Deb Norton Tech

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 12 is  Stormboard ! Stormboard is a free, online brainstorming & collaboration tool.   Stormboard is easy, interactive, and flexible - it takes 1 minute to learn, and 5 minutes to master.  Teachers and students can use Stormboard to solve problems and find solutions. Capture and organize ideas. Turn ideas into actions by assigning tasks to your team, setting deadlines and meeting goals. Here is a video explanation: To commemorate the entire collection of 12 Days of Techmas, check out the ebook I created showcasing all 12 of the shared technology tools, sites and strategies.   Happy Techmas Everyone!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 10 is  Wizer.me ! Create and share free interactive worksheets with your students online. Add video, audio, images and a variety of question types, all wrapped in a beautiful, engaging & easy to use app.  Share with students via Google Classroom or any learning management system. Save time with automatic checking & grading, or review one by one to give more personal feedback.  Feedback can be given with text or an audio recording. Browse the Wizer.me collection of FREE digital learning resources created by other teachers. Happy Techmas Everyone!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 11 is Blabberize ! With Babberize you can turn any image into a talking image by inserting a moving mouth and audio recording.  Blabbarize could be used to create a book talk, narrate a retelling of a story, share a historical event, celebrate art work or projects or explain a problem.  Blabbarize is free and doesn't require any special equipment. It is really quite simple to use.  Here is a how to video:   If you or your students create a Blabbarize , I would love for you to share it with me.  Happy Techmas Everyone!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 9 is Print Friendly ! PrintFriendly cleans and formats web pages for the perfect print experience. PrintFriendly removes ads, navigation and web page junk, so you  save paper and ink  when you print. There is a handy Chrome browser extension you can add to make it easy to print a webpage at any time.  Here is a helpful tutorial video. Happy Techmas Everyone!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 8 is Pear Deck Flashcard Factory ! Flashcard Factory is free to use. Flashcard Factory was designed to transform the way students engage with vocabulary. When you play Flashcard Factory students pair up and work together to create dynamic and engaging flashcards. First, open PearDeck and choose the Pear Deck Vocabulary option. Students then collaborate to illustrate and define terms, making learning vocabulary an active and social experience! Once the flashcard deck is created, it can be exported to Quizlet for students to study on their own.  Here is a very helpful demo video: Happy Techmas Everyone!

🎄 Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas! 🎄 During this 🎄 season, I will be sharing 12 technology 🎁 for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 7 is Emojipedia ! Emojipedia is an emoji search engine. You can perform a fast emoji search with options to browse every emoji by name, category, or platform. Did you know that i n total there are 2,823 emojis in the Unicode Standard?   🎁 🎅🏿  🤶  🌰 Thank goodness Emojipedia explains what each of these emojis are. To use an emoji in your document or on social media or in an email, simply click on copy and then paste. Emojis can also be resized just like any image.  Emojis can be used in an infinite number of ways, but in my experience, these are some of the most common: 👉 To lighten the mood by introducing humor 😀 👉 To find a more comfortable way to express ourselves 🤯 👉 To communicate when words fail us  🤔 👉 T...

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 6 is  Google Tour Builder ! Google Tour Builder is accessible from your web browser, makes it easy to add photos and videos to a sequence of locations on Earth, and then share links to these tours with your friends. If you have ever created a Google Lit Trip, this is a richer version of creating a Lit Trip or virtual field trip.  History, English, World Language and all teachers of inquisitive students, this is a site you will want to integrate into your curriculum. Check out the gallery - Here is an inspirational video about Google Tour Builder Happy Techmas Everyone!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 5 is Rewordify ! Rewordify  is powerful, free, online software that improves reading, learning, and teaching. This site can: Intelligently   simplify difficult English , for faster comprehension Effectively   teach words , for building a better vocabulary Help teachers   save time   and produce   engaging lessons Help   improve learning outcomes Simply copy and paste text from any document or website and wah lah! Easier to read text. Here is the First Time User Guide Here is a how to video Happy Techmas Everyone!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 4 is  Insert Learning ! InsertLearning was founded by two high school teachers who wanted to create a richer learning experience for their students. With Insert Learning you can insert instructional content on any web page! Insert a sticky note, a video, a discussion question and more. Differentiate for every student by easily scaffolding text with questions and media that help all of your students be more successful learners. Engage all readers with interactive questions, discussions, videos, live annotations, and a collection of tools you can embed in lessons. Happy Techmas Everyone!

Welcome to my 12 Days of Techmas!  During this holiday season, I will be sharing 12 technology gifts for you to explore, use and integrate into your classroom or work. Day 3 is  Smithsonian Learning Lab ! The Smithsonian Learning Lab is about discovery, creation, and sharing. The Smithsonian Learning Lab can inspire through the discovery and creative use of its rich digital material.  There are more than a million images, recordings, and texts. It is easy to find something of interest because search results display pictures rather than lists. Whether you've found what you were looking for or just discovered something new, it's easy to personalize it. You can add your own notes and tags, incorporate discussion questions, and save and share. The Learning Lab makes it simple. Happy Techmas Everyone!

This week has been an exceptional one! I had the honor and pleasure to attend a day at the SLATE Conference. Check out these pictures of the fun we had! My colleague, Val, presented on Robotics and Coding Can you find me in the crowd? I presented on Virtual Reality Of course I was using the Oculus VR in our hotel room! This HS student presenter kept coming to my station to experience the VR app Google Blocks I also facilitated an Engineering Derby in Mauston, WI with 38 amazing 3rd - 8th graders.  So much innovation and energy with these students Snowball sculpture challenge LED circuitry Bloxels How lucky I am to be a part of these incredible experiences. Next week I'm heading to Minneapolis, MN for a technology conference. I'm really looking forward to learning from others and getting my technological geekiness going. ---------------------------------------------------------- Now here are this week's links and loves: ...