Tuesday, October 13, 2020

It is officially the end of the first quarter! You have survived. Many of our students are returning to campus, but don't let that momentum slow down. We talked about SAMR at the beginning of the year. At this point, we should be looking past the substitution level and begin looking at ways to Augment and Modify lessons/assessment. Feel free to schedule time with me to look at what digital tools we can use that will fit what is going on in your classroom.

Andrew Nation, M.Ed.
​Instructional Technology Specialist

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Tech Tips

Pixton EDU

This free website allows you to easily create comics. This can be a fun alternative assessment or a way to engage reluctant writers.

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ClassPad.Net

This powerful math teaching tool boasts quite a few math tools for demonstrating math concepts. It is built on the Casio Graphing calculator software. 

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Minecraft EDU

Minecraft can be a surprising way to engage students in your class. Click HERE to learn more about Minecraft EDU and how you can use it in your classroom. 

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Creating Accessible Documents

Microsoft has many templates that are designed to be accessible for most users. These templates use better color contrast, simple table structure, larger fonts, and much more to create documents that fit the needs of all students. 

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Educandy is a fun and easy website that allows the teacher to create review games. It is geared towards elementary school, but it makes fun and visually appealing games. It doesn't even require a login for students to use! Teachers can create their games and share them as links. 
A few of the game types can be seen below.

A few of the game types that can be created with EDUCandy

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