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Leela Kids: Podcasts for Kids It's always important to remember that our students listening skills are in need of constant development.  I'm a huge fan of…

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Your Brain Doesn't Contain Memories. It Is Memories | WIRED

Your Brain Doesn’t Contain Memories. It Is Memories | WIRED

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Apple now allows customer support reps to respond to your App Store reviews | TechCrunch via @techcrunch

Apple now allows customer support reps to respond to your App Store reviews | TechCrunch via @techcrunch

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Amazon launches Spark, a shoppable feed of stories and photos aimed at Prime members | TechCrunch

Amazon launches Spark, a shoppable feed of stories and photos aimed at Prime members | TechCrunch

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The Mask and the Task: How Martin Landau helped me in my classroom

The Mask and the Task: Martin Landau and my classroom. #adechat #nvedchat #edtech

From Youtube:CosmicHobo

Elena Maria Del Barra: Señor, uh, Miller, how long have you been selling laboratory equipment?

Rollin Hand: Oh, long enough to know that I can sell you.

This year my classroom will be run like an RPG.  A lot of it has to do with millions of hours of video game play, but a fair amount goes to Rollin Hand. The…

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Take 'Em to Church with Preach

Preach allows you to add emojis after every word you type #edtech #nvedchat #adechat #pbsdi17

If 👏 you 👏 like 👏 emojis, 👏 you’re 👏 going 👏 to 👏 looooooooove 👏 PREACH!  It 👏 places 👏 emojis 👏 after 👏 every 👏 word 👏 you 👏 type! 👏  It’s 👏 available 👏 as 👏 a 👏 chrome 👏 extension. 👏

Just 👏 highlight 👏 the 👏 text 👏 you’d 👏 like 👏 to 👏 preach 👏 and 👏 choose 👏 “Preach!” 👏 Your 👏 “sermon” 👏 is 👏 copied 👏 and 👏 just 👏 needs 👏 to 👏 be 👏 pasted 👏 where 👏 you’d 👏 like 👏 it 👏 to 👏 be. 👏

Have fun!

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Systems > Goals

http://jamesclear.com/goals-systems   1. Goals reduce your current happiness. When you’re working toward a goal, you are essentially saying, “I’m not good enough yet, but I will be when I reach my goal.” The problem with this mindset is that you’re teaching yourself to always put happiness and success off until the next milestone is achieved. “Once I reach my goal, then I’ll be happy. Once I…

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Emoji Madness

Emoji Pics Composer

Emojis are ubiquitous.  Even Duolingo has a emoji course. They are a modern take on hieroglyphics that give learners the ability to communicate their feelings and understandings VISUALLY.

Here are three ways to utilize EMOJIS in your classroom:

Telling stories- Including stories during writing is magical especially if students blog regularly.  Emojis can be accessed through…

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New draft image via Interland Interland is Google’s new tool to teach children about internet safety. You take the role of an explorer trying to avoid phishing attacks and being a good navigator of the internet.

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Being Unproductive  Totally forgot about #nvedchat tonight. My bad. I was letting off some steam. ​​

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DESIGN.

Kung-Fu Kenny inspires us so we had to drop some heat.  Channelling our inner K.Dot, this project is an explanation of design thinking in our view.  You can take a look at the project by visiting here or download it by visiting our Gumdrop shop.

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Go DJ: Making Youtube More Lit one Lesson at a Time

Go DJ: Making Youtube More Lit one Lesson at a Time

What would MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech sound backed by Kendrick Lamar’s “Be Humble?” What about John F. Kennedy imploring us to choose to go the moon backed by “Rocket Man?” Though, Youtube DJ  was designed for mixing music from Youtube, it could be applied for classroom use to introduce speeches, historic events, and documentaries backed by any music you wished.

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Finish Him!: Closing Lessons like a Boss

Finish Him!: Closing Lessons like a Boss

Closing your lessons is important even in video games.  Here are some iOS applications that can help you to a flawless victory.

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Follow up: Follow up

Follow up: Follow up

Last episode, I talked about inboxing.

Once you have the list of all the things rattling around in your brain, you have to sort through it. Set aside an hour or so the first time you do it so that you’re not rushed.

The #1 rule is NOTHING GOES BACK IN THE INBOX.

This isn’t like going through Grandma’s attic where you can just put something back once you’ve touched it. If you look at an item, it…

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Increased Apptitude: TextingStory APP TextingStory is an app that allows one to simulate a text conversation between two parties.

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In a box

Inboxing.  Dumping all those thoughts that bang around in your head out into a place.  It could be an analog place like a dedicated notebook (bujo anyone?) or a collection of sticky notes affixed to your desk or monitor.  It could be a digital dumping ground like Omnifocus, Habitica, or Todoist. Maybe even the good old reminders or notes app or a cloud solution like Google tasks or keep.  What…

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Increased Apptitude: VixT

  Video Mashups are fun.  You see them ubiquitously strewn throughout social media spaces.  They make us laugh.  They make us think.  They make us want to create one.  Why not use them in your classroom for instructional purposes? VixT allows you to do just that easily on your iOS or Android device.

Having students create video mash…

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