Have you seen Teachflix? 👀
A free resource with more than 500 classroom videos vetted by educators!
Find what you need with:
1️⃣ a search bar
2️⃣ age-level categories
3️⃣ content area categories
With activities/worksheets for any video 😲
Check it out:
Learn to pronounce student names.
Ask. Practice. Work at it if you have to.
And no, an easier nickname is NOT acceptable.
A person's name is to him or her the sweetest and most important sound in any language. -- Dale Carnegie
Chromebooks have a built-in screen reader!
Use Ctrl + Alt + Z to activate.
Also, on Android mobile devices, ask the Google Assistant "read this" on an article to hear it aloud.
#googleedu
#ditchbook
#techlap
#remotelearning
I love this! I've found the kids getting morning tardy slips are less likely to have a great home life.
Instead of ostracizing them, these slips welcome with open arms!
#ditchbook
#kidsdeserveit
#leadlap
#ditchsummit
It's been 8 years. This is my first teacher work day in 8 years.
Desks are arranged. My desk is cleaned. Planning lessons.
I used the words "my classroom" recently for the first time in years.
Excited. Let's do this.
#MattsBackInClass
One simple step we can take to help students learn:
SLOW DOWN. Pause.
We are highly qualified teachers, so we know our stuff. It makes sense in our brains. Our students don't process it as quickly as we do.
Stop. Let the idea breathe. Your students will thank you.
#DitchBook
A bit of personal news:
I'm going back to the classroom in January!
There's a temporary semester-long HS Spanish position at the high school where my wife teaches and my two daughters are students.
Excited to get back with students, sharpen my skills, and teach again!
Have you heard about TEACHFLIX?
It's our new collection of teaching videos. Favorites from YouTube, curated by teachers, all in one spot.
And, of course, FREE.
#ditchbook
#edutwitter
#edtech
#tlap
#techlap
Twitter saved my teaching career many years ago.
It's an amazing place to meet people, have your beliefs challenged, get ideas and grow as an educator.
#ditchbook
#tlap
#gttribe
#edchat
ChatGPT doesn't just write your students' essays for you.
20 ways ChatGPT can help you teach/learn
🧵 /startthread
1. Ask ChatGPT to write your lesson plans. (Or at least to get some new ideas.)
Flipgrid is now COMPLETELY FREE for everyone! 💥💥💥
Huge
#flipgridfever
news today. No more promo codes. No more finding funding.
Student replies, unlimited grids, teacher controls ... ALL FREE! See below post for more info!
#ditchbook
#edtech
#googleedu
The story of Flipgrid is the story of YOU 💚
You revolutionize student engagement every day, taking Flipgrid in directions we never imagined 🚀 Now, you have guided us to our next chapter where we EMPOWER + AMPLIFY EVERYONE 🌏 Thank you!
#FlipgridFever
Have some time for a quick virtual 🌎 field trip?
L👀king for a video 🎥 to add to a lesson?
Want to have your class listen to a fun read 📖 aloud?
Our new TEACHFLIX page has all that and more!
Browse through tons of videos all in one spot!
#Ditchbook
This is easily my favorite sticker I brought to
#iste19
to give away!
I have hundreds of them. If I leave
#iste
with zero, I'm good with that!
Hope I can give you one if you're in Philly!
If you're not, I hope I can one day! 😁
Have you tried LIVE closed captions in Google Slides?
Present slides
Turn CC on
Start talking
Captions are AUTOMATICALLY transcribed on your screen.
How to do it and how you can use it in your classroom:
#DitchBook
#googleedu
#gsuiteedu
#gttribe
When there's a line for the door to your session 30+ minutes before it starts ...
I asked them, "Are you sure you're in the right place?!?!" 😂🤣😂🤣
#ditchbook
#tcea
Have you seen Teachflix? 👀
A free resource with more than 500 classroom videos vetted by educators!
Find what you need with:
1️⃣ a search bar
2️⃣ age-level categories
3️⃣ content area categories
With activities/worksheets for any video 😲
Check it out:
I see all this talk about learning to pronounce students' names with tech tools.
