Today gr. 3-5 have a visit from Katie Covino, an author of You Got a Phone Now Read This Book, focusing on staying safe online and maintaining a healthy life balance. Thank you HPS Wellness Comm. for organizing the visit and the @HarvardTrust for purchasing books for the school.
STEAM is happening at HES! As we prepare for our STEAM lessons, Grade 2 is in need of yarn donations (any type/color) and single face corrugated cardboard for a cross-curricular project. TIA!
Join us for our first ever Twitter Chat on Monday, October 18th at 6:30 pm! Watch this space for more details including what #hashtag we will be using for the chat (Photo by Brett Jordan in Unsplash) @MiaSilva@library_nrhs Judy Radigan
A great opportunity for educators in Massachusetts this summer. @EdTechTeacher21 in a parternship with the Massachusetts DOE and Google is offering 6 free summer workshops on a range of topics.
Learn more: edtechteacher.org/ett_events…
Kind of getting excited about these Final Vocabulary Projects rolling in. Other promising projects: a vocabulary playlist, a list of TV show references using vocabulary, a book review using vocabulary...
(This is all way better than a test. 😁)
In these free #digcit lessons students take on tough topics and play the active role of upstander to build positive, supportive online communities and combat online cruelty. Shouldn't we all be asking ourselves how to create a culture of kindness? comsen.se/3qRxGQQ
🕘 Version History is coming to Jamboard!
"Version history makes it easy to see changes to a Jam and who made them. This is particularly useful in education settings, allowing teachers to view and track student changes to Jam files." #GoogleEduworkspaceupdates.googleblog.…
🙋 Chrome updating the Profiles feature for easier management of multiple accounts and users in your browser blog.google/products/chrome/… Great way to keep your work and personal accounts separate! #edtech#GoogleEDU
Playing with the idea of Keynote scaffolds to capture Project Zero Thinking Routines using different modes of digital communication - photo, video, audio, drawing, text.
Via @bytingtheapple
In the pre Covid world we got into over assessing.
As a result of Covid, we can be more thoughtful and intentional about bringing assessing back into the classroom Environment.