Tech Tip Tuesday

• Alice Keeler Presents Geogebra's Illustrative Math for Middle School
• TIMESAVER Rethink Grading: Mote & Record to Slides
• Adobe Spark
• Dyknow Reminder

• Illustrative Math is FREE Open Source CURRICULUM. This is not just some supplemental resources, but rather something you can fully adopt for your classroom. GeoGebra is also completely free. GeoGebra allows for interactive exploration of math concepts.
• High School & Elementary Curriculum Math: Coming out this summer will be the math curriculum for high school Algebra, Geometry, and Algebra 2. Elementary curriculum is also being developed.

One of the hottest topics right now is about grading. It sometimes feels impossible to keep up on grading especially now when we have in person kids, online kids, kids at home, etc, each now with missing work, late work, and on time work. One of the suggestions is skip the grading of a lot of your formative assignments and leave feedback instead. Research has shown that real time feedback is more beneficial and makes more of an impact to the students than grades alone. You can use time saving extensions like MOTE to record your voice almost anywhere or use the RECORD TO SLIDES extension to give real time feedback quickly on Google Slides assignments.

• Free Educator Accounts
• Teacher Resources and Templates: add your subject and/or education level to see what teachers are doing with Adobe Spark. You can also grab and use their resources.

• Design stunning graphics: It’s easy to make science fair posters, social studies infographics, math flashcards, and so much more with Spark Post. Pick a template or start from scratch.
  

• Create attention-grabbing web pages: Transform field trip journals, language arts essays, lab reports, and more into dynamic web stories with Spark Page. Choose a layout, theme, and fonts.
  

• Make captivating videos: Turn book reports, physics explanations, poetry analysis, and more into video presentations with Spark Video. Narrate your story, pick a theme, then customize.

For step by step directions for creating an Adobe Spark Educator Account CLICK HERE

If you want to have more control over what students are doing on their school devices, DYKNOW is for you!

All classroom teachers have access to Dyknow. You just have to login using your work google account and your classes will be automatically populated for you.

Dyknow gives you the ability to see what is on the screen of everyone in your class. You can lock certain websites for certain students, or you could lock students IN certain websites or programs.