Deb Norton Tech

Greetings everyone! Here are a few links and loves from my week. Tiki Toki looks like a rich and wonderful timeline maker! It would make this look much more appealing! Would you fly in the Volocopter ? Someday soon, you just might! You will be able to order this autonomous taxi service with an app on your phone! Three of my favorite subjects just came together in the most creative way!   MathScienceMusic.org is a free toolkit for teachers, bringing together the best resources in math, science and music.  Designed for students, kindergarten through college. A friend of mine shared this site with me, 21 Clever Mnemonic Devices That Will Help You Remember Almost Everything  There are many I haven't heard of before. Our students use mnemonic devices and lyrics to remember important information. ------------------------ ------------------------ ------------------------ If you are using Quizizz , there are some nice new features available. These featur...

Well, here we are in the middle of February!  I find myself anxious for Spring and ⚾!! Here are a few links and loves that have come my way this week. #1 A colleague shared canvas.apps.chrome with me this week. This is such a simple tool for marking up an image or creating a simple drawing on a white board. Check it out! #2 Another colleague shared WordArt with me. This is an online word cloud art creator that enables you to create amazing and unique word cloud art with ease. I love that you can put the words into any shape. Check out the image my colleague created with WordArt! #3 Teleprompt.me is a web based (works in Chrome) voice controlled teleprompter. So as you speak the words will scroll automatically with your voice. That way you can speak at a natural pace and not worry about going too slowly or quickly. #4 Class Tech Tips is a blog that I’ve been enjoying from Dr. Monica Burns. She has so many great strategies and ideas for the classro...

Greetings fellow educators. How was your week? Here are a few links and loves I’ve been enjoying lately. With the help of my co-workers, YouTubers and several Facebook groups and Instagram posts , , I feel as though I finally have a general understanding of how to design and create with the Cricut Design Space platform and the Cricut machine in our Innovation Lab. Next week I am planning lessons for students in a media class, centered around the Design Thinking Model , to create a product with the Cricut machine. In yet another classroom, I am planning lessons for students using the popular Applied Digital Skills platform. These are video based lessons that integrate the Google for Education Suite (docs, slides, mail, maps, sites etc.) to have students work collaboratively to accomplish real life projects and skills. The one I am going to use is called Plan an Event . Do you enjoy being creative? Lately I’ve been really drawn to trying creative challenges. I’ve ...

It has been such a terrific week despite a winter storm that brought 9.2 inches of snow to our neighborhood. This week has been filled with amazing conversations and projects that have filled my professional bucket. Check out this interactive map . Here are a few links and loves from my week: Sorted Paragraphs add-on for Google Docs Recently I had a conversation with a colleague who was wishing that she could alphabetize a list in Google Docs because that is a feature in Microsoft Word.  I did a search for “alphabetize in a Google Doc” and found out that there is an add-on called Sorted Paragraphs that can do this.  With this add-on you can quickly and easily alphabetize a list in Google Docs similar to how you would do so in Microsoft Word.  Here is a demo video . Professional Development Event My colleagues and I brought a wealth of ideas, strategies and conversations to our Professional Development event called Teachers Teaching...

Happy Friday Folks! My goodness it has been a busy week. I’m writing this post at 4:30am on this Friday morning. Nothing like sharing at the last minute! Here are a few highlights from my week: Tomorrow, Saturday, January 19th, I will be presenting a FREE SimpleK12 Webinar on Google Arts and Culture . Have you ever used this platform? In the webinar I will be showing all of the features and uses for using Google Arts and Culture in any classroom. I would love it if you joined me. Sign up here . I listened to this podcast about Emotional Labor. This really connected a lot of dots for me.  It does take quite a bit of labor to lead well and to show up for others in a leadership position.   If you use Remind101 with your students, you might want to read this update about Remind no longer working with Verizon Customers. (thank you to my colleague, Val, for sharing this with me) As you may know, I’m totally immersed in all things Google and Go...