I am sharing an Edutopia article by Matt Davis I came across with a variety of Earth Day lesson plans and reading lists and classroom ideas. click here
Google Article
60 Ways Math Teachers Can Use Google Classroom If you are a math teacher and wondering how you could use Google classroom with your students, check out this article.
Apps to use instead of evernote
Trello A video is provided for you to get a feel for how Trello can help you or your students stay organized. In Trello you can create boards to organize anything you're working on. You can use them solo or you can invite colleagues, students, friends, and family to work together. Trello is simple to use and infinitely flexible.You'll know exactly what needs to be done, who's goin gto do it, and what's coming up next. Everything you do is synced and saved instantly to the cloud so that all your devices area always up to date.
On Trello cards you can write down your ideas and arrange them in lists on your boards. You can add details to your cards such as
On Trello cards you can write down your ideas and arrange them in lists on your boards. You can add details to your cards such as
- Checklists to keep track of to-do's
- Comments to update yoru co-workers/students
- Photos, videos, and PDFs
- Or just see who's working on it currently
Quip Quip is the productivity suite for the mobile generation. It combines chat, docs, task lists, and spreadsheets in one app -- making collaboration fast and easy. Quip enables you to create and share from any device -- including the iPad, iPhone, and the desktoop -- with your family, friends, or office.
With Quip you can:
With Quip you can:
- Share Documents and Task Lists Take notes, share grocery lists, organize task lists, edit docs with your co-workers, collaborate with any group or team on projects.
- Chat and Message Real-time chat and messaging is integratted seamlessly for easy collaboration, so you never have to switch to email.
- Spreadsheets Embed beautiful, full featured spreadsheets with support for over 400 functions and a customized mobile keyboards that make editing a pleasure from any device.
- Access on any Device, Any time- Your chats, docs, task lists, and spreadsheets are available on all of the devices you use.
- Import & Export You can import your documents from Dropbox, Evernote, Google Drive, Box, Google Docs, and more. Export documents to PDF and Microsoft Office. Export spreadsheets to Microsoft Excel. Import your address book from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Microsoft Outlook, Google or iCloud.
Post- It Plus This app was featured in an earlier blog post (February 13, 2015 Jess Warner showcased it.) but it's worth sharing again. The Post-It Plus App takes the momentum from your collaboration sessions and keeps it rolling. Simply capture your notes, organize and share with everyone.
Post-It Plus App features:
Learn more about the Post-it Plus App at www.postit.com/app
Post-It Plus App features:
- Capture up to 50 square Post-it Notes at a time.
- Organize your way-group your ideas easily using the digital note features.
- Create or edit notes in seconds -add ideas easily using the digital note features.
- Combine boards-collect and combine ideas from across multiple sessions
- Share to your favorites-supports PowerPoint, Excel, Dropbox, PDF and more.
- Work as a team-anyone can arrange, add and build on great ideas
- Editor's Pack-upgrade to even more powerful app features like an eraser and additional Post-it Note colors.
Learn more about the Post-it Plus App at www.postit.com/app
Chrome Apps Teachers should know about
Class Charts Seating and behavior charts are an essential part of any good teacher's tool kit. In addition to organize students and minimize behavior issues, with this app a teacher can also optionally include and display key data about a each pupil which is used to intelligently position pupils in the classroom to maximize learning.
myHomework Student Planner is a student planner that lets you easily track your classes, homework, tests and projects so you never forget an assignment again! myHomework is available on multiple platforms, so you can always know what's due wherever you are. You can find the myHomework app on the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android, Windows 8, Kindle Fie and the Web.
myHomework is a student planner that lets you easily track your classes, homework, tests and projects so you never forget an assignment again.
myHomework is a student planner that lets you easily track your classes, homework, tests and projects so you never forget an assignment again.
Exam Time This is a personal learning environment that allows teachers and students to create, discover and share learning resources.
Pow Toons Create awesome videos and animated presentations. There are free accounts.
Loupe Collage This app allows you to take hundreds of your photos and in seconds, automatically creates a beautiful photo collage in any shape that you want. Turn your photos into hearts, animals, words, and even logos. You can share your collages with friends, family, put on a website, or feature it on your blog!
Eduspire Summer Courses I often get asked about summer technology offerings so I have provided the link to go to Eduspires summer grad course offerings.