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How to Create A Timeline In Excel. If you're in the process of planning a project or even just logging events, learning how to create a timeline in Excel can be a huge help.

How to Create A Timeline In Excel

A timeline can help you track everything from important milestones, to smaller, more detailed events during the timeline you're trying to track. Now You and Your Students Can Create Quizzes in Kahoot's Mobile App. 5 New Assignments and Grading features in Teams for Education. If it was up to me, every week would be Teacher Appreciation Week.

5 New Assignments and Grading features in Teams for Education

However, this week is extra special because we have some amazing updates to Microsoft Teams for Education to share with you! The #MicrosoftEDU team has been traveling the world visiting classrooms and learning all the incredible ways educators and students are using Teams for Education. 16 Apps that Support the Creative Process. Creativity is more than the ability to paint a pretty picture; it is a way in which original ideas are born and how they take form.

16 Apps that Support the Creative Process

It is about pushing boundaries, solving problems and bringing together skills in unique ways. In a recent poll, 60% of CEO’s agreed that creativity was the most important skill to have in the workplace. Fact-Check That Viral Image in Two Clicks. Twitter for Teachers. Find this page at: DitchThatTextbook.com/twitter.

Twitter for Teachers

Control Alt Achieve: 4 Fake Sites to Teach Students Website Evaluation. As adults we (hopefully) know that not everything online is true.

Control Alt Achieve: 4 Fake Sites to Teach Students Website Evaluation

For our students though, this is a concept they need to learn. Students can use Google to quickly find millions of websites matching their search request, but are they able to determine which sites actually contain information that is accurate, unbiased, up to date, and written by someone with authority? How to Integrate Technology without Losing Your Teacher Mind. By Jennifer Gonzalez So you’ve decided it’s time to add more technology to your educational repertoire.

How to Integrate Technology without Losing Your Teacher Mind

The process won’t be painless: Technology can be tricky even for the most tech-savvy person, and if you don’t have a good plan, you might give up before you ever really get started. 5 Things About Google Slides You Did Not Know - Teacher Tech. This is a little cheating as some of these features are new so you could not have known!!

5 Things About Google Slides You Did Not Know - Teacher Tech

Google Slides is one of my favorites. I use it to have students GIVE ME information rather than get information. Truly transformative for teaching. 1. 5 Ways to Use PowerPoint to Make Your Singing Rehearsals More Effective. Guest author: Elisa Jones This article has been written by a guest author.

5 Ways to Use PowerPoint to Make Your Singing Rehearsals More Effective

If you’re an educator or music industry professional who is interested in contributing an article to the Midnight Music blog, you can apply here. Welcome to another blog post written by a guest author. The author of today’s article is Elisa Jones. In this article, Elisa Jones shares 5 Ways to Use PowerPoint to Make Singing Rehearsals More Effective. – Katie Wardrobe. Teachers: Teach digital citizenship and discover the best apps, games, and websites rated for learning. Google Image Result for. LeadingintheDigitalAge 11.14. Our Latest Thinking. "Resist Googling" & 5 Other Strategies For Meaningful Modern Research. “Resist Googling” & 5 Other Strategies For Meaningful Modern Research by Jane Healey, Ph.D It’s the start of a new school year, and many teachers will be planning research projects for their classes.

"Resist Googling" & 5 Other Strategies For Meaningful Modern Research

Inquiry-based learning is one of the current buzz phrases, meaning students should ask and answer questions as a primary method in the classroom. It’s a great initiative, but it puts teachers on the hot seat. How to Insert Videos Into Google Slides Without Using YouTube. 6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017. Listen to this post as a podcast (sponsored by Kiddom): To celebrate the launch of my brand-new, fully redesigned Teacher’s Guide to Tech, I’m hand-picking six ed tech tools that deserve more teachers’ attention.

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2017

These are not all brand-new tools, but I thought each one offered something pretty special for the classroom. Check them out. nearpod.com. 8 digital skills we must teach our children. The social and economic impact of technology is widespread and accelerating. The speed and volume of information have increased exponentially. Experts are predicting that 90% of the entire population will be connected to the internet within 10 years.

With the internet of things, the digital and physical worlds will soon be merged. These changes herald exciting possibilities. Ed Tech RCE Coach. Exploring a new frontier this holiday shopping season: Virtual reality. It is a sad truth for technology enthusiasts that it’s almost the end of 2016, and we still don’t have flying cars, a moon colony or fully functional robot butlers. But there is at least one sci-fi technology that is aiming to make a breakthrough into your living room: virtual reality.

Companies big and small are betting that holiday shoppers will get the appeal of being able to pop on a headset and immerse their eyes and ears — and sometimes their hands and feet — in another world. Google, Sony, Samsung, Facebook and HTC are among the major manufacturers that have put virtual reality products, mostly for playing games, on the market in the past several months. IBM Watson Launches First Mobile App For Education. How to Setup Multiple Monitors in Windows 10. When you connect an additional monitor to your Dell computer, Windows will automatically detect the monitors and displays your computer's desktop.

You can then choose how you want your desktop to appear and customize the display settings such as Display Style, Screen Resolution and Color Depth. Key Feature Enhancements in Windows 10 Easily move Windows apps to another monitor You can easily move Windows apps to another monitor by grabbing it along the top edge and dragging it from one monitor to another. If the app is snapped, it will be snapped on the other monitor as well. You can also move Windows apps from one monitor to another using the keyboard shortcuts Win+Pg Up and Win+Pg Dn Taskbars are now shown on all monitors by default With multiple monitors attached, Windows 10 will draw the taskbar across each monitor. Control What's Projected With Chromecast or Extended Display. Whether it is to quickly search for a video, find a bookmark on Pinterest, or dig-up a file in your Google Drive there are times when you'll find your computer hooked to a projector, but you don't want everything projected in front of your classroom.

