The Web20Classroom

MARCH 12, 2014

It might have been a video, blog post, article, something, that had piqued his interest and he wanted to share. Jeff Gordon Test Drive Take 2 -Ok so not your typical educational video but hear me out. After the first video one person in particular went to great lengths to show how it was fake. Why does this have me thinking?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 3, 2018

Santha Walters uses drones in her English classroom to teach writing, collaboration and more. Learn how she does it, what standards she teaches, and technical issues of working with drones in the classroom. This Thursday, April 4 at 2pm ET/11 am PT join me for 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom sponsored by PowerSchool.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

Leah: Well, some of the best tools that I’ve used in the classroom are those that simply enhance the student’s voice. And it’s using video, which seems like it’s a really native platform for them right now. With Book Creator they can include pictures, they can include video, drawings, text. Like FlipGrid video is so much fun.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 17, 2015

One of my end of year rituals is finding and posting the years’ best videos. Given my current interest in maker education , I decided to locate and post 2015 videos related to maker education, STEM, and STEAM. Maker Education: Reaching All Learners. The Next Maker Movement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2017

Sylvia does a fantastic job of helping us understand the drawbacks, possibilities, and essential nature of tinkering in the classroom. Sylvia Libow Martinez is a co-author of Invent To Learn: Making, Tinkering, and Engineering the Classroom helping teachers bring the exciting tools and technology of the Maker Movement to classrooms worldwide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 11, 2019

Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen on episode 512 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Karen Lirenman ( @ KLirenman ) and Kristen Wideen ( @ mrswideen ) have written the definitive book on using iPads in the elementary classroom, Innovate with iPad: Lessons to Transform Learning in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

How can classrooms participate? You can access and use the resources and create your own landing vehicles for experiments in your classroom. You can incorporate this into your classroom and play games, create experiments, write, or have conversations about what they would learn if they were managing the Perseverance Rover.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2019

Wanting the library to be an enhancement and extension of the classroom, Amanda has tried to incorporate and further classroom lessons in the library through virtual reality, circuitry experiments, coding, green screen video production, and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Kindergarteners and first graders explore their “wonderings” in Lindsey Danhoff’s classroom. Each nominee and nominator will be entered to win a classroom technology package. You can find some videos online on YouTube. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. What does it mean?”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

They’ll be adding photographs, videos, audio and text about their hero. Interactivity: Book Creator is different from many other tools because you can actually record your voice with it, as well as linking to videos in these fully interactive books. Each classroom gets 40 free books. So excited! How Does Book Creator Work?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

My answer to you is this: We must bring more arts programming—and blend it with the maker movement—into our schools. So then… how are “making” and the maker movement uniquely powerful as avenues of learning—and where might it come up against resistance?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Metaverse is a powerful augmented reality (AR) programming app for classrooms. Metaverse has come a long way and is specifically focused on becoming an amazing AR app for classrooms with the new Collections feature. This blog post is sponsored by Metaverse.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

While researching the possibilities, I’ve reached out to companies to see how they plan to make the technology that will one day rock our classrooms. By and large, I’ve found companies welcome feedback and ideas to make their programs more beneficial and successful for classroom use.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. They had opportunities to collaborate, plan lessons with colleagues and do their own making.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 29, 2019

I had a book on maker education published by ASCD. I really love the maker movement. The description of the book is: Transferring this innovative, collaborative, and creative mindset to the classroom is the goal of maker education. Here is a video of a few of my students delivering raised monies to a local charity.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Try some of these resources to boost your entrepreneurial education modules, try also exploring the Maker Movement. Limit videos to 7 minutes, as studies have again shown that optimal lengths for videos, in particular YouTube videos, to be around 7 minutes. Microlearning. Peer-to-Peer learning. Privacy and safety.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

See their article, Create Magic in Your Classroom. Like a regular video game or program, it can ask you to input a name that it will call you throughout the experience. There’s a curated list of tutorial videos from teachers about how they are using this tool, but here are some of my favorite highlights. All opinions are my own.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2016

YOU could be the superhero in an awesome welcome back to school video that you could shoot NOW in post-planning.). See How the Maker Movement is Moving into Classrooms.). 5 – Get into Making. The National Makerfaire in the US will be in Washington, DC June 18-19. Even if you cannot go, follow the hashtag # NMF16.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

