The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. They have been using the ChromeBooks in our classroom to do Google searches. You could make a Google slide. It’s really happening organically. Blog: [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 18, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. Michael has three sessions at ISTE 2019. Information below.) Students just turn in work.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

And the one thing that Flipsnack cannot do it … it cannot be worked on simultaneously like Google docs where two students can work on it at once. But, one of the other benefits of Flipsnack is that you can create the books in something like Google Slides. So that was a great way from an elementary standpoint to use FlipSnack.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 21, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. They support single sign-on with Google and Clever. They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. The Kids Discover online platform lets students enter discovery mode. Listen Now.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard ” or. If you want to learn more about Virtual Reality check out. Virtual Reality (VR) as a New Educational Paradigm ” or. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom ”. Example #1: An autistic student using VR.

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User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

Sketch Design: A blueprint or sketch of the selected design is created through pencil and paper or through an online tool such as Google Draw or Sketchup. Additional Resources referenced from Jackie’s blog: Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners. Video Game Design with Elementary Learners.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Explore 3D Bear Now So, for example, if a student goes into Sketchup (formerly Google Sketchup) and you’ve added Sketchup’s STL extension, they can create or import items and then export them. But you’re not limited by these libraries. 3DBear also has the ability to pull in 3D items from Thingiverse or any tool that can create an STL file.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2018

So even if you’re not very comfortable with holding a live conference call via Skype or Google Hangouts, the cool thing about Flipgrid is that you can record video messages with your kids. I mean, I’ve used Skype just a little bit, and Google Docs maybe a little bit. in Elementary Education. We’ll be adding the tool Flipgrid.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. You meet with your critique group to go over it, and you can do that virtually on Google Hangouts or Skype. It could be fiction or nonfiction. You write it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

When Google Docs came out, I stopped everything and let all of my classes experience it. A sponsored review of a tool I'm using to teach programming From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Augmented reality is here. Also, I learned about Twitter, I did the same thing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 8, 2019

I find this helpful for uploading to Google Classroom or Airdropping the file to my Mac for display to the whole class. YouTube Students can publish directly to the YouTube accounts associated with their Google accounts. (If You can use this format in your Google classroom. It can also be imported into a larger project.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 13, 2018

It might be typing up your notes in a Google Doc. “If this is your Go To for sharing your notes, keep using it. But if this isn’t working for you, like, let’s find something different.”. It might be just writing it in your science notebook. Whatever works.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If you don’t have Google Docs, just use this PDF. Whether they do or don’t, to get the most out of listening you can use this Podcast PD Template Hyperdoc. Just make a copy and adapt it for your use or print it. Challenge Have conversations about the STEM learning at your school. Is it authentic STEM learning?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 30, 2018

Get rid of the Google it and copy it off Wikipedia projects and move more full-bodied comprehensive projects full of meaning and momentum into the classroom. I believe excellent teachers have always created powerful developmental opportunities for students. These opportunities change lives and should be in more schools and classrooms.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 30, 2016

For Halloween 2016, I did a version of Halloween Wars (a Food Network show) with my two classes of gifted elementary learners. Finally, learners, in their small groups, worked together on a shared Google doc to compose their story. Background Information. Principles that drive my instructional approach.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 12, 2018

We can bring Google Cardboard and our mobile phones into our classrooms (which I’ve certainly done, and it’s been very useful), but virtual reality is so much more. Now, I’m not saying we’ll stop needing real teachers, because the world will always need teachers.

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

As a principal of an elementary school, it could be a lonely job. Google Apps for Education. On a completely different note, Google Apps for Education are critical to my success as a digital leader, most notably on how we work as a staff on absolutely everything we do. Maker Movement.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Iris Lapinski - CEO, CDI Apps for Good - "Apps for Good - Growing a new generation of problem solvers and makers" Dale Dougherty - Founder, President, and CEO, Maker Media, Inc.; Gary Bass Meaningful STEM-Based Learning in a University/Elementary School Partnership - Maria D. Shaheen, Ph.D.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

I want them to join Google classroom. and I want them to turn their photograph in as an assignment in Google Classroom. I’m experimenting with a small metal device that lets me elevate my computer so that I’m already standing and less likely to get engrossed in grading in Google Classroom or answering email.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 5, 2019

She’s helped the students find books in the library, and she has also helped them learn some ways to navigate ways to share their knowledge through Google Slides or Wixie. From there, students have been using time in class, and we’ve also partnered up with our media specialist. It’s really happening organically.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2018

How many poster boards must die from these elementary years? Vicki: Because they’re supposed to do this research, and they’re like, “If I can Google it?”. They can’t Google that! You should have seen the body language! Vicki: Hmmmm. Meg: I had fifty people in this room. That is not the _ to make samples. Vicki: Yeah.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2018

Parker Elementary School. You can have the kids fill out a simple Google Form or exit ticket asking them what they enjoyed the most and what they would do differently next time. PD After Hours Earlier this year, Hackensack Public Schools hosted its first edcamp at Nellie K. Partner with another class.

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