This is part 1 of a 13 part series, 13 Ways Teachers Can Hack Their Learning. Why blog? There are several reasons to blog, but we seem to get caught up in the reasons to not blog. To overcome this friction, we have to not only see the benefits of blogging, but to also try to…
Elementary classroom STEM challenges Twenty eight ideas for STEM activities in the elementary classroom. StoryBots Classroom is FREE for Teachers Videos, games and other activities for the PreK – 1 classroom. Introducing GSuite for Education Sites Google has modernized several features in the new GSuite Sites.
Preschool, kindergarten, and pre-k teachers are using the StoryBots educational games and alphabet songs to make learning fun in classrooms around the world! Source: StoryBots Classroom: FREE for Teachers StoryBots is a collection of books, games, videos and more for the pre-K to 1st grade classrooms. The company behind StoryBots is JibJab, the 45 person…
Create anything in 3D with CoSpaces, share your creations with your friends or dive into them in virtual reality. Get started – it’s free and easy! Source: CoSpaces: Making space for imagination I played around with it, and it is really easy to create your own scenes. Such as this one: Sign up unfortunately requires…
It took me a little bit to find it, but the new GSuite Sites now lives in Google Drive. From my brief look at it, GSuite Sites is a great leap from the Classic Sites. To get started, check out the following video.
drumbit is an online drum machine that works without a log in. Using the drum machine is pretty simple. Click in the beat where you want an instrument to play. Clicking on the play button will play your masterpiece. Your sets can be saved, and the sequence can be downloaded as a .wav file to be…
Hour of Code is a global event which aims to pull back the curtain on technology and give students a chance to see what coding (programming) is like. There are over 200 activites and lesson plans encompassing students from pre-readers up to high school. The search activities page has a set of categories so you can search for exactly…
Although Chrome allows multiple profiles and offers an Incognito mode, sometimes you want to use different accounts with a web service. Google handles multiple logins pretty well, but there are other sites that do not. Sessionbox allows you to have multiple tabs open to the same site, each tab being it’s own separate entity. Multiple…
Updated Sept. 2020 – Google accounts are not required for guardians, how to remove guardians Google Classroom added the ability to invite guardians over the past year, but there are some questions on how the process works. This Google Classroom How to invite parents article will hopefully help with that. I’ve also created a video to…