App Smashing For Educators: Leveraging Tools To Maximize Communication

Parent-teacher communication has always been a cornerstone for success in education. For decades, schools have attempted to build and maintain this crucial bridge to lasting learning. Research shows that the stronger the connection between home and school, the greater the academic achievement can be for students. In socioeconomically challenged school districts, this correlation is magnified tenfold! Thankfully, there are new tools that all educators can leverage to easily maximize parent-teacher-student communication. Highly Effective Communication Tools Device-agnostic applications have been game changers in the field of educational technology. Smore, Kahoot! Each of these applications is a powerful tool by itself, but when “smashed” together, their value to teachers increases exponentially. App Smashing:The process of using multiple apps in conjunction with one another to complete a final task or project. Quizlet + Remind educreations + Kidblog (or any blogging application)

The Power of Twitter: Personalized PD At Your Fingertips | The Golden Age of Education Have you ever wanted to be in two places at the same time? Do you often feel as if you’re being pulled in three directions? In my roles as teacher, technology staff developer and father of four I frequently feel this way. Saturday was a good example of this as there were two education conferences in the NY Metropolitan area that I really wanted to attend, but family responsibilities prevented me from going to either of them. Long Island Connected Educators Summit 2015 (#CELI15) Teachers’ College Reading and Writing Project 88th Reunion (#TCRWP) Learning NEVER Stops on Twitter The awesome power of Twitter allowed me to participate in both conferences simultaneously while at my son’s snowy LAX practice. Six Take-Aways From My Personalized PD Session on Twitter: Six Signposts Prezi Presentation: Notice and Note: Strategies for Close Reading is an excellent book co-written by one of the keynote speakers at the TCRWP reunion. Like this: Like Loading...

Learning Doesn’t Stop At 3 O’Clock – Tools to Maximize Communication | Teachers Matter Learning Doesn’t Stop At 3 O’Clock: Four Reasons Teachers and Students Need a Class Blog Last March I received an email from my superintendent thanking me for my outstanding work. At first I was a bit confused. It was spring break and class was not in session. Four Reasons Teachers Need a Class Blog 1. 2. 3. 4. Click this link to access the Pearltrees collection of tools introduced in this post. Like this: Like Loading... About Lee Araoz K-12 Technology Coordinator, instructional coach, staff developer, speaker and author. This entry was posted in Uncategorized and tagged Classroom, Common Core, Ed Tech Apps, Education, Educational technology, Educators, ELA, Highly effective, Instructional Strategies, K through 12, Student, Teacher, Tech for Teachers.

The Best 8 Tools to Create Posters for your Classroom Today, we are sharing with you some great web tools that you can use to create your own posters and customize them the way you want. Check out the list below and share with us what you think of them. Enjoy 1- Poster My Wall This is one of the most popular web tools out there. 2- Befunky This is basically a photo editor that allows users to create posters. 3- Picassa This is a powerful free image hosting and editing tool. 4- Art Skills You can use the poster making wizard of Arts Skills to create engaging posters. 5- Muzy Thoughts This is a really cool web tool to use to create posters for your classroom. 6- Posterini This is an online web tool that lets you create posters with WYSIWYC interface. 7- Smore This is an ideal web tool for those interested in creating flyers. 8- Zeen Zeen is another great tool you should consider when thinking about creating engaging posters to use with your students.