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Are you learners learning about Farm LIfe? You might want to explore the resources om Farm Fun (developed from TeachersUsingTech). You can make a copy of the Google Slide presentation and use it with your students. While they suggest publishing it, I’m not sure that will work within our school domain. You can just use it in present mode for the same result.Immersive Reader is a Microsoft product that you will see popping up in other applications (Discovery Education, BrainPOP, and Wakelet to name a few). I’ve worked with a few classrooms and students love the reading function as well as the dictionary. For my ELL friends, there are many translation options. To see the review from TeachersFirst, please click here.
This site has a variety of resources Visit LD online. For a complete review from Teachers First, click here. Here are the highlights:
When you bill yourself as the world's leading website on Learning Disabilities and ADHD, you'd better prove it. LD OnLine does that and more. LD OnLine provides in-depth professional and parent articles, expert advice columns, forums, and disability/differences resources for parents and educators within this easily-navigated site.
While Discovery Education has a series of motivational videos, you might want to investigate Inspire my Kids. Here is the review from Teachers First:
Find inspiring, age-appropriate, real-life stories, videos, and projects to share with children and teens. The site hopes to help these students take positive actions and become the best people they can be. Stories offer great examples of values like courage, determination, honesty, humility, kindness, responsibility, and tolerance. The stories range from incredible kids inspiring other kids, to amazing animals demonstrating admirable qualities, to the invention of inspirational social causes. Stories are searchable in several ways - by values, topics, age range, and format. Formats include articles, podcasts, reference, and videos. You can also sign up for the site's newsletter including updates and new article information.
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TeachersFirst recently shared a series of Earth Science resources including Dynamic Interactive Earth. It is geared for grades 4-9. Here’s a brief review from TeachersFirst:
This is a yearly project sponsored by TeachersFirst- what a great way to talk about geography. Here’s their description (and the link):
Take your students on a virtual choose-your-own-adventure geography journey around the regions of the United States. Engage your students with stories about main characters Meri and Geo. Learn geography terms, see landmarks, and practice map skills.
There are many daily activities offered by Discovery Education ( and you don’t need to be a subscriber!). Please go here to view these resources.
This article from Julia Boudreau provided some straightforward suggestions to help students unbundle and evaluate media in all forms.
Storyboardthat has a wide range of poster and infographic templates. For access to an account, please see your media specialist.
Check with your Media Specialist for access information to Storyboardthat or click this link to learn more about their resources.. There is also additional information on my wakelet as wakelet.com/@bsdtechtips.
Like many Google tools ( Docs, Sheets, Slides) you can share the viewing rights. But not in Google Forms. If you add collaborators, they will be in edit mode- and since there is no comment feature, they may change your content. There is also no revision feature in forms. Please read her blog post for additional information and be careful.
Alice Keeler shares a brief video on reusing Google forms. This could be helpful when you are giving last year’s quiz or want to separate the data between your classes this year. Basically, you open the form and
Delete all responses (from the form)
Unlink the form (I liked her reference to a divorce)
Create a new spreadsheet.
Her message is not to copy the form.
From my Google trainer resources, here are two slide presentations (PayitForward and Jamboard resources and ideas) with Google Jamboard suggestions.
Search for these titles to celebrate Digital Citizenship Week with BrainPOP (10/18-22).
Alice Keeler shared her top suggestions for working with Google Docs. This is something to think of while you are introducing Docs to your students.
This afternoon, I attended an EdWeb seminar with Kathy Schrock on inventiveness in the classroom. You can go to EdWeb to see the recording. Kathy shared her website which includes a wide variety of resources (processes, tools, and apps),
Here are some reflection Jamboard templates (from Holly at Infused Learning). Just use the 3 dots to create a copy- here’s her description:
Resource 2: Copy-and-Use Templates - See the 20 Jamboard Templates
Once you have the research in hand, what do you do with it?
That's where these pre-made templates come in handy. They help you put theory into practice.
This is a pack of 20 Jamboard templates on reflection that you can start using right away with students. Make a copy. Adjust. Then assign. They include:
Stop Start Continue: A way for students to evaluate their work
Struggle / Work at / Good at: A three-part self-evaluation
Reflection questions: Including "Where can I improve my learning?" and "What are my learning strengths?"
