11.25.2014

Discover the Best Apps for Teaching Across the Curriculum

Curriculum Apps

Curriculum Apps

Hey Teachers,

Math, Science, Language Arts, Social Studies, ESL, Art, 
and more – this free eBook has an App for every educator! 


Take a journey across the curriculum and back as we 
highlight the best FREE apps for teaching all subjects. 

11.24.2014

Try Jing for a free and simple way to start sharing images and short videos of your computer screen. Whether for work, home, or play, Jing gives you the ability to add basic visual elements to your captures and share them fast.
Jing video tutorial on YouTube: here

11.21.2014

Empowering Students With Project-Based Learning and Google Tablets

Education Week Webinar:

In this webinar, you'll hear how St. Albans City School is empowering students by putting Google tools into their hands to improve their community. Students are engaging with the local community to improve the region's trail systems, while reducing the unfiltered phosphates that run off the trails and negatively impact Lake Champlain. Students are directly applying principles contained in the Next Generation Science Standards for schools. Tune in for the details of this learning project and how educators are transforming teaching & learning through some of these Google tools.

Starting in the middle of the 2013-2014 school year, St. Albans City School-a preK-8 building made up of approximately 700 students and 150 staff members-began a pilot program with 30 Android tablets and Google Play for Education. They procured affordable Nexus 7 tablets, with accurate GPS, quality cameras, and easy Google Apps integration and implemented a successful program schoolwide.

Guests:
Matt Allen, innovation specialist, St. Albans City School, St. Albans, Vt.

Laura Eichorn, 7th and 8th grade teacher, St. Albans City School, St. Albans, Vt.

Val Loucy, 7th and 8th grade teacher, St. Albans City School, St. Albans, Vt.

This webinar will be moderated by Devin Sandoz, product marketing manager, Google Play for Education

ASCD: Free Webinar About Close Reading

Whether they're reading literature or instructional texts, students need to develop the skill of close reading to thoughtfully analyze and evaluate while reading. 

What does close reading instruction look like in your classroom, and how can teachers of all subjects fit in close reading instruction into their schedules? 

Attend this free webinar by authors of the ASCD book A Close Look at Close Reading, Grades K–5 to find out. 


Engaging Students in Textual Analysis 

Diane Lapp, Barbara Moss, Maria Grant, and Kelly Johnson will share how to teach close reading in ways that support readers methodically reading and rereading a text as they focus on its structure, language, and content to deeply comprehend its message. 

They will include lesson scenarios that emphasize how the practice of close reading supports the development of speaking, listening, and writing skills. 

December 9, 2014, 3:00 p.m. ET 

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