CTAP Siskiyou Web 2.0

Backchanneling has a lot of promise with students in many different content areas. Here is a Social Studies teacher who shared her first experience using Today's Meet as a tool for doing formative assessment and teaching critical thinking skills during a film she showed students. Check out the learning process she shares in her reflection.

Great visual and description of how to use Google Drive in creative, effective ways with students. Don't forget, Google Apps also export in MS Office formats.

This short video demonstrates different levels of tech. integration using the SAMR model. For more information on SAMR & Bloom's taxonomy, check out this blog post: The Padagogy Wheel … it's a Bloomin' Better Way to Teach @ http://goo.gl/8RTdA

"When I observe teachers, I see one small, specific problem more often than anything else. If they fixed it, they would notice an instant difference in how well their classes go." - check out the solution

Want to learn about Google Classroom? Alice Keeler has written a lot of posts & they're gathered on this blog post for us. Lots of good ones to choose from.

Great informational text for students - discussion and literacy across the curriculum.

"Both of these apps can be used by students without creating any kind of new online accounts. Neither one is entirely perfect, but they're both quite good." - Opinion is an iPad app & recordings can be saved to Soundcloud & Evernote. StoryCorps is available for iPhone and Android devices, and is good for interviews.

Collection of free, high quality photos - no attribution required.

"This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed!" - check out this program for your class/school. Free and inexpensive paid versions.

"This online program will assist you with learning and improving your typing speed!" - check out this program for your class/school. Free and inexpensive paid versions.

An interesting on filtering GAFE with objectionable content (based on word lists) and examples of word lists/policies. Some of the features discussed not available are now available in GAFE Admin. Setup (Email blocks, quarantines, etc.) Here is a video by Google Guru showing the setup. http://goo.gl/ejC3Eq

Nice, short video tutorial on how to search for publicly shared Google Docs, Slides, Presentations, & lesson plans.

Giphy (a search engine for GIFs), created a code that makes GIFs actually loop on Facebook & Twitter. It works simply like posting a link to a video. Either copy paste the URL of the page for the GIF you've selected, or embed straight to Facebook & Twitter from that page from the portion where it says "share GIF.

Vicki Davis models student transparency to improve her teaching, using a discussion format and parent surveys.

Helpful dictionary of terms you will see in 21st Century learning models.

On the Teaching Professor blog, the author starts with: "In May I finished a second edition of my Learner-Centered Teaching book. Revising it gave me the chance to revisit my thinking about the topic and look at work done since publication of the first edition ten years ago. It is a subject about which there is still considerable interest." And that it is. Check out the five characteristics of Learner-Centered Teaching helped me to think about my own thoughts of Learner-Centered engagement as a Tech. Coordinator who loves teachers and teaching.

Nick Provenzano aka The Nerdy Teacher, shares his ideas on how to embrace and implement Ed. Tech. in 2015

Want to explore the "Genius Hour" concept. These videos and links will help introduce you to an approach many are embracing.

Well thought out, step by step instructions on how to share folders in Google Drive. Thanks to Alice Keeler, Google Guru...great for using with both Ss & Ts.

"The BBC Flew a Drone Over Auschwitz - And the Result Is Haunting" - so many ways this could be used to evoke create responses from students - poetry, reflections, compare/contrast, etc.

Meet reading standards using this site and engage students with current events. Includes the ability to adjust reading level and assessing students comprehension with writing and multiple choices quizzes. Great resource.