Wednesday, December 21, 2022
Closing out 2022 and challenges for 2023
Thinking ahead to 2023-2024 school year, updated classes and teacher recertifications https://twitter.com/mmarotta/status/1605735806173270016?s=46&t=oeAGvO48-l_wAaKT61D84g
Reflecting on 2022 with Canva & other predictions for 2023
Reflecting on 2022 with Canva for Education with templates #ResourceRoundup! Happy New Year! 🎆
Do you have anything special planned to celebrate the new year with your students? Share your templates and plans with us. 👇
Here are the links to the templates featured in our design:
• https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAExLun7bS8-blue-and-pink-creative-new-year-video/
• https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAExVWTvhYg-new-year-resolutions-worksheet/
• https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAE-eU3d8CI-simple-black-and-white-student-end-of-year-writing-reflection-worksheet/
• https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAEyNsiqzig-new-year-fireworks-fine-motor-skill-tracing-worksheet/
•. https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAEwemlWmhA-happy-new-year-acrostic-poetry-worksheet/
•. https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAFPfbMsbU4-cream-simple-happy-new-year-instagram-post/
• https://www.canva.com/p/templates/EAE0TRBq2d0-blue-minimalist-cheerful-illusttration-happy-new-year-2022-instagram-post/
FYI from https://twitter.com/ajjuliani video https://youtu.be/6K1l6rBg9Kg
Prediction #1: Artificial Intelligence goes mainstream https://chat.openai.com/chat
Prediction #2; Archaic systems unravel fairly quickly https://twitter.com/ajjuliani/
Prediction #3: Archaic practices fight back
Prediction #4: Accessibility is a must-have https://www.edvative.com/
Prediction #5; PBL Finally Has It’s Day https://www.edutopia.org/
Prediction #6: Then try to box in PBL
Prediction #7: Performance Tasks are the new “Standards” https://www.solutiontree.com/
Prediction #8: Ground-Up Innovation https://podcasts.apple.com/us/
Prediction #9: Personalization for the adults too https://www.pdpass.com/
Prediction #10: The Creator Economy continues to grow
Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Book Club - UDL Now
Kicking off the year reading UDL Now Novak@KatieNovakUDL and @CAST_UDL discussing “UDL Now!: A Teacher’s Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning, Third Edition.” Listen here: https://buff.ly/3fXVp22
- October 19, 2022: 3:30-5:00: Chapters 1 & 2
- December 14, 2022: 3:30-5:00: Chapters 3 & 4
- February 1, 2023: 3:30-5:00: -Chapters 5 & 6
- April 5, 3:30-5:00: Chapters 7 & 8
Saturday, October 8, 2022
MassCUE 2022 wrap—up & and 2023 CPS offengs
MassCUE 2022 - coming soon
- Canva for Educators
- PBL Social Studies
PBL / DT & PoG
and 2023 CPS offengs
Friday, September 16, 2022
Monday, September 12, 2022
Back to School 2022-2023 with Chrome books, Internet Safety and Portfolios
Kicking of the school year with new chromebooks, Internet Safety and student portfolios for grades 5-8!
Grades 6 getting new Chrome books presentation
Grades 7 & 8 Tech Reminders using Canva for Education
Technology Reminders:FSS_LBMS Gr 7&8 Marotta Responsible Use by Mary MarottaReminder - AUP's and Chromebook Policies should be signed
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Thursday, June 2, 2022
June
It was great kicking off the month with some technology engineering topics!
Monday, May 16, 2022
Using Wakelet for Newsletters and more
Using Wakelet to curate newsletters to share with staff. The start of June Newsletter here https://wke.lt/w/s/h-R-nQ
Spring 2022 (April/May)Curriculum & Technology Tips and Updates Featuring using Wakelet a digital curation platform for a newsletter. https://wke.lt/w/s/-GQlsQ Other Important information shared this April/May!
District PD Year End Reflection (SEL, UDL and Content/Related Arts)
Upcoming District PD 5/20/2022 on SEL, UDL an connection to Content
Expected Outcomes
1. Share and calibrate instructional practices that support all learners in the related arts. 2. Identify 2-3 key standards or skills and their progression across the grade span.
1. Share and calibrate instructional practices that support all learners in the related arts. 2. Identify 2-3 key standards or skills and their progression across the grade span.
