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- Find this free five-part Series, Twitter 101: An eCourse for Educators and Parents, here (8). Below is an overview of what participants can expect to learn.
Part 1: The Basics (9)
Part 2: The Language of Twitter (10)
Part 3: Registration & Interface Overview (11)
Part 4: Sending a Tweet (12)
Part 5: Finding People & Resources, Taking Control of Your Own Development
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/01/2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/27/2014
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- App Smashing. . . the process of using multiple apps in conjunction with one another to complete a final task or project.
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/23/2014
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Commonly used scripts for Google Drive.
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Three activities you can implement tomorrow.
Guacamole is more enlightening than you think
I teach a cooking elective every Tuesday. It's called Farmers' Market Meals and while we don't have time to visit the market every Tuesday, I try to have the students make food based on ingredients that can be found in a California farmers' market. Today, we made salsa and guacamole and I was surprised at how invested the students were in the process of making and tasting the food. They were each chomping at the bit to help chop, dice and mix. They were even willing to clean up! Everyone took turns cutting up the veggies and mixing them together. Once we sat down to taste our dips, they decided that the guacamole needed more salt and lime.... and something else. What else did it need? It was at this point that they each began sharing their own families' recipes. They concluded that it probably needed more tomato and onion.
Now this isn't a traditional class, but here was a class pursued in a somewhat untraditional school activity and they were using an iterative process to determine how they could have made their guacamole even better. If students could literally taste the fruits of their labors, I wonder how much more they might be invested in some of their work?
Now this isn't a traditional class, but here was a class pursued in a somewhat untraditional school activity and they were using an iterative process to determine how they could have made their guacamole even better. If students could literally taste the fruits of their labors, I wonder how much more they might be invested in some of their work?
Monday, April 21, 2014
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/20/2014
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These sites allow collaboration when Google isn't an option.
Friday, April 18, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/18/2014
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A quick visual on how to read a tweet.
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Type in a URL and see how it relates to other sites.
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Professional development courses that span all subjects and grade levels. Courses range from 1.5 hours to 45 hours.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/17/2014
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Flip teaching that matches with math standards.
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This is a PDF of iPad apps by subject and grade level.
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Good presentation on how 21st Century Learning is reflected in tech tools.
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21 Day Challenge to jumpstart learning of Google.
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Digital portfolio defense
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Interesting tool for creating lesson plans, presentations and projects.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/16/2014
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Interesting videos and worksheets on topics relevant to teens.
Monday, April 14, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/15/2014
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- During the first Earth Day (1) in 1970, tens of thousands of Vietnam War protestors took to Central Park in New York and Fairmount Park in Philadelphia calling for peace on earth.
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/12/2014
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Suggestions for how to create a Personal Learning Network and thereby give yourself a constant stream of PD.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/09/2014
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This tech tool allows teachers to write out questions for students to respond to with videos. This would be a great resource in a foreign language classroom.
Monday, April 7, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/08/2014
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Northwestern will help you complete experiments that you can't do at your own school.
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/03/2014
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- Ten thousand is the number of hours it takes to become an expert in almost any field.
- the most important part of that research is not how much practice someone needs to perform, but what kind of practice
- This latter category is called deliberate practice and involves isolating what's not working and mastering the difficult area before moving on.
- Picture a classical violinist rehearsing. He or she would not play a new piece start-to-finish, fudging through tricky sections and trying to "be done." That musician stops in trouble spots, figures them out, and then plays that measure over and over again, and only moves on when it's perfect.
- students don't think about their mistakes rationally -- they think about them emotionally.
- Academic success does not come from how smart or motivated students are. It comes from how they feel about their mistakes.
- By the time students walk into your classroom, they've likely already internalized their mistakes as evidence that they're just not smart.
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This site showcases new blogs each month based on their content.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
Digital Citizenship as Understood by Sixth Graders
This year Chandler's middle school launched a digital citizenship class to support our students in their online decisions. For this class, we tasked sixth grade students with crafting a piece of digital media about a digital citizenship theme to share with their parents. Below are a few public service announcements made by the students along with a website created by three boys. Enjoy!
Online Privacy
Password protected (email me for the password)
Digital Footprint/Tatto
Social Media
Communication
Cyberbullying
Online Privacy
Password protected (email me for the password)
Digital Footprint/Tatto
Social Media
Communication
Cyberbullying
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