Check out these three tools I have been using to add visual appeal and increased functionality to my blended learning course. -@MrZachG 1. Embed an ELink Instead of posting link after link in a boring list, or spending hours uploading hyperlinked photos and then adding captions to them, use Elink! What is it? Elink is … Continue reading BLE Feeling Stale? 3 Kid Friendly Tools to Spice up Your E-learning Platform.
Education Rickshaw: Teachers Pay Teachers
Stephanie has been working tirelessly to get her products on Teachers Pay Teachers to be attractive and, more importantly, easy to use for teachers and students. Click on the badge above for access to our Teachers Pay Teachers products. Support fellow teachers that look to make a difference in the lives of our kids. - … Continue reading Education Rickshaw: Teachers Pay Teachers
Teachers: Put your plans in the cloud!
By @MrZachG Until recently, I was a teacher that preferred writing out plans by hand. This may have come as a shock to some that knew me and considered me to be "tech savvy", but I didn't care. The idea of constantly pulling up a new Word Document to awkwardly type in bullets for my lessons, … Continue reading Teachers: Put your plans in the cloud!
5 Reasons to Do Number Corner Every Day
By @SGroshell Number Corner is a 15 minute student-led way to start your math lesson every day. You can have students practice anything, depending on their needs at that particular time of the year. Right now, for my beginning of the year 2nd graders here’s what we do: Calendar Putting dates on the calendar, yesterday … Continue reading 5 Reasons to Do Number Corner Every Day
Keeping Kids Motivated With Dice
By @SGroshell Keeping students engaged in what they are learning is central to any successful lesson. When I started my Masters, I remember calculating in my head how many hours I was going to be teaching my students over the course of just one academic year. 180 x 5 hours = 900 hours That is … Continue reading Keeping Kids Motivated With Dice
XtraMath For Learning Times Tables
By @MrZachG One of last year's more profound PDs at my school was a book club on "Never Send a Human to Do a Machine's Job: Correcting the Top 5 EdTech Mistakes". In it, author Yong Zhao advocates exactly what the title suggests: That teachers should use technology whenever technology does the job better than … Continue reading XtraMath For Learning Times Tables
A Need for Explicit Discussions on Mindset, even in 2nd grade
By @SGroshell What is Mindset? Before I begin, I’d like to put in Carol Dweck’s explanation of her research on fixed and growth mindsets for anyone new to the idea. …students who believed their intelligence could be developed (a growth mindset) outperformed those who believed their intelligence was fixed (a fixed mindset). And when students … Continue reading A Need for Explicit Discussions on Mindset, even in 2nd grade
Back and forth argument on Twitter helps me rethink why we do what we do.
By @MrZachG Recently, this tweet came up on my feed. Teachers join the profession because they have a deep academic love of their subject. How can you teach before having studied it in depth? As I sometimes do when I am reading through Ed talk on Twitter, I responded by tweeting to the user my … Continue reading Back and forth argument on Twitter helps me rethink why we do what we do.
5 Things Not to Prepare for the 1st Day of School
Advice from a 2nd grade classroom By: @SGroshell Your classroom is incredibly important. Students will come to your door, make friends, and hopefully even learn a thing or two for the next 180 days in that room. In order for them to be successful, your classroom has to feel like a safe place. And to … Continue reading 5 Things Not to Prepare for the 1st Day of School
Tech Review: WordPress for Teacher Blogging
My first experience with blogging was back in 7th grade. My initial understanding of the purpose of a blog was to post poorly written love poems and hope that the my tortured soul would be heard. To my disappointment, it didn't actually seem like they were - although the tool I used then, Xanga, didn't … Continue reading Tech Review: WordPress for Teacher Blogging
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