1: Instructional Practices in the Related Arts
As a group, share strategies you have used to integrate SEL into your instruction this year.
- What impact did integrating SEL have on your students? - What were some successes and challenges?
- How might you build upon SEL integration in your instruction next year?
2: Aligning Content in the Related Arts
a. Determine 2-3 key standards or skills. What does the progression of each skill look like for students in grades K-2, 3-5, and 6-8? What does success look like as the student transitions to a new grade level?
b. What are priorities and/or needs to support student success for these key standards or skills?
Previously Posed and updates
More to come!
Friday, May 6, 2022
Social Studies Projects in Canva & Sheets/Mapping
This week introduced Social Studies students to Canva for education. We looked at two templates around ancient Rome and Architecture.
Ex 1 Famous Landmarks
Ex 2 The History of Architecture
Students then created a variety of presentation this today.
Using the Map Charts you can add an interactive map to visualize your data. An amazing feature of Google Sheets that will make your spreadsheets more interactive and stand out from the others. Follow along or use with students:
The above link will prompt you to create a copy and you can follow along with the steps in the video.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Digital Wellness and internet Safety
It's always important to look for opportunities so discuss Internet Safety and Digital Wellness with students. I have been promoting Canva for Education and they have several templates that can be used to create images. presentation and more. I have been working with middle school teachers and students around how students are spending their time outside of school with the use of media and technology. I started with Applied Digital Skills from Google Managing your Time with Google Sheets. by totaling and graphing what a day or a week may consist of with technology .
We are exploring lesson from Commonsense.org/education such as
Digital Drama Unplugged along with other lessons and resources.
In addition, I was made aware of an upcoming series:
Digital Wellness Webinars will be offered in May over three Monday evenings: May 2, 16, & 23 (register here - twitter) The Topic is:
"Empower your students with a commonsense approach to digital tech and online safety"
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March Learning Opportunities - Profile of a Graduate/ PoG, DLD Day, and more
March provided lots of opportunities for learning outside of the regular schedule.
I presented at Medfield Day of Learning, This was the 10th Anniversary and I have probable attended seven of them! This year we presented on Canva for Education - Canva presentation .
Some of the areas we focused on Profile of a Graduate PoG - with off-site meeting discussing skills needed for high school students to graduate. This was time well spent as the district plans for a new high school. The district work with the organization, Battelle for Kids, they hosted workshops with educators, families and students to discover the leading competencies that are important to our community.
The process culminated during the visioning sessions for the high school building project when the 11 leading competencies were discussed and the group ultimately selected the leading six competencies for our Portrait of a Nashoba Graduate. Communication, Creativity, Culturally Competent Global Citizenship, Empathy, Learners Mindset and Perseverance Later in the month we were invited to attend Strategy meetings to provide input.
Our district offered PD Session on Elevating Voices and Embracing Equity with several outside professional presenters.
I continue to co-teach graduate level classes in the area of technology and share that information at local conferences with colleagues that facilitate digital learning Medfield Day of Learning see on twitter.
In addition, I submitted a proposal for the upcoming fall MassCUE conference next October at Gillette Stadium and have encouraged colleagues in my district to consider presenting their work!
Wednesday, March 9, 2022
Project Based Learning - Race to the Presidency Project
Project Based Learning - Race to the Presidency Project
The teaching site https://sites.google.com/nrsd.net/2022-race-to-presidency/home
Our entire district got involved as you can see by my tweet! I work with some amazing
educators and I am encouraging this presentation to be presented at MassCUE next fall!
educators and I am encouraging this presentation to be presented at MassCUE next fall!
Sunday, January 2, 2022
Goals setting 2022 / Tech lab K-5 & Choiceboards
Returning to school and helping students with goals! I am kicking off the new year with covering K-5 Technology integration classes!
Lessons and activities for goal setting for new year!
- Are your students ready for 2022? Set SMART goals to help them achieve. hubs.li/H0_3clN0 #lessonplan #SEL Vision boards
- K-5 Exploration - Snowman activity and bingo goals
- Wakelet K-3 https://wke.lt/w/s/r29hXA
- Resources Twitter slidesmania
- Jamboard Get this free Jamboard template\ new year's resolution! https://mrspark.org/free
- Visual thinking and Worksheets
- Computer lab lessons and pacing - great ideas from Brittany Washburn and pacing options
- More goal setting choices