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Get Your Free Mystery Skype OneNote Notebook
“Mystery Skype is a fun, teacher-invented learning game that builds students’ cultural awareness, critical thinking, and geography skills. And now this free OneNote notebook—packed with tips and how-tos—gives your classroom a single place to prep, track, and learn together. Get it today!”
Category Archives: Ed Tech
Dianne’s Daily Discoveries 07/26/2015
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ISTE | 8 ways to prevent cheating in the digital age
For as long as there has been school, there has been cheating. And in many ways, the advent of the digital age has made plagiarism and stealing answers even easier. Some teachers will tell you that trying to prevent cheating is an exercise in futility. While it’s true that you can’t police all students at every turn, you can put some techniques and digital tools in place to help curtail problems while embracing collaboration.
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5 Quick Tips for Secondary Classroom Management That Actually (I Promise You!) Work
Classroom management isn’t like following a recipe, where you follow exact steps and end up with a beautiful finished product. It takes time, practice and patience. But these are some tricks I’ve learned that help move that process along:
Dianne’s Daily Discoveries 07/25/2015
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#MysterySkype – Skype in the Classroom
Mystery Skype is an educational game, invented by teachers, played by two classrooms on Skype. The aim of the game is to guess the location of the other classroom by asking each other questions.
It’s suitable for all age groups and can be used to teach subjects like geography, history, languages, mathematics and science.
Check our Mystery Skype OneNote to see all the wonderful things you and your class can do together to play Mystery Skype and organize your session.
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Sway Tutorial Videos
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Start Making in YOUR Classroom | Venspired
I’ve gotten several emails after my last post and they all ended with the same line, “Where do I start?” It can be overwhelming to start by Googling “makerspace.” What do you most often see? That stark modern space with expensive 3d printers. But that? It’s not the reality of what making in the classroom can be. I know the constraints faced by many of us in education, and I’ve lived them before. You make do with what you have, get creative, and repurpose existing materials to MAKE making happen in your classroom. You gotta start somewhere, right?
Dianne’s Daily Discoveries 06/12/2015
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Cultivating Connections: Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs
Awesome infographic illustrating Bloom’s, HOTs and the verbs that teachers/students can use for each level.
Dianne’s Daily Discoveries 06/11/2015
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AnswerGarden – Plant a Question, Grow Answers! Generate a live word cloud with your audience.
AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online brainstorming and classroom feedback.
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ifaketext.com | The first iPhone text message screenshot generator.
Create a “fake” text message conversation. Could be used for presentations, convos between story characters, do nows, closure, etc.
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Professional Development opportunities from Microsoft
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Great resource for blogging Principals and those who want to learn from blogging Principals
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Great list of connected educational leaders, blog addresses and twitter names