As you continue planning "projects", this article titled "How to Guide Students in Self-Reflection During a Project" can be a great resource! Read more.
No more need for loom, screencastify, or screencastomatic! Chromebooks now have a Screencast Tool that includes automatic transcripts, annotations, and editing! Read more.
While the pictures are from elementary, these same steps are applicate in secondary classrooms too! Read more.
As we incorporate more Student Reflection and Progress Monitoring next year, Catlin Tucker's 3 Strategies that position students to take responsibility for their progress and behavior could be a helpful resource.
Here are my favorite finds from the TCEA (Texas Computer Educators Association) Convention…
Weave Silk (you can drag a color circle onto another and they blend, the faster your mouse moves the more it shows the 2nd color)
Color Mandala – very good for my symmetrical, organized brain!
Much less stressful than the traditional bomb countdown!
Along the lines of what our students need to be Future Ready… These are the principles that Amazon leaders focus on every time they meet and in every decision they make. A trainer from Amazon shared these and stressed how they guide everything they do.
Magic Shortcuts - So fun! Create a quick Canva presentation then when in presentation mode, play with these:
Present and Record - You can record yourself giving the presentation!
If you don’t have a FREE educational Canva account, click here.
Canva for Education also includes a Classroom so you can manage your students and see their work! Adding students also gives them access to all of the additional FREE Educational resources.
Creates a shortened URL for a short period of time. Great for sharing a URL with students when it’s just needed for that time during class.
Turns devices (phones, chromebooks) into a buzzer. Great for class review games!
Teacher: https://ccg.buzz/host/
Students: https://ccg.buzz/
KitCollab - students can create content; you can pull from it to use
Now the free account allows as many people as you want & includes basic game types
Wakelet is like Pinterest for education.
When creating a new board, select from several layout options.
Many types of items can be added to a Wakelet board.
Boards can be used as a template for students to add their own resources to
Boards can be collaborative for group work.
Ideas of use:
Backchannel during class
Keeping track of resources/research
Newsletters
Station work
Sub plans (example; great for subs who can’t log into Canvas)
Examples: Representation of Disability Through The Media and Fairytales, The 3 Branches of Government, Art in the Time of COVID-19, Digital Citizenship
Culture is built 30 seconds at a time.
Stand in halls during passing periods and talk with kids!
Congratulate students on accomplishments
Idea to build relationships:
Pull out your phone, open photos.
Find one to share and tell the story.
1 minute per person in pairs.
3 key findings that work with EdTech
Interactive learning
Use of tech to explore and create rather than to drill and kill
The right blend of teachers and tech
Catlin Tucker recently posted about the difference between playlists and choice boards. Both are great options for student voice and choice and control over pace in their learning and showing their learning! Read more.
TCEA recently shared Choice Boards for Active Learning in Math. Many of the examples are elementary and middle school but there is a Pre-calculus example that helps see how the idea can be modified for high school level courses.
Think of Wakelet as Pinterest on steroids with great educational applications! There is so much you can do with it. TECA recently posted 5 Ways to Encourage Critical Thinking with Wakelet. After looking over this article, take a few minutes to make an account and play around.
