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The Teacher's Response to Intervention Guide - Marcus Guido
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K to 12tag(s): assessment (115), data (161), gamification (87), professional development (164), teaching strategies (25)
In the Classroom
Pack this information away in your professional toolbox for classroom reference at any time. Share this article and infographic with other teachers in your school as part of your professional development activities. Print the infographic and post in your school's teacher lounge or other areas for common viewing.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Above the Noise - KQED
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6 to 12tag(s): drugs and alcohol (25), social media (24), social networking (112), social skills (21), sociology (22), video (278)
In the Classroom
Take advantage of the classroom guide to explore big questions found within each episode. Subscribe to this channel to receive notifications of new video additions. Use a tool such as Vizia, reviewed here, to add questions directly into the YouTube videos for students to complete as a flipped lesson before classroom instruction. Use a tool such as Voxer, reviewed here, for students to discuss their thoughts on the topic of each video.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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QuickTopic - Steve Yost
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9 to 12tag(s): collaboration (26), questioning (36)
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Consider using QuickTopic as a resource in your classroom to increase student interaction with materials and each other. Create quick questions or even a short quiz using QuickTopic. Small groups can use QuickTopic during research to share resources. Library/media specialists could use this tool for online book clubs. Teach on a team? Collaborate with other teachers for assignments and more using this site.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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The Climate Explorer - globalchange.gov
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8 to 12tag(s): climate (95), climate change (70), floods (13), temperature (34), weather (201)
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Bookmark and share this resource for student research into climate change anywhere in the world. Have groups of students work on different perspectives of climate change including rainfall, annual and monthly temperature change over time, population density, or flooding changes. Have students make an impressive, interactive poster, infographics, chart or multimedia presentation sharing their findings using Genial.ly, reviewed here. Genial.ly allows you to add polls, videos, embeds, web links, PowerPoint, PDfs, and more to any presentation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Student Voice and Choice - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): differentiation (53), twitterchatarchive (38)
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Share this chat with colleagues. View this chat to learn more about student voice and choice. Explore the tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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ProProfs Brain Games - ProProfs Brain Games
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K to 12tag(s): game based learning (139), gamification (87), logic (247), problem solving (294), puzzles (203)
In the Classroom
Share puzzles and brain teasers with students on your class website or classroom computers. Brainstorm with students on problem-solving methods and tips. Use a tool like Padlet, reviewed here, to share your list of ideas. Have students use Brain Games to create their own games to review classroom material before tests and quizzes. Take student learning a step further and include their game in a Symbaloo Learning Path, reviewed here. This site allows users to add tiles including quizzes, websites, videos, and more to follow as a learning path for any subject.Comments
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@stake - Engagement Lab Emerson College
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8 to 12tag(s): creativity (118), emotions (36), game based learning (139)
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Use this game as part of any lessons on persuasion and empathy. Use the four options from the card deck as models to create your own role play game using different situations specific to your students. For example, debate the use of mobile devices in your classroom or the ability to go off campus for lunch. This could be done easily by writing the Deciders role cards out on 3x5 cards and using a timer. If you are beginning the process of integrating technology, have students create the cards using a Google doc, reviewed here. An alternative would be to allow your "techies" and or gifted students to create a game using Twine, reviewed here, or Quest, reviewed here. These two tools create text-based interactive games. Have school counselors use this @stake to model non-confrontational methods for problem-solving and deliberation.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Differentiating Instruction: Practical Ideas for Teachers - TeachersFirst
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K to 12tag(s): differentiation (53), twitterchatarchive (38)
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View this chat to learn more about differentiation and tools to help you engage and differentiate for the various levels and interests in your class.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Year-End Roundup, 2016-2017: Questions for Writing and Discussion - New York Times/The Learning Network
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7 to 12tag(s): debate (46), persuasive writing (57), process writing (47), writers workshop (34), writing (365)
In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this site as a resource for writing prompts, current events discussions, or as a springboard to debate topics. Before writing, encourage students to research their topic and take notes. Use an online note-taking site like Google Keep, reviewed here, to save and share notes. Have students share their completed projects in a blog and ask for feedback from their peers using Telegra.ph, reviewed here. There is no registration with Telegra.ph and you just click on an icon to upload images from your computer, add a YouTube or Vimeo, or Twitter links. Take completed writing projects one step further and ask students to create a Story Map, reviewed here. Story Map offers the ability to tell a story through interactive maps including video, images, and more.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Beautiful Audio Editor - Creative Tools
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K to 12tag(s): editing (72)
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Record your class singing or reading their compositions to share with parents on your website or blog. Record and edit sound to be included with PowerPoint presentations. Use with a creative writing project to record stories for selected images. Share with students to use with multimedia projects to create background audio or original audio presentations. View the features of the site on your interactive whiteboard together with your older students, then allow them time to explore and experiment with the available features. Instead of having students share a written speech as an oral presentation, ask them to use Beautiful Audio to record their presentation and add original features to the soundtrack. Include this recording as part of a multimedia presentation using a site like Sway, reviewed here. Sway offers tools to create interactive presentations available for all devices.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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MrOwl - Arvind Raichur
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6 to 12tag(s): bookmarks (68), organizational skills (128)
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Use MrOwl to organize and save resources for all classroom content. Have students create and share branches with resources used in research projects. Share with students as a way to organize information for review of any content.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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How to Deliver a World Class Presentation - Malcolm Andrews
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6 to 12This site includes advertising.
