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Embracing Equity: The Power of Interactive Digital Notebooks
Interactive Digital Notebooks (IDNs) are one of my favorite digital tools that can offer many benefits for educators, students, and school librarians alike. Let’s explore some of the advantages of uses these with students and in my case teachers. They positively impact education in so many ways. Interactive Digital Notebooks are a way to organize information in their essence. “A tool that allows students to learn interact with, reflect on, fill out, all digitally. It empowers students by teaching 21st century skills as well as taking ownership of their study time using digital tools. It is not just a Just a slideshow with links and pictures. It is so much…
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It is beginning to look like CREATE-MAS!!
I love the holidays and I wanted to give a gift to everyone! Welcome to the 14 Days of Create-Mas!! I love educational technology and literacy so I decided to combine them both. It is that time of year again where I take some time to share some of my favorite tools, resources, and creative ways to use technology and literacy. With each reveal of a new website/resource/idea. This concept was first introduced to me in 2019 by Ryan and Brian from the Check this Out Podcast. Quite a few different educators are continuing this tradition and creating their own versions such as the 12 Days of Chrome-mas, 12 Days…
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CROB: Choose Your Own Booktalk
During the pandemic I started to explore the best way to connect books with students. This led to some creative ways to share books with students. I have always found that standing and delivering content leads to comatose students. If I could come up with a way to engage student during the booktalk I may just increase engagement. So I have used several techniques and edtech solutions. Choose Your Own Booktalk (CROB) One such solution was borrowed from a favorite book of mine which I call CROB or Choose Your Own Booktalk (Click link to see an example). How many of you loved Choose Your Own Adventure books as…
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Google Squiggly Line: Game Changer
So you are trying to see if a student has opened a document you shared or created with them right?
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Got Google Slides Game?
I am a Google Slides fangirl. I use it for everything when I am teaching from created hyperdocs (more about them later), posters, stickers, and so much more. Slides is more than it appears to be.
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Bitmoji Virtual Library
If you know me at all you know I love Bitmojis. They are such a fun online sticker for education. During this trying time adding a bitmoji or two to a students assignment or adding them to my own assignments just gives my assignments a bit of flair. So much so that I created a virtual library a couple of weeks ago.