Encouraging students to collaborate with one another is extremely important and beneficial. If you are lucky enough to have technology rich classroom environment, encouraging student collaboration can be fun and easy! Below are some tools to use to encourage online, real time collaboration with your students. Enjoy!PadletThis is BY FAR my favorite tool for collaboration, brainstorming, questions, ... Read More about Classroom Collaboration
Chromebook Resource Page
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Check out VideoNot.es: It is AMAZING!
Do you ever want your students to watch a video for homework? Do they ever struggle keeping up with the video, or remembering that the assignment is actually...an assignment...and they may need to take notes?Stress no more, teacher friends!If you haven't checked out VideoNot.es, please do so immediately!! :)This is an amazing tool that allows students to watch a video (any video that has a ... Read More about Check out VideoNot.es: It is AMAZING!
Professional Development with YouTube
Looking for more professional development tools? Check out YouTube!Sometimes, we don't think of YouTube as the go-to place for good information. However, there are so many great channels available through YouTube that provide awesome information for teachers in virtually any subject area!Are you thinking about "flipping" your classroom? Check out the Flipped Learning channel on YouTube. Aaron Sams ... Read More about Professional Development with YouTube
Current Events: So Important, and So Little Time to Devote to Discussion
As a Social Studies teacher, I constantly find myself torn between teaching content which will be on the standardized test (ahhh a teacher's favorite topic) and discussing current events with my students. There are tons of great topics we could discuss that would be relevant to our curriculum, and would be extremely interesting to my students. However, I just don't feel like there is enough time ... Read More about Current Events: So Important, and So Little Time to Devote to Discussion