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9 Fine Ways to Do Better 20% Time

The CoolCatTeacher

Twenty percent time from Google. Based on the Google 20% time, students take 20% of their time in a class to pursue a personal interest project. Maker Movement. Many schools are creating maker spaces or “ Fab Labs ” so students have a space and place to invent. Or a genius hour. Or passion projects.

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Flipsnack: A fun way to make interactive online magazines #edtech

The CoolCatTeacher

So you can put in things like video, and the video can be videos taken from YouTube so the video can actually be created by somebody else. 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. Mandy: Yeah, right.

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22 Top Tips for Better Classroom Management

The CoolCatTeacher

I want them to join Google classroom. and I want them to turn their photograph in as an assignment in Google Classroom. Video-Based Instruction (Flipped or In-Flipped Learning) My students receive in-class video instruction because I don’t like to give homework. Edpuzzle lets me turn off skipping.

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3DBear Review: The Augmented Reality Classroom Pro

The CoolCatTeacher

Students created holiday scenes that they filmed and shared via video using 3D Bear. Explore 3D Bear Now So, for example, if a student goes into Sketchup (formerly Google Sketchup) and you’ve added Sketchup’s STL extension, they can create or import items and then export them. Or you can use Tinkercad or any other 3D modeling software.

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Makerspace for Little or Nothing

The Daring Librarian

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. Mover, Shaker, Blogger, International Ed Tech Keynote Speaker, Blogger, & Google Certified. Now.having said that. Cheers dears!

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

The CoolCatTeacher

And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. I always think of giving my students that sandbox time so that they can play a little bit with the software. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun.

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20 STEM Activities For Kids This Summer

TeachThought - Learn better.

Lightbot – Lightbot is an educational video game for learning software programming concepts. These videos, set to engaging animations, make some of the most complicated science topics easier to understand. Google ‘Instant Challenge’ for ideas, or check out some of @Vanessa_PLTW’s favorites: Instant Challenge Matrix.

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