Daily Tech Tips

Ideas from my PLN.

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It's hard everyday...but we love kids. That's why we do things thing called teaching.

This book covers a variety of tools that work for students o f any age and ability level.

27 Proven Student Engagement Hacks To Try In.pdf

Ensuring Meaningful Student Interaction

When thinking about how to engage students, there are a couple of key ideas that come to mind. Is the activity or lesson meaningful?

Students know when they are given busy work or time fillers. Help students relate to a topic so it is not just an abstract idea.

What will this mean to them or what can they relate it to now? If it is truly abstract, technology is a great tool to bring those ideas to life (ie, virtual reality). Also include your students in the lesson.

As educators we can no longer follow the “sit and get” model. Students need to interact while learning. It does not have to be digitally, but in some way interact with them as you are teaching.

Check out these easy 10 Lesson Upgrades for Learning with Tech from Matt Miller & Ditch That Textbook

Using Technology Better Website has created an awesome G Suite checklist for teachers and students. Check it out here.


Master the Screencast

A 1-hour certification course taught by Matt Miller.


Great Podcast from The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast with Vickie Davis. This podcast is all about using the G-Suite in the classroom. Eric Curts shares 28 ways to use G-Suite in the Classroom.

My TakeAways

Google Docs-Use highlight tool and instead of highlight blackout-poetry; have students black out all unimportant parts of the article.

Google Slides-1. create comic books (each slide different panel of comic strip) 2. You can change page dimensions of page. 3. Stop motion in slides (speed up slide transitions)

Google Sheets- 1. Pixel art, 2. Language arts for random writing prompt generators

Google Drawings- 1. Graphic Organizers 2. interactive images 3. Math manipulatives 4. Publisher-create posters, greeting cards.

Click here for link to Podcast.

Templates for all these great ideas.


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