Links and Loves

By -

Greetings educator friends and colleagues. I hope your week went well.

Here are a few interesting finds from this week.


#1 Have you notices the number of fast food restaurants that have "We're Hiring" signs? Check out this robotic solution!

Meet Flippy. It's the world's first AI kitchen assistant, a robotic and autonomous smart-kitchen solution created by Miso Robotics, made for quick-service restaurants (QSRs) across the world. 

Speaking of robots, have you heard of "soft robots"? They can handle things more gently than a regular robot. Check out this article. 


#2 If you are using Go Guardian Teacher a new feature is now available to allow for different scenes for different groups of students or individuals. 


Scenes + Student Groups


#3 Betsy from "Now Spark Creativity" shared a slide deck for Gratitude Poetry Tiles. I love this for when students need a relaxing and creative activity. 


#4 My college sons introduced me to the site, "Rate My Professors" when we discussed the fact that they are signing up for their courses for next semester. Did you know that there is also a "Rate My Teachers" for elementary and secondary schools? What do you think about this type of site? 


#5 Here is a free PD slide deck all about game-based learning from "I ❤️ EDU" Meagan Kelly. Her top 5 tools are: Kahoot, Quizizz, Blooket, Gimkit and Quizlet. Using these type of game-based learning tools in your classroom can add active learning and enjoyement. 


That's a wrap for this week. I hope your leaves get raked and you find time to enjoy a good book or podcast. 


Deb



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Concrete Poetry Sites - This Is So Much Fun!

By -
Image
Poetry Month is Right Around the Corner Are you getting ready for Poetry Month in April? If so, I have some resources to share with you for creating concrete poems. Concrete poems are words written in a shape to convey a poem. They look like this: Recently I went on a mission to search for a site to use with a fellow colleague and her students. They wanted to make concrete poetry on their Chromebooks. There aren't many sites that allow the user to actually write words into any shape.  There is the Read, Write, Think interactive for Theme Poetry.  Here is what it looks like. The words can be added inside of a shape. The interactive guides students through the writing process There is a site from WildAboutWoods.org  where a person can choose a shape or draw one of their own and add words inside of the shape. There are word banks to choose from or a person can type in their own words to add to the shape. I like that adding words is as simple as click ...
Read more

My Blog Makeover - How I Did It

By Anonymous -
Image
I love change and and rarely do the same thing over and over.  So a blog makeover was  inevitable .  It takes quite a bit to make a blog look completely different, but I have found ways to make it easier on myself. Here are the resources I used to complete my blog makeover.   I found the background at the Dotty Dot Dot blog.  I chose Summer Sunset and simply had to copy the code and insert it.  I found directions on how to do this here .  I could have use the header (the title at the top of a blog) from this site as well, but I decided it was too plain, so I searched for a different header. Shabby Blogs provided me with a header that fit my background perfectly.  I found directions to change my header here . I wanted to add my blog title to the header, so I used a photo editing site called Fotoflexer .  This was the first time I had used this site and I loved it!  I have since used Fotoflexer for some other projec...
Read more