Tech Tips
March 2019: Volume 6- Number 55
Happy First Day of Spring!
MoocNote
MoocNote for Chrome extension helps you to easily add YouTube videos to MoocNote and create screenshot of videos.
Take notes that link back to the appropriate place in the videos. Check your notes anytime, anywhere. All notes are organized in one single place. Simple way to add videos to playlists.
Show Me
- Easily explain a range of topics from math to chemistry to music theory to basket weaving.
- Add ShowMe’s to your Do-It-Yourself blog
- Use ShowMe as an interactive whiteboard substitute
- Implement a “flipped classroom”
- Showcase your ShowMes online and share your knowledge with your students, friends, family, or the world!
News-O-Matic
"This nonfiction reading comprehension app publishes five news stories each weekday! The stories range in length and difficulty to create opportunities for differentiated instruction. Readers learn what happened on this date in history through an educational game and write or draw to Editor-in-Chief Russ in the News Room. Each edition gives you access to a Teacher’s Guide.
Pyt Button
Hitting the pyt button
Letting go can also be facilitated by doing things like walking in nature, doing yoga or mediation, exercising, keeping a journal or engaging in creative work.
Or you can always get a pyt button. Danish teachers use pyt buttons to teach their studentshow to let go. Teachers find that it can help children cope with smaller frustrations – “I lost the game” or “I can’t find my favorite pencil” – and it helps to teach them that everything can’t be perfect.
These are important skills to learn. Research shows that perfectionism is related to worryand depression. Meanwhile, self-compassion and social support can help prevent perfectionism from leading to these negative outcomes.
In recent years, the pyt button has become popular among Danish adults, who can either make one at home or buy one that, when pressed, says, “pyt pyt pyt” and “breathe deeply, it will all be okay” in Danish.
And in this case, there might be an English equivalent: the reset button.
Cleveland Clinic Research
Is nighttime device use to blame in humans?
Nighttime light environment has changed dramatically due to modern technology, Dr. Rao points out, adding, “Increased usage of mobile devices during bedtime can disrupt your circadian clock. The intense light emitted from these devices has the potential to alter the timed release of factors within the eye, leading to chronic insults and susceptibility for visual damage.”
Thank you!
SCS Instructional Technology Information
Contact me if you have any questions or would like help using these tools.
Email: vturner@scsmustangs.org
Website: http://www.strongnet.org/InstructionalTechnology
Phone: 440-572-7067
Twitter: @vturner8