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EdTech Quick Tip: PISD Grand Finale

Be sure to catch the special message from Napolean Dynamite at the end of this post.

Padlet Learing Videos

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Google Arts and Culture

Lesson Launchpad

Thank you to Mrs. Smith at LHS for this gem.

qweebi Roller Coaster Project

No, it’s true. This will be your last Princeton ISD email from me. I will be launching out of here into a new career.

You can still keep up with what I am dishing out through edtechmrbrown.com and of course the best place is following me on Facebook and joining this FaceBook PLC group I made for you. We can ask questions and help each other there until society melts totally down and those FB servers go offline.

I am so deeply appreciative of your passion, dedicated effort, and enthusiastic participation as you learn and implement new appropriate and effective ways to bring technology into your classrooms. Your commitment truly enhances our students’ learning journey.

Seriously, click the image below to join the help group I created for you as my position will not be rehired for and the limited help you have access to will dry completely up.

PowToon Student Walkthrough

We are going to work together to create our first PowToon animation. The video walkthrough below will teach your students how to take a template in PowToon and customize it with their own information for a project/presentation. We will be making our presentation about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. I am providing all of the information and images that we will need at the link below.

Pause this video as needed to make sure your students are caught up with me.

PowToon template we will use.
https://www.powtoon.com/preview-template/626

Information we will use on this project.

BingoBaker

BingoBaker.com is my new favorite Bingo card website. You can easily make your cards for free but I willingly dropped $24.95 for an unlimited life time membership to Bingo Baker. I had begun to build bingo cards in Canva but even with a template I realized I was about to have to manually cut and paste all of the terms over and over for a minimum of 30 cards. That task loomed over me like an executioners axe.

I went to the world wide webnets hoping to find a more reasonable solution. I stumbled across Bingo Baker and it was like all of my prayers had been answered.

All you have to do is copy paste in your list of terms and this wonderful program mixes them up in a bowl for you and repeatedly pours out tasty individual bingo cards to meet your needs.

You can also build your cards with images or questions and answers. Check it out. I promise you won’t be disappointed.

Here are a few I made earlier:
MS RLA
Computer lab with images

Republic of Texas Bob Bullock Virtual Field Trip 4th Grade

4.3c Identify leaders important to the founding of Texas as a republic and state, including José Antonio Navarro, Sam Houston, Mirabeau Lamar, and Anson Jones; 4.3dDescribe the successes, problems, and organizations of the Republic of Texas such as the establishment of a constitution, economic struggles, relations with American Indians, and the Texas Rangers; 4.3e Explain the events that led to the annexation of Texas to the United States and the impact of the U.S.‐Mexican War;

Click the image above to reach the Virtual Field Trip tour of artifacts at the Bob Bullock State of Texas Museum. We will examine artifacts related to the Republic of Texas, Annexation, and the Mexican War. The tour is fully voice narrated.

Below is a printable student activity handout to accompany the tour.

U.S. History Academic Vocabulary Bingo Cards

Need to review academic vocabulary with your U.S. History students? Look no further. Here are 100 unique printable bingo cards that contain the 97 terms identified by Lead4Ward as new academic vocabulary introduced to your students in their 8th grade course. I have also generated a call sheet of the terms and definitions in a spread sheet format I also used Flashcard Lab to generate Flash card versions of the terms and definitions so that you can print and cut those out for randomly drawing and calling your Bingo definitions. Here are all the files in .PDF Format.

Quick Checks for Understanding

Here are a few options for quickly assessing your students comprehension of a concept. This is a question I often get so here are my best answers all gathered up for you.

Lumio from Smart tech has a huge portion of it that is designed to be used by students on individual devices and not on SMART boards.


Nearpod offers similar options. To collect responses from students and discuss responses with the class.


Peardeck is very similar to Nearpod. Of course Quick Prompts are not free… I have walk through video of everything that Peadeck can do, there are very usable and useful free options.


Socrative is another option. Which can do Multiple Choice, T/F, and Short Answer in it’s free teacher account.


Mentimeter is another one I have used to collaborate and create a parent night presentation with interactive polling. Mentimeter adds in a word cloud option!


Want to keep it very low effort on your part? How about a Google Classroom discussion question, a Google Form, a Google Jamboard (or what ever they call it now, Figjam?), also a Canva collaborative work space can provide a super simple space for students to share what they know.

Flying Spiders RLA, Science, Math Conversions

Here is a learning packed cross-curricular activity that begins with having students read along with narration of an article from Smithsonian Magazine. Then they complete an activity focused on measurement conversions (Math TEK 4.8c) with a sprinkling of science and geography facts related to Lake Tawakoni State Park. This local favorite TSP is mentioned in the article as having a spider species similar to Brazil’s flying spiders. This makes a relevant local connection to a fascinating story from Brazil. The button below takes you to the Genially digital activity that you can assign to your students. For the read along portion a link to download a printable version or the on line link for the article are provided.