Paperless Is Not A Pedagogy
Creative Project Ideas with Matthew Farber Matthew Farber (author of “Gamify Your Classroom“) shared with me a project his student did using Bitmoji’s to represent the story of Jamestown. This project hits many of the things I value: Integrates technology, not just uses tech. Uses real things that students can relate to. Provides choice. Allows students to…
Fun and learning come together with Storyboard That. This application allows you or students to create comic strips, storyboards or graphic organizers. Clearly communicate ideas through graphics is a great way for students to demonstrate their learning. Create I love students CREATING things. Students can easily get started using Storyboard That to create scenes that…
Bring Current Events to Your Students with Newsela Newsela brings current events into your classroom. Newsela takes current news articles and changes the readability based on lexile level. New articles are provided daily at 5 different reading levels. Students can take assessments based on the news articles. Google Classroom Providing links to news articles through Google…
If you want some ideas for EdTech tools that teachers are using here is a list of tools you might want to try. The list is crowdsourced so if you have a favorite tool please add it to the list. If you have ideas for how to use a tool please add in teaching ideas….
I had a nerdy moment at #SXSWedu this week. Walking to the Edutopia meetup I asked directions from a woman near me. Turns out we were going to the same event. After a little chatter she reveals she is THE Lynda from Lynda.com. I had to get a picture with her. Lynda If you are…
I have received several tweets about how cumbersome it is to have students work with PDF’s in a digital format. I am going to be blunt, uploading your worksheets to PDF’s and putting them online is not a 21st century lesson. This is substitution on the SAMR model. It is a pain to manage digital worksheets….
Click Here to link to the Google Drawing of the poster. In teaching English Barton Keeler started using Schoology for discussions after Catlin Tucker mentioned this is what she uses. In order to have successful discussions Barton noticed that he needed to provide the students with requirements. Students tend to want to answer “good job” or other…
Animated GIF’s are pictures that move. These are great for education because you can embed an animated GIF into your webpage that demonstrates a skill you want students to do. Since it is an image file and not a video it automatically plays and it loops. The looping demonstrates the skill to the student over…
Modern teaching is not about delivering content, most content is available via YouTube, a book or a website. Teaching is about building relationships. I was really excited to see the announcement by ClassDojo that their new app is all about that. www.classdojo.com/learnmore The app can be downloaded for free on iTunes or Google Play.
You might be surprised how handy knowing a few HTML tags might be. Here are a few tags that will help you to make your use of Web 2.0 tools a little less frustrating. What is HTML The web is coded in HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). For the most part you do not realize…
If we want students to care about their learning and to retain their learning we need to give them a reason to care about what they are learning. Because it is a state standard, because it is on the test or because they can build a bridge with it are in my opinion all terrible…
Socrative is a free, online student response system that allows the user to access a teacher created quiz or question with any device. It is a quick and easy way for a teacher to assess their class, take a quick poll or just check for understanding. Recently, they have added additional features that give the…
ClassDojo teachers can now collaborate to improve student skills and behaviors Guest Blog Post by Manoj Lamba With ClassDojo’s newest features, students build important skills across all of their classes and grade levels ClassDojo — the popular behavior and skills development app used by millions of teachers around the world — today released a new…
When using an LMS or other Web 2.0 tool to embed images, tables or YouTube videos you may have noticed that sometimes you are unable to get underneath the item you just inserted. This is where it can be handy to learn a little HTML. HTML is the code that dictates what the website looks…
On more than one occasion I have heard someone say that one way to tell if a site is reliable is if the website ends in .gov, .edu or .org. Certainly dot gov and dot edu are more likely to be reliable, the general public is not able to purchase those domains. However, this is…
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