Here is a secondary ECR writing prompt. I have built it into Eduphoria Aware as well. I can share it to you if you are PISD send me an email. I have also shared it with your ELAR instructional coaches so you can get it from them as well.
Here is an activity to help your students practice reading a story and answering comprehension questions online. This activity includes multiple item types in Teachermade, a supporting YouTube video about falcons, and a printable closing activity.
If you are a PISD teacher I even have a falcon statue you can borrow as a hook. This activity can be as simple as the Teachermade activity only. Additionally you could add in the other Falcon activities to support interesting science knowledge as well.
This is a Lumio SMART board activity which has 5 different types of activities with 23 activity slides in total. Follow then link and save the activity to your Lumio library.
Here are a pair of printable posters for your classroom that inform and remind your students of keyboarding need to knows. Below are links to download poster sized pdfs of each.
Here is an activity that I built in Google Forms. You can assign this to your students in Google Classroom.
In this activity students examine an infographic, primary source audio recordings, and a couple of YouTube videos, all with reflection questions and some basic math computation for that cross curricular kick. I have added a line to the form to collect “Teacher Last Name” If you would like to have access to your students submissions you may email me and I can add you to the results spread sheet. It is however not a self grading activity. It contains a lot of open ended and short answer questions as opposed to multiple choice.
I love Digital Interactive Notebooks and would be happy to help you get one set up for your students. They are a great way to use your Chromebooks and have students develop digital skills while curating all the resources they need for your course.
Above is a link to a TCEA article on these cool learning tools. Below is my post on Digital Interactive Notebooks. I created several content specific examples that are worth exploring. Those examples are found on slide 7.
Perhaps, like myself and others you have recently been frustrated by the phonebook system on our new school telephones. One day while expressing my frustrations to the phone, Mrs. Pappas informed me that there was an online phone directory that was far faster and easier to use. “Where might this super secret principals only phone directory be located”, I asked? “It’s no secret, it’s in ClassLink”, She replied.
Please enjoy this dramatic reenactment of a similar story.
(No employees were harmed during the filming of this video)
I have previously created a guide for changing your Gmail signature which you can review here. Let’s go a step further and examine how to use Canva to create a custom email signature graphic which you can upload through the settings detailed in the link above.
Why would you want to create a custom Gmail signature? To communicate standard information to your recipients that you might not have included in the body of your email. You can also provide other contact and information options that parents and colleagues could use such as your phone extension, Campus, Grade level taught, Important roles you fulfill that someone might need to know.
Canva (which you can get a free premium teacher account for) offers 1,300 templates for a custom email signature. You can also search for business card templates which will work equally as well. There are over 11,000 of those templates available.
Choose a template and then have fun customizing it to include your contact information and more. When you complete your sweet new email signature you can download it as a PNG image to upload in Gmail.
Check out this video walk through below for a more detailed tutoring.
Here is a super simple but hugely effective Chromebook Quick Tip for you.
When you need to address your students while they are working on their Chromebook you need to peel their attention off of the device and on to you. Instruct your students to “45 their Chromebook”. This indicates that they need to close the screen to a 45 degree angle. This way they can’t see and be distracted by the screen but it does not close and put it to sleep.
Watch this short video to learn about the Mayfield Elementary Galaxy Star Challenge
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1u_G4bCtU5tb-ER738tAP1dHPajh0cIpgKa_jYqkF4qg/edit?usp=sharing
This slide show is to teach the campus administrators how to download the contest data.
Watch this super quick video to learn how you can win $200!!!
ETu Podcast Episode 11 23 September 2022
Innovation Badges
My Classes in ClassLink
https://help.classlink.com/s/article/My-Classes
Progress Learning with Alek Turner
Add Subjects for differentiation to Study Plans -see step 6. (this goes over all class settings available)
Here is a brief walk through how to find a shared assessment in Progress Learning.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PIJw7-knWpfr4LrwXTNh-0DVyPJFXX1A/view?usp=sharing
Here are 3 custom created just for you printable No-Tech Board Game options for your students. They are designed to be played with Flash Cards that you provide or even better have students make. I made with technology so I count them that way as EdTech. Made in Canva.
It is really so easy you would be silly not to try it. It takes about 1 minute to do.
In a later video we will cover creating custom assessments, how to share assessments with your team, and how to assign assessments.
Have your students add a moving mouth and voice to an image of a person or even any object with a tool like Blabberize or Chatterpix. Students can create a fun project like that to demonstrate what they have learned.
Check out this brief example of Mr. TP doin his standup routine.
This example is supposed to be fun and engaging but imagine it is Sojourner Truth talking about her work toward the abolition of slavery. Jack London explaining his short story “To Build A Fire”. One of the Engineers who designed the Golden Gate Bridge teaching how it’s suspension span system works. Or even Ada Lovelace sharing how she saw the future of basic machine computation growing into algorithms. Please invite me to your class to help your students develop some awesome projects like these.
This is badge #96 Talking Pics for our Innovation Badge Chart.
Teachers, Students, and Classes are all rostered and ready to go in Progress Learning, which we knew last year as, Education Galaxy.
Teachers and students should access Progress Learning through ClassLink.
Grades K-1 Please make sure your students have the pre-test turned on in the settings tab for each class. We will start that soon. In the meantime let’s have them start practicing on their Study Plan.
Let’s get started with Liftoff and the Liftoff diagnostics in grades 2-5.
At the link Below Skip to 47:50 to learn about how students will access the Lift Off Diagnostic
Ok, they aren’t literally countless because the computer counts them for us. However there are nearly EIGHT THOUSAND templates for certificates on Canva.com. In an effort to narrow that down to a more usable amount I searched “School Certificates” and got 1,200+ results. So use Canva.com to make some fun and captivating awards for your students.
