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OK2Ask: Remix & Reuse Responsibly: Copyright for Digital Citizens - TeachersFirst
Grades
2 to 12Students need to...more
Students need to understand copyright laws and responsible content creation as they engage in various academic projects and creative endeavors. This workshop will equip you with the essential knowledge and strategies you need to effectively teach copyright concepts to your students. Together, we'll explore the legal and ethical implications of using other people's work and the creative and educational benefits of remixing and reusing content. Discover various tools and resources to help you and your students find, evaluate, and cite free or licensed content for reuse and gain valuable insights that will help you seamlessly integrate copyright literacy into your teaching practices. As a result of this session, teachers will: 1. Understand the basic copyright laws and how they apply to educational settings. 2. Explore strategies for teaching students to remix and reuse content in their projects responsibly. 3. Gain practical resources and tools that support copyright education in the classroom. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.You must be registered and logged in to add items to your favorites.
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Twitter Chat: Facilitating Difficult Conversations in the Classroom - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about facilitating difficult conversations in the classroom. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources for facilitating difficult conversations in the classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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OK2Ask: Tech Made EZ with FigJam - TeachersFirst
Grades
2 to 12Don't miss this opportunity...more
Don't miss this opportunity to unlock the full potential of FigJam in your classroom! FigJam is a free online whiteboard that allows you to create, share, and collaborate on ideas with students and colleagues. Join us for an interactive workshop where you'll discover innovative ways to engage students, foster collaboration, and elevate instruction across various content areas and grade levels. As a result of this session, teachers will: 1. Identify the potential uses and benefits of implementing FigJam in your classroom. 2. Learn how using features like shapes, sticky notes, images, and team editing can boost engagement. 3. Explore templates for brainstorms, concept maps, visual notes, and storyboards. This session is appropriate for teachers at all technology levels.
In the Classroom
The archive of this teacher-friendly, hands-on webinar will empower and inspire you to use learning technology in the classroom and for professional productivity. As appropriate, specific classroom examples and ideas have been shared. View the session with a few of your teaching colleagues to find and share new ideas. Find additional information and links to tools at the session resource page. Learn more about OK2Ask and upcoming sessions here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Keep Calm and Chat: All Things Back to School! - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Ready or not - - summer is almost over and school is back in session! Learn about tools and tips for getting the school year started right! Share this chat with your colleagues looking for sites and information. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Geokov - Geokov.com
Grades
5 to 12In the Classroom
Take a virtual field trip through the map maker. Explore landforms and other terrain features from Google Earth and topographic maps. Easily create maps for field trips, presentations, classroom activities and more. Create a shade relief topographic map of any region. Doing an environmental study of an area or region? Find the region in this tool first and add the necessary information for classroom discussion or presentation. Use one of the many TeachersFirst Presentation Tools to present information learned. Tie information from literature, stories, history, and other sources to add value and interest to the maps.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Central Park Conservancy - Central Park Conservancy
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use this resource to plan a trip to the park. Or, create a virtual field trip by designating specific places on the website that students have to visit. Have students locate different buildings, art, and trees in the park. It could be a great way to do a virtual leaf collection (in this case - tree collection) with the site's tree database. Have students find at least ten different trees and then create a presentation providing different information about those trees, including their locations in the park. Assign small groups to explore one facet of this site and create a multimedia presentation using one of many TeachersFirst Edge tools reviewed here. Some tool suggestions are (click on the tool name to access the review): PBWorks (wiki), Site123 (blog/webpage), Renderforest (newscast video), and Genially (poster/bulletin board).Use the site to help teach geography content such as latitude and longitude by having the students create a map to "escape the park."Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Open Textbook Library - Univ. of Minnesota's College of Education & Human Development
Grades
6 to 12In the Classroom
Bookmark and save this website as a resource for finding supplemental materials for your classroom and professional development information for personal use. For example, if you teach algebra, use the search feature to find introductory and prealgebra textbooks to reinforce concepts to students differently than your current teaching materials. For students who need enrichment material, take advantage of algebra 2 books to provide differentiated instruction to meet their learning needs. This resource would be ideal to use in a remote learning situation. Consider curating this site along with other open education resources (OER) using Wakelet, reviewed here. Create a collection in Wakelet of your OER resources and share it with colleagues as a professional resource.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Overheard at National Geographic - National Geographic Partners, LLC
Grades
4 to 12In the Classroom
