Deb Norton Tech

Here's to the last full week of September. Time to start thinking Fall! LINKS AND LOVES We've been busy in the Innovation Lab with creative projects. Our Sources of Strength group created this display with the Cricut cutting machine and one of our students created this 3D printed terrarium with our 3D pens.  Have you heard about or downloaded the newest IOS 13 update? I did, and I'm loving all of the new features. Check out the latest features on the Verge website. The dark mode, photos app revamp and keyboard swipe are really nice! One cute update is the ability to add a Memoji (this is creating an emoji of yourself) in Messenger. Here's my Memoji! Canvas LMS Tip:  you can add announcements to your homepage! I discovered this tip while working with a colleague, Keith, who wants to add the daily learning objective and tasks for students to view each day. Click here for the step-by-step directions.  I'm looking for a new novel to read for en...

This week has flown by so fast! Here are a few things that have happened or caught my eye: LINKS AND LOVES: I've started an Instagram account for sharing all things instructional technology. I would love to have more followers and people to follow! My username is deb.norton.tech Speaking of Instagram, earlier this week I shared that CommonLit.org has 9 articles to share for National Hispanic Heritage Month .  Speaking of National Celebrations, check out this website where you can search national days, weeks, months and more! This week was National IT Professionals Day. Who knew? Speaking of Celebrations, check out this awesome display that a colleague of mine created using these free PDF posters to celebrate Women Innovators as Illustrated by Women Artists. Nice job Kristen! Speaking of free, SimpleK12 offers free webinars on most Saturdays throughout the school year. These are a great way to learn about technology uses in the classroom. QUICK TIP: ...

Common Lit is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month with these 9 texts . Here is a little bit of information about Commonlit.org . Follow me on Instagram to see more tech tips and tools.

Welcome back everyone! I hope your first weeks of school have been enjoyable and impactful. I look forward to learning along side all of you again this year. (I won't mention the full moon or the fact that it is Friday the 13th)   Here's to a great 2019-2020 school year! Links and Loves: I love how this school welcomes all Freshman on the first day of school. Way to set an excellent example of #KindnessMatters Appleton East! WheelofNames.com looks like a simple way to make a spinner for choosing names or anything else you might need. Turn up the volume for the sound effects. Wakelet.com has become my new favorite way to curate a collection of links.  It's simple to share your list with others and the Wakelet extension makes saving links quick and easy. Check out my Instagram post and stories by clicking here . Did you know this week in September, 2019 is special? Have you seen this funny take on the missing snake at Fond du Lac High School? The...

Wakelet is a free, easy and useful tool to curate links and media online. Use the Wakelet extension to add to your collections right from the tab you are on. Save any item from your Google Drive straight into your Wakelet collection. Invite others to collaborate on your collections. Create sections to better organize your collections. Share your collections by creating a QR code or share a link. And save items from other collections into your own. So many amazing features. For future posts, follow me on Instagram !