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Teaching literacy with technology in an era of educational innovation. By Jen Roberts @JenRoberts1

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The Final Minutes of NaNoWriMo 2011

December 01, 2011

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Negotiating NCTE 2011

November 20, 2011

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Digital Pedagogy

October 21, 2011

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Writing Mentors

October 13, 2011

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Going to Google - GTA Seattle July 2011

August 20, 2011

Google Certified Teacher Google Teacher Academy GTA GTAWA

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Google Teacher Academy Update

Google Certified Teacher Google Teacher Academy GTAWA Seattle

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I got in to the Google Teacher Academy!

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The Summer of Ed Tech

Ed Tech Google Certified Teacher Google Docs internet Learning Professional Development SDAWP Summer

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The Paperless American Lit Final

American Literature Assessment Final Google Presentations Paperless students

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Using ActivEngage With Students

ActivEngage Promethean students Teaching video

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The future's so bright... Senior Exhibition

Future Senior Exhibition Seniors

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Docs for English Teachers

Education Google Docs Teachers Teaching

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Why my students are like really big rocks

Rocks SAT students

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Goodreads in the Classroom

Education Apps Goodreads Independent Reading Reading students Web 2.0

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A little figurative language

January 25, 2011

Figurative language hyperbole idiom metaphor personification simile Teaching

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Finding Like Minds: The triumph of social networking for teachers

January 15, 2011

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Got a few minutes at the end of class?

It happens to all of us sometimes. Your perfectly planned lesson goes just a bit faster than you expected and you have a few minutes left at the end of class. Or maybe your students have been showing some excellent focus on their projects and you want to give them a few minutes of fun. My students have to put their laptops in a cart at the end of class and that takes a few minutes. For whatever reason it's good to have a few things you can pull up fast and engage students with for those last few minutes. These are some of my favorites. Share your's in the comments.

GeoGuesser:https://geoguessr.com/
This site drops you at a spot in the world and you have to guess where you are. It's good for a quick lesson in observing details. It's funny how often it seems like the picture seems to be from one place, but it really a whole different continent. I'll have one student come up to play, but the whole class loves to watch and make suggestions. Pro tip, teach them they can…

One Google Doc All Year Long: The English Journal

My students each share a Google Doc with me in September and they use that doc all year long. We call it their English Journal and it holds all of the small daily work we do. This is one of the secrets of my 1:1 classroom and it is such an ordinary part of our workflow that I have rarely thought to write about it. Let’s fix that.

The challenge for any educator is knowing what kinds of work and thinking students are actually doing in our classes. The traditional way of gaining this insight was to collect papers: homework, notes, reflections, quick writes, exit slips, graphic organizers, etc. It all happened on paper and we collected it to look at, or at least to make students think we looked at it.

The challenge for teachers switching to digital classrooms and is that we still want all of that information and it is natural to assume at first that we just need to collect those things digitally. The result though, is a separate document for every daily bit of work students do. If you tho…

Book Check Out Form: My classroom library solution

I love teaching with technology, but as an English teacher I also love books. Seeing my students read, get hooked on reading, and grow as readers are among my greatest joys as an educator. Maintaining a large and diverse classroom library is a huge part of making my students into life long readers. Loosing books is an inevitable part of working with kids and books. Recently I heard Penny Kittle say, "If you aren't loosing 15% of your classroom library every year than you probably don't have the right books in it." (She attributed it to someone else but I can't recall who.)

I teach 9th graders. I want them to read daily, try on a book before they borrow it, and have as many books out at a time as they need. I used to use a clipboard with a log. Students wrote down the title, author and date they borrowed the book. When they returned it they added the date returned. But often there was a line of 5-6 students waiting to write on the log, and many more just gave up …

Turning SAMR into TECH: What models are good for

SAMR, developed by Ruben Puentedura, is one model for examining the evolution of tech integration in classrooms. It focuses on the type of work students are doing and how much that work deviates from traditional classroom practices. In a sense, it measures the future against the past. This four minute video is great if you would like to hear him explain it in his own words.

I like the SAMR model and I think it does what models are supposed to do, it get us talking and thinking about the work going on in our classrooms. This graphic shows the progression of a teacher's thinking with a bit of humor too.

As a model though, I think SAMR has some issues we need to talk and think about more. This is my list of concerns.

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It privileges the modification and redefinition stages such that good teaching without tech is marginalized. Even after five years of 1:1 I still have a few fabulous lessons that just work better on paper. They are worth keeping even if they do n…

Google PD Week!

Fabulous email in my inbox this afternoon from the Google for Education Team.

Next week, June 5-11, is Google PD Week.

There will be Twitter chats and live stream YouTube events about increasing efficiency, expanding the walls of our classrooms, live Q&A, even gamifying PD.

You can find more information and the schedule of events HERE.

Add the #GooglePDWeek hashtag to your tweetdeck now so you won't miss anything.
And use #GooglePDWeek to share out your own best tips for using G-Suite with students and teachers.

I've got several appointments next week with colleagues who want help using Google in their classrooms, so I know this is something teachers want.

Thank you Google Edu Team!

Got a favorite trick for Google Apps with teachers or students? Share it in the comments below.

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