Deb Norton Tech

This week has been INCREDIBLE!  We are so blessed! On my commute to work, I listened to this and this and this .  (Better PD, Modern Family and Flipping Science) #TryPod To celebrate #InternationalWomen’sDay, I viewed this slideshow of girls from around the world going to school. This site intrigues me.   Move over escape rooms or BreakoutEDU, check out Room Escape Maker ! I’m among some incredible educators for this Saturday’s, free SimpleK12, Google Training Webinars.    Happy Friday and consider this inspiring message that I created with this Chrome extension . -------------------------------------------------------------------- Curricular Connection Google Drawings I have heard this tool referred to as the Swiss army knife of the GSuite!   I recently showed a colleague how to add a Google Drawing to a Google Document by clicking on Insert and then Drawing. Google Drawing provides a blank...

Happy Veteran’s Day - today and tomorrow I celebrate all of the men and women that serve or have served in our military. Thank you to Andrew Schaller for putting together this honor wall   at Oshkosh West High School. My Uncle Jerry Kunde is on this wall. I listened to this podcast this week which gave me so many things to think about and consider with technology and deep thinking.  Are we using the applications and tools to the fullest potential? Did you read my blogpost on Ways to Use Animation for Student Projects and Engaging Lessons ?  It amazes me how far animation and 3D design has come in just a few years. This week I am working with a teacher and her students to record a Ted Talk using Flipgrid . I also set up a new BreakoutEDU , a scrapbooking and card making station and we finished a pixel art poster in the Innovation Lab . This week, someone surprised me with free printable pumpkins for our Innovation Lab. What a thoughtful thing...

Animation Comes in Many Forms Using animation tools can help to add engagement, creativity and technological knowledge  for students   . Animations can also add excitement to your lessons. With plenty of applications for animation, the days of static imagery and boring presentations are long gone. Here are some of the possibilities. Create looping Gifs  ABCya Animate or Giphy can be used to make looping animations called gifs. Students could show a process, change over time or movement through a gif.  With ABCya Animate, students can create scenes that will play in a short animated video.  This site seems most appropriate for elementary and middle school students, however, when I showed this recently to some high school students, they enjoyed creating gifs and with the ability to add your own images this site becomes more attractive.  Giphy can be used to upload a series of images to turn into a gif or a paste in the url of a YouTube v...

Feedly is a sight I use to follow a lot of different blogs.  It has been such a great week on the blogosphere that I just have to share some great finds from Feedly this past week. #1 CLICK HERE to access Richard Byrne's blog (Free Technology for Teachers).  Richard shares that Educlipper now has a new feature which allows teachers to create assignment portfolios.  #2 CLICK HERE to read The Digital Scoop blog where Susan shares a great lesson on inferring using Google Drawing.     #3 CLICK HERE to see how Kristin from Technology Tailgate showcases different ways that she is using Augmented Reality in her classroom.  I'm very close to implementing some Augmented Reality into my math class.  I'm just waiting for the Layar App to be installed onto our iPads. #4 CLICK HERE to read The Whiteboard Blog where Danny Nicholson shares a new app called Touchcast.  Touchcast is used to make interactive video presentations. ...

I'm always impressed with any online tool from Disney.  And Club Penguin's Motion Comic Creator does not disappoint. This comic creator is rich in images, drawing and tools.  It helps to have a Disney account for sharing and saving, but it is not necessary if you just want to create a comic.  Sharing options include printing out the comic or downloading it to your computer as an image.  I created the comic above in about 5 minutes.  What is neat is that students can play the comic and it looks like a little slideshow or movie.  Even young students can have fun with this comic creator. Thanks Disney!