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Project Pals: The Perfect PBL Software for Project Based Learning

The CoolCatTeacher

In the past, I’ve often used wikis to manage and track projects. The easiest way to explain the power of tracking is to compare the Project Pals workspace to a wiki. On a wiki, each page has a history and a teacher can see which student added or made changes to a wiki page. However, Project Pals is even more powerful.

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Equip Students to be Skilled Searchers!

Teacher Reboot Camp

On some search engines including “- wiki” eliminates results from Wikipedia. Challenge: If you teach elementary then challenge your learners to do 5 minute initial research about the topic and write down 5 facts! Teach students how to get better results by using search functions and features.

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Practical examples of social media in elementary school

The Innovative Educator

Here is how we use it at PS 10 Webpages and wikis - Teachers have class webpages and wikis to help foster the home-school connection. Twitter - Blog posts, wikis and web pages are great, and the time invested is well worth it, but sometimes there are great things happening in class that deserve to be shared immediately.

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ChatGPT with My Students

User Generated Education

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). Now, similar work is often seen as innovative by colleagues. I still am an early adopter of technologies in that I believe many can benefit students in their learning. Later, I describe and show the work of my students.

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Reflections on NCTIES

The Web20Classroom

Sam Walker ( @swalker2 ) is an Instructional Technologist at Kimmel Farm Elementary , just down the road from me. She spoke about how to Go Global With Elementary students. Now, I don''t work with elementary students, however, the ideas she promoted work at any grade level. I could not think of someone more deserving than Sam.

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Courage to Be an Outlier Educator

User Generated Education

” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courage. I have been an outlier educator in a number of educational settings including elementary and college levels. According to Maya Angelou , “Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.

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Showcase #TeacherEffectiveness using Padlet

The Innovative Educator

Last week I shared ways to showcase teacher effectiveness via digital portfolios using a wiki and eduClipper. This week I bring you another great tool to showcase teacher effectiveness courtesy of elementary school teacher Rodney Schneider. The tool is called Padlet.

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