Poetry Month This link comes from a Terri Eichholz post. I love the interactive google doc with lesson plans that she shared from Scott Bayer (@LyricalSwordz). With yet more unsettling news on the rise of hate and racism, here are some resources from KQED. Click here or on the image. WordtuneLooking for a new way to improve student writing? Try this Chrome extension- Wordtune. Eric Curts wrote up a great explanation on his site, and created this how to video, as well as detailed written instructions. I tried it out and like having a lot of choices, although, as with most of this type of tool, like Grammarly, I found that having it pop up to be intrusive and used the little dot in the top left to shut it off, unless I asked it for advice. I am curious to see how well the AI works. We all know that the auto-correct can be a godsend or make really funny mistakes. BreakoutEDU's free game of the week is Breakout THE ZOOM!
Math Whiteboard As many of you may know, math is not my favorite subject. This 30 min webinar on a new tool called Math Whiteboard honestly made the tool look really cool, but not being a math teacher, I don't know. He demo'd cool tricks with graphs, etc... made it look easy. He also seems to be available for questions and more demos. Try it and see! Let me know in the comments. Here's a couple of example images from his site. I just saw that Eric Curts is having a webinar on this next week 4/20/21 MakeCode Skill Map This one is in development, but go ahead and give it a shot if you don't mind that there may well be some bugs. I enjoyed the intro webinar and found most of it to be fun and easy to follow along. You can also check out the MakeCode Arcade platform, but this skillmap has potential as a teaching tool. One big plus- MakeCode Arcade has Immersive Reader! Canva If you haven't tried Canva, you're missing out. This platform has grown so much over the last year or so! I guess I'm not the only one who is so impressed with Canva. Richard Byrne just put up a new blog post 19 Canva Tutorials for Teachers and Students - Certificates, Comics, and More! Check out all the great tutorials he has created here. Here's a link to Canva's OnBoarding for Educator's presentation with step by step from setup to presenting remotely and more. Canva offers free pro accounts for educators! You can create classrooms. It is integrated with Google Classroom. Students can collaborate on work. The amount of resources available to teachers is simply amazing! Remove bg is part of the platform... You can find, reuse, recreate worksheets, comics, infographics and so much more. The Canva video below is a bit long, but worth the time. I have sat through several of Leslie Fisher's webinars on Canva and will be back for more. You can also check out Holly Clark's ideas here. I also took a couple of quick video tours ( less than a minute) below to show you some of what is available to teachers- for free!
Yet More Jamboard I attended a Fried.Tech webinar recently on Jamboard, not really expecting to learn anything new. Much of it was the same old, but I did learn more about the differences in using Jamboard on a tablet vs the web version (~ 11:28 on the video) There are some pretty cool things you can do with the app. Check out their presentation and slide deck. Just in from Eric Curts I thought I was done, but just saw this tweet from Eric. Now I have to go check out Monster Mash!
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As always, things change rapidly in the online world. One website that I love, but haven't featured is
The Kid Should See This. "The Kid Should See This is an unprecedented collection of 4,500+ kid-friendly videos, curated for teachers and parents who want to share smarter, more meaningful media in the classroom and at home. " And... it's free. Not just for little kids, all ages will love these videos.
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Originality reports & Google Citation Tool
Plagiarism comes up over and over again across all grade levels and disciplines. Google Has tools to help right in Google Classroom. You can find out more about it here.
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Google Workspace also recently came out with built-in tool for citations. You no longer have to use a 3rd party add-on or extension. Check out Richard Byrne's video below.
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Whiteboards, again...
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New Microbit
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Free Google PD
Inspire Creativity through Learner Engagement
This one looks really good, uses lots of different tools and explores student choice and voice. If you haven't checked out the Teacher Center, it is worth your time. You can filter by time required, by topic and by level of difficulty. An easy way to up your game.
If this is something of interest, sign up, and go in and register for any mini course of interest as the registration dates close after the initial presentations.
