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Tools to Help Students Follow Their Passions

…tools that help students (or anyone, really) take their personal interests or talents to a whole new level, developing and sharing them in the same way a professional would: book publishing tools, blogging and website-building tools, image-making tools, screencasting and podcasting tools (and I explain what both of these are!), photo editing tools, and tools that help you create and share videos. The game really is so different now, and anyone with the tools can play. Consider this a starter kit. Links to the Passion Tools The Teacher’s Guide to Tech contains full descriptions of each of these tools, along…

Episode 163 Transcript

…you waiting for? Create a free account at kialo-edu.com, and try it out for yourself! I also want to remind you that the brand-new, 2021 edition of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech is now out! This PDF guide was created to help busy teachers make smart decisions about technology—over 450 tools organized into categories, with quick links to videos that show you the tool in use, plus a thick section of tips at the beginning (including a new section on remote and hybrid learning), and a glossary of over 100 tech terms at the end. I make the guide and…

Episode 57: Nine Simple Solutions for Common Teaching Problems

…I would get anything done without it. I have long conversations with people over the course of many days. I squeeze it in while I’m driving and doing household chores. You can have one-on-one conversations or group discussions. Anyway, Mark and I realized that if teachers and administrators started using Voxer, they could almost entirely eliminate the need for face-to-face meetings. The more we talked about it, the more we wanted to let people know about it. We soon realized that we had other ideas too, solutions for other problems in education that were either free or very inexpensive. Hacks,…

JumpStart: A Technology Course for Thoughtful Educators

…tools in an order that helped me make sense of them. As I learned each tool, one at a time, my confidence grew. I want to replicate that experience for you, to draw a path through the forest of tools and help you build that same confidence. To that end, I have created JumpStart, a mini-course designed to be paired with the Teacher’s Guide to Tech. How the Course Works JumpStart is a self-paced, downloadable course made up of 8 modules, each of which takes you through either a reflective written exercise or hands-on practice with the tools themselves. The…

To Boost Higher-Order Thinking, Try Curation

…and judge the order of the final list. Stephanie Lancaster Great ideas as always on this page/podcast! I teach in a Master’s level occupational therapy program and just last week my second-year students completed a curation project. Each student created a Google Doc on a topic they selected centered on things they will need to know when they enter the field as OT practitioners. I used the links they submitted to me to create a hyperlinked table of contents and then shared the finished product with them so they can all access each others’ curations. Here’s the link if you…

Teaching Digital Natives, Chapters 6-10

…brand names appear on the list (there are separate entries for Kindle, Twitter, Skype, and so on), much of it is organized by type of technology, which allows the reader to understand the categories of tools. Reading through this chapter is a real education, and it helps give some order to the tech wilderness. Second, for each noun listed, there is a list of verbs that align well with it. For example, the section on Facebook lists collaborating, planning, and behaving ethically among the verbs students can practice while using it. The section on Survey Creation Tools (like SurveyMonkey) lists…

What’s so great about Google Drive? And why should my students be using it?

…Everything is very buried. And the Word-Alike word processor is basically WordPad. Still hoping to find a way. Jennifer Gonzalez Hi Dee! I use a program called Camtasia Studio. It’s wonderful! MissBarron I loved the analogy. It’s often how I feel about some of the big name tech apps out there. I’ve been using Google Classroom for over a year now. It is wonderful. My district really wants us to use the LMS they purchased, but for my content area, students, and I, Google Classroom is the way to go. Jennifer Gonzalez Hi Howard, I just opened up WordPad on…

What Is the ISTE Conference, and Why Should You Go?

…interactive whiteboards, or Find real solutions to our 1:1 implementation problems. With clear goals in mind, you can get yourself re-focused anytime you start to get a little overwhelmed. 3. Try something new. Although focusing on your goals will keep you from being overwhelmed, take advantage of this opportunity to try something completely different. Attend a session on a topic that’s not directly related to your subject area or sample a new tool you wouldn’t normally be interested in. Even though you may not see a direct correlation to your current work, you may be surprised at the…

Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn?

Maria Sansalone I am a new special ed Science/English teacher. Trying to incorporate engineering design process projects into the classes I teach weekly. Sounds like that student teacher was using material that someone else had reviewed or approved or given to them and had used before? And sometimes we are crunched for time. It takes many years to grow a reflective teacher. But I always try to use material that’s vetted by reputable websites, like tryengineering.org. Denise Yassine Such an important post. I made a similar point when I shared my biggest takeaways after attending an assessment conference. http://bit.ly/1lFvvIN Allison…