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Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills. February 15, 2022
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips North Elementary School Feb. 8, 2022
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Digital Media & Tech. Skills January 11, 2022
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech. Skills! Jan. 4, 2022

Click Here to Watch This QUICK Walkthrough!

Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech. Skills! Dec. 21, 2021
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech. Skills— Dec. 7, 2021

Bring Your Audience Directly to the Spot You Want Them to Read!

Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech. Skills. November 30, 2021
Turn it Off TuesdayTurn it Off Tuesday Thanksgiving 2021


Bring Your Audience Directly to the Spot You Want Them to Read!
Cliff Notes October 19, 2021
Finally a 'One Stop Shop' for Londonderry School District sites & resources!
iCivics site is free and safe to use when you share a classroom code for students to join your class!
Cliff Notes October 12, 2021
Halloween Magnetic Poetry Activity with an already made Google Slide Template!
Using graphic design website 'Canva' to make infographics, presentations, screenrecordings, and the list goes on and on!
Cliff Notes October 5, 2021
Using 'Exit Tickets' as a Formative Assessment strategy!
Create or use vetted pre-made ones from EdPuzzle...any grade, any subject...no joke!
Or use Socrative as a fun way to check for understanding.
Sept. 7, 2021 Cliff Notes
Cliff Notes: June 1, 2021
'Swank: K-12 Streaming' Trailer
Cliff Notes for May 4, 2021
April 13, 2021 Cliff Notes
April 6, 2021 Cliff Notes
March 30, 2021 Cliff Notes
March 22, 2021 Cliff Notes
Virtual Field Trips
Bell Ringer: Stickie Note Stories
Bell Ringer Add-on: Digital Gallery Walks
March 16, 2021 Cliff Notes
January 26, 2021 Cliff Notes
January 19, 2021 Cliff Notes
Online 'read alouds' through 'Storyline Online'
K-12 Digital Portfolios for PBL
Bell Ringer: "Add & Pass" activity
January 12, 2021 Cliff Notes
January 5, 2021 Cliff Notes
December 22, 2020 Cliff Notes
December 15, 2020 Cliff Notes
Dec. 8, 2020 Cliff Notes
Dec. 1, 2020 Cliff Notes
October 20, 2020 Tuesday Tech. Tips
October 13, 2020 Tuesday Tech. Tips: EdPuzzle, K-12 Resources
October 6, 2020 Tuesday Tech. Tips: EdPuzzle, Typing Practice, Google Meet
Websites, Tools, and Apps for Teaching and Learning: Click link below!
District INFO Site
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Improve Motivation
Micah Shippee has tweaked the way he groups his Social Studies students. This chart shows the class period, what task has been assigned, and specific guiding questions that create building blocks toward the final goal.
Leveraging Emergent Technology to Achieve Educational Goals
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech. Skills Nov. 16, 2021
Tuesday Tech TipsTuesday Tech Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills — November 9, 2021
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills
Friday FlashFriday Flash Wide Angle Conference System Overview
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills! Oct. 19, 2021

Cliff Notes October 19, 2021

  • Finally a 'One Stop Shop' for Londonderry School District sites & resources!

  • iCivics site is free and safe to use when you share a classroom code for students to join your class!

Cliff Notes October 12, 2021

  • Halloween Magnetic Poetry Activity with an already made Google Slide Template!


  • Using graphic design website 'Canva' to make infographics, presentations, screenrecordings, and the list goes on and on!

Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills!
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips ~Leveraging Your EdTech Skills Oct. 5, 2021

Cliff Notes October 5, 2021

  • Using 'Exit Tickets' as a Formative Assessment strategy!

  • Create or use vetted pre-made ones from EdPuzzle...any grade, any subject...no joke!

  • Or use Socrative as a fun way to check for understanding.


Sept. 7, 2021 Cliff Notes

Update your EdPuzzle & Check out their added, awesome curriculum


Prek-12 Streaming with SWANK


Download the PDFs, especially 'Your Digital Toolbox' with live links!

Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills Sept. 7, 2021
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills~ June 1, 2021

Cliff Notes: June 1, 2021


  • 'Swank: K-12 Streaming' Trailer

Cliff Notes: May 25, 2021

  • Transfer 'ownership' of your Google Classroom

  • Remember to check out our growing EdTech Website!

  • https://www.edtech.londonderry.org (you're here now!)

Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills~. May 25, 2021
Tuesday Tech TipsTuesday Tech Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills~. May 19, 2021

Cliff Notes for May 18, 2021

  • If you're retiring or heading to a new chapter in your career...

  • Don't lose your Google account materials from school!

  • Follow the steps to 'transfer' from school account to personal Google/Gmail/Drive account

Cliff Notes for May 4, 2021

  • End-of-year 'filler' activity called "Text a Character"

  • Reminder to change your passwords

  • Reminder to start thinking about end-of-year digital clean-up! Back up your stuff to Google Drive or One Drive, or both!

