Educational Resources & Tech Tools 05/09/2014

• Introducing Classroom for Google Apps for Education
  An alternative to Hapara.
  tags: google Google_Drive GAFEImplementation
• Makerspace @ The Tech: MaKey CollaboThon | The Tech Museum of Innovation
  Maker meets PE? You decide.
  tags: maker circuits
• The 27 Characteristics Of Highly Effective Teachers - Edudemic
  tags: teaching new teacher PD
  • 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.
• Booktrack Classroom - Teachers
  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.
  tags: reading English essay
• Jauntful
  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.
  tags: maps interactive maps Spanish travel guides

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 04/29/2014

• Create - TimeMapper - Make Timelines and TimeMaps fast! - from the Open Knowledge Foundation Labs
  tags: timelines history maps social studies
• Young Person's Guide to Arduino & Avocado Beginner Board by Mike R. Lopez — Kickstarter
  tags: coding arduino maker
• No, Not Everyone Needs to Learn to Code - But Here's What They Should Know | Gregg Pollack
  tags: coding
• Makerspace in a Box (tools only) | Maker Shed
  tags: maker tools
• This is How to Use Google Docs to Create Backchannels and Exit Tickets ~ Educational Technology and Mobile Learning
  tags: google docs backchannel exit ticket differentiation poll survey assessment web2.0

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/23/2014

• Presentations - Mark Hammons
  tags: digital presentations cue google
• Maps & Earth - Getting Googley
  tags: GoogleEarth google digitalstorytelling storytelling
• K-8 Intro to Computer Science | Code.org
  tags: coding programming code.org code computer science hourofcode
• How Google Search Works - YouTube
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  tags: google Google_Drive search search engine google search
• Google Custom Search Engine
  Create a search engine for your students to use by limiting the websites that they can access.
  tags: google gafe Google_Drive search search engine google search
• Gone Google Story Builder
  tags: google gafe Google_Drive StoryBuilder digitalstorytelling storytelling
• Alice in WonderTech: Validating Data in Google Forms - Truly Brilliant
  tags: google gafe Google_Drive forms edtech
• Haiku LMS : CUE STEM Presentation : Resources and Citations
  tags: STEM CUE backward design design

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 03/14/2014

• Google Maps Gallery
  Maps that span social and historical timelines.
  tags: maps Google Google Maps geography history social studies
• eduCanon
  This software allows you to pull videos from a variety of sites and then embed questions that can take the form of multiple choice, free response or even audio files.
  tags: Flipped classroom flip teaching interactivelinks differentiated instruction embedded content
• Want To Enhance Your YouTube Videos With Clickable Links? Here's How!
  tags: YouTube video editing interactivelinks technology howto differentiated instruction flip teaching flippedclassroom flipped
• Resources and Downloads for Differentiated Instruction | Edutopia
  "Resources On This Page: Lesson Plans & Rubric - Reteach and Enrich Tools for Data Assessment Culture Websites & Readings"
  tags: differentiated instruction differentiation edutopia
• Acts of Kindness | KindSpring.org
  tags: character education character kindness

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 02/08/2014

• David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
  This is a plug-in for Google Earth and a way to look at historical maps.
  tags: Google Docs maps historical maps Google Earth
• Ed Tech Coaching: AutoCrat: The Greatest Google Mail Merge Script of All Time
  How to use Autocrat to create a mail merge in Google Docs.
  tags: Google Docs autocrat mailmerge googleforms GAFE edtech
• Ed Tech Challenge
  Possible lessons to use as Chandler implements GAFE.
  tags: edtech educational technology EdTechChallenge google GAFE GAFEImplementation

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Educational Resources & Tech Tools 01/22/2014

• Buncee for Education
  Flip teaching tool that allows you to create interactive lessons. Check out their intro video as well as their archive of educational lessons.
  tags: flipped classroom flip teaching interactive flipped
• 26 Tips for Teaching with Google Apps | Google Gooru
  tags: google apps gafe google
• 40 more maps that explain the world
  tags: maps geography cartography infographics history social studies
• 21 YouTube videos that help make learning the Constitution fun
  tags: constitution history ushistory social studies youtube
• Q&A with Freeman Hrabowski: UMBC carving a singular niche in cyber, STEM education - Baltimore Business Journal
  STEM skills being practiced aren't just related to the subjects- collaboration and creative problem solving are big ones.
  tags: STEM steam
• Metta — Storytelling + Polling In One Compact Format.
  tags: flipped classroom flip teaching presentations

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