That's when using the "extended display" mode is handy. Displaying YouTube Without Distractions. In my previous post I shared the idea of using extended display mode to choose what is and isn't displayed on the projector in your classroom. If one of the things that you want to display is a YouTube video, you'll want to make sure that you don't accidentally display the "related" videos that appear on YouTube. You can avoid displaying related videos by using one of the following free tools. None of these tools will bypass your school's filter nor will they let you download videos. Watchkin is a service that allows you to watch and project YouTube videos without seeing the related sidebar content typically seen on YouTube.com. Collaboration, meeting, and teaching platform. Try DropItToMe to Collect Files from Students and Colleagues. DropItToMe is a free tool that you can integrate with your Google Drive, Dropbox, or OneNote account.

GETTING STARTED – Evernote Help. Google EDU Releases Expeditions and ‘Cast for Education’ Apps, Introduces Quizzes to Google Forms. Google Classroom currently has more than 10 million active student users, according to Jonathan Rochelle of the Google EDU team—which means that one in six classrooms in the United States use it, he says. But apparently 10 million isn’t enough for Google. The Genealogy and History of Popular Music Genres. To begin our journey through the world of popular music, we must first answer the question: “What exactly defines popular music?” Despite popular belief that this is a highly subjective matter, a broad consensus has been reached of its definition.

Etymologically speaking, “music of the people (=populos)”, would not make us much wiser. Why App Smash? Inspired by the last #1to1iPadChat , I thought it was time to post on the world craze that is App Smashing. The term App Smash was coined by the great Greg Kulowiec (@gregkulowiec) from EdTech Teacher fame. Enter Access Code. How to Manage the 4 Types of Teachers You Meet in Professional Development. In my heart, I will always be a middle school English Language Arts teacher.

8 digital skills we must teach our children. What a Decade of Education Research Tells Us About Technology in the Hands of Underserved Students. Despite all the celebratory rhetoric around our nation's declining dropout rates, during a given year, nearly 20% of students expected to graduate do not. Furthermore, according to John Hopkins and Civic Enterprises, “unacceptably low levels of minority, low-income, English Language Learners, and special education students are graduating from high school.”

This is true for 29% of African American students, 25% of Hispanic students, 39% of students who have limited English proficiency, and 27% of low income students (as shown on Ed.gov). Edtech and Elearning 2016: Top 200 Influencers and Brands. Lesson Plans. Octalysis: Complete Gamification Framework. (This is the Gamification Framework that I am most known for. Within a year, it was translated into 9 different languages and became classic teaching literature in the gamification space in the US, Europe, Australia and South America.) Gamification of Education. Lifelong Kindergarten.

Music Specific Technology and Apps for the Classroom

Scratch and Makey Makey. Educational Apps. Coding and Game Design. Flipped Classroom. Google Hangouts & Google Plus. Edutopia - Formative Assessment. I thought I could read my students' body language. I was wrong. As an experiment, I used Socrative when I taught binary numbers. What I learned forever changed my views on being a better teacher. Why Formative Assessment Makes Better Teachers Formative assessment is done as students are learning. Here's what happened in my classroom. "We've got this, it's easy," they said. I looked at the other students and asked, "Do you have this?

" Flippity.net: Easily Turn Google Spreadsheets into Online Flashcards. Stencyl: Make iPhone, iPad, Android & Flash Games without code. Games: Play & Create. Hands-On Apps for Diverse Learners. Using games to teach can increase student engagement and add meaning to learning. Hands-on apps give children the ability to mix tactile play with a digital experience. Thanks to augmented reality, more and more apps in the market blur the line between digital and analog. For example, Bloxels, new from Pixel Press, uses color-coded blocks that can be scanned in with an iPad camera to create a video game level.

Osmo is another digital/analog blend. Help and Support Center <! LittleBits Official Store. Swivl. 15 Uses for the Swivl. 7 Awesome Education Podcasts You Should Know About. Digital Storytelling on Blendspace. Encyclopedia Smithsonian. Encyclopedia of Earth. Socrative Space Race - Socrative Space Race.pdf. How to Screencast Your iPad. Capture Student Ideas with VideoNot.es & Google Classroom. 50+ Free Tech Tools For Your Classroom. What The Internet Thinks About - Interactive Infographic. Make Your Images Interactive - ThingLink. Connect Fours - Quiz Template from ClassTools.net. Teaching withTechnology Websites. App Smashing For Educators: Tools to Maximize Communication.

Web-based visualisation tools. How to Google like a boss - Become a master of Google search with these little-known tips. A Comprehensive Index to Educational Hashtags Teachers Must Know about. 20 collaborative Google Apps activities for schools. A Comprehensive Index to Educational Hashtags Teachers Must Know about. Teaching withTechnology Websites. Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. Create and share visual ideas online. 10 free tools for creating infographics. Bambuser - show the world. 100 Ways To Use Twitter In Education, By Degree Of Difficulty.

The Teacher's Guides To Technology And Learning. 10 Sentences that Teachers using Google Apps never hear...#ASCD15... Create and share visual ideas online. Best EdTech Websites of 2014.