Start The Year With Some SEESAW SWAG 👕🛍️!
If you missed it, #Connect2023 was a lot of fun! You can still check out some of the on-demand sessions if you missed the Live Event link on their Back to School page they have put together. For being a panelist, I received a Swag Bag that I am going to pass along to a 4J teacher! If you post a Welcome Back To School message for your parents and students before Sept 15th, you will be eligible to win! You will be entered to win twice if you record a video message and send it to me as well. Get rewarded for staring the year out on the right foot and establishing communication with parents. Even better record your message now while you have time and schedule it to go out the first week of school. Here is a Family Engagement Toolkit to help you out, with some examples.
What a quick way to find out about your students and build relationships, have students share All About Me during the first few weeks of school on Seesaw!
💚Learn about students!
💙Students can practice using Seesaw!
💜No-prep for you!
Grab this template here https://app.seesaw.me/#/activities/library?premium_activity=prompt.ad6d075e-ee47-4ec1-82c7-2eda7f54d867&tab=school
Back to School Lesson Planning Tips
Check out this episode from @ShakeUpLearning, Kasey Bell is sharing lesson planning resources, tips and templates to help you prepare for the back-to-school season.
BookCreator Templates
Have you seen all of the FREE templates
@BookCreatorApp is giving away for back to school time?
👨🏻🏫 Meet the Teacher
🌍 Interactive Maps
🎥 School Video Tours … and more!
Get them all in the incredible Book Creator back to school hub: https://bookcreator.com/back-to-school/
+over 100 teacher created graphic organizers
Back to School Resources
🚌 BacktoSchool Resources for Teachers!
🍎 Tips, tools, templates, lesson ideas, and more! https://shakeuplearning.com/blog/category/back-to-school/…
Canvas Resources
Campus is calling! It’s time to head #backtocampus for a new semester! Check out these resources Instructure put together to help kick off the new school year https://bit.ly/43SjbzI
How Podcasting Is Changing Teaching and Research
Cheap digital tools have made it possible to record and broadcast audio and distribute it as a podcast. Many academics have found it a way to have Socratic dialogues with other scholars for anyone to hear. Podcasting
Seesaw Video
Get your families connected to your classroom this year!
Send them a Video Message!
❤️ Important Updates
🧡 Newsletters
💛 Sign-Ups
💚 Reading Tips & Tricks
💙 The possibilities are endless!!
SO COOL.....
1. FigJam - FigJam empowers teams to build better products, together. Define ideas, align on decisions, and move work forward—all in one place.
2. Google Arts & Culture - Google Arts & Culture is both a website and an iOS app that provides free access to art, culture, and historical collections from around the world. The site is well-organized and easy to navigate.
3.Word Cloud Maker - You may not have as many settings with Word Cloud Maker as you do with other generators, but the features it does offer are powerful. They have great layouts and shapes you can use to create something that’s truly engaging and unique.
4. Smithsonian Open Access is a free website collecting almost three million digitized items -- as well as archived exhibits and interactives -- from the Smithsonian's collections. Smithsonian Open Access has released these artifacts under a Creative Commons license, so users can download, share, use, and remix the artifacts without requiring the Smithsonian's permission.5.MonkeyLearn - This AI-powered tool is ideal for the classroom. Using advanced relevance algorithms, it will automatically recognize compound words and collations while removing stop words. The interface is modern, free of ads, and easy to navigate.
NEWSELA
Did you know we had a subscription to NEWSELA? Check out this tutorial about how to use the Pro version. You can access either via Clever or Canvas.
BOOKCREATOR
Back to School with Book Creator
Did you know we had a subscription to Book Creator? We are doing a pilot until Dec. Don't wait till its gone to try it out with your class.
Panda Pros
Check out these live advice presentations on Instructure products! Get expert advice and solutions during these live 60-minute webinar sessions.
Apple Professional Learning Specialist
Apple Professional Learning Live Explore helpful resources, practice new skills, and reflect on ways Apple technology can support great learning and teaching. These hands-on virtual sessions run for approximately 60 minutes and are offered twice daily.
- Visit apple.co/apl to learn more and register.
💥NEW!!! 💥- Apple has launched a new professional learning hub for educators called the Apple Education Community, which expands on the resources previously hosted on the Apple Teacher Learning Center and adds a brand new educator Forum, now live in beta.
EUGENE 4J RESOURCES TO HELP YOU GET THE YEAR STARTED!
Curriculum Administrator - Educational Technology
Email: huntley_ju@4j.lane.edu
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/huntley-edtech/justin-huntley
Location: 200 North Monroe Street, Eugene, OR, USA
Phone: 541-790-7587
Twitter: @JustinHuntley