Newsela and lesson features of Nearpod. If you are familiar with these tools follow this link for more information about the partnership. A quick introduction of these two tools if you are unfamiliar with them (taken from https://www.commonsense.org/education/) Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform (and Chrome app) that features current, high-interest articles […]
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Classroom Screen
Now and then you stumble across some real gems. As a long-term proponent of technology use in the classroom, I love tools that follow the 3-click rule. ClassroomScreen does everything in 3 or fewer actions. With zero setup required you simply access ClassroomScreen and off you go. The work symbol options […]
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Classcraft & Engagement
I am not sure how I came across Classcraft, however, it completely changed the dynamic and engagement levels for my middle school students. Whilst there are many superb features, the one that your students are going to go dilly over, will be the powers they earn by getting XP […]