Showing posts with label Google Drive. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Google Drive. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Sunday, October 12, 2014
Teaching Teachers
This past week, I set out to lead 11 of our middle school faculty through an afternoon of professional development. For me, it's always a little intimidating to stand in front of a group of teachers and teach them about teaching tools. Nevertheless, I surveyed the teachers before our session to get a sense of what they wanted to learn more about. I LOVE using the scale tool on Google Forms.
I had the teachers rate each topic and then I averaged their scores, and also looked at the mode, to see that I had selected the right sessions for our faculty.
In the end, I chose to offer three half hour sessions on five topics (yes, I repeated a topic.) Here is what happened. The teachers became so invested in their learning that most of them stayed with one topic the entire time. Who was I to say, "stop your learning and move on to something else?" Below I offer up the topics and tools our teachers explored.
I had the teachers rate each topic and then I averaged their scores, and also looked at the mode, to see that I had selected the right sessions for our faculty.
In the end, I chose to offer three half hour sessions on five topics (yes, I repeated a topic.) Here is what happened. The teachers became so invested in their learning that most of them stayed with one topic the entire time. Who was I to say, "stop your learning and move on to something else?" Below I offer up the topics and tools our teachers explored.
Thursday, May 22, 2014
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
Thursday, May 8, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/09/2014
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An alternative to Hapara.
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Maker meets PE? You decide.
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- There are a few things in this world that will help you be an effective teacher. There’s hard work, loving what you do, and an attention to detail.
- These ideas are broad and simple but useful.
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Intriguing site lets students or teachers read along to stories with audio, movie-style soundtracks or create their own soundtracks for creative writing assignments. Includes a few sample lesson plans for using the site with elementary, middle, or high school students.
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Site lets users create interactive maps of any location. Users add pins, then share stories or information, images, etc. Could be a good tool for students learning about historical places, local communities, etc. Also a good tool for writing short expository texts.
Monday, April 28, 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.
Monday, April 21, 2014
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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Monday, March 31, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/01/2014
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Great chart for applying Bloom's taxonomy with focuses on key words, actions and outcomes.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/26/2014
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Online poster creator.
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Flip teaching report indicates a positive learning trend.
- Report: Interest in Flipped Classrooms Surpasses Other Digital Learning Trends -- THE Journal
Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
Saturday, March 22, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/23/2014
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Create a search engine for your students to use by limiting the websites that they can access.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/20/2014
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An approach to organizing research that's an alternative to note cards.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/08/2014
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Has specific links for English and Math.
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Cell animations for life science.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Thursday, February 13, 2014
Friday, February 7, 2014
Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/08/2014
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This is a plug-in for Google Earth and a way to look at historical maps.
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How to use Autocrat to create a mail merge in Google Docs.
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Possible lessons to use as Chandler implements GAFE.
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