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Sown To Grow – help students track their growth

Byryan July 26, 2016July 25, 2016

Do you want a more student oriented grade book? One where the students report their progress for various activities allowing them to reflect on what they’ve learned? Then check out Sown to Grow.

To use Sown to Grow, teachers add any activity that students will be completing in the classroom. Students set their goals for the activities, and report those scores and reflect upon said activities.

Version 2.0 with more features is coming in August.

https://vimeo.com/174316840

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Quick and dirty spreadsheets with TinySheet

Byryan November 10, 2021November 10, 2021

Source: Tinysheet There are times you need Excel, and then there are times you just want to do some quick calculations. Tinysheet is a great app for the latter. With Tinysheet you get 2 columns and 10 rows in the spreadsheet which are not resizable. The site works very much like a spreadsheet, allowing you…

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{Edtech Tool} Learn geography with Where in the World?

Byryan January 20, 2018January 19, 2018

Source: Where in the World? | Guess the Travel Destination! | SuperBreak This test is pretty tough, I would only use it with high school students. When working with a site like this that doesn’t offer any tracking of usage, I have students take a screenshot and turn that it.

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Free Google Slides and PowerPoint templates from Slides Carnival

Byryan November 16, 2017November 22, 2017

Source: SlidesCarnival – Free Powerpoint templates and Google Slides themes for presentations Are you tired of the default themes in Google Slides? Then check out the free templates from SlidesCarnival! To use one of the templates, scroll to the bottom of the template page. There are two buttons, one to download the Powerpoint template, the…

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Use Netflix to reinforce and learn foreign language skills

Byryan March 5, 2019March 5, 2019

LLN is a Chrome extension that gives you superpowers over Netflix. It makes studying languages with films/series more effective and enjoyable. Source: Language Learning with Netflix The LLN Chrome Extension adds features to the viewing of Netflix movies, setting up a fun way of learning of reinforcing your foreign language skills. Once a movie is selected,…

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Design a street with Streetmix

Byryan June 7, 2018June 7, 2018

Design a street with Streetmix. Streetmix is an website that allows you to design your own street. You can place various roads, sidewalks, public transportation, etc. in your street. I could see students using this to redesign streets in their home town and try to answer problems such as the lack of sidewalks or places to…

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Music fun with Dot Piano

Byryan April 21, 2018April 21, 2018

Dot Piano is an online electric piano that can use your computer’s keyboard or a midi computer to play and record a song online. Pretty cool to play, and if I was still in the music classroom, I would be trying this out with my students! Here’s a neat recording to watch and listen.

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