💗😊"8 Respectful Routines" 😊💗

Saw this post by Catlin Tucker and liked the suggestions for classroom routines. Most of these are just good reminders and much of what you're already doing. I see a lot of you rocking something similar to #4 with student chromebooks already. Sometimes we ask students to close the lid, angle the lid closed slightly, hands on head etc. ~Whatever it takes to shift the focus to the speaker, whether it be another classmate, a guest speaker or you!

"Screens 45", "Lids Closed" or anything else that is a lil more fun and catchy
As with any expectation, be sure to practice whatever phrase or strategy you go with and
discuss what that looks-like/sounds-like/feels-like.

Please share if you have a routine, phrase or strategy that you love

We grow from helping one another

As always, give us a shout if you want to explore ideas together.

Have an awesome rest of your week!

AdobeSpark for EDU

Hey All! Came across this post by Sarah Kiefer and wanted to share.

We've shared Adobe Spark before, but it's definitely worth a look if you haven't explored it yet.

In any curricular area, you and your students can create awesome :

• Graphics

(info-graphics, posters, collages, memes, character quotes, poetry, famous quotes,

add captions & labels to an image, selfie showcase, vocabulary, etc etc etc).

Matt Miller has some great examples in this post. and also on Adobe's site here.

• Videos (slide shows too)
• WebSites

It comes with a library of images to choose from, but students can also upload their own.
It looks like many already come from the Public Domain as Pixabay pops up as one of the options
when searching for images.  

Of course, much of this can be accomplished with other tools too, even our Google Apps!
However, AdobeSpark makes it a breeze with preloaded images for your students to create,
create, create and share their knowledge!! One more tool for your toolbox.

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

Join the Global Movement

Hour of Code is an annual computer science experience that takes place across the globe.
Don't miss out! Carve out some time during the week of December 3rd-9th to participate
~ Yes, YOU and your students! This can be implemented in every grade, anywhere across
the curriculum, in any core classroom, co-curricular, special service, you name it!

• NO coding/computer science experience required by the teacher or students.

For ages "4 to 104".

• Coding activities are self-guided. Many students have experience with some level

of coding fromSTEM class, so they can help each other out!

• Choose from ipad/chromebook activities or "unlugged" activities ~both are awesome!

• You could even invite experts from STEM fields in to talk with students (in-person or via Skype/Hangouts).

If you're interested, but don't know how to get started, give us a shout!

We'd be happy to help you plan your hour of code. Don't be intimidated by the
"hour" ~ it's flexible!

167,799 events around the world have signed up to participate so far. 1273 are in IL so far!
Sign up here and let's add to those numbers!

Hope to see your students coding, programing and computing!

Please be sure to post pictures. You can add our # on Thrillshare anytime~  #pg46pride and also #HourOfCode for this one.

Animations ~ Bring Concepts to Life!

Hey All!

Stumbled upon this post by Richard Byrne today and thought it would be a great tool
to add to the toolbox. Across the curriculum, students can bring a concept to life and communicate their knowledge/explain their thinking.  They can animate a process or bring vocabulary to life using Brush Ninja. The author then took it a step further and had students record their explanation/explain their thinking using Screencastify. Last, embed it all on a slide. One slide per student and you have a classroom digital "book" of science processes, vocabulary words, animated idioms, math concepts, animated How-To's, sequencing and soooo much more.

You could skip Screencastify too and have students record directly on the slide
with AliceKeelerWebCamRecord instead. Less steps and still just as powerful!

Take or Toss ~ As always, let us know if you want to explore any of this together.

Kaiti😊

Take a Snapshot is back….and more!

If you haven't already seen it, the camera feature is available once again in Google apps. For those of you who have missed "Take a snapshot", it is back as Insert > Camera.

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Other fun tidbits and tips :

• Alice Keeler recently shared : You/students can bold comments in Google Docs(etc) by putting asterisks around the word(s) you want to emphasize. *bold*

• You/students can also italicize comments in Google Docs(etc) by putting underscores on both sides of the word(s) that you want to emphasize.  _italics_

• In Google, try voice typing to help save you time too. We know it's a great option for students, but sometimes we don't realize all of these great tools that can help us too. Have a lot to type into a form or other program? >Voice Type and copy/paste over.

• Global Read Aloud Fall 2018 registration is open already!

• Student Voice Film Festival - Students can create an original story or produce a biographical film using the theme, “In Another’s Shoes” -  Deadline is February 28th. Finalists are invited to ISTE 2018 in Chicago. If you have any questions registering or about digital storytelling via WeVideo, give us a shout!

• Eric Curts recently re-shared his Random Writing Prompt Generator with Google Sheets and his Emoji Writing Prompt Generator

Take or Toss!