How To Use Google Drive and Evernote To Create Digital Portfolios. The following post is written by Greg Kulowiec & Beth Holland from EdTechTeacher. You can hear them both present at the April 10-12 EdTechTeacher iPad Summit in Atlanta! As iPads proliferate in schools around the world, and students as well as teachers create more and more content, questions about what to do with all of those learning objects have arisen. In other words, how can we curate this content into portfolios for assessment as well as reflection. Portfolio Curation with Google Drive Source: The Verge With recent upgrades to the Google Drive app on the iPad, it is now a viable solution for student portfolios that can be created in their entirety on iPad. Everything that is created by a student can be uploaded directly to their Google Drive account and into a “Portfolio” folder that can then be shared with any one of their teachers.
The Google Drive app now allows for the creation of Documents, Spreadsheets, and Folders. Using Portfolios to Make Connections with Evernote. How To Start Using Google Apps In Education. As teachers, our plates are perpetually and impossibly full. The idea of adding one more component – such as incorporating technology into instruction – can seem daunting to say the least. In my own attempts to incorporate technology into my practice, Google has been the most valuable tool I have found thus far. Not only does it increase my ability to organize my instructional tools, but it also allows me to incorporate more technology when I feel ready to do so. Why use Google Apps? Google provides a multitude of Apps that can be accessed through multiple mediums – computer, smartphone, or tablet.
These apps are all free and come with varying levels of privacy ranging from completely public on the web to limited only through sharing with specific contacts. So how can I use Google Apps in my teaching? To showcase the management advantage of Google Apps, I will highlight an example of how I use Google Apps in my own instruction. Maybe not right now… The Partnership for 21st Century Skills. The Critical Thinking Consortium - Home. Text Complexity Rubrics. Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. The Library of Congress Manuscript Division, Library of Congress and Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress Search by Keywords | Browse Narratives by Narrator | VolumeBrowse Photographs by Subject | Browse All by State Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves.
These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection is a joint presentation of the Manuscript and Prints and Photographs Divisions of the Library of Congress and includes more than 200 photographs from the Prints and Photographs Division that are now made available to the public for the first time. Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers | PARCC. Common Core Video Series. Education Commissioner John King, David Coleman and Kate Gerson explain every key aspect of Common Core standards in depth. By viewing this 15-part series, New York educators and administrators will learn step-by-step how to implement the Common Core for ELA/Literacy and Math in their schools and classrooms.
You’ll also gain a deeper understanding of the rationale behind the Common Core and what it will mean for students across our state. Produced in partnership with NYS PBS stations WCNY/Syracuse and WNET/New York City, the series illuminates the Common Core through conversations between Commissioner King, a former high school social studies teacher and middle school principal; Coleman, a contributing author of the Common Core State Standards; and Gerson, a Senior Fellow with the USNY Regents Research Fund and a former high school English teacher and principal.
Viewing the Videos The Common Core videos can be viewed online or downloaded from the links below for offline viewing. A Brief Life of Fitzgerald. The dominant influences on F. Scott Fitzgerald were aspiration, literature, Princeton, Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, and alcohol. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, on September 24, 1896, the namesake and second cousin three times removed of the author of the National Anthem. Fitzgerald’s given names indicate his parents’ pride in his father’s ancestry. His father, Edward, was from Maryland, with an allegiance to the Old South and its values. Edward Fitzgerald failed as a manufacturer of wicker furniture in St. During 1911-1913 he attended the Newman School, a Catholic prep school in New Jersey, where he met Father Sigourney Fay, who encouraged his ambitions for personal distinction and achievement. In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, near Montgomery, Alabama.
Fitzgerald quit his job in July 1919 and returned to St. In the fall-winter of 1919 Fitzgerald commenced his career as a writer of stories for the mass-circulation magazines. F. Matthew J. How to Organize Digital Information: Web sites, blogs, and more. “The flood of data on the Web has reached mind-boggling proportions.” (NPR, 2010) So many websites, blogs, online newsletters … so little time. How can we keep up in the digital world? More importantly, how can we transform information into knowledge? What is Personal Knowledge Management (PKM)? The System to PKM The first and essential component to effective management of digital information is the system itself. Find the right tool or application to manage your digital content. 1) The Tool There are many tools to choose from for managing and sharing digital information, yet the selection of the tool is critical, it can make or break your system.
Pealtrees: I discovered Pearltrees, which is a fluid and intuitive tool that allows me to manage digital information easily. 2) The Knowledge – My Categories The image below illustrates my ‘trees’ which are the main topics or categories of interest to me. To expand a ‘tree’ I simply click on the circle associated with the category. Like this: How One Classroom Actually Used iPads To Go Paperless (Part 1: Research) Last year, with a fearless group of 10th graders in Katrina Kennett’s English class at Plymouth South High School , we attempted to transform the traditional research process to a completely paperless one using a fresh new cart of iPads. As I have written previously about iPads in the classroom, our decision to use iPads did not start with iPads, it started with learning goals and objectives. We later determined that iPads would fit into the equation. The 4 Goals A few of the goals that we outlined prior to the research process included: - Students will crowd-source their research to a collective research group. - Students will incorporate varied media types into their research: web based text, traditional text, audio and video. - Students will work collaboratively with their teacher and classmates on their research and writing process. - Students will become proficient researching and writing in a digital environment.
