Class Badges for 1-1 Goal Setting
Class Badges is a free online tool designed to help teachers use digital badges as rewards for accomplishing learning goals. The badges can be a useful tool for teachers to keep track of individual student accomplishments as they help learners focus on making progress.
Teachers can request a free account to generate a class code for students. Just add your students and choose from the many available badges. If you are in need of a unique badge of your own you can work with the folks at Class Badges to have them create it for you.
A Google Docs Template for Multimedia Research
The Google Docs Presentation is well-suited for use as a starting point for short student driven research projects because of the availability of efficient integrated research tools right on the page. To introduce students and teachers to the built in features, I created a simple template to guide the learning and help everyone discover the usefulness of the tool.
An Updated Digital Differentiation Model
To access the most current resources, please click on the tab at the top of this blog:
Digital Differentiation - Current
A Guide to Facilitating an Interactive Learning Project
"With so much active student engagement, how do you manage a project like this?"
A Playlist: Avatars & Internet Safety
I just collected some of the resources I regularly use and created a MentorMob playlist for teaching students about Avatars and Internet Safety. If you want to use the playlist with your own students, just click the Share Playlist link at the bottom, then copy and paste the embed code into your own page.
My EduBlogs Nomination & Thank Yous
My blog is an essential part of my workflow and it is my most important tool. I would like to thank some amazing people who have kept me blogging.
Janet Barnstable
Thank you for encouraging me to blog and getting me started with my favorite and most useful tool. You always point me in the right direction and I am so thankful for you, your guidance and our friendship.
Edmodo & ThingLink: Extend the Walls of Your Classroom
Teachers and students can extend the learning by posting messages, holding online discussions, picking up work and turning it in. Edmodo supports a variety of multimedia to provide students with flexible learning paths including links, images, video and interactive graphics created with ThingLink.
An Interactive Tutorial: Google Presentation
Google Presentation is a great tool for helping students construct knowledge about a topic as they create. Here is an interactive tutorial designed to demonstrate how to use some of the handy built in features.
A ThingLink Toolkit for Teachers
I am excited to share a ThingLink Teacher Toolkit of Resources.
The toolkit is designed to provide teachers and students with all the resources needed to use ThingLink as an efficient and effective tool for teaching and learning.
Edublogs 2012 Nominations
Nominations for 2012 Edublog Awards are open.
The purpose of the Edublog Awards is to
"promote and demonstrate the educational values of these social media."
The nomination process supports the goal of the contest because it requires nominations via a blog post with a follow up link to that post submitted to Edublogs. What a great way to share, discover and credit the folks whose work inspires us and contributes to our own success!
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