I’ve changed up my small group and centers rotation display several times over the years. My first year, my partner teacher and I grouped between classes so we had several groups to manage. Our set up looked something like this (but with quite a few more places the students actually went to) and with three rotations each day. Every morning I’d move the center rotation cards so the students knew where they’d go when since
Today, I’m going to share the second video in the series. It’s how you can use Google Docs to create Mind Maps with your students. Check out the video below in the post for a step by step tutorial. In April, I shared how I use Google Docs in my classroom to give students a quiz or instead of a worksheet. I also shared how I use the spreadsheet for data tracking. If you missed
I have an exciting new website to share with you today for Wednesday Website! PixiClip provides the tools to give you an interactive whiteboard, and even allows you to connect your mic and webcam to add in recordings of your voice and yourself! If you are doing a flipped classroom, this would be an amazing tool! I’m not lucky enough to have an interactive white board in my room, but received a projector and document
A few years ago when I started this journey posting my creations and blogging, I slowly started incorporating new fonts that I’d find. I literally have spent HOURS scouring the internet looking for new ones that I wanted. I will completely admit that I downloaded any font that I saw that I liked from dafont.com regardless of whether or not it was free for commercial use or not. I now have hundreds of fonts on my
Click the image above to go to all of my other Wednesday Website posts. My newest website to share with you is one I’ve known about for a couple of years now. WatchKnowLearn.org is designed to bring high quality educational videos to your classroom to keep your lessons engaging for students, as well as build their content knowledge. WatchKnowLearn.org has partnered with a variety of video programs, especially YouTube and TeacherTube. Instead of Googling
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