🎃 Links and Loves Friday, October 29, 2021 🎃

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Happy Friday everyone! I hope your week went well. It was dress up days for us for Halloween Spirit Week. I'm not sure who enjoys this more, the teachers or the students. 

Here are a few things that have come my way this week:

Top 5 Game-Based Learning Websites posted by Meagan Kelly from "I ♥ Edu".  I'm all in when it comes to using game-based learning in the classroom.

I came across this video I created to help a colleague on how to make a stop animation video using Google Slides. It's a pretty rough video, but still worth sharing. This reminded me of this free webinar on making stop animation by Eric Curts. 


I'm excited to begin offering STEM activities to our HS students along with my colleague, Teri, our media specialist. We're going to focus on using the Cricut cutting machine during the month of November. Encouraging students to explore STEM related activities and careers is very important to me. This week I shared this article with our district technology team which shows the most valuable college majors and the top 25 are STEM related!


This week I finished reading the novel, "The Midnight Library" by Matt Haig which I would compare to a modern version of It's a Wonderful Life. This is the first book I've read by this author and I enjoyed it. I also listened to the "WHATIF" Smart Thinking Podcast by Ted Neitzke and felt a renewed hope of positivity. Jennifer Gonzalez also published a very insightful podcast called, "Teachers are Barely Hanging On. Here's What They Need".  In my opinion Jennifer did a great job pin pointing the issues and solutions that are needed at this time in education.

Speaking of podcasts, I started something new that I've been aspiring to do for a while now. I now have my very own, "Life is But a Google Podcast"!  Listeners can find my podcast on Spotify, Google Podcasts, Apple Podcasts, my Podbean website and on this blog. I'm hoping to publish weekly episodes on all things educational technology, STEM, tips and tricks.

I'm looking forward to a weekend filled with everything pumpkin spice, trick or treating and caramel apples. Which is your favorite Halloween candy? This interactive map might give you the answer. Enjoy your weekend as we get ready for November. I can't believe 2022 is only two months away. I have a feeling time is going to fly by!





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