edtech Archives - Ditch That Textbook https://ditchthattextbook.com/tag/edtech/ Ed tech, creative teaching, less reliance on the textbook. Sun, 11 Jun 2023 19:06:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 The building blocks of a meaningful ISTELive conference https://ditchthattextbook.com/istelive/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=istelive https://ditchthattextbook.com/istelive/#comments Sun, 11 Jun 2023 18:44:46 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5546 The ISTELive Conference is one of my very favorite professional learning events. In a word, it's an experience.ISTELive  (International Society for Technology in Education) is a multi-day professional learning event every June.More than 14,000 educators participate on-site -- with thousands more attending virtually.  More than 1,000 sessions ("learning opportunities") are offered by more than 1,600 presenters.Hundreds […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/istelive/feed/ 6 40 sites for students with free time on their hands https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-sites-for-students-with-free-time-on-their-hands/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-sites-for-students-with-free-time-on-their-hands https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-sites-for-students-with-free-time-on-their-hands/#comments Mon, 15 May 2023 10:45:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4507 When students are done with an assignment or project, how can they spend extra time wisely? These sites give them something academic to chew on. As a teacher, there’s always been a question that I wanted to have an answer to. “I’m done. What do I do now?” Early in my teaching career, my answer was, “If […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-sites-for-students-with-free-time-on-their-hands/feed/ 42 15 ideas for digital end-of-semester final projects https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-ideas-for-digital-end-of-semester-final-projects/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=10-ideas-for-digital-end-of-semester-final-projects https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-ideas-for-digital-end-of-semester-final-projects/#comments Thu, 20 Apr 2023 15:54:43 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=9487 Final projects can help students summarize and review content from the entire semester. Plus, they can create fantastic products with what they've learned!After months and months of learning, it all comes down to this. The end of the semester project. How can your students encapsulate the most important parts of the semester to demonstrate learning? At […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/10-ideas-for-digital-end-of-semester-final-projects/feed/ 7 The Gmail survival guide for busy teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-gmail-survival-guide-for-busy-teachers/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-gmail-survival-guide-for-busy-teachers https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-gmail-survival-guide-for-busy-teachers/#comments Wed, 27 Apr 2022 14:22:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=5791 Email can consume our lives. With some strategies, though, we can minimize the impact it has. Here are some tips to help with email overwhelm. Does it feel like email consumes your life — or too much of your time at school or at home?I once heard someone describe email as “requests for your time […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/the-gmail-survival-guide-for-busy-teachers/feed/ 4 Draw, choose, write or say: Fantastic formative assessments https://ditchthattextbook.com/draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments https://ditchthattextbook.com/draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments/#comments Thu, 31 Mar 2022 10:45:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=3577 Formative assessment can be fantastic! Here are options for letting students draw, choose, write and say as a formative assessment tool.Formative assessment can be drudgery. When students are doing the same quizzes and the same practice questions all day long, it can be less than stimulating.Or formative assessment can be fantastic.Teachers use formative assessments to […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/draw-choose-write-or-say-fantastic-formative-assessments/feed/ 10 How to create media-rich, interactive maps for deeper learning https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning/#comments Tue, 23 Nov 2021 19:39:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=4842 Google MyMaps lets students create maps with custom-pinned location. The magic, though, is in what you put in those pins. If we want to use technology in the classroom, we can’t just do the same kind of learning we did before it. Technology should improve the learning. Kick the lesson up a notch. Otherwise, our technology […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/how-to-create-media-rich-interactive-maps-for-deeper-learning/feed/ 6 20 Canva templates to use in class tomorrow https://ditchthattextbook.com/canva-templates/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=canva-templates https://ditchthattextbook.com/canva-templates/#comments Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:44:08 +0000 https://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=21518 This post is written by Karly Moura, a teacher on special assignment (TOSA) in Mount Diablo USD in Concord, California. This post was originally published on her blog, Teaching, Tech and Twitter, at KarlyMoura.blogspot.com.  Karly is also part of team Ditch That Textbook, enjoying her role as blog editor and social media manager.  Awhile back I […]

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]]> https://ditchthattextbook.com/canva-templates/feed/ 3 13 ways to connect music and lyrics to class https://ditchthattextbook.com/13-ways-to-connect-music-and-lyrics-to-class/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=13-ways-to-connect-music-and-lyrics-to-class https://ditchthattextbook.com/13-ways-to-connect-music-and-lyrics-to-class/#comments Tue, 12 Oct 2021 10:51:00 +0000 http://ditchthattextbook.com/?p=3704 Songs can embed themselves deeply in our minds and our memories. Can you remember a specific song that immediately takes you back to a place and time in your past?For me, these three have very vivid memories:When I was moving into the dorms at Indiana State University my freshman year — a wide-eyed brand new college […]

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