Can't we just look a student in the eye and ask? And then practice it?
If you're a Teach Like a PIRATE
#tlap
fan and LOVE
#edtech
, this is for you:
TECH Like a PIRATE!
Contract signed. Outline done. Writing it now!
Want updates and a chance to have YOUR ideas in the book? Join the
#DitchBook
email newsletter:
#gttribe
What's coming to Google Meet in 2020?
All GSuiteEDU:
✋ Raise hand
🪟 7x7 view
💬CC in more langs
Enterprise:
✅Attendance
🚪Breakout rooms
❓Q&A
📊Poll
More on Google Meet for
#remotelearning
:
#DitchBook
#googleedu
#gsuiteedu
I don't know who needs to hear this today, but ...
You are enough.
You've done your best. And that's a lot. It's all you can do.
There's no shame in saying, "It's time to go home. I'll do my best again tomorrow."
#DitchBook
#tlap
#TechLAP
#remotelearning
Jamboard is sunsetting in 2024. 🌅
But that’s OK, because ... Have you met FigJam yet???
It’s a FREE online whiteboard. A collaborative brainstorming powerhouse for your classroom!
What can you do with it? So. MUCH!
#edtech
#ditchbook
#ad
#sponsored
Flipgrid is officially TOTALLY FREE!
Gone are the days of chasing promo codes and finding funding.
You get unlimited grids. Student video replies. All of it!
Get the details and why I think this benefits EVERYONE in this video:
#FlipgridFever
#DitchBook
Have you seen Teachflix? 👀
A free resource with more than 500 classroom videos vetted by educators!
Find what you need with:
1️⃣ a search bar
2️⃣ age-level categories
3️⃣ content area categories
With activities/worksheets for any video 😲
Check it out:
With ChatGPT and AI assistants, what's cheating?
Our definition of cheating and plagiarism is going to change.
Transparency w/students on appropriate use will be key.
Also: our definition of "cheating" needs to align with THEIR future.
#ditchbook
#edutwitter
#edtech
#chatgpt
The newest DITCH book is out!
DON'T Ditch That Tech: Differentiated Instruction in a Digital World
TONS of practical ideas and solutions for using tech to do great differentiated instruction!
#DitchBook
#tlap
#gttribe
You can log into Microsoft products using a Google account?!?!
This was a mind-blowing moment for me. No longer do we need to stick to just MS or G. With lots of MS tools being free, we can pick and choose.
Did you know about this?
#DitchBook
#edtech
#microsoftedu
#googleedu
Google Classroom is POWERFUL when the teacher is absent.
Write sub plans and post them in Classroom from your bed in your PJs.
Check in on students throughout the day. (If you want.)
Make changes on the fly. Almost like you're there!
#DitchBook
#googleclassroom
#gttribe
English teachers, check this out:
Literary Food Truck Festivals. (How cool is that?!?)
Non-English teachers: check this out to figure out how to adapt it to your class. Your students will LOVE it!
Post via
@CreativeELA47
#ditchbook
#engchat
✨PowerPoint LIVE is now finally live!✨
Present a PPT presentation in real time and include ...
🌍Captions & subtitles in 68 langs
😃Audience reactions
📝 Feedback forms
Watch:
#edtech
#MIEExpert
#MicrosoftEDU
Fun formative assessment: 12 easy, no-tech ideas you can use tomorrow
🧱Graffiti wall
✍️Sketch artist
🧐Quiz maker
🗿Sculptor
🧩Word puzzler
and more PLUS 2 ☸️ creative 🍯 ways to use them⬇️
Some folks are down on Twitter. Some say
#edutwitter
is a thing of the past now.
I get it.
But some of my very favorite humans on the planet are still on here.
As long as you're here, I'm here. 👍🏻👍🏻
Teacher librarians (library media specialists) an incredibly talented and powerful resource in schools today.
Yet vastly UNDERUTILIZED.
