Education Technology

Recently, we moved away from a managed media source for our district.  For some, this move left us with no places to look for quality educational videos.  Luckily, YouTube has become a great resource for educational videos.  I am sharing some sites that have excellent YouTube channels suggestions.  I encourage you to click on the resources below to learn more about the channels and subscribe to them.  Once subscribed, you can handpick the videos you would like to keep for classroom use and add them to your own playlist.  In this post, you will also see a quick tutorial on how to subscribe to channels, create your own playlists and share them with others. Some of you may already have some channels you use and would like to recommend to fellow teachers.  If so, feel free to add to the following live list of teacher recommended YouTube EDU channels by clicking here . 30+ YouTube Channels for teachers 197 Educational YouTube channels you should know about ...

It's the phrase I hear very frequently.  Being a Google educator will benefit your teacher practice and most importantly your students.  Being a Google Educator doesn't just mean that you know how to use the Google Suite of Apps for EDU; it means that you see the connections between what you teach and the way it could be enhanced by using google Apps. I encourage you to become one! to help you get prepared for it, I found this great resource.  Feel free to re share!

  Have you ever wanted to use polls with your students? how about a quick exit ticket or a quick check for understanding? Now you can with Google Classroom. Today Classroom is making the learning process even easier with a new polling feature that helps teachers quickly check for understanding, gather feedback or gauge interest. Here are four creative ways teachers are using polling in their classrooms. Exit tickets, help students self monitor, guide students discussion, get feedback on your lesson from students and find out how they are feeling towards a project/lesson are some examples of using the polling feature in google Classroom. How would you use this feature? Read more about this here .