Monday, September 29, 2014
Thursday, September 25, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/26/2014
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Idea Springboard - Google Science Fair 2014
This website is a search engine for science fair projects based on student likes and interests.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Monday, September 22, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/23/2014
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21st Century Fluencies | Global Digital Citizen Foundation
- The 21st Century Fluencies are process skills that we all need, and there is as much benefit in cultivating them within yourself as within your classroom.
- Solution Fluency is the ability to think creatively to solve problems in real time by clearly defining the problem, designing an appropriate solution, delivering the solution and then evaluating the process and the outcome.
- Information Fluency is the ability to unconsciously and intuitively interpret information in all forms and formats in order to extract the essential knowledge, authenticate it, and perceive its meaning and significance.
- It is about using innovative design to add value to the function of a product though its form.
- Media Fluency.
- the ability to look analytically at any communication to interpret the real message, and evaluate the efficacy of the chosen medium.
- to create original communications by aligning the message and audience though the most appropriate and effective medium.
- Collaboration Fluency is team working proficiency that has reached the unconscious ability to work cooperatively with virtual and real partners in an online environment to solve problems and create original products.
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Friday, September 19, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/20/2014
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10 Tips for Delivering Awesome Professional Development | Edutopia
- when delivering PD to be one of a facilitator of learning. Your role is to guide this learning
- it takes two hours of planning (at least!) for every 1 hour of delivery.
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/18/2014
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With Tech Taking Over in Schools, Worries Rise - NYTimes.com
- the California bill prohibits companies from selling, disclosing or using for marketing purposes students’ online searches, text messages, photos, voice recordings, biometric data, location information, food purchases, political or religious information, digital documents or any kind of student identification code. The idea is to prevent companies from using information about students for any activity not intended by schools.
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Monday, September 15, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/16/2014
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3 Sites every teacher should try this year
Newsela is a current events site. Kahoot allows you to build games and assessments around a video. Tackk is a digital poster making site where the images can be shared via social media.
Friday, September 12, 2014
Thursday, September 11, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/11/2014
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Do Not Fear the "F" Word: Functions & Formulas
This presentation explains how to use functions and formulas in Google Sheets.
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Have students create profiles for characters from a novel.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Monday, September 8, 2014
Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/04/2014
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Helping Diverse Learners Succeed | Edutopia
- Today we know more strategies for helping all kinds of students succeed. But none of them can work unless we learn to "see out of ourselves through our cracks and into others through theirs," says author John Green
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How to Integrate Tech When It Keeps Changing | Edutopia
This article contains a number of resources to help teachers better familiarize themselves with the myriad of tools and ways in which they can be integrated.
- Meanwhile, those of us whose skills in tech integration are not quite Olympic class may find the SAMR model (Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition) more helpful for locating ourselves along the continuum of maximizing the transformational impact of technology. What won't work is waiting for technological change to stabilize.
- You'll never keep abreast of every technology innovation, so allow yourself to be a curious learner that doesn't know it all.
- Give yourself 30 minutes every couple of weeks to learn a new tech tool from Tammy's Technology Tips, Edudemic, Monica Burns' ClassTechTips, Kathy Schrock's Guide to Everything, Cybraryman's Teacher Tools, or Richard Byrne's Favorite Resources. Happy clicking!
- top education technology bloggers and ask their advice on social media
- "The time I spend helping my students to edit and refine their writing as they write is exponentially more valuable for them than the final comments I leave on their essays."
- For even more information on this topic, visit Edutopia’s Resources for Technology Integration.
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Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/03/2014
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The Student Tech Tools Collection by Drew Ackerson | edshelf
A dozen tech tools for classroom use. Some of them may only be used by students 13 and older.
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http://www.edutopia.org/pdfs/guides/edutopia-parents-guide-21st-century-learning.pdf
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Create group plans // Which Date Works // www.WhichDateWorks.com
This allows you to send out dates for meetings without a login. You choose which dates work and which ones won't. Then type in email addresses (it will remember them after they have been entered) and send. The only downfall is that it doesn't specify times.
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Happy Birthday YouTube! Tips and Tricks For Doing More With Our Favorite Video Service
This post includes some extensions and sites for using YouTube in a safer manner.
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Free Technology for Teachers: NEWSELA + Google Docs = Differentiated, Collaborative Reading!
"Though it is possible to create classes and push out content from within NEWSELA, by incorporating Google Docs, we can address the second challenge of allowing teachers to virtually be in multiple reading groups, and with multiple students, all at the same time. By disseminating the content to your students as a Google Doc set to Comment Only, you create collaborative, leveled reading experiences! "
- Though it is possible to create classes and push out content from within NEWSELA, by incorporating Google Docs, we can address the second challenge of allowing teachers to virtually be in multiple reading groups, and with multiple students, all at the same time. By disseminating the content to your students as a Google Doc set to Comment Only, you create collaborative, leveled reading experiences!
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Getting Started on Google Plus by @davidtedu | Teacher Tech
A presentation on how to get started with creating a Google+ Profile.
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http://www.instituteofplay.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/IOP_PrintPlay_SocraticSmackdown_v1.pdf
Monday, September 1, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 09/02/2014
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A Guide to Gluten-Free Baking - Gluten Free Girl and the Chef
- We also like ground chia seeds and flaxseeds in place of xanthan gum. In fact, these days, we grind up chia seeds and flaxseeds, combine them with psyllium husks in a jar, and pinch in a bit of this combination when we bake.
- Oh, and if you want to make some of our older recipes, before we edit them all to be in grams and without the gums, simply replace any xanthan or guar gum you see with an equal measurement of psyllium, ground chia, or ground flaxseed.
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Look at your grandmother’s recipe. Whenever it calls for 1 cup of gluten flour (or just, flour) substitute 140 grams of your favorite gluten-free all-purpose flour mix.
That’s it.
Let me make it easier for you.
1 cup = 140 grams
1 1/2 cups = 210 grams
2 cups = 280 grams
2 1/2 cups = 350 grams
3 cups = 420 grams
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