Incorporate relevant podcasts into classroom lessons to enhance learning and engage student interest. For example, have students listen to the podcast of how Anne Frank's Diary survived when reading the Diary of Anne Frank or learning about the holocaust or include A Skeptic's Guide to Loving Bats during your studies of animals. Visit the archive of OK2Ask: Podcasting 101: Using Podcasts in the Classroom, reviewed here to learn more about using podcasts to improve students' listening comprehension, build academic vocabulary, and strengthen literacy skills.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Finding Dulcinea Online Guides and Resources - Mark Moran
Grades
5 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Share articles from Finding Dulcinea with students on your interactive whiteboard when discussing current events. Create a link on classroom computers for students to read on their own. Have students create a simple infographic sharing their findings from any article using Snappa, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Food Chains for Kids - Free School
Grades
4 to 8In the Classroom
Use this site as an anticipatory set or "activator" to introduce a unit or lesson on food chains on a projector or interactive whiteboard. Include a link to the video on your class website for students to view at home. Take a walk outside of your classroom to look for different members of food chains and take pictures. Have students create an annotated image describing the animal's role in the food chain by adding text boxes and related links using a tool such as Image Annotator, reviewed here. Have students create a word cloud of the important terms they learn from this site using a tool such as WordClouds, reviewed here, or for younger students use Word Clouds For Kids, reviewed here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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TinyWow - TinyWow
Grades
K to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
TinyWow is perfect for many different classroom uses, and since it doesn't require registration, it provides an excellent resource for use by you and your students. Use the image tools to remove unwanted objects from classroom photos, create profile images of students for use on student projects, or to create AI images for use with creative writing projects. Take advantage of the document tool to quickly convert documents to a standard format when sharing information with parents and peers.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Book Creator Certified Author Course - Book Creator
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Completing the Book Creator Certified Author course is an excellent way to learn about the numerous features included in Book Creator, available when making engaging and interactive books to share with students or for students to use when creating books. Use the many available templates as a starting point to create books to enhance student learning and for students to share their learning. Find out more about how to use Book Creator by visiting the TeachersFirst review found here.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Take Me Fishing - Fishopedia - The Recreational Boating and Fishing Foundation
Grades
3 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Use this resource to help your students learn more about local fish and the effects of human behavior on aquatic life. Have students use a fish to tell its own story with the additional assistance of a tool like Blabberize, reviewed here, where you can make your fish "talk!" Use in environmental science courses to help students understand sustainability and conservation. Try using it as part of practice for Envirothon competitions. Perhaps even start a wildlife club and use this site to prepare for a field trip of fishing.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Temperate Rainforest Facts - temperate-rainforest-facts.com
Grades
4 to 12This site includes advertising.
In the Classroom
Include this site with your other resources when teaching about biomes and habitats. Instead of asking students to take notes or create flashcards, learn vocabulary using online games like Baamboozle, reviewed here. Baamboozle allows you to quickly create games for teams of two and automatically keeps score during gameplay. Upon completion of your unit consider having students create online books using a tool like Book Creator, reviewed here. Book Creator includes many features to create interactive books including adding video, text, audio, and images.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: What's the Buzz: Augmented Reality - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about augmented reality and how to integrate it into your lessons. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for resources related to augmented reality.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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X (formerly Twitter) Chat: Using Tech Tools to Generate Ideas in the Classroom - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Share this chat with your colleagues looking for tech tools to generate ideas in the classroom. Explore the various tools that are shared.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Classroom Management - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
If you are looking for some new classroom management ideas and tools, view this archive. Share this chat with your collegues who also want to learn new classroom management ideas from other teachers in the trenches.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Music Tips and Tools - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Do you teach music? Check out this archived chat for tools and tips to use in your classroom. Share this tool with your collegues interested in learning more tips and tools to use in music lessons.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Media Literacy in the Classroom - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
Find resources and information about media literacy. Share this chat with your colleagues looking for strategies and resources on media literacy.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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Twitter Chat: Flexible Seating - TeachersFirst
Grades
K to 12In the Classroom
If you are new to the idea of flexible seating, view this archive to learn more. Share this archived chat with your fellow colleagues considering flexible seating in their classroom.Add your comments below (available only to members) | Become a Member
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