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Apr 2
12 min

A Day of Virtual PD and Exploring Citizen Science: ScIC5 Unconference presented by PocketLab

This is the 5th Science is Cool "Unconference" that PocketLab has sponsored and the 4th one that I attended! I am always blown away by the s

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Mar 31
2 min

A Digital Science Fair - Stepping away from the tri-fold backboards!

I created a digital science fair backboard that the students could customize using a PowerPoint/Google slides presentation.

Sep 28, 2020
5 min

Why you Should Make a Sub Plan and Emergency Binder

I put together this blog with a free download of my sub/ emergency plan binder at the bottom for you to utilize. Not only will your sub grea

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Sep 14, 2020
3 min

6 Ways to Assign and Collect Assignments for Remote Learning.

I was asked to create a few tutorials and recommendations of how to share assignments with students remotely and not have them need to be pr

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Sep 7, 2020
8 min

A Summary of Week 1 of Blended Teaching

After a long summer of training I was able to put all of my blended teaching skills to the test. Below is just a summary of my first week

Aug 18, 2020
2 min

Covid-19 Classroom Technology

This teacher technology setup allows me to check emails and take attendance on my laptop, while I display the lesson through the projector,

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Aug 16, 2020
1 min

Student Tutorials for OneNote and TEAMS Assignments

This blog includes 2 helpful student tutorials on the functions of TEAMS including the assignments, OneNote, and grading features.

Aug 16, 2020
2 min

Using OneNote and TEAM's - Assign and Grade Student Work All Within TEAMS

This tutorial will show you how to best distribute your teacher pages to students and incorporate the integrated assignment feature within T

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Aug 8, 2020
1 min

Mrs. Watson's Classroom tour!

I always love seeing the amazing things other teachers do in their classroom so I hope you are inspired by a few things you see and it will

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Aug 5, 2020
3 min

Learn how to Create Digital Escape Rooms

This blog is about how you can easily make any worksheet or formative assessment into a digital escape room.

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Aug 1, 2020
3 min

A Beginners Guide for OneNote - Create, Share, and Grade your student's work in 1 place!

This blog and tutorial is about OneNote for digital Interactive Notebooks. This is a I believe it to be a powerful learning tool for both...

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Jul 26, 2020
4 min

First Day of School 2020 - Blended Learning About Me and Ice Breaker Activities

Here are some of the ideas that I came up with that could be an option to help get my students to introduce themselves and still work...

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Jul 17, 2020
4 min

Digital Interactive Notebooks - A how-to Guide! 4/4

This blog is about how I converted my INB's into digital format for distance or 1-2-1 learning...

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Jul 17, 2020
4 min

How to Share your Digital Worksheet and Lessons. 3/4

Sharing your worksheets or digital INB is going to look very different depending on the platform and LMS your county uses.

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Jul 17, 2020
2 min

Making any Worksheet into a Digital and Shareable Worksheet. 2/4

To turn a worksheet into a digital and interactive format, you will be working in Google Slides or Microsoft PowerPoint. The basic premise..

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Jul 17, 2020
2 min

Digitizing your Lessons - Prepare for a new era of Teaching! 1/4

I have created another blog series on how to convert your lessons to a digital format. Now there are so many amazing ways to do this, these

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Jul 9, 2020
8 min

A Day of Virtual PD in the Age of Virtual Learning: ScIC3 Unconference presented by PocketLab

This is the third Science is Cool "Unconference" that PocketLab has a variety of knowledgeable presenters and so many amazing takeaways...

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Jul 8, 2020
5 min

Two Words Guaranteed to Increase Student Engagement!

Learn about 2 little words that you can add into your daily warm-ups that will boost your engagement and make your bell-ringers so much fun!

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Jul 3, 2020
4 min

Individually assessing your students before the bell rings! You can do it and they will like it!

I put the units highly assessed academic sight words or concepts onto a flashcard to quickly assess students understanding before class...

Jul 3, 2020
1 min

Using ClassroomScreens.com for Classroom Management and Creating an "Interactive" Whiteboard".

ClassroomScreen.com is a free program that allows you to quickly pick various tools you may need for classroom management or any lesson you

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