reflected on their attributes. Here is an sampling of student Flipgrids: Inventor’s Workshop. Puppet Making and Green Screen Recording.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

Learn how different activities affect your heart rate with this fun activity from Rachel Allard, PLTW’s director of curriculum and instruction for PLTW Biomedical Science. Sky Map , built by a team of amateur astronomers who work at Google, helps Android users locate stars and planets in the night sky. Roll-A-Challenge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2018

Vicki: Because they’re supposed to do this research, and they’re like, “If I can Google it?”. They can’t Google that! They didn’t know how to think, because we…. How about that? We’ve got to figure out how to be able to use our technology to teach this computational thinking. I mean authentic research?

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