How to Make Digital Comics in the Classroom
Making digital comics in the classroom provides students with the opportunity to practice serious academic skills in fun and engaging way. Providing students with creative choices for how to express understanding is one of the most important ways to use education technology.
How to Use Education Technology – The Ultimate Guide
Fourteen strategies for how to use education technology to transform your classroom and prepare students for the future.
Use Education Technology to Promote Digital Citizenship
Teaching digital citizenship skills is one of the most important reasons why technology must be a central part of public education today.
How to Make Green Screen Videos in the Classroom
*This post contains affiliate links, and New EdTech Classroom may receive a small commission if you choose to make a purchase.* Done right, making green screen videos in the classroom with your students fosters critical thinking, planning skills and collaboration skills. When students create and edit their own green screen videos, they are also making […]
4 Tips to Make Better Google Slides
Improve your Google Slides lessons with four easy tips in order to increase engagement, joy factor, and rigor! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfDATsi3bY0&t=9s 1. Use Slides Mania Templates Slides Mania and Slides Carnival both give away a huge variety of free Google Slides templates. Slides Mania is my current go-to for all my slides presentations because they are constantly […]
Why Use Education Technology?
Why Use Education Technology? The Ultimate Guide Introduction: Technology impacts almost every element of our society, and in the future the world our students will live in will be even more impacted by technology in ways we can’t predict. In our rapidly changing society, it is essential that we educate students how to think critically […]
How to Lesson Plan with Google Slides
Learn how to lesson plan with Google Slides to create well organized, visually appealing, and engaging lessons for students.
Education Technology Trends 2019 – ISTE Creative Constructor Lab Conference
In this post, I outline what I perceive to be the major themes and trends in education technology in 2019 based on what I experienced at ISTE’s Creative Constructor Lab conference in New Orleans in October. Jump to video summary. Major Themes: The overarching theme of the conference was, like its name suggests, to promote […]
How to Use Technology in Parent Teacher Conferences
Parent teacher conferences are an important time to build relationships with families, communicate current progress, and set goals for the future. In practice, though, they can be hard to execute. Without a clear plan, it’s pretty much guaranteed the conference will mostly involve adults discussing how a student should approach their education. It took me […]
Create Digital Portfolios for Students with Seesaw
Creating digital portfolios for students with Seesaw promotes student metacognition and improves communication with families. Watch the tutorial below to learn how to do it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O81_3WzxQbE Why Use Digital Portfolios? 1. Organization/Convenience Whether you’re assigning all digital work or just have some digital assignments, students need a place to house everything they’ve created. Google Drive […]