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      • 2.1 Knowing Students Well
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    • Ch 4: Starting with the Learner Profile
    • Ch 5: Flexing Your Pathways
      • 5.1 Engaging Pedagogies for All
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Google Docs

Tools We Like 

Setting behavioral expectations in a makerspace

October 1, 2018October 2, 2018 Erica Zimmer 0 Comments Google Docs, Makerspaces, padlet, Proctor Elementary School

  2 ways to bring in transferable skills Makerspaces are amazing. They’re a big carnival of lights and sounds and

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Laying the groundwork for effective teaching teams

August 23, 2017August 29, 2022 Katy Farber 1 Comment #everydaycourage, Canva, co-teaching, flipgrid, Google Docs, teaming, Thinglink

Or, What to Bring to the First Staff Potluck Opening up to fellow educators can be hard. We all know

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Remote Learning 

How to use Google Docs so students talk to you

April 20, 2017March 20, 2020 Audrey Homan 10 Comments #everydaycourage, Edmunds Middle School, Google Docs, Google Forms, trauma-informed education

Using technology to help build relationships [Editorial Note: We originally ran this post back in 2014, but have updated it

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using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection
Action Research Goal-setting 

Using digital tools to change student goal-setting and reflection

March 14, 2016April 13, 2022 Audrey Homan 6 Comments 1:1, goal-setting, Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Sites, MGC, Shrewsbury Mountain School, Wallingford Elementary School

Measuring how students approach goal-setting in the 5th and 6th grades   Educators at Wallingford Elementary School and Shrewsbury Mountain

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Google Tools for personal learning plans
Action Research 

Google Tools for personal learning plans (PLPs)

March 7, 2016December 7, 2018 Life LeGeros 13 Comments 1:1, Google Classroom, Google Docs, Google Drawings, Google Sites, Google Slides, Lucid Press, MGC, Middle Grades Institute (MGI), Williston Central School

A teacher-authored case study Today we hear from a grade 5-6 team venturing into the world of personal learning plans (PLPs)

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Transferable Skills 

Exploring digital citizenship as a form of literacy

February 26, 2016June 17, 2020 Sheila Selden 15 Comments Brattleboro Area Middle School, digital citizenship, Google Docs, Photoshop, WeVideo

7th graders learn video as reflection tool When I sat down to work with my students on digital citizenship and literacy,

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O is for Online Collaboration

September 18, 2015April 19, 2018 Rachel Mark 8 Comments #ABCsofedtech, edmodo, Google Docs, Google Slides, Skype

Online collaboration extends student learning networks Online collaboration takes on new significance as students extend their learning network in conjunction

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technology in the math classroom
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Technology in the math classroom

February 23, 2015November 30, 2018 Mary Beth Limanek 12 Comments flipped classroom, Flubaroo, Google Docs, Google Forms, math, YouTube videos

When we first started our work with the Tarrant Institute I was hesitant. I am a math teacher; unless using

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Tools We Like 

#1minutehowto: Use EasyBib to create a GoogleDoc bibliography

May 13, 2014May 12, 2014 Audrey Homan 4 Comments EasyBib, Google Docs, Skitch, Tellagami

Why We Like This This is Amy Gibson’s fabulous (and brief!) tutorial video about the EasyBib Google Docs Add-On, which

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Essays on Rube Goldberg: capturing the scientific process with iPads

April 21, 2014September 19, 2018 Audrey Homan 5 Comments Google Docs, Harwood Union Middle School, iPads, physics, Schoology

How one class of 8th grade scientists at Harwood Union Middle School used Google Docs, Schoology, and iPads to capture

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How to: add voice, text and video comments to student Google Docs

February 25, 2014April 13, 2022 Audrey Homan 3 Comments Google Docs, Kaizena

  Brought to you by the inimitable Susan Hennessey, who shows here how you can use the Chrome browser extension

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