10 Digital Resources That Will Improve Your School Library. School had ended.
Yet, there was a mini EdCamp nestled deep in the library in Warwick, Rhode Island. 8 Classroom Apps To Try This Fall. Canada's leading, learning, and technology strategy consulting firm. Canada's source for Edtech news and events. Education Week. Teaching & learning with videos: interaction, flipped classroom, self directed learning. CHARACTER COUNTS!: The Six Pillars of Character: Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring, Citizenship. The Six Pillars of Character® The CHARACTER COUNTS!
Approach to character education doesn't exclude anyone. That's why we base our programs and materials on six ethical values that everyone can agree on — values that are not political, religious, or culturally biased. Lesson Plans for English Language Arts and Literature Based on Movies. Full Length Movies — Short Subjects — Movie Clips — Film Clips — Video Clips — Snippets Suggested ages are in brackets at the end of each entry.
Topcs relating to Social Emotional Learning appear after the term "SEL. " Moral-Ethical Emphasis is a reference to Character Counts' Six Pillars of Character. The terms "snippet," "film clip," "movie clip," and "video clip" refer to a movie segment which is less than 40 minutes in length.
"Short subjects" are complete movies which are also 40 minutes or less. 10 Life Lessons Worth Teaching Next Year. What should you be teaching?
Every class has standards and curricula to attend to, but we have so many options for teaching our materials. Creative instruction is important to maximizing learning for students and enjoying our classroom time as educators. What happens when we teach from a slightly different angle–when we layer our teaching with elements of social and emotional learning, empathy, creativity, analysis, and the arts, and consciously access the different learning styles? 10 Physical Education Resources For Schools. For some reason, I was back in my elementary school.
I was student teaching in a middle school, so being in an elementary environment gave me an entirely different lens with which to view learning. I watched the little groups of miniature people sitting at small desks listening to their teachers, smiling, buzzing around at times like little bees–so much energy. “Keep it up!” I wanted to say, “I don’t want to see you sleeping on a desk by middle school!” It seems that energy levels decrease by middle and high school. NoRedInk Wins Innovation Challenge; Launches Free Edmodo App. Exciting news from Education Nation this morning as NoRedInk, coached by Edmodo COO Crystal Hutter, won the 2012 Citi Innovation Challenge.
The challenge features three teams of young innovators from around the U.S. who compete in a series of trials. NoRedInk was recognized as the team with the best solution for improving education and was awarded $75,000 in this morning’s pitch competition at the 2012 Summit. Teachers with access to the latest version of Edmodo can install the newly launched NoRedInk app through the Edmodo Store. The app helps students improve their grammar and writing skills by creating content from their favorite celebrities, friends, and personal interests. 41 Apps One 4th Grade Teacher Depends On. Free File Sharing, Send Big Files, View Files Online. www.edu.gov.on.ca/elearning/pdf/BrochureELO.pdf. TubeChop - Chop YouTube Videos. Web 2.0 Tools For The Classroom.
Differentiate. AnswerGarden - Plant a Question, Grow Answers. Dotto Demo - Introduction to Evernote. Dotto Demo - Introduction to Evernote. Mailbox - First Look. 4 Things To Consider Before You Flip Your Classroom. The Flipped Classroom model is gaining momentum in classrooms around the world. Much has been said and written about the benefits and advantages of the Flipped Classroom throughout the year, so during the last three weeks of school I decided to experiment with this model of instruction and I flipped my math classroom.
10 Fun Tools To Easily Make Your Own Infographics. People love to learn by examining visual representations of data. That’s been proven time and time again by the popularity of both infographics and Pinterest. So what if you could make your own infographics ? What would you make it of? It’s actually easier than you think… even if you have zero design skills whatsoever. Below are my two favorite infographic-making web 2.0 tools that I highly recommend. Click the name of each tool to learn more! Visual.ly One of the more popular ways to discover infographics, Visual.ly actually just launched a design overhaul of their website.
Twitter for Teachers. Web 2.0 Tools For The Classroom. TenMarks. Within a few minutes of signing up on the TenMarks website, a teacher can create accounts for classes of students (who are only required to use their first name).
Based on the selected class grade level, TenMarks automatically generates a list of concepts and exercises that map to state and Common Core standards. Each concept is called an “album,” (“domain” in Common Core lingo) and within each album are “tracks,” which are problem sets related to that subject (“standards”). Teachers can create different “playlists” (compilations of albums and tracks) for students based on their progress. Work that #edtech! Jeff Dunn, Author at Edudemic. Education Technology Tips For Students And Teachers. You have never experienced a task manager like this! 4 killer apps for getting things done. The My favorite classroom management APP Collection by Stephane Lefrancq. Welcome to NoRedInk!
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