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Perfecting Grammar With Grammarly

A grammar check and online proofreading tool beyond the basics in Word, Grammarly’s free writing app makes sure everything you type is easy to read, effective, and mistake-free by simply checking for grammar, punctuation, and style.  It also presents a contextual spell checker and plagiarism detector.

Add the Grammarly extension to Chrome and watch how your online writing is checked in real time.  Learn about your mistakes so you can avoid them in future writings and become a better writer.

To add Grammarly to your Chrome browser, go to:  https://www.grammarly.com/  and click the ‘Add to Chrome’ button.  That’s it!  Next time you begin writing, you’ll see it in action (provided you make mistakes).  🙂

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CommonLit for Language & Literacy 5-12

CommonLit is a nonprofit organization created by teachers, for teachers and is dedicated to ensuring that all students graduate high school with the reading and writing skills necessary to be successful.  The free program delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 5-12. Resources are:

  • Fiction and Non-Fiction Passages;
  • Flexible;
  • Research-Based;
  • Aligned to the Common Core State Standards.

Sign up today for a free account and choose a lesson, share it students, and track their progress. This resource is committed to being free forever so there’s no need to wonder if it’s a limited version or if it’s only available for a short time.

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Virginia Beach Learning Tour

March 15, 2017 – Learning Tour at Virginia Beach Secondary Schools

Dr. Parker, Dr. Calveric, Dr. Monroe, Dr. Jones, Mrs. Lindsay, Jeff Wick, Josh Just, Kim Haislop, Beth Hausler, and Sylvia Anderson were the tourists for the day. The purpose of the visit was to see and learn about how another school system rolls out Chromebooks, what their CTE offerings were, Instructional Technology processes, Khan Academy and Google Classroom usage,  community partnerships, flexible seating, testing experiences,  and success rates, etc..

This Sway highlights parts of the tour.

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PPT’s Taken A Step Further

A randomized PowerPoint is a handy activity for qballrecall and drill.
It involves all students in the class having to be on their toes not knowing when they will be called upon or what material will be presented. Add a Qball to the equation and you’ve got real engagement!

Examples of activities – reading clocks, counting money, math facts, math equations, vocabulary, roman numerals, foreign language, ESL, periodic table, and so on.

The video below demonstrates the activity, shows the code running in the background, explains the developer tool, and hones in on the one area of code that needs modified with each activity created.

https://youtu.be/dtNnaXPKBR0

If you would like a copy of an activity, contact me and I will send you one that you can make your own.

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Dotstorming

Dotstorming is a real time collaboration board for brainstorming ideas or engaging discussion. Postings are open for comments or voting. Participants can chat with others through a chat window before or during a collaborative activity.

Boards are shareable and embed nicely to your website.