Tech Tidbits #12
From your friendly elementary tech integrator!
Hello, November!
This issue shares some recent finds from the world of ed. tech. Contact me if you need further support implementing any/all technology into your class's teaching and learning activities!
Star Wars is coming to Hour of Code!
We'll embark on some Hour of Code activities with students in early December. STEM teachers will plan to spend some time on these activities, but please know that student accounts can be used to access Hour of Code activities at any time! There are excellent curricular connections to math and science and problem solving as students complete these activities! Check out the Star Wars activities here!
Quizizz!
Quizizz is one of the formative assessment tools we'll check out this Wednesday at our Wired Wednesday session. If you can't attend, this blog post by My Primary TechSpiration gives a great summary of the use of Quizizz and its features!
Unsplash
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Event Information
Wired Wednesday - Formative Assessment Tools
Join us to check out some fun formative assessment tools to help gather student feedback and use data to plan for instruction! Please register in My Learning Plan!
When?
Wednesday, Nov 11, 2015, 04:00 PM
Where?
Blue Ball Elementary School, Ewell Road, East Earl, PA, United States
More to Explore
10 Projects and Templates to Up Your Google Slides Game via Ed Tech Team
Use text boxes in Google docs where you want students to enter data!
Many of you are sharing Google docs with students that you'd like them to add text feedback to. Sometimes those docs are former Word documents, brought into Google Drive for sharing purposes. I've seen teachers keep the __________________________ lines in the document, where in printed form, students would write their responses on the line. This isn't the best approach with a Google doc. Use text BOXES instead! Here's a summary of this strategy from Alice Keeler.
Want to take your Google searching to the next level?
And, just for fun...
Elanco Elementary Instructional Technology
This newsletter is created by Lyn Hilt!
Email: lynmarie_hilt@elanco.org
Website: http://blog.elanco.org/elemtech/
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