  • If you need help...just ask! Contact Megg at macquilano@londonderry.org

Tuesday Tech TipsTuesday Tech Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills~. May 4, 2021
Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills~. April 13, 2021

April 13, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • EdPuzzle Saves You Time!

  • Megg's very own EdPuzzle Video Tutorial!

  • Additional links for EdPuzzle Resources

April 6, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • 🌿 Rich Earth Day Web Sites & Apps

  • 🌿 QPA Tasks Related to Earth Day

  • 🌿 Google Drive Keyboard Shortcuts!

  • 🌿 Google Classroom formatting capability update!

Tuesday Tech. TipsTuesday Tech. Tips Leveraging Your EdTech Skills. ~April 6, 2021
Tuesday Tech. Tips🥕 Incredible Online Resources 🥕 Google Arts and Culture: For all ages! Explore a variety of interactive art activities as a class,...

March 30, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • 🎨 Awesome Online Resources

  • 🎥 Updates to ScreenCastify

  • 🔔 Bell Ringer: Booksnaps!

Tuesday Tech. Tips🐘 Virtual Field Trips 🐘 Take a virtual tour of the San Diego Zoo, Easter Island, or even Mars with your class. Sometimes the best place...

March 22, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • Virtual Field Trips

  • Bell Ringer: Stickie Note Stories

  • Bell Ringer Add-on: Digital Gallery Walks

March 16, 2021 Cliff Notes


  • Organizing Google Drive

  • Docs/Slides Time Savers

  • Blackout Poetry Activity

  • Automagical Forms App

Tuesday Tech. Tips🍀 Organizing Your Google Drive 🍀 Oh boy, how quickly did your Google Drive get out-of-control during remote learning? Yikes! This is an...
Tuesday Tech. Tips🎨 Digital Collages 🎨 Collages can be a multi-disciplinary activity that integrates all sorts of digital mediums like images, clip art,...

March 2, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • Digital Collages

  • 'Four Freedoms' Digital Collage Exemplars: Look at slides below to see some amazing work! Permission was given from King Middle School to view these students' work.

  • Bell Ringer: Emoji Comic Strips

  • Future Ready D.Q.: New Media Ecology

Four Freedoms Exemplars 2.pptx

January 26, 2021 Cliff Notes


  • Differentiation with Project-Based Learning

  • Digital Choice Boards, Menus, and Tic-Tac-Toe Boards

  • Digital Differentiation with Google Classroom assignments

  • Digital Differentiation with Flipped Classroom teaching strategy

  • Bell Ringer: What Would Galileo Tweet?

Tuesday Tech. Tips👓 When in Doubt, Differentiate with Project-Based Learning As educators, we can understand that students may benefit when they can choose...
Tuesday Tech. Tips📚 Children's Literature Read Alouds 📚 Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills,...

January 19, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • Online 'read alouds' through 'Storyline Online'

  • K-12 Digital Portfolios for PBL

  • Bell Ringer: "Add & Pass" activity

Tuesday Tech. Tips⌛ When in Doubt, Reflect ⌛ Learning how to self-reflect on our experiences and developing a habit of doing so, can have profound impacts...

January 12, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • Digital tools to empower 'reflecting' on the teaching & learning process

  • Digital 'hubs' for reflection materials

  • Project-Based & Problem-Based Learning, example of an awesome PBL task

  • Bell Ringer: 'Icon Boards'

January 5, 2021 Cliff Notes

  • Maintaining our systems that work!

  • First installment of our look at Project-Based Learning

  • Bell Ringer: Virtual Scavenger Hunt

  • Keyboard Shortcut to get a page back that you just closed

  • Did You Know: First installment of 'Digital Intelligence' (DQ)

Tuesday Tech. Tips👷🏽‍♀️ When in Doubt, Maintain What Works 👷🏾‍♂️ Like never before, may this year bring new beginnings and a bright light shining into the...
Tuesday Tech. Tips🏭 Flashcard Factory 🏭 Redefine how your students learn vocabulary! Flashcard Factory from PearDeck was designed to transform the way...

December 22, 2020 Cliff Notes

  • Pear Deck's 'Flashcard Factory'

  • 'Thought Bubbles & Annotations' Activity

  • video.link YouTube Safety

  • Candy Cane History!

  • Life in 2057 Writing Prompt

  • Keyboard Shortcuts

Tuesday Tech. Tips🎄 Digital Do Nows, Bell Ringers & Exit Ticket Ideas 🎄 🔔 Here are a couple of ideas for digital 'Do Now', 'Bell Ringers', and 'Exit...

December 15, 2020 Cliff Notes

  • Ditch That Textbook's Bell Ringers & Activities

  • Digital Choice Boards with a Fake Instagram Template!

