Digital Gallery Walk

Matt Miller (Ditch That Textbook) shares an easy way to integrate movement into digital activities.  Please see his blog post here.

Feedback with Google Classroom

Kasey Bell (Shake Up Learning) recently shared four ways to improve your feedback in Google Classroom.  You can click here for her post. I think one of the most effective tips is to delay the grade until the students have read and responded to your comments.

Looking for Kindness ideas?

TeachersFirst highlights a series of Kindness website.  Please click here for the highlights.

Screencastify

I’ve been playing around with this application and it is probably the easiest screen recording app I’ve used. Matt Miller (from Ditch That Textbook fame) recently shared a slew of ideas on how you could use Screencastify with your students.

More Scrambled SOS

Spotlight On Strategies: Change It Up! Scrambled Please

Welcome to a special SOS Top Ten series called Change It Up. For years you’ve told us the best part of the SOS is their adaptability for use across grade levels and content areas.

In this series, we take tried and true Spotlight on Strategies (CDN Version) instructional ideas and share ways to adjust or adapt for your classroom.

We’d love to know what your favorite adaptations are; visit the DEN Online Community to share more ideas!

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Change It Up:

Strategy: Scrambled Please (CDN Version)

Big idea: Provide students with a fun and challenging way to sequence ideas, 

events, or steps.

Materials: copies of any text that progresses in sequential order (e.g., reading 

passages, speeches, historical documents, mathematical or scientific 

processes) with the last paragraph(s) of your chosen text removed 

and cut into pieces.

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In language arts…

… ask students to analyze and put into sequence excerpts of a text or 

video transcript they are studying.

… have students practice using sequence words such as first, next, and 

last as they put portions of a text into the correct order.

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In mathematics…

…. ask students to view a media selection that introduces problem-solving 

strategies and then provide them with a multiple-step word problem that 

has been cut apart. Ask students to work with a partner to reorder the 

problem and then see if they can correctly solve it.

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In science…

…introduce students to a new unit of study by giving them steps of a 

science experiment that have been scrambled. Ask them to work 

together to read, analyze, and put the steps of the experiment into the correct order.

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In social studies…

…assess what students have learned about a period in history 

by asking them to first watch a related video segment and then 

correctly sequence the events.

Stanley Black and Decker Virtual Field Trip

Want a STEAM virtual field trip that is sure to inspire?  Register for this behind the scenes tour on Thursday, March 28 at 1 pm.  The date or time doesn’t work for you? All these event are archived and you can view on demand!  Please click here for additional information. Sponsored by Discovery Education.

ReadWorks and Illustrated Ebooks

ReadWorks has been a long time favorite of mine (I love to use their passages in many of my escape rooms) and now there is more to love.  Richard Byrne posted today about the new illustrated Ebooks available in ReadWorks. Please click here to read his post.

Move to the top in STREAM

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While I saw this post from Alice Keeler earlier in the week- the application

has just rolled out to our site today.  Now, in Google Classroom, you can

move things up in STREAM (just click on the 3 dots on the right and select

move to top!).

Linking in Google Slides

In keeping with the Choose Your Own Adventure stories, Matt Miller has shared his plans for linking Google Slides.  Please see his blog post here on Ditch that Textbook.

Choose your own adventure story

Richard Bryne recently shared a blog post using Google slides (and the feature that allows you to link to other slides in the story) to create choose your own adventure tales.  His complete post is here.