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Summer Sharing

7/27/2016

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Educational Alternatives to Pokemon Go

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Field Trip, your guide to the cool, hidden, and unique things in the world around you is now on the iPhone! Field Trip runs in the background on your phone. When you get close to something interesting, it will notify you and if you have a headset or bluetooth connected, it can even read the info to you.
Field Trip can help you learn about everything from local history to the latest and best places to shop, eat, and have fun. You select the local feeds you like and the information pops up on your phone automatically, as you walk next to those places. Click her for more information.
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Xnote is a virtual take on geocaching that let kids (and adults) go on simple treasure hunts outdoors for virtual messages. Kids love the excitement of a treasure hunt. They get to experience nature and learn about geography, mapping skills and teamwork while having great fun.
Xnote can be a practical and convenient alternative to regular geocaching for teachers and parents since virtual treasures can be hidden near home or school by just pressing a few buttons. Treasure hunts can also be sent to friends and family as a fun challenge. Click here for more information
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Klikaklu is a photo hunt game that uses your phone’s GPS, camera, and advanced image matching technology. It’s a great way to quickly create and play treasure hunts! It has a free version as well as a subscription.
Share hunts privately with friends and family, or leave them in public places for others to find. Lead people to new and interesting spots. Reveal secrets and rewards when they crack your clues.
No geocaching boxes or QR codes are necessary, so you can create hunts in national parks, museums, airport terminals, doctors offices – any place you want to add an element of challenge or mystery, share as special with someone, keep the kids busy, or while away some time.
It’s great for:
  • Families – get outside, spice up parties, make boring places adventures!
  • Teaching – engage your students with hands-on explorations.
  • Gatherings – Bring them alive with a fun interactive activity.
  • Groups – host a group hike, bar crawl, or explore your city with friends and family.
  • Orientations – show your environment to newcomers in an engaging way.
  • Special Friends – send secret messages, share favorite places, reveal gifts.
  • Team Building – Unite your team with a fun group activity.
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QR Treasure Hunt Generator
Get students using their mobile devices to move and to learn – NO INTERNET CONNECTION NEEDED!
  1. Submit! – Input a series of questions and answers. No programming experience needed – just cut and paste from a word processor
  2. Create! – Get a QR code for each question. Automatically generated as text files, *no need for web access* to read!
  3. Display! – Put the QR codes around your school. Be creative – different sizes, different places
  4. Begin! – Students find and answer the questions. The team with the most correct answers in the time available wins. Click here for  more information.
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The Save to Google Drive Chrome extension helps you save web content or browser screenshots to your Google Drive.
  • Adds a browser action to save the current page.
  • Adds a right-click context menu to save hyperlinks and media.
  • Configurable through an options page.
This extension allow you to save web content directly to Google Drive through a browser action or context menu. You can save documents, images, and HTML5 audio and video all by right clicking and selecting ‘Save to Google Drive’. You can save the currently viewed page using the ‘Save to Google Drive’ browser action. The directory location and format of saved HTML pages can be controlled with the extension’s options page (Choice of Entire image (default), Visible image, Raw HTML, MHTML, or Google Doc). You can automatically convert Microsoft Office files or comma separated files to Google Docs format. Click here to view a slideshow.
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​Here is a free chrome extension that lets you set specific words that you would like to automatically see highlighted in a web page. Very helpful if you are doing research and looking for a specific topic or topics.  When doing your search those words you have set within your multihighlighter will automatically stand out.  Click here to view a tutorial.​

Here is what it can do for you:
  • Highlight multiple English words (whole matching).
  • Store the highlight words list locally.
  • Re-do highlighting automatically when page content changed.
In coming features:
  • Add a context menu button, to add selected word on page.
  • Shortcuts.
  • Phrase support.
  • Add a setting/option page, to set whole word matching or not.
  • Configurable highlight style.
  • Make it faster.

Augmented Reality in the classroom

Augmented Reality Apps
Click here for a listing of numerous apps
that can be used for augmented reality activities in the classroom.

Augmented Reality Apps 101
Click here for a listing of numerous apps 
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Summer Sharing Continues

7/6/2016

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Blendspace by Tes

Here is a really nice site that I came across.  It is a free site called Blendspace by Tes.  If you are looking for a way to create a blendspace in your classroom with little or no devices with students, check out this site.  The great feature about the resources shared on Blendspace is that you can use them prior to your students each having a device in their hands and when all students have a device you can continue to use them in a more individualized or small group way.  Check out these engaging usage ideas from Blendspace.  If you like what you see, go to Blendspace by Tes and join for free there's more to checkout once you are logged in.  I liked that I could join with my Google account so it makes it easy to log on.

Over 30,000 Cultural & Academic Films for Teachers

I know many teachers like to use educational movies and documentaries so I am sharing great find.  It's basically a library that embeds a wide collection of academic and cultural films collected from different sources ( e.g digital libraries, university websites, video hosting sites, educational platforms and many more). The library has over 30.000 movies and over  100 collections.You can use the search box on the lefthand of the page to conduct a quick search and locate movies you are interested in. You can also filter your search using criteria such as title, date archived, creator and views. The site is broken into various provider categories and within each category there are many videos to search.  Click here to start searching for cultural and academic films.

