Tech Coach Newsletter
Biweekly Edition 2/12
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❄️Feeling the Winter Doldrums? Check Out The Resources Below❄️
Creative & Fun Websites for Writing
Tombstone Creator
Students can create a tombstone to summarize a character from a historical fiction book.
Profile Publisher
Students create a character's profile that is similar to a Facebook page.
Twister
Practice summarization skills by creating a fake tweet about an author or famous person.
Toasted Cheese
This site includes a monthly calendar of writing prompts.
Lightning Bug - Helps you write a story from beginning to end!
The New York Times
Every Monday during the 2015-16 school year, The Learning Network offered a post by educator Larry Ferlazzo that included an interactive quiz and writing prompt. These posts and activities are still available.
A search in the New York Times provides several PDFs of educational writing prompts. You are able to view 10 articles a month for free.
What's Going on in this Picture? provides students images that allows to explore visual literacy by analyzing and commenting on them. The actual caption and meaning behind the image is explained several days after the image is posted.
Comic Strip Templates
Using Google Draw to create Comic Strips.
Thanks to @meredithakers for these shared resources.
Link to copy square comic strip template
Link to copy long comic strip template
Caption This! A fun, deep-thinking Google Drawings activity!
Check out the entire post here
By adding a comment to the “Caption This!” activity, students add an extra layer of deeper critical thinking.
When you add a speech bubble or thought bubble to an image, you let students speak or think for the subject of the photo.
Using a “Caption This!” activity in math helps students think through their mathematical processes. It also provides a place where they can express what they struggle with, what is easy, and what they don’t understand.
TextHelp PDF Reader (Read and Write for Google)
Using Google MyMaps In The Classroom
Adding Text In Google Maps
Use Google Maps Street View
Smarty Pins
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Archived Newsletters
2017-2018 School Year
Edition 1/8 - Ambient Sound, Ways to Use Google for Feedback
Edition 12/15- Clip it Good, Notification Alerts for GClassroom, New GCalendar
Edition 11/26- Google Draw for Infographics
Edition 10/30- Read and Write for Google & Equatio
Edition 10/09 - Info about the New Google Sites
Edition 9/18 - Buncee account set up and information, digital replacements
Welcome Back Newsletter - Google Classroom, Google Forms, Recap and Flipgrid
2016-2017 School Year
Week of 6/5- Review Games
Week of 5/15- Flippity, Sutori, Google Takeout
Week of 5/8 - Google's Team Drive, Google Auto Draw, Keyboarding Shortcuts
Week of 5/1 - Tech Challenge Padlet, Sketch Notes, My Simple Show
Week of 4/10- Tech Challenge Update, Common Lit
Week of 4/3- Interactive Notebooks, Allsides Website for Bias
Week of 3/20 - "I Wish My Teacher Knew"
Week of 3/13- Infographics
Week of 2/13- Screencasting
Week of 1/23- Awesome Chrome Extensions
Week of 1/9- Media Literacy and Flipgrid FREE update
Week of 1/2 - APPY New Year, Managing a Classroom with Tech,
Week of 12/19- Google Classroom Tips
Week of 12/11- HyperDocs, Twitter Challenge, G Suite Updates
Week of 12/5- #Booksnaps, #Mathsnaps & Twitter Challenge
Week of 11/28 -Hour of Code, Google Keep
Week of 11/14- Google Arts & Culture and QUIZIZZ
Week of 10/31- Quizlet Live and #DeviceFreeDinner
Week of 10/24- Formative and Socrative
Week of 10/17- Google Form As A Quiz and Formative
Week of 10/10- Google Guardian Summary and Buncee
Week of 10/3- Dig. Citizenship and FlipGrid
Week of 9/25- Google Classroom and Mentimeter