Wordle is a great word game. How can you use it in your classroom? In 90 seconds learn how to play the game, options for class play and competition and creating your own both digital and hard copy. ISTE Technology Stanrdards for Educators:  2.1 Learner; 2.4 Collaborator; 2.5 Designer

Blue Ridge PBS is pleased to announce the recent premiere of ACTIVATED LEARNING, a new podcast designed to elevate the teaching profession and help parents stay informed about how teaching and learning are evolving toward a student-centered approach to meet the needs of all learners. Developed in collaboration with the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) and the Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE), this 12-episode series features interviews with national experts, classroom teachers, and instructional technologists. New episodes will drop every two weeks after the premiere and will be available on all major streaming platforms including Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, and Spotify. All episodes will also be streamed and available on demand on the Blue Ridge PBS ECHO Channel at www.blueridgepbs.org/echo.  This resource provide an overview and promotional materials.

A brief video showing how to set up a Canvas assignment in Canvas.  Meets ISTE Standard: 2.3 Citizen - Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world., 2.5 Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.

Companion video to Canva Canvas for Teachers, showing the step students would follow to complete the assignment along with a short overview of Canva.  Meets ISTE Standard: 2.1 Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.

Learn some simple tips and tricks to use Google Chrome for school and personal use.Addresses ISTE Standard for Educators: 2.1 Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.

Learn how to work with images in PowerPoint. This EdTech Short shows you how to remove backgrounds from images and how to create image animations.  Addresses ISTE Standard for Educators: 2.5 Designer 

This 2.5 minute video from Chad Fisher about how to use dropdown menus in Google Docs.

A digital scrum board that you can use in any content area! This is a project management resource.

The scribble tool in Tinkercad is a quick and easy way to get youngers students (K-2) designing and creating objects for 3D printing. This video will help teachers and ITRTs get started using this resource with students!

This video will demonstrate the tools available on Classroom Screen that teachers can use to promote student engagement and focus in the classroom.

This video describes how teachers can embed activities such as Phet simulations and Google apps such as Docs, Slides, Sheets, Maps and forms directly into Pear Deck so students can interact without leaving the app. Addresses ISTE Standards for Educators: 2.1 Learner, 2.5 Designer, and 2.6 Facilitator

This video demonstrates how to embed a PowerPoint Presentation from Microsoft OneDrive into Canvas.  Addresses ISTE Standards:  2.1 Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning., 2.5 Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability., 2.6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.Screen reader support enabled. 

Tim Mays of Sussex developed this short tutorial on a nice formula trick for combining cells in a Google Sheets document, and then making everything lowercase. Running time: 3:41 

This 4 minute video from Patrick  Hausammann of Clarke County demonstrates various helpfu keyboard shortcuts for all technology users!

Video created by ACPS LTI Alfred Toole. This videos shows several useful keyboard shortcuts when using windows.

Sligthly longer EdTech Short coverrs not only the use of MS Immersive Reader in MS products, but in other spaces as well.

This video shows teachers a couple of different ways to access resources to learn how to play Minecraft: Education Edition and how to find existing worlds and lessons for teaching with Minecraft.  Addresses ISTE Standard: 2.1 Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning., 2.2 Leader - Educators seek out opportunities for leadership to support student empowerment and success and to improve teaching and learning., 2.5 Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability., 2.6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.

This video will demonstrate how students can document their creations in Minecraft: Education Edition by utilizing the camera and book & quill tools and how they can export their work to a sharable format. Addresses ISTE Standards: 2.3 Citizen - Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world., 2.5 Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability., 2.6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.

Emily Heller of Fredericksburg shares tips on how you can use keyboard shortcuts to add emojis to pretty much any place that you can add text!  Emojis are great for drawing attention to details, making your emails and meetings standout, organizing your LMS, and just having fun! Runtime: 2:48