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Seesaw in the Elementary Music Classroom with Amy Burns

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Amy believes this pedagogical shift is a game changer in the music classroom Learn more. Project Pals has a useful classroom collaborative platform that lets you create and manage projects for your students. Project Pals connects with Google Classroom but also lets me see detail on which students are contributing and participating.

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How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson

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Teachers don’t have to be experts or “geeks” to use coding to improve literacy, use higher order thinking skills, and excite students in their classrooms. Elementary and primary students can learn to code. How to Teach Coding in the Elementary Grades with Sam Patterson. Why code in the elementary grades?

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Book Creator for Chrome: Product Review, Tips and Tricks for Teachers

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Students who use Chromebooks, PCs, Macs, iPads, or any other device can now create books with this versatile, easy-to-use app. Each classroom gets 40 free books. This fantastic addition to your class lets students create audience-facing works for authentic assessment that can also be keepsakes from their year in your classroom.

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Simple Virtual Reality in the Classroom with Google Streetview and Google Cardboard with Donnie Piercey

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Today Donnie Piercey @mrpiercey , co-author of the Google Cardboard Book , shows how we can add simple augmented reality to our classrooms. You can have a private ebook classroom and interact with your students inside their ebooks as they highlight, annotate, ask questions, and talk about the books they are reading inside their ebooks!

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Passion Projects in Kindergarten and First Grade

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Kindergarteners and first graders explore their “wonderings” in Lindsey Danhoff’s classroom. Each nominee and nominator will be entered to win a classroom technology package. If I hadn’t asked this question, I never would have known that someone in our classroom was wondering about Braille. Enter a great teacher today.

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6 Super Science Edtech Ideas: Using Technology to Level Up Science Classrooms

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Leah: Well, some of the best tools that I’ve used in the classroom are those that simply enhance the student’s voice. But using the picture and then even using videos from the classroom, and have them use slow-motion and watch it over and over and over again. Tools to enhance student voice. Blog: leahlacrosse.blogspot.com.

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Making Better Videos and Movies with Students

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Learn practical tips and ideas from Joe Brennan for making movies in the classroom. I’m a big proponent of using it in any classroom, with any subject. I make videos in my classroom and digital film and… you know. In my own classroom, it’s one of the most exciting things that we do. He is in Illinois. Where do you start?

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