Tech for the Holidays

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Facilitator: Miguel Guhlin (@mguhlin)

Navigation Menu: Outline | Hanukkah | Christmas | Kwanzaa

Session Description

Discover some fun (and silly!) websites and apps that will ensure you get your jolly on this holiday season. You will leave with some recommended gadgets, gizmos and holiday gift ideas. Don’t let the holidays slip up on you unaware!

Tap into children’s excitement about their special holiday by using the resources below to electrify your lesson planning efforts. Take the opportunity to deepen students’ understanding of the role holidays play in our lives.

Session Outline

More Exciting Ideas

The Gift of Holiday Traditions: Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and Christmas: This excellent lesson from EdSitement takes a look at all three winter holidays through the lens of gift giving.

Wintertime Magnetic Poetry Template: Make a copy of this Google Drawings template and have your students create poetry using words related to Christmas, Hanukkah, snow, sledding, and much more.

Build a Snowman with Google Slides: This is a wonderful activity that can be carried well into January and February.

Holiday Gift Ideas - Explore These Wakelets

Maker Magic Holiday and Chromebook Christmas

Around your home, you may have access to everything you need to create a magic maker Christmas holiday. Yet you may not be aware of some inexpensive technologies that can turn your home into Santa’s Toy Shop.

OR, perhaps, you are ready to explore some jolly Chrome extensions? This list of thirteen extensions will get your holiday season off to a fun start!

And of course, these ideas also translate to the classroom quite well.

You can download a PDF of this document (chromebook-christmas-flyer) to access the links.