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Twitter: Resources for Teaching Art - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Do you teach art? Check out this archived chat for tools and tips to use in your classroom. Share this tool with your colleagues interested in learning more tips and tools to use in art lessons.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Twitter Chat: Refuel, Rethink, & Refocus for the Summer - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about refueling, rethinking, and refocusing for the summer. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources on professional learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Google MANIA - Accessibility Features for Diverse Learners - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12The Google suite of...more
The Google suite of tools has accessibility features that will help you give all students the chance to show their best work. This session will introduce you to these features and show you how to use them to support all students--even those who don't have a documented need. As a result of this session, teachers will: 1. Learn basic accessibility features included in the Google suite of tools; 2. Explore instructional strategies that use these features; and 3. Plan for the use of Google's built-in accessibility features in your classroom. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
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The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Teacher Preparation: A Chat for Future Educators - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and tips shared from veteran educators. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for input and insight from both new and experienced educators.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Curation in the Classroom - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about curation. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources on curation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Teacher's Toolbox for the Science of Reading - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about tech tools to support the science of reading. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources for using tech tools to support the science of reading.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ElevenLabs - ElevenLabs Inc.
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Research shows that text-to-speech technology helps students focus more on content than reading, resulting in a better understanding of the reading material. Share a link to ElevenLabs with students, then demonstrate how to use this tool to listen to audio of a text to increase comprehension. Engage students in learning new content using ElevenLabs to introduce short introductory paragraphs from upcoming novels, textbook chapters, or primary source documents. Enhance learning and understanding of foreign languages by listening to the text in several different voices.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Attribution Builder - Open Washington
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
Use this easy tool in any subject area when requiring research or attributing information and sources such as images. Recommend this site to students for use at home to build properly constructed attribution of materials. Include this resource as part of your digital citizenship lessons using the section on licensing as a starting point for teaching students about different forms of Creative Commons and Public Domain found on the Internet. Include this site on your classroom computers for students to use at any time to cite resources. Ask students to include attribution for all images and resources whenever creating multimedia projects such as presentations created with Sway, reviewed here, videos made with Adobe Creative Cloud Express Video Maker, reviewed here, or interactive images created using Genially, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Collection - Virginia State Literacy Association (VSLA)
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Include information from this collection of articles as part of your ongoing professional development activities. Include this collection along with your other resources using Wakelet, reviewed here. Create a shared Wakelet to collaborate and share information about the Science of Reading with your peers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Feedspot - Feedspot.com
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Create a class Feedspot account to follow blogs of interesting teachers, schools, authors, or museums and zoos. If your students write blogs, add student accounts to Feedspot for easy viewing of all their posts. Create a collection of feeds on topics in your curriculum, such as environmental issues, newspapers in other languages, space projects, current events, etc. You can collect informational texts on current events related to curriculum topics.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Free Infographic Maker - DesignCap
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Introduce DesignCap's infographic templates found on the left menu. Ask students to select one that appeals to them, and then create one as a class for a concept you just learned or as a review for a test. Show on your whiteboard or with a projector how to select a template or create your own, where to find the image library, and how to upload your own images. Once the class has saved the infographic, you can have them create infographics on their own to include in multimedia reports, as a book report, as a study aid for a test, or to show what they've learned from a unit of study. Students could create infographics about Martin Luther King Day, Earth Day, and Take Your Child to Work Day; in other words, you can make infographics for just about anything!Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Introducing the ELA Common Core - Kevin's Meandering Mind
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
This Prezi is very useful for the introduction of the Common Core standards to faculty or parents. This would be a great presentation to share at faculty meetings, inservice, or even at Back to School Night (probably a short clip, not the entire presentation). Share this link on your class website for parents (and older students) to learn more about the Common Core.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Word Counter - Word Counter
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Demonstrate the use of Word Counter on your Interactive Whiteboard. Once the redundant words have appeared on the program, display the text they came from and have students make suggestions for stating the sentences in a different way, or using synonyms. Post a link to Word Counter on your webpage for parents and students to use at home. Use Word Counter for your own writing in newsletters home, emails to parents, graduate work, and notes to administration. Be sure to share Word Counter with your colleagues.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Abbreviations - STANDS4 LLC
Grades
6 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Bookmark this site for reference to find or to decipher abbreviations or acronyms. Share with students on your website or blog as a resource at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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iSpring Free - i
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
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Use the iSpring Free PowerPoint add-on to enhance instruction by creating engaging materials. The software includes a user-friendly screen recorder, which allows you to easily insert videos into a presentation or record annotation and voice-over slides. Teachers may want to use recorded videos to create interactive activities that empower students to explore and learn at their own pace. For example, teachers can develop branching scenarios and simulations. The free version allows for creating multiple choice, multiple answers, and essay questions in quizzes, which are graded automatically. When you finish building, easily share content with your students by importing or embedding the file into your learning management system using SCORM or HTML5 or sharing a link.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TriviaMaker - Redwood Pro Media, LLC
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Create and play trivia games in a variety of ways. Introduce a new unit by playing a game as a schema activator and as an informal assessment tool to assess students' prior knowledge. Use the single-player activity as a tool for personalized learning. Begin using games from TriviaMaker's Teacher's Channel, then create games to fit the individual needs of your students. If devices are unavailable, use the print option to print the quiz questions, then use this option for students to play individually or compete in teams. Enhance learning by asking students to select a question they got wrong or one they would like to research further, then share additional facts and information by creating a short animated video using Animate from Audio, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: The Power of PBL - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about project-based learning. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources on project-based learning.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Reading Trek: March, Book One - TeachersFirst
Grades
7 to 12In the Classroom
Using the Reading Trek, explore the periods of the 1930s and 1960s using maps and other non-fiction resources. Engage students and use an online organization tool like Padlet, reviewed here, to collect and share resources with students. Organize information within the Padlet using columns to sort content by decade. Be sure to allow comments to encourage student discussion and collaboration. Enhance learning by asking students to create infographics using Canva Infographic Maker, reviewed here. Use the infographics as an alternative to a book report and ask students to share important places, dates, and historical characters to tell the story of John Lewis.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Twitter Chat: Tips, Tools, and Strategies for Curating Resources - TeachersFirst
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K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about how to use tech tools to support strategies for curating resources. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for tips, tools, and strategies related to curating resources for students and teachers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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X (Twitter) Chat: Using Social Media to Build a Sense of School Community - TeachersFirst
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K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and explore ways to use social media effectively to build school climate, culture, and community. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for sites and information related to social media implementation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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