So what does Yellowstone sound like?

How about an atlas with both images and sound?  That’s what you will find in Sounds of the Wild West- images and sounds from Montana’s four ecosystems.  For complete details, please see Richard Bynre’s blog post here.

What bird is that?

Since our out of the house time has been limited due to the quarantine, I think I’ve become more aware of nature around me.  On my early morning walks at the track, I think I am even beginning to recognize some of the more unique squires!  Birds have never been my strength-maybe this app from the Audubon society will help!  I found it in the blog post here from Richard Byrne.

The secret of happiness

Discovery Education shares a variety of resources (for the 7-12 graders as well as professional development) -

Put the proven power of sustainable happiness in your students’ hands with new resources from Discover Your Happy. An immersive digital lesson bundle and 3 activities encourage students to reflect on their own lives as they learn effective ways to implement the Six Sustainable Happiness Skills daily. (here is the educator site)

Google Classroom Reflections

For some of this, these past few months have been an immersion into Google Classroom.  Please see this blog post from Sarah Kiefer for some reflection ideas that might be helpful going forward.

Changing images in Google Slides

In this brief tutorial, Richar Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers) outlines five easy ways to customize your graphics in Google Slides.

I am a scientist

Want to help your middle and high school students connect with the scientists of today? Check out this blog post from Educational Technology Guy here.  There is a great description and free resources.

Digital Public LIbrary

Not only is this a great resource for online primary documents, but they also have primary source sets (by topic along with a teacher’s guide and for a variety of literature and history topics).  For a full description of the Digital Public Library, please see Richard Byrne’s blog post here.

New options for Screencastify

You now have new options to share in Screencastify (including EdPuzzle).  Please see Richard Bynre’s video here for directions.

Ideas for the end of the year

Creative Commons shares 30 suggestions for end of the year celebrations ( I know many teachers use Go Noodle- I didn’t know they had a celebration song!).  Some of the suggestions (i.e., Flipgrid) are not approved for use in the district.

Street View 15 favorite places

While catching up on webinars this morning, the Fifteen Favorite Street Views site was mentioned. It is a list that you could use to inspire your students ( Where would they want to go?) as well as encouraging their imagination. Was your favorite place on the list?

Library Of Congress Resources

The Library of Congress website has a variety of family-related resources.  Richard Byrne (Free Technology for Teachers)outlines it here.