Partner with them. Your instruction and your students will benefit.
Have you seen Teachflix? 👀
A free resource with more than 500 classroom videos vetted by educators!
Find what you need with:
1️⃣ a search bar
2️⃣ age-level categories
3️⃣ content area categories
With activities/worksheets for any video 😲
Check it out:
I made breakout room choice doors where Ss will "go" to during their work time. We're using Google Meet & I plan to link different Meet links to each 🚪so Ss can collaborate, work alone, or get extra help. Honoring differences & personalizing instruction!
Feel free to use⬇️
Whoa ... Microsoft Teams as a TON of upgrades for back to school:
👨🏫Together mode and 7x7 view
🔇Hard audio mute
🎉Turn-in celebrations
❔Anonymous grading
and more! Details:
#MicrosoftEDU
#MIEExpert
#MicrosoftTeams
Have you seen Teachflix? 👀
A free resource with more than 500 classroom videos vetted by educators!
Find what you need with:
1️⃣ a search bar
2️⃣ age-level categories
3️⃣ content area categories
With activities/worksheets for any video 😲
Check it out:
"I don't have enough time."
It's never about time. It means you're unclear on your PRIORITIES.
We have a finite amount of minutes each day. Time is about how you choose to use them, giving each minute a name ...
... not about creating more time.
#ditchbook
The Pixar Story Structure is great for recapping learning, creating new ideas, and presenting group work.
✨Once upon a time there was
✨Every day
✨One day
✨Because of that
✨Until finally
Get this FREE template for students:
This study tells us retention of info from lectures dips when kids attention is divided on digital devices.
The magic of
#edtech
in class, folks, isn't in taking notes for lectures.
It's about creating. Collaborating. Connecting to other people.
I've been to SO many conferences and events where I haven't known anyone. And I'm a bit of an introvert by nature. (OK. A lot.)
LOVE the idea of "The Pacman Rule"
@ericholscher
(h/t
@edcampOSjr
) as a small step we can take to include others.
#ditchbook
DAY MADE: I'm at a Mexican restaurant with my kids.
The grandma of one of my current students comes up to us.
I've been in the classroom for two days -- only two days.
So, I'm thinking ... What could this be about??
"My granddaughter LOVES your class," she says.
She was…
One day into my return to the classroom ...
I'm enjoying teaching and the students.
But this is the best part ...
Riding to school with (and being down the hall from) this beauty -- my wife, the social studies teacher! ♥️♥️
#MattsBackInClass
I don't know how to talk about racial injustice. But that doesn't give me the right to be silent.
Read and share the people who are doing the work. Push back in that uncomfortable conversation.
Silence maintains the status quo. The status quo has been destructive for tool long.
Hey,
#iste19
friends ...
So, I moderated a panel discussion yesterday called
#ditchpanel
. I thought the discussion went well, but it was missing something.
Diverse voices. It was 11 white people.
That's not ok. I'm disappointed in my blindness in assembling the panel.
Students w/slow internet?
Here's how to create videos that load easily on
@Screencastify
:
1⃣ Click the Settings button.
2⃣ Make Resize Tab, Limit Resolution and/or Max Frame Rate smaller.
3⃣ Record your video. Share w/students.
4⃣ Smile 😁
#DitchBook
#remotelearning
#googleedu
Ways to assess student learning in class:
- watching
- listening
- reading
- walking around
- formal assignments, quizzes, tests
It doesn't have to be graded to serve as an assessment.
#DitchBook
Sometimes people see me talk in front of others and assume I'm an extrovert.
Not true. Speaking a skill, and introverts have it too.
I have to pull back into my shell to recharge afterward. No shame in that.
It's finally here! 📙 Tech Like a PIRATE is OUT!
7 ways to use technology to make learning 🔥a MEMORABLE EXPERIENCE🔥
👉Get your copy on Amazon:
#DitchBook
#tlap
How did I not know this?!? 😲
🆓Google's icons are free and downloadable here: 💾
💯 Hundreds of icons
🖼 Download as PNG or SVG
🎨 Available in several sizes and densities
#GoogleEDU
#DitchBook
#techlap
#googleei
Your students will LOVE these free digital lessons!
