Add Images into Google Forms. There is GREAT news!! You can now insert an image into a GOOGLE FORM!!! Create your new form and go to "INSERT" on the toolbar and pull down to IMAGE! Now the sky is the limit! Add images! You can even add QR codes as images if you want like this one: Another way of adding an image is by clicking the arrow next to the ADD ITEM button as pictured below: Imagine the possibilities with Quizzes that you create for students. Evernote: Much More Than a Note-taking App - Learning by Innovating and Integrating. Technology Integration in Education - Facilitating the Use of Technology in the Classroom.
Technology Integration in Education. Education Blogs: Teach100. What's Happening? Ready to share some STEM Capers at this event! On an energy scavenger hunt! 7th graders work in teams to deepen their understanding of energy conversion. Knox Middle School 8th graders work as Disease Detectives solving outbreaks! Students compared a variety of water samples to determine the concentration of particles contained in each sample and how they might affect the quality of water. Partners collaborate as they determine the pH of their unknown water sample while deducing the types of organisms that might thrive in that environment. 8th graders at West Rowan Middle School hunt for macro-invertebrates during their water quality lab. Students are stronger when they collaborate and solve problems together. Problem solving can be challenging and fun! Second graders learned how to use several science tools during their investigation of matter.
Mr. Faith Elementary's 2nd grade worked with temperature probes to better understand transfer of energy. A cool physical change on a hot day can be fun! TLTF ATL 2013. Techchicktips.net. Teach2Connect | Learn. Teach. Connect. I am thrilled that for the first time in many years I will have the entire month of July off from school. When I’ve been asked “what are you doing this summer?” My response has been “read, sun, and pack. “We are moving a few miles away in August so that is why “pack” is an answer. We will lose our access to an outdoor pool when we move so that explains the “sun” element. And I think to goes without saying the “read” is the piece I will most relish. I’m never not reading but to have the time to read a lot and deeply is a very exciting prospect. So what shall I read? Professional Reads Mindset, Carol Dweck I started it months ago and put it down for Lean In, but I am fascinated about how this book can help us re-think how we perceive ourselves, others, and our ability to learn.
Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner The children I teach are no the same as the children my teachers taught (aka, me). Now You See It, Cathy Davidson After hearing Dr. Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal I am not a gamer. Creative Class Starters | rajhill. You’ve planned an exciting lesson for tomorrow! You’re ready! But there is just one thing.
You are tired of the same ole same ole humdrum way to start class. You want to throw out daily grammar review and the test prep. Story Starter Give the students a lead in line using your favorite song lyric or a scary story starter.Concentration Review Have the students partner up with a game of concentration. Like this: Like Loading... DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: Tools and Technologies for Effective Classrooms. Tips, Tricks, Tools Archives | Always Prepped Blog Always Prepped Blog. This was taken from an infographic found here. However, we included direct links to Amazon for you, if you’re interested in purchasing a book or two (or three, etc.).
Below are the 51 best books for teachers: 1. The First Year Teacher’s Survivor Guide. Offers beginning teachers a wide variety of tested strategies, activities, and tools for creating a positive and dynamic learning environment while meeting the challenges of each school day. 2. Teaching with Fire. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 101 Great Classroom Games: Easy Ways To Get Your Students Playing, Laughing, And Learning. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 99 Ways To Get Your Kids To Love Reading: And 100 Books They’ll Love. 38. 39. TeacherCast.net: Educational Blogs, App Reviews, Podcasts, Screencasts, LiveBinders and Career Center. Technology Integration for Teachers - Home. Technology Integration for Teachers - Home.
Technology. Generating Work Flow in 1:1 iPad Classroom <img src=" class="headimg wp-post-image" alt="bmcldrev" title="" /> I’m finishing this first full quarter with the 1:1 iPad classroom but apps do not hold attention spans this time of year. With April, love springs to life in all of its awkward forms. Attention spans are diverted towards prom invitations and long looks out windows; lacrosse, melting snows on the softball diamond hold great appeal. Thus the last quarter begins with incentives and compromises to motivate students. I turn towards studies of current events and apps that generate discussion and negotiation, simplicity and possibility. <img src=" Flipping with Kirch. Best Websites from FETC 2013.
