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Featured Resource: Goodreads
Goodreads is a social network focused purely on books and reading. It is ideal for anyone who wants to keep a digital record of their reading life, including teachers and students.
Granite ELA Digital Conversion Kick-Off
On March 20th, secondary English Language Arts teachers will participate in Granite’s Digital Conversion Kick-Off. Please watch the video above for details on the March 20 professional development session. For more information on Granite Digital Conversion, please see our Digital Conversion pages. Also feel free to join in the digital conversion conversation on twitter by following and using the #GraniteDC hashtag. [Read more…] about Granite ELA Digital Conversion Kick-Off
Digital Learning Day
Today is Digital Learning Day!
Digital Learning Day is a special opportunity for teachers, librarians, and administrators to highlight and share examples of the technology-infused learning happening in their classrooms, libraries, and schools. It also provides the chance and reminder for teachers to find a new digital resource, tool or activity to try with students. Check out some Digital Learning Day tweets and some easy ways to participate: [Read more…] about Digital Learning Day
Featured Resource: WolframAlpha
WolframAlpha is a self-described “computational knowledge engine,” an extensive database of knowledge and a powerful calculator in one. It differs from a search engine such as Google in that it does not search the web for answers, rather it computes answers to questions and queries utilizing its own algorithms and a curated collection of peer-reviewed data sources.
Want to see what WolframAlpha can do with different queries? [Read more…] about Featured Resource: WolframAlpha
Recent Pins: Digital Citizenship, Digital Resources and Tools, and More
We’re continuing to compile great resources on our Pinterest account. Check out our recent pins!
Visit Granite EdTech’s profile on Pinterest.
Of interest at the moment, we have growing boards of Digital Resources and Tools, Digital Citizenship, Pi Day and Digital Learning Day.
Have cool suggestions or ideas? You can send us pins to add in Pinterest, you can comment below, or you can use the #graniteedtech hashtag in a tweet, and we will re-pin, re-tweet, and otherwise re-share your stuff!
Granite EdTech Monthly Newsletter – March 2015
Granite Ed. Tech. Monthly Newsletter – March 2015
Our department’s monthly newsletter was just sent out to all teachers in Granite School District, but if you missed it you can also access it here.
This month’s highlights include:
- Now Registering For: Shift Your Reading Into Overdrive
- Now Registering For: Google Your CANVAS Parts III AND IV
- Now Registering For: Collaborating With Google Docs, Presentations and Forms
- Educational Technology’s Website Gem of the Month
- Digital Learning Day: March 13, 2015
- Pi Day: March 14, 2015
[Read more…] about Granite EdTech Monthly Newsletter – March 2015
#GraniteTechChat Archive: Digital Learning (2/26/2015)
The Granite Education Technology department sponsors a monthly twitter chat on teaching with technology called #GraniteTechChat. This chat is open to any interested parties, but is especially focused on the participation of school technology specialists and library media educational technology specialists in Granite School District. Archives of these chats are kept on this website using the Storify service.
RT @sandeeteach: Pi Day is just around the corner March 14 What does Pi sound like? https://t.co/b5431ckiqX This is cool! #granitetechchat
— Joell Wilkins (@JoellWilkins) February 26, 2015
The February 2015 chat focused on digital learning, and technology specialists shared some ways they have incorporated technology with teaching, taught digital citizenship to students. They also shared ideas for activities for the upcoming Digital Learning Day (3/13) and Pi Day (3/14.) See the full archive of the chat below. [Read more…] about #GraniteTechChat Archive: Digital Learning (2/26/2015)
Featured Resource: The CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook is a free, public domain web resource prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency. The factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. [Read more…] about Featured Resource: The CIA World Factbook
Featured Resource: VideoNot.es
VideoNot.es is a simple web tool that allows you to take synchronized notes of web-streamed videos. [Read more…] about Featured Resource: VideoNot.es
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