So many of you are rockin' Google, as well as SeeSaw/ClassDojo, into your
teaching and learning adventures - Just wanted to share some opportunities to become ambassadors or certified in those programs that you are incorporating into your classrooms

(if you haven't already).

• SeeSaw Ambassador  ~ Apply today! Love SeeSaw!

There are also so many opportunities to connect with other classes

around the world through student connected "blogs"/portfolios.  

Knock down those walls and share to a global audience!

• Class Dojo has an ambassador program as well, but it looks

like it opens up in the summer each year. We can keep an eye out if
any of you are interested. Love their Big Ideas component too!

• Google Certification - Levels 1&2 (assessment fees apply)

Let us know if you have any questions about moving forward with any of these
or if you want to explore any together.

Thank you for all that you do for our students each and every day!

Have a wonderful, restful, well-deserved Break!

See you in 2018!

-->Did you know?
Students can crop images in Google Slides into shapes rather than just the default square?!

Sumdog ~K-8 Math

This may be old news to you, but saw some education peeps talking about some of their favorite math programs. Many of the ones that you incorporate were mentioned ; However, there was one I saw a few times that I hadn't heard of and wanted to share in case it's "new" to you too > Sumdog

Looks like it's along the lines of Prodigy as far as having an avatar and completing questions.

Says it is free /CCSS aligned  ~ Haven't explored it myself yet, but please let us know if you want to check it out together.

Take or Toss!

12 Days of Tech-Mas

Eric Curts shares great resources and tools (He's the one who created the Snowman and Halloween interactive writing templates that we've shared out before).

He has a 12 Days of Tech-Mas countdown here too.

Take or Toss😊 Let us know if you want to explore anything together.

The Google Voyager tours look like amazing virtual field trips to embark on!

⛄️❄️Wintertime Googley Writing Activities⛄️❄️

Just wanted to share these Googley Winter Activities from Eric Curts via the 12 Days of TechMas in case you missed them. Just another set of tools to give students choice for switching up platforms for writing. Focus on just one to consider implementing or let the students explore a number of them and report back to the class about their discoveries.

Keep in mind that you can compile each activity onto an online gallery to share with families rather than printing them.

Students can also make their links "public" and create a QR code of their activity. >With an extension like Quick QR Code generator, students can easily make a QR code for their project. You can have them drop their code in Classroom or in a shared doc similar to this. Rather than printing out the full-colored activity, you're only printing a small QR Code. You can still have a designated classroom place to showcase their "work", but just swap out the QR code that peers and visitors will interact with.

This also works great for digital books that students create in Slides, Little Bird Tales, StoryBird, BookCreator, StoryJumper, etc.

~Your own little Read-Box for student-created ebooks~

Let us know if you have any questions or want to explore together.

Take or Toss!

Digital Rubrics & Google Keep

Have you been checking out the 12 Days of Tech-mas?! Love these rubric options! Some of the rubrics can be "stamped" right on a student's google doc. There are options for written/voice feedback, customized rubrics and you can ingest your Google Classroom assignments so that you can easily go from student to student. With anything new, there's a learning curve, but hopefully these save you time in the long-run while still providing students with authentic feedback.

The other countdown calendar highlights Google Keep today. Don't forget, Google Keep is also linked to the Docs/Slides now which makes researching, note-taking and collaborating that much more streamlined for your students. Add images, drawings, links and more! Try it out for yourself.

As always, let us know if you want to check out any of these together.

BlackLight Math & Glow-in-the-Dark Scavenger Hunts

Came across two awesome activities on Twitter to try out with your students. Nothing transformational here ~ but oh so fun for you and your students! Take or toss. If you’ve tried this in any subject, let us know how it went!

Can our rooms even get this dark?! :)

Black light Math

Glow in the dark scavenger hunts