Get the latest ideas for how to improve your classroom with technology. This grab-bag of ideas will be accented by practical real world examples shared by classroom teacher Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher.
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2. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
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STEP 2: Select your “Big 3”
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36. D I I G O O U T L I N I N G T O O L
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37. 5 Most popular ebook readers
Kindle
iBook
Nook
Kobo
Google Play Books
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#1 Reinventing Paper
38. 10 Places to Find, Download &
Read Free or Inexpensive eBooks
Site Link Site Link
Project Gutenberg gutenberg.org
eReaderIQ ereaderiq.com
Free Booksy freebooksy.com
Book Bub bookbub.com
Bookish bookish.com
Hundred Zeroes hundredzeroes.com
Goodreads goodreads.com
What Should I
Read Next?
whatshouldireadnext.com
Which Book openingthebook.com/whichboo
k
Calibre calibre-ebook.com
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#1 Reinventing Paper
39. 7 Easy Ways to Publish eBooks
1. Liber.io
http://liber.io/
(Write in Google Drive eBook)
2. Draft
http://draftin.com/
3. iBooks Author
4. LeanPub
http://leanpub.com/
5. PowerPoint (It works!)
6. Keynote (Yes you can!)
7. Scrivener
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#1 Reinventing Paper
41. Popular Notebook Services
1. Evernote
2. One Note
3. Google Keep
4. PAPER! ;-) (check out bullet journals)
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#2 Reinventing Notetaking
42. Awesome Productivity Tip
Paper •Journal
Evernote
•Use the
square task
boxes
•Use your “tag”
Task
Clone
•Send to task
manager
Task
Manager
• With link to
Evernote/
picture of
the page
65. Google Forms – A school
survey
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66. Goes into Spreadsheet
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•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
67. Cool Trick Copy out of spreadsheet into
Wordle!
Step 1: Convert Everything to lowercase by pasting into MS Word.
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69. What Westwood Students own
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•Building your PLN
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70. Wikisource: Copy Text from Famous Speech
http://en.wikisource.org
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•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
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•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
90. • Younger classes (as a portfolio)
• As a simple blog
• Class padlet with links to everything
• Have students sort pictures on padlet to
classify them (use on your Interactive
Board)
• Use as a class backchannel
• Have students upload pictures of how they
solved problems.
Some Ways to Use Padlet
123. Consistent Layout of Screen
Essential
Questions
Video with
Custom
Thumbnail
Assignment
s
124. A note on assignments – Spell out
the LOCATION for turning work in
My Locations:
• (HAIKU)
• (FOLDER)
125. • Makes incredible presentations.
• Import Powerpoint by going to File Open in
Keynote
• If you want to move your smart art, copy in
Powerpoint and then do Edit Paste and Match
Style in Keynote
• You can buy amazing animated slide decks to
customize.
• Make sure students know how to use Magic
Move
Keynote
127. Crescerance: Mobile App
Development
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person may lie in the most unlikely of places: being kind and
encouraging to others! iCare offers loads of fun, creative ways
for you to be a kinder, happier person by caring for others.
Don’t have time to make a homemade cake or a crafty DIY
project? Don’t know the right words to encourage that friend
who’s having a hard time? With iCare, you can find loads of great
ways to do nice, creative stuff for your friends, family or even the
guy at work. With all the nice, fun ideas iCare offers, you don’t
even have to have a big imagination to be kind!
With iCare, you can find quick, simple ways to be kind to those
around you and encourage your peers and yourself through
iCare’s many sources of positive input.
Our features include:
Inspirational videos
A daily feed of heartening quotes and blog posts
Links to motivating books and other resources
The five love languages and the ways to be kind using them
Inspiring photos and quotes
A motivational playlist from Spotify
Sometimes life can get so hectic, it seems that you don’t have
the time or energy to think of those around you, but it doesn’t
take much to be kind. iCare will help remind you to take time to
be kind and be happy!
134. Did you know?
Zamzar.com can convert almost any format?
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#5 Reinventing Word Processors
137. Popular Wiki Websites
1. Wikispaces
2. PBWiki
3. Install Media Wiki
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#7 Reinventing Group Reports
138. Popular Group Website Creators
1. Weebly
2. Wix
3. Webs
4. Google Sites
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141. See: 7 Ways to Use Canva to Create
Compelling Graphics
http://www.coolcatteacher.com/canva-how-to/
142. How I use Canva
• Blog graphics
• Infographics
• YouTube thumbnails
• Book covers
6 free lesson plans using Canva
https://designschool.canva.com/teaching-materials/writing-letters-that-matter/
147. Give assignments and receive
responses
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•Teaching Helps
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•Building your PLN
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148. Trello – project management!
