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5minds.gif (750×488) Sweet Search. Interactive Textbook Software from Evident Point. Swfapp/blooms/wheel/engage.swf. Home - Real Classroom Ideas. Techtips. 21st Century Icebreakers: 13 Ways To Get To Know Your Students with Technology. In honor of the start of a new school year, I am sharing one of my popular posts again with you with a couple of new additions!

21st Century Icebreakers: 13 Ways To Get To Know Your Students with Technology

On Monday I will begin my new job. As I’ve mentioned before, I will be working as a Technology Resource Specialist as well as teaching a couple of classes. As always, I am nervous and excited for the first day of school, and eager to meet a new group of students. As an educator, I often find myself repeating the same icebreakers each year, trying to quickly get to know my students through “Two Truths and a Lie” or a “Getting To Know You” fact sheet. In an effort to bring my own classroom to the present, I’ve put together a list of 13 icebreakers that use technology and fit with 21st century students: Have students create a Pinterest board with 10 pins that summarizes them.Ask students to create a 30 second podcast that introduces themselves. Have any other 21st century icebreakers?

Like this: Like Loading... School garden! Common Core State Standards Checklists for the Classroom. Our common core standards checklists are just what you need to help you keep track of the standards taught in your classroom.

Common Core State Standards Checklists for the Classroom

Use these to make sure you are addressing all that you need to teach throughout the course of the school year. Keep track of when you have introduced, retaught and assessed each indicator. The most important parts of the common core are the anchor standards that carry through from kindergarten to high school. These have been included with each language arts checklist so that you don’t lose sight of your essential goals for teaching and learning. ***Please keep in mind that this checklist is more to be used as a system of checks and balances in your teaching for the year and not so much a “check off” sheet for these indicators to be checked and thought of as “done”.

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Planbookedu - Three Ways to Create a Digital Classroom Library for Your Students. Walk into an English teacher’s classroom, and you might be able to guess how long they’ve been there.

Three Ways to Create a Digital Classroom Library for Your Students

Take a look at the classroom library. It takes time to collect hundreds of books for your kids to read, and veteran teachers have worked for years to amass those giant collections. Luckily, modern technology gives us an alternative: extend your classroom library with free eBooks. There are literally thousands of free eBooks available for your students to read, and with free apps your students can turn their smartphones or tablets into eReaders. The biggest logistical problem is turning that vast digital catalog into something more personal.

Today, we’ll look at three methods for creating and sharing a digital classroom library with your students. Option 1: Create a Simple List with Linkli.st There are a number of websites that allow you to create and share lists of URLs. You can create a list right from the homepage. Presto! Sweet Search. iPad Apps and Resources for Teachers. Print Free Fourth Grade Worksheets for Home or School. 100 Best YouTube Videos for Teachers (organised by subject) 35 Digital Tools That Work With Bloom's Taxonomy. Integrating technology in the classroom and engaging students in higher order thinking creates the ultimate learning experience for students. Bloom’s Taxonomy and digital tools creates an innovative learning environment where students are engaged in their assignments. The following is a list of digital tools as it relates to Bloom’s Taxonomy. 1.

Creating – In creating, students create projects that involve video editing, storytelling, video casting, podcasting, and animating. Digital tools to allow students to create include: Story Kit , Comic Life , iMovie , and GoAnimate.com , SonicPics , Fotobabble , and Sock Puppet . 2. For a sample lesson using digital tools with the levels of Bloom’s Taxonomy visit my post at: .

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