I am going to search the internet to find how-to tutorials, preferably with images, drawings, and/or videos. Assessing One’s Progress How am I doing with my maker project? As a curator, the maker educator locates and vets resources, especially those that will be used by younger students. Process Facilitator.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. Today’s Sponsor: Edpuzzle is my new favorite flipped classroom tool. You can take your videos or those from YouTube and: Clip the video. You can do that in any classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Karen Bosch explains why Merge Cubes are so hot, how they are being used in classrooms, and how she’s using them to build critical thinking and creativity in her school. It allows you to take photos and videos of what you are seeing. And it also has, within the apps, the ability to take photos and to take videos. Oh, sure!”.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

The embracement of the maker movement is being seen in K-12 schools and districts across the world. HERE is a fantastic tutorial that will assist you and your students create maker projects using arduino. For even more information visit Arduino Classroom. I commonly refer to it as “Legos on steroids.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2018

Sometimes they were things like Sketch videos. But we would always start every single Monday morning of with a Maker Monday. And then there were times when we did Maker Stations, where I’d kind of set up things in the classroom in different areas. They want to know that the classroom culture is good.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 19, 2017

A video my student, Rebekah, created for the Invention Project. One requirement is that if students have seen the technology in action, it’s disqualified from being the topic of their video — a commercial pretending that their invented technology actually exists. Classrooms need well-stocked maker spaces and creativity stations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Mandy Froehlich talks about a tool she uses in her classroom, Flipsnack. So you can put in things like video, and the video can be videos taken from YouTube so the video can actually be created by somebody else. Learn how she uses this tool. The students or the teachers or whatever. Mandy: Yeah, right.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

In deciding what resources you need based on the learners you have, you may first need to determine how your learners learn best, what projects you plan to do, how you can set up a makerspace in your classroom, and much more. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners. The Design Thinking Process.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Recently, Albemarle County Public Schools (ACPS) hosted the Digital Promise’s Maker Learning Leadership Institute, a professional development workshop for school districts looking to build their maker learning programs. Audio and video files (can include a USB drive, DVD, etc.). Press release. Printed infographics. List of FAQs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

As you can see in the video below from my VR China trip, it really looks like I shot the video in China. The contest promotes immersive technology and illustrates how impactful mixed reality can be in a classroom setting. Participants are also encouraged to include photos or videos to prove their case.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

We’re going to talk about Virtual Valentines and lots of other ways that you can connect and collaborate with other classrooms. Micah: Virtual Valentines are an amazing way for you to get yourself and your students plugged in with other classrooms around the world. Vicki: So what will classrooms be doing with the Virtual Valentines?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2018

There’s video, there is an absolutely gorgeous book and gallery of artwork for this Lexicon of Sustainability. But there is really an easier way to do this in a classroom without all the funding or – quite frankly – the space to do it, and that is you can make model greenhouses and use them. Agriculture in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

And while they can explore a wide variety of topics from the US Constitution to Ecology and Ancient China, I also like that you can assign these nonfiction texts at three different lexiles to supplement what you’re doing in the classroom. So, Stephen, describe for us what you’ve done in your classroom. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser. Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. Now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms, on any device, using the Chrome web browser. How can principals supervise and evaluate a PBL classroom? Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started. So this is past what they can do with Google Docs, sharing in Google Classroom? There’s no Google Classroom integration yet. Enjoy this fun, free tool. Listen Now. Vicki: Cool.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 11, 2019

I love bringing physical computing into my classrooms: Physical computing means building interactive physical systems by the use of software and hardware that can sense and respond to the analog world. I gave them an outline of the brain with lobes outlined for them to color and rubber cement onto a pizza box (see video below).

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 8, 2016

See a video the company produced explaining its K-12 product: LittleBits is also the first kit the New York-based company has created that includes an entire STEAM professional development offering to help educators make use of the product in the classroom. Educators can also get ideas through a mobile app.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 8, 2017

Well, now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms using the Chrome web browser. Make books, send the link to parents and even include audio and video. Now we can all use Book Creator in our classrooms, on any device, using the Chrome web browser. This is great news! How do we do that? Give us a pep talk. Bio as submitted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Many other winners have done amazing things including: Classroom furniture for those with special needs. 6): Samsung announces 255 state finalists selected to submit a lesson plan for how their proposed STEAM classroom project will improve their community. The veteran, Kyle Kelley, came in for an interview and measurements.

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