🍧🍨 April Featured Resources 🍨🍧
🖋️ Quillbot
Have you ever asked a colleague to proofread your work? Quillbot is a free rephrasing tool that will rephrase up to 125 words in a standard writing tone. Further edits can be made to the phrase results by clicking on the orange-colored words in the Rephrase box. Quillbot will indicate the structural changes it made with a yellow underline. Blue color-coded words are longer sets of unchanged words. Premium Quillbot can rephrase in the following tones: formal, simple, creative, expand, & shorten.
SAMR Model
How can you tell that the incorporation of technology into your lessons is “working?” Created in 2010, by Ruben Puentedura, the SAMR Model helps teachers conceptually reflect on the integration of technology in their classrooms. Thinking of SAMR as a ladder, progressively becoming more transformative at the highest tiers, the levels of technology integration are: Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition. Check out the slide deck to the left to learn SAMR Model basics.
Strategy 1, Action Plan 3, Action Step 1, of the Rialto Unified School District's Strategic Plan:
“Use the Substitution, Augmentation, Modification, and Redefinition (SAMR) technology model to increase rigor and create innovative learning opportunities that move beyond the substitution level.”
🌍 360 Schools
360 Schools gives teachers free access to thousands of high resolution panorama images from around the globe. Search by location, or use the “World Map” to select a 360 image to share with your students. The Shwedagon, Myanmar image to the right has been embedded using the easy to share embed code provided by 360 Cities. Interact with the image by using your cursor to zoom in and zoom out, change directions to explore, and make full screen.
ISTE Standards for Educators 2.5.a: Use technology to create, adapt and personalize learning experiences that foster independent learning and accommodate learner differences and needs.
New Google Workspace Features!
Spring 2023:
Practice Sets in Google Classroom
Google Classroom organized by grading period
Custom-building blocks in Google Docs
Emoji voting smart chips in Google Docs
Google Calendar draft in Google Docs
Manage slides with co-presenter in Google Meet
AI powered hand-raise detection in Google Meet
Interactive YouTube videos (Beta)
This is a fun AI drawing tool! Scribble Diffusion will generate an image using your sketch and text prompt. Use your mouse to draw in the “Draw something here” box. Next, provide a short description of your scribble in the bottom text box, click Go. Paired with the Sketch & Tell EduProtocol, Scribble Diffusion livens up the lesson!
Need to create a quick reading exit ticket? 🎫 Conker.ai tool can create a multiple choice quiz for content that is pasted in (100 word min & 1,200 word max). When granted permission, Conker.ai will export your quiz as a Google Form, with the answer key already filled in. Future question types are coming, including Fill in the Blank type questions.