Tech Talk: TCEA 2018
Implementing Technology in Education
My Presentations
While at TCEA in Austin last week, I presented two sessions. The first session was titled, "Mastering the Digital Escape," and I shared what digital breakouts were and how Mrs. Hamilton's students had created their own digital breakouts. Some of her students joined the session in Google Hangouts and shared about their experience with creating breakouts. They also answered questions from the participants in the session. I was so proud of them! They did an excellent job discussing their projects. I also appreciate Mrs. Hamilton and Mr. Mike Griffith for helping organize the student and make sure everything went smoothly with the Hangout
The other session I presented was "GSuite in the LMC," and I shared how I use the GSuite apps in the library. The audience for this session was primarily library media specialists. Comments from the attendees of the two workshops included, "Truly enjoyed the workshop!"; "Awesome, great ideas."; and "Really enjoyed hearing the students perspectives too!"
Cool (and Fun) Things I Learned at TCEA (or Rediscovered)!
- Crafty Text extension allows you to create large text for display on screen
- Read Aloud extension - highlight text on a website and it will read it aloud
- Print Friendly PDF - Creates a pdf of a website
- Auto Draw
- Quick Draw with Google
- Mystery Animal with Google
- Geoguessr
- Google Art Project
- StorySpeaker - Add-on to Google Docs
- Alice Keeler Webcam Record - extension that allows you to record 30 seconds of video with your webcam and save it to Google Drive
- YourNextRead.Com - gives suggestions you might want to read based on books you have read and liked
- My Simple Show - record simple animated how-to videos
- Class Hook - need a quick short video to introduce a topic? Check out Class Hook!
- OER - a digital library of open educational resources
- Common Lit - reading passages and assessment tools for free!
- Listenwise - audio passages in science, social students and ELA for listening comprehension skills. Listen to this example of a discussion of The Giver.
- Google Maps - add pins, videos, use street view, 360 photos, Google Lit Trips
- Back to school breakouts built around learning the building and teacher procedures with riddles and puzzles centered on locations within the building
- Amazing Race - team competition between participants involved with social media
- Padlet - If you haven't used Padlet in a while, you might want to check it out again. They have updated some of the options.
- Lino is still a great option too for a collaborative sticky board.
Check Out These Sites:
Wizer.me
Goose Chase EDU
BaamBoozle
Sugarcane
Elink
What is Classroomscreen?
Gamify Education
Smashboard - have students collaborating together to problem-solve using gaming; check out the Blog Post#1 and Blog Post #2 by Dee Lanier
Flippity - uses Google spreadsheet to create a variety of fun tools (Jeopardy, Bingo, etc.)
Google Drawings - create digital badges for students to earn
Credly - design badges
#BookSnaps
How to create a #BookSnap:
1. Take a picture of a page/book
2. Add images/emojis/Bitmojis
3. Add text, drawings, or other annotations
4. Tweet out on Twitter using #BookSnaps
Go Formative
Jana Dixon, LMS, NBCT
Email: dixonj@hssd.net
Website: janareads.weebly.com
Twitter: @readingdiva