Idea Playground: Made by Janet BurnettJanet Burnett has put together some great resources that I highly encourage to click on and explore. They are easy to learn from and may very well peak your interest to start using soon in your classroom.
I have also started adding The Techie Teacher tips. She is awesome too! Janet Burnett Tips Giving Your Students a Voice with Technology Nearpod and Formative Assessment Study Jams Google Tools Mercury Reader smore Web Whiteboards EquatIO Flipgrid 5 Clue Challenge Kami Classroom Screen- sent to teachers 9/14 Google Maps Flippity Checkmark Extension Google Hangouts in Classroom Student Creation- Show What You Know Epic Techie Teacher Tips 5 Ways to Avoid Disasters When Collaborating in Google Drive Favorite Tech Tools for Communication and Collaboration Tech Tuesday Lessons |
Upcoming Tech Tuesdays
Innovation and Technology Tuesday
2:50pm - 3:30pm - Media Center Date Topic Overview Tuesday, August 8 Technology Help Bring your laptops and questions for Tammy, Jill and Tracy. Tuesday, August 15 Introduction to software available at GSES We will focus on software programs available at GSES. There will be a quick overview of programs with all the login information you need. We hope you can make it! (Veteran teachers are welcomed, too!) Tuesday, August 22 Google Classroom Bring your laptops and we will focus on how to start classes, explore options on how to use them and troubleshoot. Tuesday, August 29 Google Classroom and BYOT Follow-up for helping with Google Classroom. If you played and created and need more help, come this afternoon. We will also talk about BYOT and how to launch it successfully. Tuesday, September 5 Nearpod What it is? Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. How do I use it? Come and find out what it’s all about. Tuesday, September 12 Seesaw Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school and share it with their teachers, parents, classmates, and even the world. Come find out more about it. Tuesday, September 19 TBA Tuesday, September 26 TBA Tuesday, October 3 Breakout EDU BreakoutEDU is a game that will have your students thinking critically, problem-solving, troubleshooting, working collaboratively and having so much fun they won't even realize how much they are using their brains! Come check out how you can use this kit in your classroom! 2017-18 School Year 8/8/17- Open Forum- Let me and Jill help in any way we can to get your year started off on the right foot. Tech Updates for Jackson CountyNearpod - A new enhancement is now available to our subscription users.
Nearpod is proud to announce that teachers can now add interactive Sways to their lesson plans! Sway allows teachers to share interactive, multimedia slideshows within their Nearpod lessons. Choose from 100 stunning Sways and take your Nearpod lesson to the next level. Visit Nearpod’s blog to Learn more. IXL Complimentary Webinars (Sept. 27 and Oct. 5). Click here to view the schedule. Google Drive Search faster and with ease using Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP is a fancy way of saying “search like you talk.” You can type things like “find my budget spreadsheet from last December” or “show me presentations from Anissa.” Drive will understand what you mean and give you the option to click for those specific search results. Drive NLP will get better with each query — so keep on searching! ep on searching! |