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When students are done with an assignment or project, how can they spend extra time wisely? These sites give them something academic to chew on.>>> UPDATED DECEMBER 2019! << Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa) 
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Find clips for any subject. Connect your teaching to the movies and television shows that students watch to make your lessons more relevant and engaging. Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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Green screen is fun and relatively easy to use in the classroom. Plus, it’s a way to get students more involved and jazz up school presentations for a fraction of the cost of other tech tools Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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Want to help students learn and be more refreshed? Students need breaks too. That is why brain breaks are becoming so popular. Teacher Rob Donatelli talks about the brain breaks phenomenon. Take a brain break today! Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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"Quizlet Live is a collaborative, high-energy review game. It’s based on Quizlet, the online flashcards platform that’s been around for years. Students are sorted into groups and work together to answer all 12 questions correctly in a row to win. ..." Via Leona Ungerer
Stephanie Escobedo's curator insight,
May 24, 2023 4:40 PM
Quizlet Live can be played with four or more students. However, with Quizlet match, students are racing against the clock to beat their high score! Either study mode would be a great way to increase vocabulary acquisition and engaging addition to a blended learning environment.
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Sarah Brown Wessling uses the stand-up game to encourage active participation. She asks all the students in her classroom to stand up. They are only allowed to sit down once they have participated in the discussion or share out. Sarah says this game is great for engaging tired students. Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Rachel Jang's curator insight,
June 3, 2019 1:46 AM
This is an awesome strategy to get the discussion flowing in the classroom. It also gets all of the class engaged because as we know, teens are not always willing to share their ideas freely so by having the option for them to share early so that they can sit down.
I also loved the idea of clicks for praise where the whole class joins in. That would be a real confidence booster for the students.
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"Flipgrid is one of the most popular ed tech tools to emerge in the last couple of years. It can be used as tool for video-based formative assessment, it can be used as an alternative to a classroom YouTube channel, and it can be used to connect classrooms around the world. Those are just a few of the ways that teachers use Flipgrid ..." Via Leona Ungerer
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Students can seem tired and bored, but we can engage them in learning. Martha Rush has ideas and inspiration to help us reach our students this week! Martha is the author of Beat Boredom: Engaging Tuned-Out Teenagers. Sponsor: The US Matific Games have warm-up week running from February 14-20. Then, the games run from February […] Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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Game shows are fun to watch and even more fun to be a part of. There are lots of ways to bring game show style learning to your classroom. Here are 14 ideas plus tools and templates to get started. Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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If you’re not familiar with the “Escape Room” phenomenon found across the U.S., you’ve definitely missed out! The premise is relatively simple: players must complete a series of tasks in order to gain passwords, retrieve clues, or gather other information needed to “escape the room”–digitally, physically, or both. The idea is extremely innovative: it works … Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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"Here’s a story I don’t tell very often. I spent the better part of 8th grade being uninterested in school – although school is all I did. Let me explain. I was present, I did my homework, studied very hard for my finals, yet I did not raise my hand to answer questions in class ..." Via Leona Ungerer
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Of all the gifts students receive from education, passion is the greatest. If students are taught that learning is difficult, that math and science are boring, that history is a waste of time, they… Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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Are you an expert in your field who is missing the mark with listeners? Here's the one skill you need to know how to engage an audience! Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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The modern corporate workplace is an amalgamation of sorts – you have the Gen X, Y (millennials), and the latest entrants to the workplace, Gen Z – each generation with their unique preferences for learning and working. Your organization might have a Learning Management System (LMS) that hosts some amazing online training resources, but is that enough to ensure learner engagement in eLearning? Via Elizabeth E Charles, Yashy Tohsaku
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Haylee Hutchings's curator insight,
April 17, 2019 11:25 PM
Particularly engaging for those students who are typically shy or avoid sharing ideas in front of the class.
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"Emoji Builder is a fun little site for making your own emojis. To design your own emoji on Emoji Builder you simply pick a base face then add on eyes, mouth, and accessories from menus on the site ..." Via Leona Ungerer
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"This is the first part of a two-part story looking at how MIT researchers are developing playful assessments to measure student growth. Read part two ..." Via Leona Ungerer
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5 Levels Of Student Engagement: A Continuum For Teaching by Terry Heick Years ago, I worked with a school in Kentucky that had adopted Phil Shlechty’s “Working on the Work” framework. The idea behind Shlechty’s framework is, in short, to focus on the work that students do, and the systems that produce that work. While … Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
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If you get presentation anxiety, you aren’t alone. Doing a presentation, whether to colleagues, to potential clients or to a conference is very exposing. Getting it right, and keeping your audience interested is both tricky and vital. Via John Evans, Carla Gordon
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"From SMARTBoards to innovative projectors, schools make use of new displays to engage students ..." Via Leona Ungerer
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