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Want to know what you have checked out from your school library? Watch this brief tutorial on how to access your Follett Destiny account, which lists all your items and when they are due.
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There is a lot of information flying around out there as teachers, parents, and students scramble to handle learning and teaching from home. Here is a comprehensive list of resources to help facilitate these tasks (updated daily; check back often).
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More to come, check back daily! Those of us faced with the impromptu task of "remote learning" may be looking for some great resources for their students to utilize while away from the classroom during the nation's school shut downs. I will start sharing a few great and easy "go-to's" right here over the coming weeks. Check out the Big Deal Media website: https://www.bigdealbook.com/ This site offers "trusted resources for educators" with a focus on free education and technology resources for K-12 teachers, schools, and classrooms. The site is chock full of searchable blogs, articles, reviews, links to great sites, webinars and professional development, ebooks, and newsletters delivered directly to your mailbox (you can filter the types of resources you want sent to you). No matter what you teach, there is plenty of great grab and go stuff for you to choose from. From the site: Big Deal Media saves educators hours of research and thousands of dollars while identifying top-quality resources and OERs for schools and classrooms. It is a content-rich collection of trusted print and electronic publications that offer the information and tools K-12 educators need-all vetted through the prism of the curriculum. It consistently delivers wish lists of resources and funding opportunities, and has done so since 1995. Big Deal Media publications provide timely, relevant, and reliable resources in a rapidly changing educational environment, created with insight and attention to detail by seasoned educational publishing professionals and practicing K-12 educators. Remember, all AAPS students and staff have access to the GALE databases and resources. These are some of the best high quality products out there for school projects and research, and they are catering specifically to k-12 school needs during the COVID-19 shut downs by providing:
To access more GALE content, as well as other lessons and activities, just contact Mr. Kipp for the password and other information. MediaCasts is a great source for video content, as well as TV and cable news channels and programs. MediaCast is not just video: you can post all types of media on MediaCast for your students, from documents to audio, images and presentations, and much more. Here is how you can share direct MediaCast links to your students: The Tappan Technology Committee is presenting a one-hour workshop on how to use Adobe Spark in the classroom.
What is Adobe Spark? Adobe SPARK is a free and flexible one-stop-shop online content creation tool for making sharp graphics, videos, and webpages. It is like having all of the ADOBE programs bundled together in one quick and easy to use format. Teacher’s get exclusive free premium features that you’d normally have to pay for, plus you can set it up for all your students. During this hands-on workshop, you’ll be able to:
KALPA# 1017765 More useful links: Teacher Guide - https://spark.adobe.com/images/Adobe%20Spark%20Edu%20Guide.pdf Teacher resources - https://edex.adobe.com/spark Spark for students - https://spark.adobe.com/students/ Reviews - https://www.commonsense.org/education/website/adobe-spark At today's staff meeting, the Tappan Technology Committee presented a brief demo of Quizizz, a cool tech tool to help enhance your formative assessments. If you have more questions or would like help working with this great tool, feel free to email anyone from the Tech Team and we can meet for a tutorial. The Tappan Technology Committee is: Kyle Kipp, Daniel Capitan, Yvette Wright, Jen Shaw, Renee Nassar, and Rebecca Lee. Follow this link to try out Quizizz for yourself: https://quizizz.com/ Don't forget, there is a really great 1-hour workshop on Adobe Spark that will be presented on Feb 17 in the library computer lab from 3:30 to 4:30pm. KALPA # 1017765. Practice making high quality content the easy way with this free to educators resource; you and your students can make sharp graphics, videos, and webpages in no time. I know this time of the year is crazy busy but hopefully not be too busy to try and learn new things. Here are a few new tools you should try before the end of the year. The first four were taken from a nice tech blog I follow: Cult of Pedagogy. GOOGLE TOUR CREATOR If you are familiar with Google Expeditions, Tour Creator is a tool you should look into. This tool helps you create your own VR tours. Google cardboards are a very affordable way to use VR in the classroom once you have created a tour. vr.google.com/tourcreator https://youtu.be/2s4rhDbyYo4 GEOGUESSR A very fun geography game that uses Google Street View to drop you somewhere in the world. The challenge is to figure out where you are. You can drive down the road to check out the scenery and signs but can not zoom out. Once you think you know where you are drop a pin on a world map and it gives you a score. Geoguessr.com https://youtu.be/psTKZQ2FB8E WEBJETS Webjets is a great tool for group projects. It is an easy way to get all ideas and digital materials all in one place no matter what they are. This is very much like Padlet but free for educators. Webjets.io https://youtu.be/Si82X8B0Ovc PROWRITINGAID A very nice writing tool that has a free version that if you are an english teacher you should check out. To be honest I should probably start using this on these emails I send out :) Prowritingaid.com https://youtu.be/eHFxbk9ycBo Open Education Resources Open Education Resources (OER) are materials for teaching and learning that are either in the public domain or have been released under a license that allows them to be freely used, changed and shared with others. Checkout the #GoOpenMichigan Initiative. https://goopenmichigan.org/ Tynker Jr. If you teacher early elementary (ages 4-7) and would like to integrate more coding into your class Tynker Jr is free until August. Let me know and we can push the app out to any school iPad. www.tynker.com Posted by Chad Bertelson (Borrowed from the Ann Arbor Public Schools' ITD Technology Blog) PDF Candy is one of the quickest, easiest ways to convert a variety of different files, all for FREE. It is a great alternative to Adobe Acrobat. Plus, no download is necessary, as you can do the conversions all on the cloud and simply download the results to your computer. Just drag and drop the files you need converted into the browser and let the conversions begin! But, if you want a dedicated app on your computer to work offline, PDF Candy has a desktop version, as well. Follow these links: https://pdfcandy.com/PDF to Word - With this PDF converter you can convert PDF files to Word PDF to JPGAdd a file that you want to convert from PDF to JPG to the "box ... Download - PDF Candy Desktop is a versatile tool that enables you to convert ... JPG to PDF - Simply drag and drop the JPG image(s) you want to merge in one PDF. Word to PDF - To convert your Word document to PDF format, follow this link. Crop PDF - Here's the guide on how to crop a PDF with PDF Candy You're going to wonder where this has been all your life! Classroom Screen is so easy to use, it "works immediately" with no login, and features a multitude of useful apps and tools all in one place. Simply project this on your whiteboard and use it to facilitate classroom and lesson management. List of useful tools built into Classroom Screen:
Check it out here: https://classroomscreen.com/ Also check out: ExitPoll by ClassroomScreen.com. |
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