Dianne’s Daily Discoveries 04/09/2015
Office mix for teachers – Teachers Great new website for using Office Mix for education. Areas for Teachers, Administrators and Students tags: office mix officemix office2013 office365 powerpoint...
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Teacher Resources from Microsoft Find lesson plans, videos, apps, and templates for teachers and more for using technology in the classroom. tags: teacher teacher resources microsoft Posted from...
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How to Use OneNote at School: 10 Tips for Students & Teachers The notetaking member in Microsoft’s suite is a cross-platform productivity application. There are many unique ways to use OneNote,...
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E2 Global Educator Exchange My recap, reflection and photo album from E2 Global Educator Exchange. tags:E2 mieexpert15 msftedue2 usae2crew Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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I had the most life-altering experience of my life a few weeks ago as one of 20 educators from the United States chosen to join about 250 other like-minded educators from around the globe at the...
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AnswerGarden – Plant a Question, Grow Answers! Generate a live word cloud with your audience. AnswerGarden is a new minimalistic feedback tool. Use it for real time audience participation, online...
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Cultivating Connections: Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy Verbs Awesome infographic illustrating Bloom’s, HOTs and the verbs that teachers/students can use for each level. tags: connections bloom taxonomy...
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#MysterySkype – Skype in the Classroom Mystery Skype is an educational game, invented by teachers, played by two classrooms on Skype. The aim of the game is to guess the location of the other...
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ISTE | 8 ways to prevent cheating in the digital age For as long as there has been school, there has been cheating. And in many ways, the advent of the digital age has made plagiarism and stealing...
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Get Your Free Mystery Skype OneNote Notebook “Mystery Skype is a fun, teacher-invented learning game that builds students’ cultural awareness, critical thinking, and geography skills. And now this...
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KTI 2015 TeachMeet KTI 2015 TeachMeet Projects and activities tags: KTI2015 KTI TeachMeet projects sharing Rubik’s Cube: A question, waiting to be answered – YouTube “Rubik’s cube is more than a...
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Dianne Krause in Daily Edventures “Getting teachers comfortable with technology is a process, and few understand that process better than Dianne Krause. Krause has been helping educators in her...
View Article5 Tips to Get Off to a Great Start & Avoid Back-to-School Burnout
Back-to-school is an exhilarating time full of hope and excitement for a new school year for teachers and students alike. But, those first few weeks are also exhausting! Check out the tips below to...
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Top 5 Back-to-School Tools for Creation, Collaboration and Communication
Along with the preparation of bulletin boards, seating charts, classroom procedures and syllabi, it is also important for teachers to consider the go-to digital tools and resources they will rely upon...
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Wiss21 Summer Institute 2015
Last week, during the very last days of summer vacation, while most teachers are trying desperately to soak up the last rays of sunshine, riding that last adrenaline-pumping roller coaster, or savoring...
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Wiss21 Boot Camp
The second day of school is always an exciting one at Wissahickon Middle School, for that’s the day that about 1,200 students receive their Wiss21 laptops and begin or continue their journey through...
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ReBoot Camp 2015
The hectic beginning of school continues for me as I leave the trenches of Boot Camp and enter into the realm of ReBoot Camp. While Boot Camp is for the 6th graders of WMS, ReBoot camp is reserved...
View ArticleDianne’s Daily Discoveries 09/17/2015
http://visuwords.com/page/about “Enter words into the search box, “visualize a word,” to look them up. Touch a node to see the definition of that word group and click and drag individual nodes to move...
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On Wednesday, September 30th, from 3-6 pm, the Montgomery County Association of Teachers of Foreign Languages (MCAFTL) held its fall conference at Wissahickon Middle School. I was asked about 6 months...
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The Beginnings of a MakerSpace
As each WMS student and teacher now has a district-issued laptop, the former computer lab at the back of the library sat empty last school year. It was used here and there by different classes, clubs...
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