Going Paperless – The Process “ Definitely keep doing this! Paperless_research_paper. Paperless Research Paper X iPads. Now that the iPad Cart in my building is up and running ( a process that was frustrating, confusing, annoying and ultimately rewarding ), it is time to start using the iPads in classrooms. Along with a colleague of mine, @katrinakennett, we are going to embark on a completely paperless research process with a 10th grade English class. The process will take place over a three week period and along with this initial blog post, I will be chronicling, blogging and reflecting on the process along the way. UPDATE: Ms.
Kennett will be blogging the process as well on her new iPad Research Blog. Before we start the process, we had a conversation about the goals of this research process and why iPads would be a good fit. I think it is critical to have this conversation when not only integrating iPads, but using any type of technology in the classroom. 1. 2. Keeping these two questions in mind, we outlined both the goals for the paperless research paper and how the iPads would fit into the process. How One Classroom Actually Used iPads To Go Paperless (Part 1: Research) The Paperless Classroom with Google Docs - EducationOnAir. Session Description The Paperless Classroom With Google Docs The Paperless Classroom with Google Docs! Google Docs makes it possible to create and share documents digitally. This is great for the classroom, but it can also be a management challenge if you have lots of students and lots of docs. Learn the best ways to share docs, properly use collections, create dropboxes for students, make handout folders for teachers, use comments to provide feedback and help students revise work, make use of the template gallery, and more.
Audience Suggested audience: AnyonePrior experience or knowledge: Beginners (new to this topic) Logistics Time: 1pm EasternSession hashtag: : #paperlessConference hashtag: #eduonair PresenterEric CurtsTechnology Director, Ohio Access To express interest in joining this session, comment on this session post on Eric’s Google+ Page and add Eric to your Circles.Please note that it is not possible for everyone to be part of the Hangout. How To Make Students Better Online Researchers. I recently came across an article in Wired Magazine called “ Why Kids Can’t Search “. I’m always interested in this particular topic, because it’s something I struggle with in my middle and high school classes constantly, and I know I’m not alone in my frustrations.
Getting kids to really focus on what exactly they are searching for, and then be able to further distill idea into a few key specific search terms is a skill that we must teach students, and we have to do it over and over again. We never question the vital importance of teaching literacy, but we have to be mindful that there are many kinds of “literacies”. An ever more important one that ALL teachers need to be aware of is digital literacy.
In the past, we spent a lot of time in schools teaching kids how to do library research, and how to use a variety reference materials like dictionaries, encyclopedias, microfiche, card catalogs, public records, anthologies, and other sources too numerous to recall. The real answer? 1. 2.
Storybird - Artful storytelling. Blogging. 'I like the fact that we are making stuff that people in Japan could read if they have a computer. It's like we're making ourselves famous in our little, out-of-the-way town! ' -- Megan, Age 10. 'Our student is genuinely excited to come home and show us what's going on at school. To read his own words and listen to his own voice on the Internet makes it all more real and fascinating for him. What are we doing? In collaboration with my colleague Mike Hutchinson, I have begun to introduce the tools of the Read/Write web to my students. How Do We Do It? We used the book Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools by Will Richardson as our technical manual.We use a program called Audacity ( to record our students. Why It Matters? Most importantly, podcasting matters because digital media and the tools of the 21st Century are rapidly becoming the primary method of communication and influence in the world.
Using Feed Readers It's not! Student Blogs. 100 Ways To Use iPads In Your Classroom. 10 Ways To Become A Better Online Learner 7.61K Views 0 Likes There are some quick and easy ways to become a better online learner. Whether you're taking a class or just researching, here are the DOs and DON'Ts. Failure Is Mandatory: Creating A Culture Of Innovation. The following post is written by Tom Daccord and Justin Reich of EdTechTeacher . Join EdTechTeacher at the iPad Summit in Atlanta on April 10-12. Progressive school administrators understand that teachers need room to explore and experiment to uncover ways to use technology effectively in the service of learning.
These administrators recognize that initial tech integration forays may fall short, or even fail, but they realize that experiences gleaned help build institutional knowledge of best practices. Ultimately, enhanced community-wide knowledge and understanding of tech integration practices reduces fears and uncertainties — at both an individual and school-wide level — and provides a foundation for growth. Strategy #1 – Remove the Fear of Failure As educators, we ought to encourage our students to take chances and risk failure.
Teacher fear of failure is pervasive and takes many forms, which together constitute a significant impediment to effective technology integration.
Harvard Education Letter. Volume 28, Number 4July/August 2012 By Robert Rothman Nine Ways the Common Core Will Change Classroom Practice, continued In a recent survey, William Schmidt, a University Distinguished Professor of education at Michigan State University, found some good news and bad news for supporters of the Common Core State Standards. The good news was that the vast majority of teachers have read the Standards and nearly all like them. Those teachers might want to take a closer look. In Mathematics 1.
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