Study Ladder

Studyladder is a web based program built by teachers to help students of all abilities have fun while learning. This site contains thousands of activities.  The site is broken into content areas.  It includes the 4 core, plus music, art, health, safety and citizenship, I.C.T. and theme based learning.  Click here to check it out.  Studdyladder also has a collection of resources and activities geared toward the Rio Olympics.  Click here to see the Rio Olympic resource page.

Appletree - Communication with Parents

Appletree is a free tool that can be used to communicate between school and home.  It's free and it's easy.  Click here to check it out.

De  Mobo Slides

The De Mobo Slides app allows you to connect your laptop and phone to control your presentations using your cell phone.  In addition, De Mobo allows you to use your laptop to project so it  becomes a document camera.  It also allows for a picture in picture mode so you can continue your presentation and project at the same time.  Click here to see the tutorial.
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Summer Finds

7/6/2016

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As I sort through my collection of resources I will continue to share things that can easily be incorporated into your classroom. I hope you will check out this weeks post for some resources to generate engagement within your classroom.

10 Interesting Ways to Use QR Codes in Your Teaching

If you have been wanting to incorporate QR codes, but just aren't sure what to do with them, the list below may be helpful to get you started. To make this image larger on your Chrome browser just click on the 3 lines on the upper right of the screen (just below the red box with the X) and select zoom to enlarge the screen.
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QR Code Generators

There are a number of QR Code generators available.  Most are very simple (step-by-step) to use.  Check out the image below for some possible QR generators you might want to consider.
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QR Stuff Click Here
QR Code Reader and Scanner Click Here (apple)
QR Code Reader  Click Here (Android)
QR Code Generator Click Here
Qrafter - QR code and Barcode Reader and Generator Click Here
QR and Barcode Scanner Click Here (Android)

Rubrics and Rubric Makers - Free resource

TeAchnology has a great collection of rubrics for a variety of purposes.Why use rubrics?  Check out this informative article on the use of rubrics. Click here to check out the site and search for rubrics you can use.  You will see that there are categories of rubrics.  Click on a category and you will be directed to a number of rubrics for that topic.  I am also sharing a link to rubric maker samples. 
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Summer Sharing

7/6/2016

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Mrs. Rehm Shares Student Projects

 I piloted a new project with my seniors this semester and am sharing the outcome. Seniors presented their multi-media modal presentation projects during the long Keystone blocks, which was also their last days of class. York College has indicated that students need to be able to create and present this type of digital information. 

Check out a few of the student projects. The following links will direct you to a sampling of the digital presentations.
Women Want the Whole Dam Dollar
​Prison Pipeline
Education Inequality

TeacherTube

I know you have heard of YouTube, but check out TeacherTube.  Here is a link to a brief video in which TeacherTube CEO, Jay Smith, describes TeacherTube.  Click here. ​https://youtu.be/d_d6XB2Vg24

Learn TeacherTube in 5 Minutes or Less

Here is a brief video that explains how to set up and add materials to your TeacherTube account. ​https://youtu.be/Ud3QOxd-f00  Click here.

Advanced Google Forms and Add-Ons

If you  are a forms user,and ready to go further with forms, check out this advanced Google forms video.  It's a little longer video, but the add-ons are great. You will be amazed at how easily you can incorporate forms for even more tasks within your classroom.  This video shows  the step by step instructions show how easy it is to take the use of Google forms to a higher level. Click here to view.

Learn Genetics

This site, Learn Genetics, is free and it has learning tours of a variety of biology and human health related topics. In addition, there are interactives virtual labs on DNA extraction, Gel Electrophoresis, PCR and DNA Microarray  This is a site worth checking out.  

A Great Tool to Help Kids Create Alphabet Books and Phonemic Awareness

Alphabet Organizer  (from Read Write Think) is an excellent interactive web tool and iPad app that you can use with young learners to help them build their phonemic awareness. Students can use it to ’create a calendar-style alphabet chart or letter pages for an alphabet book’. The process is very easy: they simply select letters and provide words starting with those letters. They can also upload pictures to illustrate visual connections between the word and the beginning letter. ‘Older children can take the tool a step further, using the option that allows room for words and notes. It’s ideal for studying vocabulary words or organizing thoughts about a topic. Images can be added into each letter categories, greatly expanding users' ability to make a vibrant alphabet book.’
​Here is how to use Alphabet Organizer to create alphabet book or chart: First enter your name and project title. Next choose one of the following options for creating your alphabet organizer: 'words only' template or 'one word and one picture per letter' template. Clicking on any of these options will bring up a list of alphabets. You select a letter (or as many letters as you want) and add up to five words that start with that letter and, if you choose the second template, you will also be provided with the option to add an illustrative picture and short description for the letter. Once done, choose how you want to view your alphabet organizer: either as Word Pages or as Charts and Notes. You can then save a draft of your work, share a copy view email or print it out .

ReadWriteThink - Book Review Template

I came across this template. It's a quick and easy way for students to share their review of a book they have read. Click Here to access the  link to the ReadWriteThink page to check it out.
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