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Teaching literacy with technology in an era of educational innovation. By Jen Roberts 🦋 @jen.litandtech.com

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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

facebook Google Docs Goolge Forms NCTE NING Social Networking Twitter

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What the web does best...

December 16, 2010

blogs Chat Google Docs Student Achievement students Web 2.0 Writing

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Interactive White Boards (IWB's) are coming

December 15, 2010

Interactive White Board IWB Mission Bay High School Promethean

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Using Google Docs Chat Windows for Literary Analysis With Students

December 08, 2010

Accountable talk Chat Google Docs Learning Passing Days Self Reliance Teaching The Story of an Hour

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Google Docs chat window is a window into student thinking

December 02, 2010

Accountable talk Chat Google Docs Student talk students Writing

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Smart Phones For Teachers, or "Hello? This is the 21st century calling."

November 08, 2010

cell phone educaton Grant Smart phone Teachers Verizon

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Google Forms: Have you seen the possibilities?

November 06, 2010

Ed Tech Google Docs Goolge Forms Persentations SDCUE Surveys

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Education Solution

October 16, 2010

Accountability Assessment Education Education Reform Preparation Solution Student Achievement Teachers Teaching Time

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Shared folders to the rescue...

September 22, 2010

Google Docs Sharing Writing Groups

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Stickers, why didn't I think of that?

September 14, 2010

blogs Course Labels

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My Docs Tips

August 22, 2010

Collaboration English Journals Google Docs Sharing Writing Groups

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When Ripples Become Waves (Not the Google Kind)

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Ways with Word Clouds

Taxedo Word Cloud Writing

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Two Days In The Life of a High School Teacher or Never a Dull Moment

CAHSEE Life Teaching Week

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Blog vs. Website-- Which will you use in your classroom?

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Online Text Selection Supports Standards Focused Learning

February 22, 2010

Assumptions Nature Standards Text Sellection

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A Poe Story

January 05, 2010

Information Poe

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Sometimes I Wonder

November 12, 2009

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Jen's Edutopia Articles

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✍️Authentic Writing in the Age of AI
⛔️ Proactively Limiting the Use of AI in the Classroom
🤖 What ELA Teachers Should Know About AI Detectors
📄 Using AI Tools to Give Feedback on High School Students’ Writing

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Making Your Own Teacher Toolbox

Over the summer, someone shared a teacher toolbox on Twitter and I went down a rabbit hole learning all about them and how to make them. I bought a set of labels online, but I decided I didn't like them much and they were challenging to customize, so I made my own one day. And, because I like to share all the good things that come out of my classroom, I am sharing my creation with you. I bought the large box on the left, but the drawers are only 5-6" deep, so I needed another solution for pens and pencils. I already had the shorter box on the right. It was stuffed with a hodgepodge of other things that fit well in the larger box, so reorganization worked in my favor. The availability on the large box I bought fluctuates. Sometimes it is only available with a red front edge . (And right now the price is higher than I paid. It might be worth waiting because the price fluctuates a lot on these. $30-$40 is the reasonable range.) There are lots of drawer combinations, th...

NBCT: My Experience with Component 2: YA ELA

Assembling Component 2 Considering National Boards? I recommend the process, but you should know what you are getting into. Start early and get organized. In the spring of 2016 I began pursuing National Board Certification for teaching. I know eventually someone will ask me for my thoughts and advice about that process, so I'll capture them now while the experience is fresh. Because I teach 9th grade, and previously taught middle school for ten years, I decided to do my NBCT in the area of Young Adolescent ELA. (Yes, I also taught 11th grade for six years, but that was a while ago.) Though some do it in one year, I'm taking two years to complete my NBCT. Last summer, at a small local conference, I stumbled into a conversation about National Boards and happened to find out that my County Office of Education sponsored a support program. I was just in time to sign up. Through that program I got early advice and support to help me understand expectations and deadlines. Th...

I Let AI Redesign My Canvas Pages (And You Should Too)

My latest favorite way of using AI in my classroom is to vastly improve the look of my Canvas course pages and assignments. Update: I've built a custom tool in Magic School called HTML Improver . You can make a copy of it for yourself and use it to quickly improve the HTML of any Canvas page. It's easier than working with Claude or ChatGPT. Once you make a copy of the tool, click generate. Then paste in the HTML you have and click generate again. (The rest of this post below has more helpful tips.) Original Post: I've tried making my Canvas pages better by adding color and images ever since I first started using it in 2020. I've attended webinars about how to make small tweaks to HTML to add borders to my images, or turn horizontal lines into dotted horizontal lines. And, of course, emojis help. Then, one day earlier this year, I was frustrated with how much trouble students were having with the directions for an assignment. Admittedly, the directi...

NBCT: Component 1: The three hour test

Stock Photo: Not from the testing center. In the summer of 2016 I began the process of National Board Certification. I stumbled upon a program from our county office that supports teachers through the process over two years. I just finished Component 1 and 2. For more on Component 2 see my previous post . While Component 2 is a year long process of collecting student work and writing about it, Component 1 is a test I took last weekend. This test counts for 40% of my overall NBCT score, and that's more than any other component. Of course it is a three hour test, and yes, every time I say that I hear the theme song to Gilligan's Island in my head. So just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful test... Actually, I can't tell you anything about the test. I agreed to a confidentiality statement when I sat down to take it. I can tell you about my experience, and how I prepared, and what the day was like. The testing center is a 20 minute dri...

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 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 y...

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