Next Webinar: Improve Writing Skills with Google Docs
Please join me and Simple K12 for a webinar to explore the integrated writing and research tools available in Google Docs to help students improve writing skills.
Collaborate About iPad Apps on Wallwisher
It appears as though Wallwisher is trying to change it's name to Padlet. Good luck!
Visualead: Colorful QR Code Generator
Visualead is a free and user friendly tool for generating colorful QR codes in three simple steps.
1. Uppload an image.
2. Drag the slider over the image.
3. Click lick a button to generate the embed code.
Visualead is integrated with many popular social networking tools which allows you to create a QR code to suit your needs.
Bloom's Presented Visually
Creative educators everywhere are putting together interesting visual representations of Bloom's Digital Taxonomy. I have been using Scoop.It to quickly capture some of this content, publish and share it.
In this collection you will find The Blooming Orange, by Learning Today. This my favorite model because it presents a simplified way to think about Bloom's. Visit Learning Today to learn more and print a copy of this poster to hang in your workspace.
Civil Rights HotSpots
Digital Literacy: How to Embed Almost Anything
One of the things I look for in a Web 2.0 tool is a built in embed feature that allows users to display live 3rd party content in a blog or website so visitors don't have to leave the page. Fortunately many Web 2.0 tools include an auto-generated embed code that can be copied and pasted into the html or source of a blog or website to display live content, but if a tool doesn't include that feature you can usually use an iFrame to embed the content yourself.
Vocabulary & Significant Text: I Have a Dream
Common Core Shift 6 suggests that it is important to dig deeper into Tier II vocabulary words. Tier II words are those words that are found across many content areas and change meaning depending on context.
Mystery Photos
A few years ago I used Mystery Photos to kickoff some collaborative discussions among students participating in an online learning project I had the pleasure of facilitating, Regions of the United States. The ideas here are supported by the Common Core and worth revisiting. (CCSS SL-5, CCSS W-7)
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