5 Random Name Generators: The Modern Day Popsicle Sticks – TeachBytes Do you remember in elementary school when your teacher would pull a popsicle stick out of a jar at random with a student’s name on it? And that was the student who was chosen to read their story or feed the goldfish or go to recess first? Well, I still used popsicle sticks in my high school classroom. After all, it’s still the most fair way to decide which student is chosen! But, of course, being the owner of a blog called TeachBytes, I had to amp up my strategy to the 21st century. Here are 5 modern name generators: Gamification: Creating a Level Up for Your Students - Teacher Tech If you have thought about adding an element of gamification to your classroom, having students level up might be fun to do. How do you do this….. The answer is always a spreadsheet
English for Kids Is there anything wrong with this page? Let us know ↗️ Is there anything wrong with this page? Let us know ↗️ Badges How to: Using Your Classroom Rubrics to Design a Badge System Recently teachers and administrators have been asking us for ideas on how to go about implementing badges in their own schools. In this post, I’m going to describe two approaches for how to take existing classroom rubrics and design complimentary badge systems. This approach has several advantages: a significant part of the work necessary for designing the badge system has already been done in developing the rubric,teachers can continue to assess students with a proven rubric andthe badge system integrates well with the existing learning activities. Approach 1: Recognize Skills and Achievements
November 2017: Web-ulous tools, part 2 Back in March of 2014, my Kathy’s Katch blog post highlighted some of my favorite online tools– Google Docs Story Builder, Magisto, Pixiclip, Thinglink, and Narrable. Story Builder and Narrable are gone. Thinglink has expanded into the VR arena. Magisto is now a paid service. Pixiclip has stayed the same. Creating Badges with Google Sheets - Teacher Tech Thinking about adding badges to your class? There are many ways to award students badges including using Class Badges. If you would like to organize your own badges here is a system you may want to try that uses Google Sheets. Create a new spreadsheet in Google Drive (
Photo Editor : Pixlr E - free image editing tool There are no images in your history. Please "Open Image" or "Load Url" to start editing or try editing one of the examples to the right. Open image TIP! If you want to keep a document then click the heart icon to pin it. What are digital badges? – Badgebox Learning Digital badge are mini-credentials, awarded after a process of assessment which may be used to guide, measure, recognize and communicate learning. In school settings, digital badges might be called “alternative assessments.” Badge are awarded upon successful completion of tasks or challenges which are really performance criteria. The tasks can be designed, through authentic learning experiences, to evidence understanding of the performance objectives which could include specific knowledge and/or skills.
Three Random Name Selectors If your students are like mine, at one point or another you've asked for volunteers and not had any students raise their hands. In that situation using a random name selection tool is an easy way to choose students to call on. And for those times when all of your students raise their hands for something fun like being the line leaders, the a random name selector is a convenient tool to have at your disposal too. Here are three good random name selection tools. Team identifies hidden clues to ancient supercontinents, confirms Pannotia An Ohio University geologist who first proposed the now-accepted supercontinent cycle theory in the 1980s has rallied to the cause of one of those supercontinents, Pannotia, that is in danger of being overlooked. Dr. Damian Nance, Distinguished Professor of Geological Sciences, said the supercontinent cycle is known to have had a profound influence on the course of Earth history and the evolution of its oceans, atmosphere and biosphere, and is now thought to be, in addition, the dominant influence on the circulation of the Earth's mantle, even fundamentally affecting the behavior of Earth's magnetic field.
Zoom Meeting Activities For Distance Learning in Kindergarten Finding Zoom Meeting Activities That Work When a parent shared that their child didn’t want to join the Zoom meetings, I was crushed. I took it very personally and immediately reached out to a friend for help, hoping she might have some Zoom meeting activities that would prove to be more engaging. Her response was, “Holding a kindergarten Zoom meeting is like herding kittens in a catnip factory.” Digital Badges: Examples, Ideas and Info So who is actually using digital badges for kids and schools? here are some examples (see below for ideas specifically for the Research Study): Fonticharo, K. and Elkordy, A., “Getting Started with Digital Badges,” Fall 2013 MACUL (Michigan Association of Computer Users in Education) Journal: ; scroll to find article.
Avatar : 8 outils en lignes Avator tools are like the comic tools I have covered in an earlier post before, they both involve the use of images but in a funny and joyful way. Of course these tools can be used for a variety of educational purposes with our students in the classroom. Let us first see what is an avatar ? An avatar is a figure or character that you can create and customize the way you want. You can use this character to interact with other friends online . Users have the full control of what they want to feature for example the kind of background, accessories, clothes...etc