Finishing Strong...
Apps, Tools & Motivation to Help You Finish the Year Strong!
Day 1 The World Needs You!
Dear Graduates - A Message From Kid President
Day 2 How Will You End Your Year?
Water Bottle of Dreams by Dave Burgess
Dave Burgess shares how one teacher, John Berray, ends the school year in a life changing manner. Make your last moments with your students powerful.
http://daveburgess.com/how-will-you-end-your-year/
Special thanks to Mitzi Neely for sharing this article.
Day 3 Learning Never Stops
Let your students stay active and creative with resources that inspire them to read, make and invent this summer.
Camp Wonderopolis
Camp Wonderopolis is the free online summer-learning destination that’s full of fun, interactive STEM and literacy-building topics boosted by Maker experiments! Keeping kids and their families learning together throughout the summer and out-of-school time, Camp Wonderopolis can help build vocabulary, background knowledge in science, reading comprehension, critical thinking, and other literacy skills along the way. When you register as a Camper (kids of all ages) or Counselor (parents, community and library program staff, teachers), you’ll enjoy learning through wonder—an approach created and honed by the award-winning Wonderopolis.org!
Instructables
Kids Should See This
Code.org
Everyone deserves the opportunity to learn computer science.
Scratch
Loyal Books
Day 4 Make Formative Assessment Fun
Go Class
Go Formative
Socrative
Backchannel Chat
Plickers
Day 5 A Lesson from Audri
Failure is a Chance to Learn
Audri's spirit and enthusiasm is boundless. He was one of our inspirations for The Great Maker Challenge.
Audri's Rube Goldberg Monster Trap
Audri would like to say thank you for the encouraging comments. He is 7 years old. He wants to be a theoretical physicist when he grows up and has big plans to study robotics at MIT.
Day 6 Infographics
Let your students show their learning in graphic form!
Infogram
Piktochart
Easelly
Day 7 Tell Your Story with Digital Storytelling Tools
Animoto
Our WOMS Media Center Story
StoryJumper
Glogster
Voice Thread
Zoo Burst
WeVideo
Little Bird Tales
Docs Story Builder
Day 8 Let's Take a Trip
Google Literature Trips
Arctic Adventure
Louvre Museum
Mt. Everest
World Panoramic Photography
NASA Virtual Field Trips
The White House
Listen Current
National Archives
Oddizzi
Day 9 Screencasting & Video Lessons
Today's app is courtesy of Mrs. Jody Velde. Nimbus is a tool that allows you to capture your entire computer screen as an image. You can also highlight and annotate your screenshots and share them via Google Drive. Share notes and tutorials with your students!
Knowmia Teach
Video lessons from great teachers!
Day 10 Motivation
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
The late Rita Pierson, a teacher for 40 years, once heard a colleague say, "They don't pay me to like the kids." Her response: "Kids don't learn from people they don't like.'" A rousing call to educators to believe in their students and actually connect with them on a real, human, personal level.
--TED Talks
Rita Pierson: Every kid needs a champion
Michelle Cooper
White Oak Middle School Media Center
Email: cooperm@woisd.net
Website: http://womslibrary.wonecks.net/
Location: 200 South White Oak Road, White Oak, TX, United States
Phone: 903.291.2058
Twitter: @_MichelleCooper