💥 Create a comic strip
👾 Make pixel art
📖 Write a story with emojis
📷 Create a photo journal
Browse 150+ lessons from
#AppliedDigitalSkills
like these for FREE:
#GooglePartner
@GoogleForEdu
You asked and we listened! 📢👂🏽
We’re incredibly proud to announce our NEW spreadsheet importer function! Simply write your questions and answers into the Kahoot! template, upload it and start playing!
Try it now! 👉
Selfie bingo on first day
#BackToSchool
!
1⃣ Share this doc w/students. (Make a copy for each student via Google Classroom)
2⃣ Students open on Chromebooks/laptops
3⃣ Click on a bingo square
4⃣ Insert > Image > Camera and snap a selfie
#DitchBook
#googleedu
#gttribe
#edtech
Loved 😃 helping Mrs. Malone get her 3rd grade class logged into chromebooks 💻 and join her Google Classroom.
She had this awesome Selfie 🤳 Bingo game ready to go as her first assignment.
#ditchbook
#WeAreFiveStar
#FlieMakeACopy
of this great activity
Ok. Trying something new.
Turned off push notifications for ALMOST ALL my apps.
They pull me away from being present with people. They're a source of anxiety, guilt and FOMO.
Instead: calendar notifications 3x/day to check those apps.
Done anything similar?
#ditchbook
#edtech
THIS BOOK! I'm into the second chapter and I CAN'T PUT IT DOWN. Thank you
@Ready4rigor
for sharing your genius and hard work with the world. Excited about how it's already changing my views on teaching and how I see the world.
Whoa ... have you seen all of these FREE PowerPoint templates???
In TRUE
#TechLAP
style, make learning feel like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, game shows. There's even an interactive notebook template!
Download for FREE:
#DitchBook
15 Google Forms templates you can use in class TOMORROW!
📊Interest Survey
🔐Digital Escape Room
🧠Brain Dump
✅Self correcting quiz
🤔Lesson reflection
and MORE!
#Ditchbook
Oh my goodness ... The line to my Tech Like a Pirate session is OFF THE HOOK!
In case you're not there, here are the session resources:
#tcea
#ditchbook
#tlap
Whoa ... have you seen all of these FREE PowerPoint templates???
In TRUE
#TechLAP
style, make learning feel like Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter, game shows. There's even an interactive notebook template!
Download for FREE:
#DitchBook
Calculators.
Search engines.
Google Translate.
Wikipedia.
PhotoMath.
#ChatGPT
.
They disrupt traditional teaching.
We adapt. Education evolves forward.
Blocking them isn't the answer.
Making education more relevant is.
Fun formative assessment: 12 easy, no-tech ideas you can use tomorrow
🧱Graffiti wall
✍️Sketch artist
🧐Quiz maker
🗿Sculptor
🧩Word puzzler
and more PLUS 2 ☸️ creative 🍯 ways to use them⬇️
Just recorded two podcast episodes from my bedroom closet.
Why? Eighth grade daughter's sleepover party.
Sometimes you've just got to get some peace.
#ditchbook
#ditchsummit
The Pixar Story Structure is great for recapping learning, creating new ideas, and presenting group work.
✨Once upon a time there was
✨Every day
✨One day
✨Because of that
✨Until finally
FREE template for students:
#ditchbook
#googleedu
#edutwitter
"Don't ask kids questions you can answer with Google."
Let's not get ahead of ourselves.
Committing key info/concepts to memory lets us play with/manipulate them in our minds at a moment's notice.
Basic fact recall all the time? Nope. Let's keep a healthy balance.
#ditchbook
The Pixar Story Structure is great for recapping learning, creating new ideas, and presenting group work.
✨Once upon a time there was
✨Every day
✨One day
✨Because of that
✨Until finally
Get this FREE template for students: