Category: Technology

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Zunal Webquest Projects

Zunal is a free online resource for creating webquests with a template but better yet it is a repository of thousands of webquests created by teachers and shared with the general public ready for use. Webquests are designed as projects for small groups of students to work together in completing the assigned task. Click the image below for a chart categorizing webquests by subject matter and grade level. The examples listed are for grades 9-12.

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Search webquests by subject matter and grade level.
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Active Body, Active Mind – GoNoodle

Physical activity helps stimulate the brain and improves retention and focus. Students with low energy become sluggish and fidgety, their thoughts wander, they have a hard time recalling or retaining class discussions and their test performance tends to drop.

GoNoodle is a fabulous resource to get your students moving and stimulated in between lessons or before testing. GoNoodle energizes students to where they become more focused and ready to learn.  Even test scores have been known to improve.

GoNoodle videos provide movement breaks that get kids up and moving. There are all sorts of different videos with dances and songs, etc. Some simulate running and jumping and others are calming breathing exercises.

Join the movement and sign up today.

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QuiverVision – 3D Augmented Reality

Using Quiver in the classroom is as easy as coloring pages and having them brought to life in the way your student creatively colored the page.

Coloring is a fine motor skill we develop at an early age. Coloring allows us to be creative in our expression and acts as a calming agent in reducing stress. What Quiver does using 3D augmented reality is bring those colored images to life.

Animal Cell (colored and brought to life)

Quiver offers free activities but also provides an educational theme with narrations, facts, and quizzes.

These activities will complement any lesson while engaging your students with a desire to learn more.

Quiver Education provides content designed around topics as diverse as biology, geometry, and the solar system.

Apps are available for Apple, Android, and at Amazon.

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Creating Rubrics in a Snap

Rubrics make grading papers and projects fast and easy. You know exactly what you’re looking for in your student’s assignments and students also know what the expectations are for earning the best grade possible.

quick rubricFrom the creators of Storyboard That, QUICK RUBRIC is a user friendly new (beta) site for creating crisp, clean, modern looking rubrics with ease.  Users can add a row or a column with a tap of an arrow button.  Everything is customizable and an account holder can save or print out as many rubrics as they wish.

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Chromebooks Are Coming

So what’s a Chromebook and why all the hype?

lenovo-n22-chromebookChromebooks are small light weight laptops that operate through Google Cloud.  The start up time occurs in less than 10 seconds compared to Windows which says, ‘this won’t take long’ and actually takes several minutes.

Apps and extensions can be added from the Google Play Store. There is no local hard drive meaning all data is stored in the cloud and data is never lost.  As long as you have a google account and internet access, you can access your data from any internet accessible device through a web browser. All settings made under your sign-on become your personalized profile.

They are affordable, effective, and durable mobile devices for the one-to-one schools love chromeinitiative in a secure learning environment.

Schools love Chromebooks and Chromebooks love Google for Education!