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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

Due to Coronavirus, many schools are moving online, and teaching through Zoom meetings. The value of Zoom meetings is that the educator can create synchronous interactive conversations and activities. My goal is to have all my students actively engaged throughout the meeting. Poll Everywhere.

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A Commitment to Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The reason for this is that we have put a premium on creating a teaching and learning culture that better meets the needs of our learners while enhancing essential skills such as collaboration, communication, creativity, media literacy, and global awareness. Millian’s math students utilized an Avermedia document camera to display work.

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

Fractus Learning

I am sure every educator looks forward to staff meetings, right? Many times, staff meetings become housekeeping lists, presentations on topics, and there is little interaction among teachers. Trust me, I’m guilty of leading this kind of staff meeting, and not just once, but for many years. Poll Everywhere.

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4 EdTech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom

The Web20Classroom

Some Of Our Favorites: Poll Everywhere Quizziz Nearpod Flipgrid Recap App Content- When many teachers consider differentiation they look to content as the way to do it for most students, and rightly so. Therefore, if we can provide a way for students to access that content at their level, we can better meet their learning needs.

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How to Use Technology in Your Faculty Meetings

Gaggle Speaks

Meanwhile, staff meetings often lag behind this tech transformation. Do you struggle with active participation in your staff meetings? If so, it might be time to incorporate some technology to drive more interaction and interest during faculty meetings. Highlight two or three tech tips at each staff meeting.

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Be Present

A Principal's Reflections

In my case, none more than the never-ending time sap dedicated to paperwork and meetings. Post-conferences have focused on how one can “prove” that he/she is meeting the criteria contained in a standards-based rubric, especially with uploaded artifacts. A Math teacher using Poll Everywhere in AP Statistics to check for understanding.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Whether during a class, meeting, presentation, or workshop it can be at times extremely difficult to give everyone a voice. Even as I moved to a leadership position the same challenge persisted during faculty meetings. Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. You can even create a presentation that has multiple polls.

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