tag(s): infographics (51), speaking (25), speeches (19)
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Share this infographic with students before class presentations. Include it on your website for reference throughout the year. After class presentations, have students reflect on what they learned through the speech creating and presenting process and ask them to think about what they would do differently next time. Ask students to write a rough draft script for what they want to say (be sure to have them state what they would do differently next time). Then use a tool such as Recap, reviewed here, or Flipgrid One, reviewed here. Recap and Flipgrid One are video response and reflection tools. This wrap-up for your assignment will help students internalize what they've learned about giving a presentation. Challenge students to create an infographic for something they do well academically, i.e. test taking and studying, writing up labs or research reports, etc. Use a tool such as Infogram, reviewed here, or Piktochart, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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kudoswall - Nikhil Vootkur and Jag Vootkur
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K to 12tag(s): assessment (115), classroom management (159), portfolios (32)
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Record classroom activities and student learning with photos or written anecdotes. Show students how to create a portfolio, then document their learning and make comments in their portfolio. Share portfolios with parents, not just at conference time, but anytime the student portfolio is updated to keep parents in the loop.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WordMint - Nathaniel Story
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K to 12tag(s): crosswords (21), puzzles (203)
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Create puzzles and activities to review spelling or vocabulary terms. Create bingo cards and use as an introduction to new concepts. Share a link to this site on your class website for students to create their own puzzles for review at home.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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WorldABC - WorldABC
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3 to 12tag(s): communication (10), countries (81), data (161), energy (206), population (66), transportation (43)
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Bookmark this handy site for use in any Social Studies classroom. Find information at any time about any country. Use this site as a starting point for research projects, then have students dig further to find images, literature, and more for the country they are researching. Have student use a bulletin board tool like Lino, reviewed here, to keep track of the resources they've discovered for their country. Challenge students create maps using Zeemaps, reviewed here, with information found at WorldABC and on their bulletin board. Students can add text, images, and location stops! As a culminating activity, have students individually or in groups create a Symbaloo Learning Path, reviewed here, featuring videos, quizzes, and information about a country studied.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Poki Educational Games - Poki
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K to 8This site includes advertising.
tag(s): game based learning (139), logic (247), problem solving (294)
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This site contains many advertisements, demonstrate how to avoid the ads on your interactive whiteboard with younger students before independent use. Share links to games on classroom computers and your class website. Share with parents for practice at home. Use Dotstorming, < a href="/single.cfm?id=16997">reviewed here, to survey students to see which of several games was a favorite. With Dotstorming students are allowed to vote and make comments. After voting, challenge students to create their own game, similar to the one voted most popular using a tool such as Scratch, < a href="/single.cfm?id=9202">reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Global Speed Chat - Jennifer Hesseltine
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K to 8tag(s): collaboration (26), cross cultural understanding (123)
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Visit the archives to view activities from previous years. Join the Global Speed Chat with your class as an excellent way to learn about other students and countries through questions tailored to learn more about different cultures. Have students use a mapping tool such as Mapskip (reviewed here) to create a map of locations sharing responses on the site's Padlet (with audio stories and pictures included)! this site as a model to set up your own Padlet reviewed here for to share information about students in your class or school.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Syrian Journey: Choose Your Own Escape Route - BBC
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6 to 12tag(s): middle east (37), problem solving (294)
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Include this interactive with any lessons on current events or the Middle East. Allow students to explore on their own to learn about the choices faced by the refugees and the outcomes of their decisions. Share the locations using Google Earth, reviewed here. Have students use Fakebook, reviewed here, to create a "fake" page similar in style to Facebook about a refugee as they attempt to make their way out of Syria. Alternatively, have a student or group of students write a memoir in the voice(s) of a refugee about their experiences using Book Creator, reviewed here, or Ourboox, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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LOOPY - Nick Case
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9 to 12In the Classroom
Share LOOPY with students then have them explore the features included on the shared models. LOOPY would work well in classes with gifted students as an exploration project of different cause and effect relationship influences. Use the embed code to share student examples and explanations on your class website.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips - Discovery Education
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K to 12tag(s): agriculture (60), animals (322), careers (139), constitution (88), design (88), energy (206), england (56), explorers (65), holocaust (41), lincoln (84), nutrition (159), pi (28), planets (128), shakespeare (110), spain (8), STEM (174), virtual field trips (55), weather (201)
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Immerse your students into your studies with a close-up in-depth look through virtual field trips. Visit places where time, money, and mileage inhibit your dreams for bringing your students into wondrous worlds. Find ways to visit where your class has never gone before. Find ways to motivate your most reluctant learners. ESL/ELL learners will appreciate the visit. Reach all types of learners through a class visit. Use field trips as a whole class anticipatory guide, a center activity, a home connection, or even as extra credit. Challenge your gifted students to be guides in their own learning by choosing topics of interest. Then ask these students to share research findings in a video with discussion questions to go with the research and with links to outside resources using a tool such as Rooclick, reviewed here. Be sure students create a script to read from before beginning to produce their own video.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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