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Get a free copy of this eBook or podcast from Shake Up Learning on digital choice boards! Blended learning has many flavors, but one thing it has in common is providing more voice and choice for students. Creating digital choice boards for your students is a great way to implement small group instruction, differentiate, and create universal design for learning and opportunity for all students.

The Teacher’s Guide to Digital Choice Boards

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For EVEN MORE on blended learning, visit: https://sites.google.com/pccsk12.com/nearpod-blended-learning/blended-learning

Using games for review and/or formative assessment is a great way to make learning fun and engaging. Instead of calling on a few students during a review, every student is accountable for reviewing, practicing, and learning important information.

• Games keep student’s attention focused on review.
  
• Games allow for much easier cumulative review so students don’t forget the information you want them to know.
  
• Games create challenges for a high score or fastest completion to increase competition between students and award excellence.
  
• Games are great for bellringers, before or after a lesson presentation, and/or at the end of class.

Do you GOT GAME? Try this one!

WISC-ONLINE GAMES

The feature seems pretty easy to use. If you are accessing Gmail through the browser, after you’ve composed the email, you click the arrow next to the send button, click Scheduled send and then choose when to have it send. 

Note, if you don’t see the down arrow, log out and back into your Google account to have the feature load.

If you are accessing the service through the Gmail app, tap the three stacked dots next to the send arrow, then select Schedule send. Again, a menu will appear that lets you pick when you want the message to be sent.

If you later choose to reschedule the message, you can do that by opening the email and repeating the above steps, or you can choose to delete it.

The goal of the maker movement is to empower students to tinker, invent, create, innovate, and make their ideas take shape. Making doesn’t need to have a designated space, but it does need to foster the maker mindset of learning through doing, experimenting, and experience. It’s about creating a maker culture that provides students with open-ended challenges and opportunities to produce something, often for a purpose.

To increase STEM awareness and opportunities through project-based learning and maker activities, Wayne RESA is looking to build a 2019-2020 cohort of 24 teachers/media specialists from 12 different districts throughout Wayne County to build and/or expand the maker culture in a school. Selected sites will be awarded $3800 to purchase Maker/STEM materials and a year membership to National Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Each site will submit an application for TWO educators to be a part of our first Maker-STEM cohort. If selected, these educators must agree to be a part of the cohort and commit to participating in three face-to-face days of professional learning. Each member of the cohort will also be part of the RESA Makers network where ideas and resources can be shared. Wayne RESA Application Deadline: Friday, May 17, 2019

Wayne RESA Makers Application

The REMC Classroom Maker Ambassador Program is looking for two teachers from each REMC to be a part of the 2019-2020 cohort. Participating teachers will commit to at least ONE training and earn $400 through REMC Save to spend toward classroom maker tools, along with access to a network of peers implementing maker in the classroom. REMC Application Deadline: Friday, May 3, 2019

REMC Classroom Makers Teacher Ambassador Application

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Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers use scare tactics to trick users into paying for unnecessary technical support services that supposedly fix contrived device, platform, or software problems.

Please browse Microsoft’s overview for how tech support scams work and what you can do if you fall prey to one!

Kapwing is a free video/image editing tool that allows you to create and edit gifs, memes, add subtitles, add audio to video, etc. The end product will have a little kapwing watermark on it but is not very obtrusive. Click on the link above to find out more about this awesome tool.

LANSING – The Innovative Educator Corps (IEC) is seeking applications for new members who teach in Michigan and help prepare their students for 21^st Century careers in innovative ways.

An online application for the IEC’s second cohort is available at http://tinyurl.com/IEC-Spring19 April 1-May 5, 2019, the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) and program co-sponsor Genesee Intermediate School District (ISD) jointly announced today.

Learn more…

Having trouble with printing from the Chrome web browser? Try using Ctrl + Shift + P to print. This will take you to the Windows print dialogue (instead of the Chrome print dialogue), where you can print using Find Me Printing. Please see the tutorial below for additional information and images. If you have any trouble, feel free to submit a service request.

Administrators, just like teachers, your plate is full, and if your plate isn’t full, you are spinning multiple plates at a time. The promise of technology can be real when it saves you time and frustration in ways that it can keep you organized. The following Google Slide deck was presented at MACUL 2019 and contains GREAT ideas and tools to help you in your important roles in our schools.

Keep in mind that your local friendly Tech Integration Specialist (Matt Smoot or Rick Coughlin) can be sequestered to your office by appointment to assist you with any of these tools you think would help you! Visit the deck here: goo.gl/WLndyc