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Your students, Their teachers, Working together to educate!

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Your students, Their teachers,

Working together to educate!

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I am an educator,

I am a mom,

I am a friend,

I am a co-worker,

I am a student,

I am a learner,

I am an educator!

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Higher level thinking

Increased creativity

Student driven

Teacher guidance

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Tools for Teachers to enhance learning and to continue to prepare students for a technology based society.

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Then

Newsletters

Book Reports, Dioramas

Posters, Collages

Now

Blogs

Wordle, Answer Garden

Image Chef, Big Huge Labs

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Keeping parents and students current in the classroom.

Blogs can include:

9 week plans for students and parents

Unit studies that are coming up – Williamsburg/Colonial Time

Additional help – “if you are having trouble with Author’s Purpose, checkout the websites below!”

Weekly assignments

Welcome to 4th Grade! This year we will be studying the regions of Virginia! Can you name the regions? First one to email me your answer gets a “homework pass”.

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Here is a third grade class blog.

http://blogs.goaj.org/mrshamman/

Think about how this can be incorporated into you classroom!

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Here is a different approach to blogging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTToERnTKB4

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Creative way to show what you know!

Book reports, math concepts, science vocabulary

www.wordle.net/

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AnswerGarden is a minimalistic feedback tool. Use it in the classroom as an educational tool or at work as a creative brainstorming tool. Post it in a tweet or you can embed it on your website or blog to use it as a poll or guestbook.

How does AnswerGarden work?

You create an AnswerGarden by entering a topic on the Create New AnswerGarden-page.

http://answergarden.ch/

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Can be used : For getting feedback from a small group or entire class.

to determine the knowledge level of students on a given topic.

before and after content knowledge.

More specifically: Math teachers can get feedback on graphs or charts.

For Language Arts, students can use it to describe characteristics

of a story character or setting.

It can be used to activate prior knowledge before a lesson

A group "exit-ticket" to determine the level of understanding following a lesson.

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Adds “color” to any project!

Allows students to create!

Use with any unit study

Math concepts

Book Responses www.imagechef.com/

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Students can use this site with class photos

After a field trip Reporting on an assembly Content area sequencing

Big Huge Labs helps you to use digital images in your classroom. You can create posters for any unit of study, trading cards of famous people in history, mosaics, and magazine covers on any book you read! www.bighugelabs.com/

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“Traditional thinking is all about ‘what is’. Future thinking will also need to be about what ‘can be’.” -By Edward de Bono

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Try a Tool!

Wordle – www.wordle.net/

Answer Garden - http://answergarden.ch/

Image Chef - www.imagechef.com/

Big Huge Labs – www.bighugelabs.com/

Create a Blog!

Blogger https://www.blogger.com/

WordPress www.wordpress.com