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Teach Speaking and Listening Skills with Student Presentations–the video

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It is now available for free to Ask a Tech Teacher subscribers: Summary This video discusses using student presentations to enhance speaking and listening skills, aligning with Common Core standards. Technology Integration: Essential for implementing Common Core standards without adding extra layers.

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10 Ways Any Teacher Can (and Should) Use Technology

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Common Core tells us: New technologies have broadened and expanded the role that speaking and listening play in acquiring and sharing knowledge and have tightened their link to other forms of communication. You can use Google Forms or the Google calendar. Write them in Word or Google Docs. Try these ten tech uses.

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Subscriber Special: November Great Deal on Coaching

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Coaching is completed via Google Hangout with email available for quick questions. After only a short time, teachers find they are better prepared with tech-infused lesson plans, able to teach to standards more fluently, can integrate tech into core classroom time, easily differentiate for student needs with tech, and more.

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Thanksgiving Activities That Keep You in Charge of Learning

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Here’s how you do it: Open your word processing program (MS Word, Google Docs, or another). It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Holiday examples include this Thanksgiving pumpkin and these holiday bells.

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Subscriber Special: February–Discounted Group Training

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Here are general guidelines: up to 10 people per class (same low price–$750) delivered via Google Classroom each class is about four weeks Normally, we charge $750 for five people. Classmates will become the core of your ongoing Personal Learning Network. We take POs, PayPal, or we’ll invoice you.

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Creatively Teach the Common Core with Technology

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Educators today are facing two major shifts in education–a move to the Common Core Standards and increasing pressure to teach students with the technology they’ll be expected to use in their lives beyond high school. Writing dialogue with Google Story Builder. Inspiring creative writing with Google maps.

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Classes in Remote Teaching

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Strategies introduced range from conventional tools such as quick writes, online websites, and visual writing to unconventional approaches such as Twitter novels, comics, and Google Earth lit trips. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.