Deb Norton Tech

  Hello friends and colleagues. Can you believe the month of September is over? On one hand it has flown by so quickly and then on the other hand, it feels as though a lot has gotten done in just 30 days! Ready or not, here comes October. It's time to choose a new background for the laptop and phone. I suppose it's also time to decorate our home for fall and Halloween. My husband, Tim, LOVES to decorate outside and some might say he goes a little overboard. I'll have to share pictures next week and let you be the judge. Here is this week's Links and Loves. Enjoy and happy fall! Click here to view in full screen

Engage Students and Enhance Learning with Innovative Activities from Google Recently I presented a webinar on using some of Google's latest and greatest experiments and activities. I thought I would share this presentation through my blog incase anyone wants to explore some of these fabulous ideas. During the webinar, we explored a range of activities, including some that use your voice, actions, or drawings in games and storytelling. I also showed how teachers and students can learn about concepts such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and augmented reality in simple, creative ways. Use the activities in this slideshow to engage students and enhance learning with a variety of activities and experiments that can be used across curriculum. ENJOY!

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. ...

Recently Edudemic listed the top 10 Incredibly Powerful Teaching  Tools of the Future: Click here to read the article. Number 1 on the list is Visual Learning.  Falling under this category is an application called Augmented Reality.   Augmented Reality is a new type of technology that is finding its way into classrooms.   The simplest example of augmented reality is when you see the yellow lines on a football field that really aren't there, but appear on top of the field. Augmented Reality digitally layers information on top of images, videos, or even buildings and products. Common Craft has a useful video for understanding augmented reality. I have already used augmented reality when I used QR codes with our students.  QR codes add additional information to a document. Click here to read my post about QR codes. This coming school year, I would like to incorporate more augmented reality into my lessons.  Here are two apps fo...