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•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
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•Building your PLN
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151. “The next best thing to being wise
oneself is to live in a circle of those who
are.” C.S. Lewis
Build your circle of the wise
RSS
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•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
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•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
152. Tons of free resources for your whiteboard / classroom
http://www.mentormob.com
Theresa Allen’s page: http://j.mp/1dDkYbO
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•Making Meaning
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•Building your PLN
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156. • Find apps on iPad / iPod to find new
tools
• App Advice
• Apps gone free
• For Droid –
• See Richard Byrne!
• @rmbyrne
App Advice
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•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
157. Feedly.com
Replacement for Google reader
Top Teaching
•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
Tools
•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
158. Netvibes.com or Pageflakes.com
For building Classroom Monitoring Portals (CMP)
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•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
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•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
159. • Flipboard
• Editor.flipboard.com – can co-curate
magazines also!
My “personal” newspaper
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•Teaching Helps
•Making Meaning
•Classroom Management
•Finding Cool Classroom
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•Building your PLN
•Staying positive
160. You become like those you are around.
• What are you reading?
• Kindle
• iCatcher – iPhone/ iPad
• Every Classroom Matters (my show!) ;-)
• Subscribe to videos and listen
• Have a personal “radio station” for the
drive to school
Staying Positive
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171. Monetize the photos your annual staff is taking.
I hereby authorize the School to use
photographs, videos, writings, artwork, and
audio recordings of my child in school
media and advertisements. I understand
that I must notify the Ravenscroft
Communications Office, in writing, to
change this authorization.
Ravenscroft School
www.smugmug.com
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds
172. Free painting software
http://www.getpaint.net/ ---- ninite
21st century
competencies
• eFolios
• Collaborative Writing
• Cloud Tools for Whole Schools
• Multimedia
• eBooks
• 3D Virtual Worlds
191. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 1: Innovate Like a Turtle
192. 2 Step Strategy for Transformational Change
STEP 2: Select your “Big 3”
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Hinweis der Redaktion
He wants strategies for continuous improvement
And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!
So, I embed my learning and take 15 minutes 2-3 times a week to learn and explore new technologies and this, has been the thing that has led to the complete transformation of my classroom! But you don’t have time – you say.
Hover speech — you can highlight and it will read there - it starts reading wherever you have your mouse. Reads it to you — text on a page.
Hover speech — you can highlight and it will read there - it starts reading wherever you have your mouse. Reads it to you — text on a page.
Dictionary looks up the word for you.
And you can see a picture of the item you’re reading about - some students learn better with drawings and pictures.
Can also translate into the language of your choice. (Will show in a moment how to change language.)
This is cool. Want to send an audio file of some text you’ve typed or found on the web. Highlight and hit a button and you have an mp3 file. Teach kids how to do this and put them on their phones.
OK, so you have text in pictures and need it read! This is cool. Screenshot reader lets you draw a square around the picture and will read you everything in the image! Very cool.
Now, I have worked with dyslexics and we know how guided reading strips help them focus on the text better. You have a guided reading script built into Read and Write for Google that will let you focus on just what you’re reading - called screenmask.
Now, you can highlight words and phrases, but here is what is cool.
but can also take highlighted words and click “vocabulary list and it makes word, definition, picture and notes and you have a cute handout!
Now, dyslexics need help focusing as we saw with Screenmask - here’s a tip - click simplify, then do screenmask on top and you’ve got a much simplified page.
This is a quick read aloud sent to teacher. Works via email. However if you want to do more with read alouds, I have another tool I’ll recommend later for that. This is just for quick things (or even questions for your students who struggle with writing and typing.)
Remember to use tab to indent and shift tab to go backwards whether it is word, Powerpoint, or whatever tool you use.
Speech input links up to Google Voice Typing - but this is what is different, you can use this button on the web or in forms or if your lMS like mine - Powerschool Learning has a box to type in, they can use this button to type directly into that box too. Very cool.
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He wants strategies for continuous improvement
And that is what I suggest for you to do today. Your assignment for this webinar today is to come up with your “Big Three” at the end of the webinar. Pick three things – start there!