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Welcome to Google Tools for Remote and Hybrid Learning! In this series of 6 mini-courses, attendees will gain the confidence and skills they need to effectively lead students through a remote and/or hybrid learning model by taking full advantage of Google tools for Education. Attendees may opt to receive all 6-hours of instruction or choose which mini-courses to attend based on their needs and level of comfort with these tools. If you have no experience with Google's Suite of tools for education, we encourage you to attend all 6 mini-courses.
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Google Changes Branding
Exam Net
"I’m not sure if you’ve told people about exam.net before, but it’s an amazing website for giving assessments. You can just download a pdf of your assessment and the website will create a test code. Students can then go to the website and type in the code to access the test.
The cool thing about it is it will create a browser block on all devices and if students exit the browser, their test will stop and you will be notified.
It literally takes me a minute or two to make one if I have an existing test. "
Here's more about it: Excerpts from the web site.
- Free of charge
- Easy to export students' essays and answers to Google Drive...
- Quick and easy to create a new exam. Exam.net supports uploading of PDF files or pasting from other documents, e.g. Microsoft Word, directly into the exam tool.
- Single sign-on using G Suite...
- Desmos and GeoGebra can be used securely in Maths exams, and formula booklets can be used within the tool frame, or as a complement if you prefer.
- Works well with PC, Mac, Chromebooks and iPads, as well as in a blended technical environment with different hardware and/or operating systems.
- No need for student accounts or registration. Students can access the exam with a simple exam key.
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Using Exam.net remotely (Eng) from Teachiq on Vimeo. |
Whiteboard.chat & Whiteboard Limnu
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Greg Kulowiec created a demo of using FlipGrid shorts. Check it out. You can use the whiteboard, record your screen, pause the video, etc. | |
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I got to this incredible collection of links, Peterson Web, by clicking on something about math hyperdocs. This has to be one of the most inclusive collections I have seen. Maybe not Larry Ferlazzo, but darn close. There are tech tools, tons and tons of hyperdocs, and so much more. I did click thru a couple of links that led to TPT sites, but most lead you to a livebinder or a document. Warning... there are thousands of links... not clearly curated. For example something may be listed as a grade level, but not a topic, etc. |
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Use Whiteboard.fi as individual online whiteboards and to see your students' work without messing around with screensharing. I first heard about this a few weeks back from Alice Keeler. I put info in the HPS Tech Tools site, for those in district. Richard Byrne has created a couple nice short videos to walk you through this and to demo how to use it with students.
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Greg Kulowiec shared a short video recently about multimedia feedback inside a Google doc, using Mote, which I had never heard of. It's a quick and easy way to add verbal feedback to any Google doc. Free and easy to use. It is a chrome extension, which you can get here. Greg also gives you a quick overview of screencastify too.
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One of the latest things Google has changed is the way we view the sharing options in Google Drive. Everything is still there, just moved around to drive you crazy. Here's Tom Driscoll's video to explain it to you.
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Daniel Kaufman posted this video explaining how to create navigation tabs recently on Twitter. I was intrigued by the tab set up on slides and wondered if it would be useful for others as we design materials for remote learning. I wrote a few years back about a horizontal tab navigation in GSlides, but you may find this one more useful.
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Virtual Field Trips The linked pdf is from a FB group- passed along without attribution. If you haven't checked out Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants, now's the time. They have great places to explore and you can even apply to be live on the call. Check out the site here or their Youtube channel here
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Microsoft assistive tech is just getting better and better. Some of you have already suffered through my soapbox speeches about how these tech giants- Microsoft, Apple and Google should just work together to make things better for everyone. So, now there is an update for Microsoft's Office Lens to make it even better. This is a cool scanning type app that can OCR text out of images, translate the text into different languages and even read it back to you. Wish it was all on one platform or at least platforms that played nicely together. If you haven't yet checked out Immersive Reader- well worth your time and it is now integrated in PearDeck add on for Google slides as well as into Flipgrid. There is an unofficial chrome extension for it as well. Leslie Fisher is offering a free webinar on Immersive Reader on May 26. Check it out here.
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Last week I added a couple of videos showing how to make a bitmoji banner for your Google Classroom. Since then, the internet has exploded with yet more ideas. So, if you like bitmojis- go for it. For more ideas, check out weareteachers.
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