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Monday, May 17, 2021

Ask Your Students...

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Consider this as an end of the year activity. Students can get creative to share their responses. They can create a sign/poster, an infograp...
Wednesday, April 28, 2021

What's Going on in This Picture?

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Use pictures (or graphs, tables, songs, memes) to give students opportunities to think critically about what they see/hear.  Read more here....
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Discovery Education Spotlight on Strategies

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Friday, April 16, 2021

YouTube Videos ~ Tips and Tricks.

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Video Tricks and Tips by dwells6
Friday, March 26, 2021

Bloom's Digital Taxonomy

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Monday, March 1, 2021

Seesaw and Google Classroom

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    Seesaw Users  ~ Some feature updates that should be live now or coming soon (and some other ideas.)  Audio Recordings created in an easi...
Friday, January 15, 2021

Simply Synergy Slideshow

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Thursday, December 3, 2020

Spotlight on Some Discovery Education Resources

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Tuesday, November 17, 2020

Hour of Code ~ December 7th-13th

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December 7th-13th is Computer Science Week. The goal is for students to participate in at least 1 Hour of Code during the week. Here are s...
Tuesday, November 10, 2020

Check Out My Simply Synergy Snippets on Wakelet

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Donna Wells' Wakelet Profile  
Thursday, October 29, 2020

Synergy Snippets 4

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Synergy Snippets by dwells6
Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Synergy Snippet

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  Synergy Snippets by dwells6
Thursday, May 14, 2020

Synergy Snippets 3

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Simply Synergy ~ Synergy Snippets 3 by dwells6
Friday, May 8, 2020

Synergy Snippets 2

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Simply Synergy ~ Synergy Snippets 2 by dwells6
Tuesday, February 25, 2020

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Simply Synergy ~ Synergy Snippets 1 by dwells6
Wednesday, February 19, 2020

10 Considerations for Purposeful Tech Use

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Friday, January 10, 2020

Virtual Viewing Party: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

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Discovery Education is offering a Virtual Viewing Party in celebration of the service and impact of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s life. ...
Thursday, November 14, 2019

Applied Digital Skills

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Apply digital skills in the classroom to prepare students for everyday tasks and future job skills. #GrowwithGoogle https://g.co/appliedd...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Digital Workflow Tools

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Google Classroom and Seesaw are excellent workflow tools. Teachers can efficiently share assignments/tasks/resources with students. Student...
Sunday, October 6, 2019

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Wednesday, May 8, 2019

More Review Ideas

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Have students work with a group to write a script and use  iMovie or  Flipgrid   to explain a concept or strategy. Use Google Classroom or ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2019

Ideas for Review

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With the end of year approaching, here are some ideas to use for review.  Use one of the formative assessment tools like  Kahoot ,  Qui...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Digital Writing Resources

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Using a digital writing tool gives students an opportunity to share their writing with a wide audience. The tools in this chart have some fe...
Thursday, April 4, 2019

Flashcard Factory

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F​ lashcard Factory ​ is a component of Pear Deck and​ was designed to transform the way students engage with vocabulary.  ​S​ tudents pai...
Friday, March 22, 2019

Check for Understanding: Generative Sentences

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Generative Sentences is a way to check for understanding in any subject while including some sentence structure and grammar. This strategy...
Thursday, March 14, 2019

Chrome Extensions for Your Classroom

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I learned and relearned about some useful Google Chrome Extensions last week at NCTIES Conference. Here are a few of my favorites. Use ...

Dr. Jane Goodall Broadcast

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Here's a great opportunity to "step outside your classroom walls" and learn about how you can have an impact in the world.  ...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

Timesaving Classroom Template

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I found this idea and template on  Twitter . There are so many great resources in the Twitterverse! You can make a copy of the template and...
Sunday, February 17, 2019

Pear Deck: Google Slides Add-on

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Pear Deck  is an add-on for Google Slides.  Use your existing Google Slide Shows (or create new ones) and embed interactive components to h...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Digital Stories (part 2) ~ Book Creator

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Why use a Digital Story Tool?  Motivation, engagement, creativity  Students' writing can easily be shared with a wider audience ...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

Storybird ~ Digital Writing Tool

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WHY use a digital writing tool? - Motivation, engagement, creativity - Easily share with wider audience - Easily add image...
Thursday, January 3, 2019

Personal Learning Networks for the Win!

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I learn something (often many things) every day from my Personal Learning Network (PLN). Fortunately, no one has to be an island . Accordin...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Digital Learning Journal Ideas

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WHY : A learning journal helps students think about the learning activities that teachers assign. Understanding "the why" will he...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Global Collaboration

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Connecting and collaborating outside the classroom is super easy using digital tools such as Skype or Google Suite Apps.  WHY collaborat...
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Computer Science Week and Hour of Code

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W hat is HOUR OF CODE? Code.org states, “The Hour of Code started as a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demyst...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Mind Maps

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 Mind Maps WHY Use Mind Maps:  Generate discussion Organize thoughts Create connections  Encourage creativity and ownership V...