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
Update your EdPuzzle & Check out their added, awesome curriculum
Prek-12 Streaming with SWANK
Download the PDFs, especially 'Your Digital Toolbox' with live links!
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!)
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
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!
March 30, 2021 Cliff Notes
🎨 Awesome Online Resources
🎥 Updates to ScreenCastify
🔔 Bell Ringer: Booksnaps!
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
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.pptxJanuary 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?
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
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)
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
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
Dec. 8, 2020 Cliff Notes
Google Forms Galore!
'I Survived' Book Series Read Aloud Links
Intro. to Bell Ringers
Dec. 1, 2020 Cliff Notes
Block Scheduling Strategies
Google Meet Hand Raising Feature
Delay-Send your Emails
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
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
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
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
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.
Rouse, M. “What is gig economy? – Definition from WhatIs.com.” WhatIs.com. https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/gig-economy. Accessed 8 Dec. 2018.
