EdTech by Emily

Lots of people are discovering the power of Flipgrid! Michael Hughes, a teacher in Lake Elsinore, California, is taking Flipgrid to the next level. He uses Flipgrid to help manage stations for his littles. He puts the QR code for the grid on the students' response sheet so that they can access it easily. You HAVE to check out his Twitter page to see his examples! ( Click here .) I would love to see his ideas in action.  Drop me a line!  We can work together!

This Chromebook training by Nadine Gilkison is AMAZING! I think it is intended to use with students but I think it would be awesome for adult training, too! Actually, all of Nadine's stuff is great. You should definitely check her out on Twitter or on her blog !

I got this idea by listening to the Google Teacher Tribe Podcast with Kasey Bell (from Shake Up Learning) and Matt Miller (from Ditch That Textbook). The idea is this: create a Google Slide with a page for each student. On the first slide create a Table of Contents linked to each student’s slide. It will help facilitate the beginning of a collaborative lesson and also help you find each student’s work quickly. Personally, I would make one Google Slide this way and copy it for each assignment so that I wouldn’t have to create the Table of Contents each time. You can SEE AN EXAMPLE HERE .

Powerpoint Classroom Management FIRST OF ALL, let me credit this idea to AMBER DIXON. I think she’s genius for using technology to manage her reading rotation schedule. She uses this timed powerpoint to tell her students what rotation they should be at, manage how long they should work, give them a timer for clean up, embeds brain break videos and ends with a fun activity to get the wiggles out. The powerpoint does all the work. She starts it at the beginning of her reading block and doesn’t have to click again to manage all of these processes. Genius, I tell you! One note: This idea will work with Powerpoint which you do have on your Acer. It will not work with Google Slides as Google Slides does not have some of the same features such as timed slides. You will need to download the file and open with Powerpoint to get the full effect.