#ideas and #moreideas (exams)

Have you ever used a hashtag to find something quickly?

What if you used the power of #hashtags in your classroom, do you think would make a difference? Using hashtags on all the socials are the same, they help direct users and organize ideas. Check out these ideas to help harness these tools for learning and development.

Student Ideas
We found a few ideas while researching this topic to help spark you into what tags could do.
1. #booktitle214 - Use the title of the book you are reading with your room number. Why room number? It makes the hashtag unique to your conversation. Whatever they post could follow the BHH framework.

2. #cellmutation214 - Take the topic of the day and turn it into a tag. This makes for a super easy backchannel discussion that runs while the lesson unfolds. It would be a similar idea to using Todaysmeet to get the kids talking and sharing.

3. #amhis214 - A simple tag, American History Room 214, to broadcast and announce things that are happening in your classroom.

You get the idea. Using tags can help shape the educational conversations happening in the room. This idea is a great way to help everyone in your class develop their own voice. I'm positive you have some kids in your room who rarely say anything, wouldn't it be great to hear from them?

Teacher Ideas
There are many twitter chats that happen most every day. Here are a few you might want to check out.
#engchat - English teacher chat that is live every Monday from 6-7.
#sschat - Social Studies chat that takes place every Monday night from 5-6.
#edchat - General education chat./ Tuesdays from 11-12 and 6-7.
#edtech - Where technology and education meet. This chat is on going.

Comments

Like your ELMO but with an iPad (elementary classroom teachers)

I used AirServer to create the infinity mirror effect. We were in a meeting today and Dominic told us about this fantastic idea. As we discussed all things technology he explained one method of using the iPad as a portable ELMO. It was too cool not to share. Step 1 Make sure you have AirServer running on your laptop. 1. Click the Windows key on your keyboard or click the icon in the lower left of your screen. 2. Just start typing AirServer. 3. Click AirServer. Don't see it? Contact technology or your building tech person. Step 2 Connect your teacher iPad to your laptop. 1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Start by swiping in the bezel, the black plastic part surrounding the screen. 2. Click AirPlay Mirroring. 3. Click your name. Step 3 Open the camera app and instant portable ELMO! Anything you see in the camera's len will be broadcast to the big screen. I just used this method to take a picture of my notebook as a demonstration of how co

Who is emailing me? The Blue Man Group??? (Add an image to your Google account.)

WHY It is always nice to put a face with a name. Sometimes we need a tiny little reminder of what someone looks like because we don't see them very often. Follow these steps to add/change the image associated with your Google account. HOW Open your email. Click your image. It might just be a blue circle if you have not added something already. Click Change . Find an image you like. Your amazing new image will appear. From now on everyone can put a name to a face!

Annotate PDF? How might I do that?

So I have a PDF and I need to edit it. Here is one method that works pretty well for me. Open Word. Click File . 1. Click Open . 2. Click Browse . 3. Find the PDF you want to annotate. 4. Click Open . Click OK when you see this box. Bam! Your PDF now opens in Word. Note: you maybe have to click Enable Editing at the top of the screen. Finished editing and want to turn it back into a PDF? Click File . 1. Click Save As . 2. Click This PC . 3. Pick a location. I usually save things to my desktop. 4. Click Save as type - and choose PDF. 5. Click Save .

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