Check out Flippity.net. This website allows you to customize and create many different types of activities (scavenger hunt, memory, snowman, etc…) My favorite feature is the random name picker; check it out in the Edugif below! It goes pretty fast, so if you would like me to help you use this tool, shoot me an email and I will come to you and show you how to incorporate it into your lessons.
Check out the October, 2022 standards update from the Wyoming Department of Education. This issue contains:
Sick of students creating powerpoint after powerpoint in your class? Want to provide them another avenue to create and express themselves and/or show what they know?
This week’s tech tip is a Thinglink about Thinglink. It is a creation tool that you and/or your students can use to show what they know, share information, etc… in a different way.
Check out the Thinglink below that will explain everything about Thinglink. Also, highlighted in this Thinglink are two CCSD1 teachers who have tried Thinglink in their classrooms this year! One is a step-by-step project, created in Rebecca Elliott’s 7th grade ELA classroom, that has students edit an already created thinglink to showcase their understanding of the novel, Heat. The other one is a Happiness choice board project created in Melina Foster’s ELA classroom at the HS.
Also included in this thinglink is a “student and teacher how-to-guide” to get you started (you can download it right from the thinglink). Or you can always shoot me an email and I can help you learn the tech tool, create and integrate it into a lesson, and even come to your classroom and teach the tech tool to your students!
A great way to boost engagement in your classroom is with academic gamification strategies. There are lots of tech options out there, but an “oldie but a goodie” non-tech game is search and destroy which is essentially an academic battleship game.
Here is a pdf copy (of the above image) as well as the gameboard template.
Check out the opportunities for learning in October! PTSB credit is available for most of the trainings. Topics include:
This video and step-by-step instructions show you how to embed a google slide in 2 ways! Click the image to see instructions.
Why would you want to embed rather than link? That way students do not need to leave Canvas in order to see what you want them to see.
If you want to provide links for students within Canvas to other Canvas pages, quizzes, assignments, etc…, check out this video and handout!
It is amazingly easy to make links to already created materials in Canvas. You just use the link (chain-link icon) tool in the toolbar.
Have a great assignment in which your students need to complete a slide (either powerpoint or googleslide)? Or any document from your google drive or onedrive?
You can easily add it to Canvas using the Google Cloud Doc Assignment or Office 365 document external tool feature!
Click the image to the right for a how-to guide!
Want to add a view-only link in Canvas from your computer, Onedrive, or Google Drive?
Use the plug-in tool in Canvas to make this process a breeze! Click the image for how-to instructions!
