The Techie Teacher's Complete Collection of Blog Posts: This easy to use database that was created in Google Sheets lists all kinds of blog posts that contain ideas for integrating technology in the elementary classroom.
Top 10 Techie Teacher Blog Posts of 2019: tech tips, tech tools, apps, add-on, ideas for the Google Classroom and so much more are included in this list of technology integration ideas for the elementary classroom.
Don't miss all of the fabulous blog posts by the PicCollage Teacher Ambassadors over on the PicCollage blog under the Teacher's Corner section. Read about some fabulous technology integration ideas for any classroom!
Establish rules and expectations for classroom iPads with the iPromise Poster. Students seal their promise by adding their thumbprint to the poster.
Find out how ChatGPT technology can assist teachers and save time on lesson planning, report cards, activity creation, and more!
Worksheets are a normal and expected part of any teacher's instruction. However, they are arguably not very engaging and one of the least valuable teaching tools available. In this blog post, I share 15 alternative ideas for more engaging and authentic teaching tools that you can use instead of worksheets. Check out the list here, and leave a comment if you have another idea to provide!
This blog is intended to give helpful tips and tricks for incorporating technology into your classroom.
This blog is intended to give helpful tips and tricks for incorporating technology into your classroom.
The Techie Teacher's® thoughts about a PAPERLESS classroom: is this an ideal learning environment?
10 End of the Year Technology Activities
This blog is intended to give helpful tips and tricks for incorporating technology into your classroom.
The fall mentor text, Wonderfall, is a great read aloud for modeling onomatopoeia.
#Reposting @the_techie_teacher Blog Post: Digital tools for #map skills practice. bit.ly/TTmapit #edtech #edtechtips
How to practice making connections with Doll-E 1.0
We all know and love Kahoot, right? If you do not know about Kahoot then we have a few blog posts with tips and ideas to get you up to speed.( here and here.) I LOVE how engaged and excited my students are when we play Kahoot. I LOVE that my students do amazing on my tests if we play Kahoot to review. But...what I don't love is how off-the-chains-crazy they get! I know they're having fun but it gets insane! I also don't enjoy the technology issues that go along with any lesson like this, students get kicked out in the middle of the game, it takes too long to log in, and not everyone has a device in my classroom. Unless you are a 1:1 school (I'm so jealous!) then it is hard to have devices for everyone to play along. Sometimes I really just want to use Kahoot as a formative assessment to see what my students actually know about a topic we have been studying, and not have them act like crazy people. So I came up with the paper Kahoot response system. All you have to do is use the game pin and log on with one student device (I actually just use my phone!) Then pass out the templates. If you already have them folded it works best. Then demonstrate to students how they will show you their answer. I love doing it that this way, the student can kind of cup the answer and not show it around to everyone but you. By playing Kahoot like this, it's actually a little calmer because they are trying to get the correct answer, not just just trying to be first. And you actually can scan the room to see who has it correct. Click on the template (on the right) and you can download it for FREE! I usually try to change things up in my room and not do it the same way every time. Sometimes, I just let them be crazy people! Do you love Kahoot? Pin for later....
Tools for Creating Timelines in the Elementary Classroom Last week I had a 2nd grade teacher ask me for a recommendation for a digital timeline maker. I couldn't believe I didn't have a blog post I c
Well the cloud inspectors I made were a bit hit with my firsties! I wanted to use them yesterday, but it was such a beautiful day, not a cloud in the sky! We crossed our fingers this morning for afternoon clouds, and we got a few! We ventured outside to inspect clouds with our official cloud inspectors! Yep, my kiddos know the 3 main types of clouds, but this inspector shows them all different types. The poem we added to our poetry journals this week (FOUND HERE) explains what Cirro, Alto, and Strato mean. The kids just loved observing the clouds and determining what kinds of clouds were in the sky. We saw a few cumulus clouds today, some cirrus, and some cirrostratus clouds! To download my cloud inspector, click on the picture below: And here they are in action!!
felt and fabric memory game. We just knew we had to share it with you…
Make Assessments MEANINGFUL with the FREE iPad app, Shadow Puppet EDU. There are so many ways you can use this app as an interactive assessment. Students will never know they are being "tested".
Rug-Ed iPad cases: The best protective iPad case on the market!
This blog is intended to give helpful tips and tricks for incorporating technology into your classroom.
How Teachers Can Use Google Takeout to Save & Transfer Google Drive Files at the end of the year.
10 things Siri can do in the classroom for teachers and students.