By Janet Pinto, Chief Academic Officer, Curriki The Florida Educational Technology Conference for 2013 was held this past week in Orlando, Florida. FETC is a leading K-12 education technology conference with an international reputation. Here are some of the best websites we learned about at FETC. You can find all of these listed together at: or at the individual URLs indicated below. Gapminder.org Gapminder is a non-profit venture – a modern “museum” on the Internet – promoting sustainable global development and achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals. Rubistar Rubistar is a free tool for creating rubrics.
Shelly Terrell’s Bringing Your Textbook to Life! NeoK12 This website offers free videos, lesson and games aimed at K-12 students. Carbon Like this: Like Loading... Techie Teacher. All about apps in YOUR classroom! - Home. Let’s Cut to the Common Core! Hi Friends! I’m just here very quickly to tell you about a new feature I’ll be starting on my blog called, Let’s Cut to the Common Core! I’m nowhere near being an expert on the Common Core; however, I WILL share any resources that I’ve found or made with all of you. All of the Common Core resources on my blog are linked to this button so that you can quickly find them. Today, I’m sharing some picture books I use to teach each first grade Common Core Reading Literature standard. These are not the ONLY books you can use to teach the standard, but these are ones I’ve found to work nicely. I also provided you with Common Core graphic organizers that go with each standard, as well. For a detailed list of all of the picture books I shared above, click on the link below.
What books do you use to teach the Common Core standards? iTeach. Top 20 LiveBinders you should not Miss. Digital bookmarking is a pivotal learning skill. It does not only allow you to organize your information into one single platform accessible from anywhere with an internet connection but can also help you in your professional growth. Web2.0 technologies have made it way easier for us to control and curate the content we come across online. I definitely believe that without the power of bookmarking we would never be able to manage the huge influx of information Internet provides.
I have already talked in a previous post about the benefits of bookmarking for us as teachers and learner and I said that bookmarking web tools: I am also recommending the following bookmarking tools for you : LiveBinder is one the best bookmarking web tools out there. Inquiry-Based Learning - About Us. Category: 1. Zondle learning games. Check out this video by the creator of Zondle... Zondle describes their app this way: "Zondle allows teachers to create or set questions that students can play in over 40 games".
These games have been created with serious brain research in mind to create the maximum learning for the fun (you can actually read the research on their website if you are so inclined). Teachers can monitor and "grade" their students through a class management window. In a nutshell, this is what I've been experiencing: The verbiage is British English so it sounds a bit weird in some places. It is primarily web-based but it does have android and iPad mobile versions with somewhat limited capability. The Fuzzball Fling (think Angry Birds) is my students' top choice of game. While they are described as appropriate from pre-K to Higher Education. There is an Edmodo Zondle-users group at this link and a Google form for suggesting changes.
By far, my best experience with Zondle has been using the Team Play option. Before You FB, Instagram, Text, Tweet or Blog: THINK. As a reminder to stop and think before posting something on Twitter, FB, via text, or blogging. With the recent popularity of Instagram {which I big puffy heart love!} I decided it was time to update it! Before You Fb Txt Tw or Blog2 I also made them into a page of bookmarks so you can easily share them with your students! Classroom Aid | Connecting dots for digital learning and teaching. Common Core Teacher Needs. Nice article from Vicki Phillips and Robert Hughes in EdWeek - "Teacher Collaboration: The Essential Common-Core Ingredient" that focuses on teachers.
It is time to stop the focus on policymakers and start helping educators figure out how to bring the standards to the classroom. "The new standards emphasize teaching fewer topics, but in greater depth, and focusing more on hands-on learning and dynamic student projects than traditional lectures. If students are to be successful, teachers must also encourage innovative assignments that require students to show their understanding, use their knowledge and skills to solve problems, create written and multimedia presentations, and complete real-world tasks. " We are spending all our time at the National Math and Science Initiative focused on bringing college readiness to students - and right now, that means creating common core training and resources for teachers.
Common Core State Standards only succeed if we all succeed in providing. Forms - Kern Kelley. Google Form Templates If you are logged into your Google Account, these form templates will automatically copy into your Google Docs Dashboard. Many of the forms are designed to work with an iPod Touch. For more information about educational uses of that device, go to Test and Quizzes Self Grading 10 Question Multiple Choice Quiz - Provide a link to this form or embed it into a website. This template scores the answers as soon as students complete the quiz.Self Grading 20 Question Multiple Choice Quiz - Provide a link to this form or embed it into a website. Administrative Forms Professional Performance Evaluation - Teacher observation form that the administrators can use.
