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EdTechSec: Weebly and the beginnings of project based learning

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Monday, September 23, 2013. Weebly and the beginnings of project based learning. Is an excellent web page tool that is easy to set up, edit, and publish, and has a beautiful interface with a wide array of nicely designed templates. Recently, I've had my middle school tech students, who are fairly experienced with blogs, set up Weebly. Of course, the Weebly. How will I use this in my classroom? What's the worst that can happen?

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EdTechSec: Do you have TPACK? What does this mean for helping teachers integrate technology?

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Saturday, September 28, 2013. Do you have TPACK? What does this mean for helping teachers integrate technology? Is an acronym that stands for "Technological, pedagogical, content knowledge" (this site explains it more in-depth). You can see the need for the acronym! TPACK is based on the idea that teachers have at least one of the following kinds of "teaching" knowledge:. These basic three components of knowledge can intersect (s...

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EdTechSec: Have students make infographics with Easelly

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Sunday, October 27, 2013. Have students make infographics with Easelly. How do I use this in the classroom? This year, I've been teaching 7th grade students how to organize web pages. They use the sites as a repository for their favorite things. Students are using their own interests as a basis for learning about many new tools this year, and one of those has been infographics using Easelly. Mythological creatures by Shelby.

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EdTechSec: Disrupt their thinking - teaching students about propaganda

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Thursday, April 5, 2012. Disrupt their thinking - teaching students about propaganda. The messages are many, and mixed. In my middle school technology course. A new UK website, Digital Disruption. Is beginning to be a great resource for helping to teach this important way of thinking and awareness to kids. Is a website aimed specifically at teens, and focuses on 7 commonly used propaganda techniques in video. Students are the...

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EdTechSec: What I've Been Using Lately - ProPrompter

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Saturday, October 27, 2012. What I've Been Using Lately - ProPrompter. Awhile back, I wrote about a very handy web tool called CuePrompter. Last year, when we switched our 1:1 program to iPads, we would still use CuePrompter. I have written before about how the iPads are posing new and interesting challenges to us to be able to find work-arounds to be able to do the same things we used to do on laptops. Which is a professional te...

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TokSchoolTechClass - home

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Skip to main content. Create interactive lessons using any digital content including wikis with our free sister product TES Teach. Get it on the web. Tok School Technology Class. Presentation at ASTE 2012. Download the outline for the Tok School Technology Course for Students here. Download the outline for the parallel Technology Course for Teachers here. Visit Tracie Weisz's Class blog. On the right are links to all course wikis and student blogs. Related to this course. Help on how to format text.

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EdTechSec: Have students create their own descriptive maps

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Wednesday, September 16, 2009. Have students create their own descriptive maps. I have been playing with Scribble Maps. Off and on throughout the summer with my original plan being that I would somehow use it for map quizzes. Well I haven't been able to do that yet because it always gives the names of places, BUT - I have found a lot of other uses for it in class. So here is what I am doing with Scribble Maps. Are just one part o...

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EdTechSec: Gaming Digital Citizenship

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Many educators using edtech are familiar with Mike Ribble's Nine Elements of Digital Citizenship. What if we related the important skills of digital citizenship to gaming? Although there are may possible paths to go about this, here are some. Tuesday, February 24, 2015. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). TWeisz Central - includes professional info and spaces I share. About the blog author.

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EdTechSec: Using Timelines

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Tips for integrating technology into your classroom - one second at a time. Tuesday, October 27, 2009. Teaching kids the proper way to make time lines is like a rite of passage for history teachers. Choosing what increments of time you'll use, how those will be represented (inches? Internet to the rescue. But where will they put these beautiful new time lines? Who will see them? Easy - more and more of you are building class blogs and wikis (haven't done this yet? Here is a time line tool called TimeRime.