Today is World Emoji Day and to celebrate I’m sharing 20 emoji activities, my slide presentation, and resources to engage your learners. Emojis are an important part of our students’ digital culture and the way students humanize time spent communicating with others constantly through a machine. Emojis allow students to express themselves, share their personalities, […]
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Mock It Up! 9 Tools for Learners to Design, Blueprint, and Visualize Their Innovations
“Proper perspective brings about clear direction.” – Mike Anthoni, Author of The Blueprint One way to truly inspire innovation is to send students on learning missions or challenges to invent or imagine a new app, vehicle, machine, building, or system that solves a problem. I’ve sent students on missions to imagine a house or vehicle for people […]
STEAM Up Learning Outdoors! 15+ Ideas to Try Now or this Summer!
“[Science] is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world.” – Barack Obama, Former U.S. President Many of the missions in […]
Visualizing Learning with Infographics: 23 Resources
“Numbers have an important story to tell. They rely on you to give them a clear and convincing voice.” – Stephen Few This year get your students to visualize difficult concepts or understand a process by teaching with infographics. Use infographics to introduce a chapter, unit, or lesson. Students can work in small groups to decipher the […]
It All Adds Up! 25+ Math Resources, Apps, & Tools
“It isn’t that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.” – GK Chesterton Math doesn’t live inside of a book. That is the wrong way to teach math. Math is useful for solving problems, and necessary to figure out the world around us. We can get our students to […]
STEAM It Up for Struggling Students! 15+ Resources
Recently added to the Survival Tips for Teachers! “It isn’t that they cannot see the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem.” – GK Chesterton Find the slides, tips and resources for my presentation, STEAM It Up for Students! Enjoyed these resources? Get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers or Learning […]
Creating Digital Books to Help Others: 20+ Apps, Tools & Ideas
Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning, The 30 Goals Challenge, or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com! During one of my teaching internships, my mentor had us create books we read to children from the Boys and Girls Club. I still have my construction paper book with my poor drawings. My artistic abilities didn’t matter […]
18 Educational Apps for Halloween
“There is magic, but you have to be the magician. You have to make the magic happen.” – Sidney Sheldon, Are You Afraid of the Dark? Halloween is one of the most fun holidays. Kids love the spooky monsters, sounds, music, dances, treats, traditions, haunted houses, and costumes that surround the holiday. As an educator […]
What Did They Tweet?
3rd week of the May 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet weekly series! Let’s see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media. Multimedia Tweets @ShellTerrell Thansk you for RT, Shelly! To see all your followers in a fun parade: http://isparade.jp/ 🙂Neus LorenzoNewsNeus You can embed this on […]
What Did They Tweet?
Say Good-bye to March 2010 edition of the What Did They Tweet weekly series! Let’s see what our Personal Learning Network (PLN) tweeted about in education and social media. Video: The Amazing Youtube Choir Social media continues to amaze me. I believe a new online collaborative art form has emerged in which several people contribute […]