Washington Tech Tidbits

The 2016 election is quickly approaching! Brittney and I have setup a forum through PebbleGo for your students to "cast their vote" in the upcoming election!

If you are interested, here is how your students can participate in the PebbleGo election:

• Go to www.pebblego.com/vote
• Choose "Vote!" from the top navigation
• Select "My school is registered to vote"
• Type in our school's voting code: IL1409
• Select Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump
• Click Vote!

If you'd like to print these directions for your students, please click here.

Voting is currently open! The voting window closes on November 8, 2016 at 5:00 pm. We will share our school's results on the morning of November 9.

Check out this folder of election materials from PebbleGo. It contains:

• Worksheets that students can complete about Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump
• Lesson plans on the 2016 election and the democratic voting process (with accompanying student activities)
• Directions on how to participate in the online vote

Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning created a Halloween-themed magnetic poetry template on Google Drawing. There are nearly 100 words on the template. It can be used independently or as a whole-class activity. Feel free to delete words you want to omit. To add your own word magnet, make a text box, and fill it with a white background.

Click here to try it out!

Check out this blog post by Richard Byrne of Free Technology for Teachers for 4 Halloween/fall-related videos by SciShow Kids.

Video topics include:

• bats (embedded below)
• spiders
• skeletons
• the changing color of leaves

Here is a direct link to the YouTube playlist that contains all 4 videos.