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Tips for Starting a Podcast

…broad: I cover any topic that relates to teaching, and this gives me the freedom to explore all kinds of things, but because my audience has a wide variety of specialties, I have to be careful not to spend too much time on any one thing: If I spent three episodes talking about math teaching, I could start to lose the attention of all of my other listeners who don’t teach math. Other education podcasters have focused in tighter on topics like educational technology, classroom management, homeschooling, or teaching a specific subject area, like languages. While they don’t have quite…

A Few Creative Ways to Use Student Blogs

…useful, interesting things online. This evolution has given the blog limitless potential as a form of writing, and that’s just as true for student writers as it is for everyone else. So if you’re looking for a nice, meaty assignment, one that in previous decades might have been a research paper or an oral presentation, consider assigning a blog instead. It’s not only a highly relevant form of writing, but because it’s done entirely online and worked on over time, it would also lend itself beautifully to remote or hybrid learning. To support you on this mission, I’m going to…

Episode 79: Retrieval Practice with Pooja Agarwal

…them and reread them and reread them, and so they’re not retrieving. I’m going to take a quick break to tell you about our other sponsor, Kids Discover Online. They’re doing some really cool stuff to drive Inquiry-Based Learning. Kids Discover Online is a platform that offers a huge library of award-winning non-fiction science and social studies materials and units for elementary and middle school learners. Each unit is a full lesson on subjects like the Constitution, Ecology, and Ancient China. They also have this cool feature called Discover Mode, a visual concept map that shows how units like…

Shmoop: Online Learning with Attitude

…essays. Flashcards: Online flashcards allow students to quiz themselves on any topic. Tons of pre-made cards are ready to use, or students can create their own, which can then be stored for them right on the site and even shared with others. Paid Materials Teacher Guides: Each subject-specific guide offers activities, assignments, quizzes, discussion questions, and connections to current events and pop culture. Online Courses: Great for homeschoolers, alternative schools, students who want to supplement their learning, or teachers who are looking to differentiate, Shmoop’s online courses are offered in over 50 subjects. Test Prep: Shmoop offers materials to prepare…

6 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2016

…your teaching more efficient and effective, and your students’ learning deeper and more engaging. Let’s take a look. 1. Write About Update: As of 2023, Write About is no longer available. One key to improving student writing is to have students write more often. But paperwork is hard to manage, you are limited in how much feedback you can provide, and students often have trouble thinking of ideas. Write About solves these problems, providing students with an online space to write on high-interest topics and get feedback from their peers. Students browse through a growing collection of writing ideas, each one…

So you have a Twitter account. Now what?

…like me that don’t have other teachers in my building teaching the same subject as me! I created a guide like yours (that links to your guide too!) that is specifically for science teachers here: http://www.mrsharristeaches.com/2019/06/my-guide-to-twitter-for-science-teachers-aka-free-online-professional-development-for-teachers/ Robert Eden This helps with being professional. Thank you for sharing! Zebulon Sawyer Thank you Kerry Hess Thank you. I am in a staff of 4. Learned about your blog and Twitter through a tech class. I will come back after the class is over and take the Twitter class. Your writing gave me the faith at that I can find good writing from…

Episode 51: CommonLit

…Origins GONZALEZ: OK, so let me ask you really quickly before we get into the site, because that’s what I really want to get into all of the features. But I’m just curious about your own background and what prompted you to create CommonLit. BROWN: Sure, yeah. So CommonLit was really born out of my own frustrations in the classroom. For five years, I was a seventh-grade reading teacher, and I got my start first teaching in a high poverty school in rural Mississippi. And so I walked into a classroom on Day One with no teaching materials. For the…

Episode 55: Your Top 10 Genius Hour Questions Answered

…when I had you on. We were talking about 20 percent time, and so now you’ve kind of more fully gotten yourself into the concept of Genius Hour. So the reason I’m having you on is because you’ve gotten so embedded in the Genius Hour world that you actually now have a full online course teaching teachers how to do Genius Hour. So in a little while we’re going to get into the details of the course. Why don’t we just start by you just telling me a little bit about your Genius Hour journey. How is it that you…

Episode 6: Challenging Advanced Students, Digital Bookmarking, and Difficult Colleagues

…education, in K through 12, or at the college level. I would love the opportunity to take a crack at all of these. So, one thing that I’m going to do at the beginning of each of these “Ask the Cult” episodes, is, I’m just going to give you a quick tip, to just help you improve your teaching, so, the tip for this episode, I’m just going to call it, “Write it Down.” And what I mean by writing it down is, when you’re giving instructions to your students, one mistake a lot of teachers make is they just…