  • Examples of Proficiency Scale & Choice Menu

  • Add Voice Over to Google Slides with Screencastify

  • Free template sites for Google Slides

  • Smartphone for Pets writing prompt

Tuesday Tech. Tips⚡The Power of Google Forms ⚡ There are lots of different kinds of questions that you can create such as short answer, long answer,...

Dec. 8, 2020 Cliff Notes

Google Forms Galore!

'I Survived' Book Series Read Aloud Links

Intro. to Bell Ringers


Tuesday Tech. Tips🧱 Block Scheduling Ideas 🧱 Lots of you have requested ideas for managing the scheduling changes that have come along with remote...

Dec. 1, 2020 Cliff Notes

Block Scheduling Strategies

Google Meet Hand Raising Feature

Delay-Send your Emails

Tuesday Tech. Tips🚧 Ideas to Extend & Enrich During Remote 🚧 Even though it may not feel like it, you're much more prepared this time around!...

November 17, 2020 Cliff Notes

  • Digital Extension & Enrichment Project Ideas

  • Digital Interactive Notebooks

  • Awesome Digital Writing Prompts

  • Daily Agenda Slide Deck Template for Remote


Cliff Notes for November 10, 2020 Newsletter:


  • Happy Veteran's Day! Thank you!

  • Class/Teacher Information Template

  • Digital Choice Board Templates

  • Common Sense Media article on reminders for remote learning

Tuesday Tech. Tips🙌First of All...Thank You Veterans!🙌
Tuesday Tech. Tips🎓Are Your Assignments Building Up in Google Classroom? A couple of teachers have reached out for information on how to 'clean up' their...



October 20, 2020 Tuesday Tech. Tips


Tuesday Tech. Tips🍍EdPuzzle Another tool that is definitely worth checking out is EdPuzzle! The district has paid for everyone to have access to this...

October 13, 2020 Tuesday Tech. Tips: EdPuzzle, K-12 Resources


Tuesday Tech. Tips✨Make YouTube Videos Interactive with EdPuzzle Londonderry School District has purchased the EdPuzzle extension and it's awesome! Take...

October 6, 2020 Tuesday Tech. Tips: EdPuzzle, Typing Practice, Google Meet


Tuesday Tech. Tips🎃Google Slides with Narration Using ScreenCastify Google Slides presentations are awesome. They're even MORE awesome when you add your...

Cliff Notes for September 30, 2020 Issue


~Google Slides with Narration Using Screencastify

~Review of Screencastify

~Creating Assignments in Google Classroom

~Google Slides Keyboard Shortcuts



Tuesday Tech. TipsScreenCastify Screen Castify is a Chrome Extension that allows you to record yourself, along with your screen, and post the finished...

Cliff Notes for September 22, 2020 Issue


~Screencastify Intro.

~Londonderry's Approved Apps List

~Google Drive and Cool Keyboard Shortcuts

~Live Whiteboard Tools

~Take it or Leave it Articles


Websites, Tools, and Apps for Teaching and Learning: Click link below!

Londonderry's Approved Apps

District INFO Site

(for all features of the info site, including folders, you need to use the Edge Browser)

http://info - from school

Info.londonderry.org - from home

Ability to look up staff members by either first or last name. Has email and picture to go with each name.

      • Munis (payroll, days off, benefits)

      • Access to Staff Development Portal

      • Link to Aspen (grading system)

      • Folders for Sped ed. And each school

      • Curriculum maps

      • Place an IT help request

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Improve Motivation

Problem-based tasks can motivate learners like never before...especially when they truly understand the steps they take toward a solution are preparing them for their work in the future.

Jay McTighe & Associates: https://jaymctighe.com/resources/#1521225059547-6b53d411-2ed8


Preparing our Kids for Their Future

We all have organized our classes into groups- whether it's assigned group work or student-chosen groups, perhaps we can put a twist on group work. Our learners can benefit greatly when the work they do in school better represents the complex problem-solving, adaptability and the methods needed to accomplish a goal or complete a task. Future jobs will require working collaboratively with others...in what is called a "Gig-Economy".
Why does this matters to educators? We are preparing our students for a future that might have them working with groups in different geographies, different time-zones and different cultures. Adaptability to new tools and new workflows are tools our learners can practice while they're with us, in their K-12 setting.
TechTarget describes a "gig-economy" as a free-market system where companies and organizations hire freelancers, part-time, project-based workers, independent contractors or temporary workers for short-term purposes. "Gig" simply comes from the music industry, a slang term meaning a job for a short period of time.
https://www.techlearning.com/how-to/how-to-organize-class-project-groups-to-support-our-students-future-of-work-wanderlustedu-fow
Rouse, M. “What is gig economy? – Definition from WhatIs.com.” WhatIs.com. https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/gig-economy. Accessed 8 Dec. 2018.

Certificates for Student Growth

Micah Shippee has tweaked the way he groups his Social Studies students. This chart shows the class period, what task has been assigned, and specific guiding questions that create building blocks toward the final goal.

Leveraging Emergent Technology to Achieve Educational Goals

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