FreeKidsBooks

Freekidsbooks.org Is a cool website that I found to download PDF eBooks for your students. It looks to have a decent amount of books especially for a free resource. You can search through books by publisher, author, grade level, and even ESL.

I found classics like The Tale of Peter Rabbit and books on Feelings and Emotions as well as bullying.

While I did not stumble across any potentially offensive book choices, definitely be sure to follow the district classroom library policies and get the books approved as you would for a printed book.

Great American Review

2nd Grade First 9 Weeks Review

Here is an exciting and engaging Rock and Roll Themed review activity for 2nd grade social studies in the first 9 weeks. Discuss what your students remember about the topics on each slide. (The teacher’s guide includes the important facts we need your students to know.) There are a few short YouTube videos for the pledges and songs. Then craft a guitar and rock out.

Here is the link to the 23 slide presentation. You will get your own copy of it saved to your Canva account.

Below is the Teacher’s guide which you can download and print.

Class Wize Harper Session

Gmail to Tasks Shortcut

Must watch! 30 seconds to faster productivity. No more summarizing an email as you add it to your Google Tasks. ONE BUTTON! I love it.

SMART Board Daily Slides

Here are a set of daily slides you can use to get your class started with Carpet Time, Math Meeting, Calendar Time, whatever you call it. I am happy to add more slides to this if there is something that you need which I omitted in my inexperience with littles. This was made for a specific teacher at Mayfield so you would have to edit some slides like the attendance slide.

PHS Feedback

Check out the presentation with the links here

HelperBird

HelperBird is a wonderful reading accommodations tool to help students read on their Chromebooks. This Chrome Extension uses features found in Immersive Reader, if you have ever heard of that awesome tool. It can change the physical appearance of a web page or .pdf to customize it in a way your students might find more comfortable for reading.

MEMRiSE

MEMRiSE is one of the hottest and most effective language learning apps that you have never heard of. This app specializes in the use of spaced repetition of flashcards to develop vocabulary comprehension. If you have access to Chromebooks, Apple, or Android devices this looks to be a great way to get your Emerging English language learners to accel.

Coins Escape Room

Here is an impostor themed escape room made from a template in Genially. This activity asks students to use their skills adding up coins.

Laser Blast Letter Sounds

In this activity students say the names of 3 objects then choose the object that begins with the correct letter sound. This is an interactive activity in Genially. Get to blasting!

Counting Crops

This activity covers counting and skip counting. It is a Counting Crows themed activity IYKYK. This activity is interactive and has students count veggies while they harvest them. Students then have to identify that number from 4 choices. There is also a rank order game at the end.

Eduphoria Monitor Groups

Google DRIVE Basics

This is a detailed look into What Google Drive is and What you can do inside of it. This is great for someone with little to no experience in Google Drive. We cover tons of features and functions in just about 10 minutes.

EdTech Quick Tip: Screen Snip

Canva Annotate a PDF

Here is a quick walk through to help you and your students learn how to annotate or complete a PDF activity in Canva. We take a look at circling test features, adding markers, and adding a text box. There are of course many other tools and options you can use in Canva to do far more to your PDF. This basic introduction will set you on the right path.

Google Slides Student Training

Here is an interactive walkthrough training to introduce your students to Google Slides. Have them login to their Chromebook or PC and follow along with me. Your students will develop and practice the basic skills needed to create a Google Slides presentation.

Pause this video as often as you need to help your students stay caught up while they work their way through the training.

Let’s keep it going with more advanced Google Slides training for your students. What topics would you like to see included in the next Google Slides training video? I am thinking: backgrounds, transitions, animations, shapes and lines, Publishing to the web and sharing.

Classwize

Here is an abridged version of the district ClassWize training session. Please check out this incredibly focused 14 minute crash course on Classwize to supplement any other training.

Pro-tip from last years power users:

An occasional reapplication of Focus Sessions can ensure their consistent function

Concierge PD

Byte Syze PD

Remember or jot down that class code above. Then click the image to join the Byte Syze PD Google Classroom.

Byte Syze PD are self paced micro courses that you can complete to learn more about tools you need to know. I currently have two Google Classroom courses available. Both only take 15 minutes to complete.

Below is an overview of the two Google Classroom courses currently available.

PD Digital Menu Aug 24