Miscellaneous QR Code Generator - Creates QR Codes from URL's collected in a from.Science Fair Judging Form - This is the scoring form used in a middle school science fair.Story Board - Used by student groups to write and produce a video project. Simplified Technology Linda Burkhart. Common Core Conversation. 10 MORE Things NOT to do in an iPad 1:1 Initiative « Trying to be a mobile Djay At the end of last school year I reflected on the 10 things NOT to do in an iPad 1:1 program. I was blown away with the amount of responses and views the post got from all over the world.
It seems that it was at the right time, and right moment for districts out there planning on entering the Fall with a new 1:1 implementation. That said, it’s almost too late by that point to make real swift changes to your implementation. I felt assured we had ferreted out all the little details that make things go astray during this process and hoped by providing a list of the 10 things, other districts could learn from our mistakes. Since that article, we have now collected the student iPads, re-distributed them, rented them out over the summer, distributed them to the rest of the high school, all the 8th graders, and now 2 grade levels at each elementary.
Needless to say, we’ve learned a WHOLE lot more about both what to do and what NOT to do. 1. 2. Our Elem iPadStations 3. Digitally Enhanced Classroom by Megan Huss. Edte.ch. My Reflection on #28daysofwriting February 28, 2015 – 4:23 pm It was in about early January when I began to mull over the idea of getting back into a writing habit.
I wanted to renew the discussion and connectedness I enjoyed through my blog and get myself writing regularly again. The #28daysofwriting idea sprang from that desire. What Makes People Creative? February 27, 2015 – 9:10 pm When you start to explore the literature around the definition of creativity, or what it means to be creative, the lists and references go on and on.
Convene your Classroom Creative Council February 26, 2015 – 9:28 pm During some research on Thomas Edison I stumbled on the fact that he deliberately surrounded himself with a diverse range of expertise in order to generate new thinking and ideas, a creative council. Education Suffers from a Lack of Knowledge Urgency February 25, 2015 – 10:26 pm My EDtalk Interview from ULearn14 February 24, 2015 – 8:27 pm. Kevin Honeycutt. Learning Resources. Dangerously Irrelevant. Life-Long Curious. InTechEd.org. TECH WITH TIA. Courtney L. Teague | Educator, Speaker, Neuro-diversity Advocate, Technologist. Classroom organization LiveBinders Shelf. Literacy Graphic Organizers. Borupcommoncore - home. Kleinspiration. EdTechSandyK. Cool Cat Teacher Blog.
15 Tips For Creating Movies in Your Classroom | Teach With Video. Infusing Technology In A Bilingual Classroom...written by Martha Lackey. Twitter For Little Folks. Teach This! Teaching with lesson plans and ideas that rock 10/07. Erin Klein (erinklein) on Pinterest. School Signs. Informational Literacy Unit - Post Revised. - Home. Sites For Geeky Teachers - Brom Online v3.0. Edgalaxy - Cool Stuff For Nerdy Teachers - Edgalaxy: Where Education and Technology Meet. Tech Integration Ideas with Jen Legatt.
Tina's Teaching Treasures. Webinars. 12 Most Judicious Ways to Learn Online. Stemmy's Favorite Sites. App. Back to School: Best iPod/iPad Apps to Start the Year! 50 Must-See Teacher Blogs Chosen By You. Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher | Blended Learning and Technology in the Classroom. Emerging Technology and K12 Education. Iteachyoucomputers - home. TeachPaperless. Edtech411 - EdTech Information from Hoke Wilcox. Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything - Home Page.
20 Little-Known Web Resources For Teachers. The Daring Librarian. Education Dreamer. Academic Learning Coach - Home Ideas Blog. Teaching like it's 2999. How to Turn Your Classroom into an Idea Factory. Technology Chatter — technology integration collaboration. Flipped classrooms: Let’s change the discussion SmartBlogs. Discovery Education's YouTube Channel - great stuff here for free. Why bother with #BYOD? « Learning Activist. 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning | K12 educational transformation through technology. Digitalsandbox - Digital Sandbox. BYOT Network. eThemes. Wwwatanabe. How Educators Are Using Pinterest for Showcasing, Curation. It's the Pedagogy, Stupid: Lessons from an iPad Lending Program.
Who Makes the Rules in a Classroom? Seven Ideas About Rule-making - Teacher in a Strange Land. The Teacher’s Survival Kit for Lesson Planning! Tips & 1000s of Free Lesson Plans. How To Kill A Learner's Curiosity In 10 Easy Steps. Using @Evernoteschools for Lesson Planning. MattBGomez Home.