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Summer Time Learning Continues

6/25/2018

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Summertime Reading - Redesigning Learning Spaces from CoSn

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Collections

I just watched a YouTube video about a cool tool called Participate Collections. This tool allows a user to organize and share resources on self-chosen topics.  It also allows users to browse and see resources from other educators.  This is a free tool and worth checking out. Participate Learning is also working on free online professional development so there will be more to come as this site grows. Click here to go to the site.

Cool Tech Tips

I follow a number of blogs and one that I get lots of good tips and information from is Monica Burns.  This week I am sharing cool posters I got at her site. These include her blog information so you can checkout Monica Burn's blog and her books at  ClassTechTips.com.  I have attached a variety of resources provided by Monica. A number of free posters have been added.  Each talks about different areas of technology.  The posters are as follows:  15 Technology Tools for the Reading Classroom poster, 5 Ways to Place Tasks before Apps, Getting Started with Virtual Reality in the Classroom, 10 Must Have Coding Tools for Schools, Five Tips for #formativetech, Spark Video Planning Pages, and 10 Things You Need to Know about Scannabletech.
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6 Ways to Use Adobe Spark with Google Classroom

Create a plan in Google Docs. Whether you’re making a movie with students or helping them outline the content on a website created with Spark Page, use Google Docs for student planning. This could include a teacher-created template shared as a copy for each student in Google Classroom or a planning page students create themselves and share with their teacher before opening up Spark to create their final product.
Drag-and-drop text into Spark Page. When students use Spark Page to create their website they can plan the content in a Google Doc and drag-and-drop the text straight into Spark Page with a simple copy and paste. This makes it super easy for teachers to check in on progress and leave comments in a Google Doc before students jump into Spark to organize their text, images and multimedia on their website.
Collaborate with peers.Creating a plan for a Spark Video or Spark Page can be a collaborative process. Students can work together side-by-side or use Google Docs at home to check in on their progress. As they conduct research for persuasive or call-to-action Spark Videos, or snap pictures to embed in their Spark Page about a special school event, they can check in with one another virtually.
Google logins for Adobe Spark. Student and teacher users can login to Adobe Spark using their Google accounts. This means you don’t have to take the extra step to create a new username and password and verify your email.
Share student creations in Google Classroom. Both teachers and students can post their own Spark Video, Spark Page or Spark Post creations in Google Classroom. This makes it easy to view and share content students have created so that your class has an audience for their work. You might decide to have students watch a certain number of videos created by their peers at the end of a project or share an exemplar in Google Classroom for students to view before starting a project.
Add links to Google Forms for surveys in Spark Page. One of my favorite features of Spark Page is the ability to add a button that links to an outside source. This feature makes connecting to another website really easy and is also a great way to integrate Google Forms. For example, if you create a Google Form for parents or students to complete you can add the link to the Google Form as a button on your Spark Page. When users submit the form you’ll be able to see all of the results in your Google Drive.
Adobe Spark is free! You can access it on the web or find more information about their iPad and iPhone apps by clicking here.

12 Good Chemistry Apps for High School Students

Below are quick reviews of 11 Chemistry apps for high school students.
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1- Wolfram General Chemistry Course Assistant
‘This comprehensive app for chemistry will help you quickly solve your homework problems, ace your tests, and quiz your understanding of basic chemistry concepts so you're prepared for your courses.’

2- The Elements by Theodore Gray
‘The Elements: A Visual Exploration is not just a reference app, it is a rich and engaging love story of the periodic table, told in words and pictures, and allowing you to experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you've never seen before.’

3- EleMints: Periodic Table
‘EleMints is a revolutionary periodic table for the science geek in all of us. Boasting phenomenal retina graphics and features such as element properties, a molar mass calculator, a plot graph and much more, EleMints will inspire you to bring out your inner mad scientist.’

4- Building Atoms, Ions, and Isotopes HD
‘With the Building Atoms, Ions, and Isotopes app, explore the composition of the elements. Build atoms, ions, and isotopes by selecting appropriate numbers of protons, neutrons, and electrons.’

5- ChemCalc
‘This is a convenient chemistry tool for students and professionals to calculate molecular mass (molecular weight) of compounds and learn basic properties of chemical elements on iPad.’

6- Atom in a Box HD
‘Rewritten from scratch for the iPad, Atom in a Box HD is an aid for visualizing the Hydrogen atomic orbitals, the three-dimensional states that the electron occupies in Hydrogen, a prime and otherwise unwieldy example of Quantum Mechanics. ’

7- Physics Chemistry Maths Formulas: Formula MAX
‘Formula MAX is a universal app with a collection of over 1100+ Physics, Chemistry and Maths formulas, more formulas to be added constantly through updates. Use your Formula MAX app across your iOS devices with exclusive device based UI, with just one purchase. ’

8- Electrons
‘Electrons is a charged particle simulator for iPad. It allows you to create dozens of positively or negatively charged particles, either freely roaming in space, or contained within conducting bodies. You can observe complex particle interactions and resulting electric forces, create capacitors, simulate a lightning rod, a cathode ray tube (CRT) and much, much more.’

9- iSpartan
‘iSpartan is a versatile app for molecular modeling on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch. The app allows any chemist fast and easy access to computational methods that have proven reliable for a large range of molecules.’

10- VideoScience
‘A growing library of over 80 hands-on Science lessons that are great for home and the classroom. These short videos demonstrate inexpensive and easy to recreate experiments that are designed to inspire and excite kids of all ages.’

11- Chemistry Formula Practice Free
‘Chemistry Formulas Practice stimulates students’ mastery of the fundamental skill of naming compounds and writing formulas. The practice categories include ionic and molecular compounds, acids, bases, polyatomic ions, hydrocarbons, and organic functional groups.’