The Techie Teacher's 2018 ISTE Conference Adventures
So you have survived the first computer lesson with your Kindergarten class and now you want to teach them how to login for themselves. It will depend of course, on how usernames and passwords have been set at your school as to how you approach this. At the school where I teach computers, the Kinder classes have a class username and password. For simplicity, the username and password are the same. Before the lesson, I made some color coded login cards. While in the classroom, the little learners practiced 'typing' on their login cards. We discussed the colors and order of the letters. We talked about uppercase and lowercase letters, said the sound and the letter names. We showed our partners how we could type our username and password. The little learners even searched for the letters in their own name. Who knew there was so much learning to be had with logins? When we arrived at the computer lab, the little learners were ready to try typing their username and password on a real keyboard. After I demonstrated typing the username and password (and made a few mistakes accidentally-on purpose to introduce backspace), the little learners took their login cards to their computer. I'm going to be honest here. This color coded login card is not a miracle worker. It did take three adults 30 minutes to guide the class in this process. I did learn that next time I introduce a Kinder class to computers, I will spend more time on light and quick finger touches on the keyboard! But I will say that each little learner did login that day, and a month on the login cards continue to support the little learners as they become independent loggerinerers (that's totally a word, right?). Best of all is the smile on their faces when they have done it all by themselves for the first time! Priceless! Want to make your own color coded keyboards? Click HERE or the image above to grab your copy!
Using Book Creator for the Web in the Elementary Classroom The popular iPad app, Book Creator, recently became available on the web for Chromebook, laptop and desktop users! You no longer have to have
How to Remove Objects from Photos Using the ReTouch App
Here are some user-friendly, innovative ways that even non-techie teachers can integrate technology in the classroom.
Here's why I made the switch to Google Classroom, a technology platform that is easy to use and a huge time saving tool for teachers.
This blog post has a link to a table of my favorite Google Fonts to use in resources for my middle school students. Learn how to embed fun fonts into your Google digital resources and grab this freebie table of my favorite fonts!
How to help English learners in distance learning? In this blog post, you will find 5 steps on how to get support your ESL students both online and off.
5 Creative Uses for QR Codes in the Elementary Classroom
Digital Citizenship Resources for the Elementary Classroom
How to use technology to make vocabulary words come alive. Google Drawing for laptops and Chromebooks as well as the PicCollage app for iPads are the two digital tools used to make vocabulary words come alive. Technology in the classroom
I'm linking up again with Tech with Jen for Be Appy Monday!! I was just reading Knight-Time Technology's recent post about the FREE app, TeleStory. Within seconds, I downloaded the app and started playing! TeleStory is made by Launchpad, the same company who produced Toontastic. They recently joined Google and now both apps are FREE. I have used Toontastic before but had never heard of TeleStory. I can't WAIT to try it out in a classroom soon. What is TeleStory? Well, in my own words I would say it is a glorified video camera that has the ability to create an AWESOME movie with sound effects in just seconds. You can create news reports, music videos, intergalactic space battles and more. Here is a "little" example (the first part got cut off when I uploaded to both Vimeo and YouTube...give it a second and then you will get the idea!): It reminds me a lot of the special effects you can do in a Google Hangout. I LOVE that you can make as many frames in your movie as your heart desires and have the ability to save your creations to the camera roll. In case you have blonde moments like me (hopefully not as many!), be sure to check the box before clicking the green and white check mark button to save to the camera roll: How could you use this app in your classroom? -News Reports on different content you are studying -Meteorologists giving a weather report -Fluency practice -Different reading skills: summarizing, retelling, main idea, making inferences, story elements, book reviews -Sing songs/raps about different content -Creative Writing Prompts -Make great anticipatory sets Have you ever used TeleStory? An InLinkz Link-up
This blog is intended to give helpful tips and tricks for incorporating technology into your classroom.
Creating and interpreting Pictographs iPad activity: FREE and EASY! Technology in the classroom
Get your teacher life organized with 200 free Google Keep headers! This note-taking system will revolutionize the way you teach.
The Three Little Pigs ranks way at the top of my “Favorite Fairy Tales/ Fables” list. I loved reading the story, in its many different versions, to my students every year. I especially loved the third little pig – his wisdom, work ethic, and courage to do things differently. I always believed that if everyone really paid …
5 Techie Ideas for Lesson Closure. Technology in the Classroom
Teachers know all too well how much fun it is to pick out fonts for a lesson you are creating… yet how difficult it is to find one that students can independently read and understand. Special education teachers? We know more of the latter… When the “h” looks so much like an “n” that your […]
Do you have an emoji themed classroom? Even if you don't, I have an E-A-S-Y technology project your students will totally love and it even makes an adorable bulletin board... Word Clouds consist of a