4 Great Mind Mapping tools

Lucid Chart

Lucidchart is an HTML5-based visual collaboration tool that makes drawing diagrams fast and easy. Work together with an unlimited number of others to create and edit diagrams in real time, with changes merged and synced instantaneously -- great for team collaboration.
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MindMeister

MindMeister is another good app for creating mind maps.MindMeister is deeply integrated into Google Drive, allowing users to open and edit many mind map formats. Some of the things you can do with MindMeister include:

  •  Create, share and collaboratively edit mind maps
  • Import from Text, MindManager and Freemind
  • Export to Word, PowerPoint, PDF, image, MindManager and Freemind
  • Add icons, images, notes, links and attachments
  • Integrated live chat
  • Publish and embed maps
  • Task management and notifications

Mindomo

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Mindomo allows you to visually outline complex concepts, tasks, ideas, and other related information in a structured form. Some of its features include:
  • Real-time collaboration
  •  Embedded video and audio files 
  •  Presentation Mode 
  •  Multiple layouts (mind map, concept map, org chart, tree org chart) 
  • Great variety of Import/Export formats 
  • Map customization by adding icons, colors, styles and map themes 
  •  Full map history, undo and redo functions 
  • Password protected mind maps 
  •  Comments and voting enabled on topics 
  • Multilevel numbering 
  •  Desktop version that enables users to work offline

MindMup

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Free online mind mapping web site, with realtime collaboration and cloud storage: Make a mind map online, free, and keep it in the cloud with Google Drive, Dropbox, GitHub and our free anonymous storage. MindMup is available everywhere: you can access your maps with a browser or a mobile device, and cloud storage ensures you have access to your data where ever you are, and the application works nicely with both desktop, tablet and mobile browsers.
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Summer Learning Continues

6/18/2018

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Adobe Spark - Feature Tool of the Week

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If you haven' checked out Adobe Spark, please give it a look.  This is a tool for use on desktops, ipads or iphones as it is web-based as well as having apps that can be downloaded.  Adobe Spark is free.  There are paid versions, but the free version works great for educational purposes.  As you cans see below there are three apps that can be downloaded to your mobile devices.  You can easily create beautiful graphics, web pages and videos with Adobe Spark.  There are already created templates to get you started or you can create from scratch.
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Breakout EDU

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Here are some Breakout EDU Activities.
Check out some of the newest Breakout EDU Digital Games...
  • FIELD DAY FUN (Lower Elementary)
  • FIELD DAY FUNNANIGANS (Upper Elementary / Middle School)
  • ZOMBIE OUTBREAK (Middle / High School)
  • SPRING HAS SPRUNG (Middle School)
  • THE LOST LADYBUG (Elementary / Middle School)
  • TRICKY TRAVEL (Middle / High School)

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Check out some of the great new Breakout EDU kit-based games...
  • HAPPY CAMPERS (Lower Elementary)
  • CREEPY CAMPOUT (Upper Elementary)
  • THE INFECTION  (High School)

Breakout EDU Sandbox

Check out this site for more Breakout EDU activities.  These are community created games for all ages of learners on various content related topics.  Check it out.  Click here to get to the sandbox Sandbox.

More Breakout Activities

Catch the Bus - Click here to Explore this breakout.

Here are images to use for your breakout activity.  Click here.

Smore Breakout Activities for all ages - Click here
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Summer Time Learning Continues!

6/5/2018

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R2R Camp Wrap Up

The R2R Camp was a really great learning experience.  The presenters did an outstanding job.  The teachers were great participants.  Everyone appeared to enjoy the collaboration and collegial learning opportunity. 
We had some prize winners also.  If you are a winner please contact Dr. Sipe regarding getting your prize.  
This year's winners are:
Adam Smith NOMS - 2 pair of Virtual Reality Glasses
Jaime McMaster CVIS- 2 pair of Virtual Reality Glasses
Marcy Whitcomb CTE -  5 pair of earbuds
Janine Forry  NOHS - 5 pair of earbuds
Jen Selby CTE - 5 pair of earbuds
Molly Rinehart CVIS - 5 pair of earbuds
Ashley McDaniel NOHS/NOMS- 2 Lancaster Barnstormers tickets
Anne Wade NOMS- 4 Tickets to the Harrisburg Senators
Amy Gutshall NOE - 4 Tickets to the York Revolution
Molly Rinehart - 1 year license to Goose Chase 
Melissa Gantz - Presenter prize winner to Pennsylvanias PETE & C Technology Conference

EPIC

EPIC provides ebooks for your students to read.  Elementary teachers and librarians can join for free.  Go to the site and scroll to the bottom to join. Click here to join.

Wheel Decide

This is a free wheel that allows you to add your students and randomly call upon your students. Click here to check it out.

Classroomscreen.com

What a cool web tool.  Classroomscreen.com allows you to do numerous things on the fly with your devices.  Click here for a tutorial on all of the cool features.
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Reads for Teachers Related to Digital Citizenship  

Here is a link to Common Sense Media for a list of summer reads for teachers on digital citizenship. 
  • Digital Citizenship: A Community-Based Approach
  • Social Media Wellness
  • Bored and Brilliant: How Spacing Out Can Unlock Your Most Productive and Creative Self
  • Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate
  • ​Owning Up: Empowering Adolescents to Confront Social Cruelty, Bullying, and Injustice
  • "The Sift"
  • unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation
  • Hack Education
  • When Old Technologies Were New
  • Copyright Clarity: How Fair Use Supports Digital Learning
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