The ed Newsstand

This episode introduces Nearpod AI Create, a new AI-powered question generator for educators. AI Create helps teachers quickly create formative assessments, such as quizzes and games, by generating multiple-choice questions based on specified learning objectives or topics. The episode provides tips for writing effective prompts to optimize AI Create's output, including customizing questions for different student needs and reading l...

This podcast describes Brisk Teaching, a tool for educators to rapidly generate interactive guided notes for classroom resources like articles or videos. The process involves selecting a resource, using a browser extension to create a fill-in-the-blank document in Google Docs, and customizing the notes before sharing them with students. The podcast provides examples and resources to help educators learn the process, including tut...

This podcast describes how to use the "Open with Kami" button in the web version of Canva to transform Canva creations into interactive learning resources using the Kami extension for Chrome. Both platforms provide pre-made templates, but Kami adds interactive elements to your designs and those pre-made templates. The podcast emphasizes the combined power of these tools for educators, providing links to further resources and suppor...

This podcast explains how to use the Quizizz Google Slides add-on to enhance presentations. The add-on allows educators to integrate interactive quizzes directly into their slides, creating engaging lessons and assessing student understanding in real time. Features include AI-generated questions, various question types, and interactive tools like annotation, whiteboards, and a classroom pulse for monitoring student progress. The ad...

Brisk Boost is a new feature within the Brisk Teaching extension that allows teachers to create interactive and trackable learning activities for their students. Boost can generate various engaging activities, such as quizzes, simulations, and problem-solving exercises, and provides a chatbot to help students learn. Teachers can monitor student progress and even review chat conversations to gauge understanding. Boost provides a use...

Brisk Teaching is a Chrome browser extension that offers a variety of tools designed to streamline teachers' workflows and enhance student learning. The extension includes features for creating resources, providing feedback, inspecting student writing, adjusting reading levels, and translating text. Brisk Teaching aims to help teachers save time and reduce decision fatigue by automating tasks and offering pre-made resources, allowi...

Kami is a platform for collaborative whiteboards that has recently undergone a major redesign, featuring a cleaner interface, improved touch capabilities, and an updated dashboard. The redesign also includes enhancements to Class View, providing teachers with real-time metrics and personalized feedback on student assessments. Additionally, Insights Dashboard offers data on class averages, score distribution, and assessment completi...

The newsletter provides resources and ideas for teaching students digital citizenship, highlighting the importance of this topic and emphasizing the role of technology in modern education. The newsletter presents a comprehensive list of resources from various organizations like Common Sense Media, Google Applied Digital Skills, and KQED Education, focusing on topics like online safety, media literacy, and responsible social media u...

Kami is an online tool that allows teachers to create and share learning materials with their students. Users can access a free library of Kami templates, which are pre-designed resources that can be customized and assigned to students. The templates can be used online or downloaded for offline use. This makes Kami a flexible tool that can be incorporated into various classroom settings.

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This episode focuses on the Quizizz platform, a tool for educators to create engaging Quizizzes for students. The article specifically highlights the Strike vs. Shield game mode, which adds an element of competition to the classic Quizizz experience. Students can either try to steal points from others or protect their own score with a variety of options. The article also showcases different question types within Quizizz, emphasizin...

The podcast is an overview of the educational platform Quizizz, highlighting its various features and resources for teachers. It details the benefits of using Quizizz for assessment, differentiation, and gamification, while also explaining its integration with other educational platforms like Google Classroom and learning management systems. The podcast also describes Quizizz's different game modes, accessibility features, and prin...

This podcast discusses the expanded capabilities of Quizizz, a popular online assessment platform, now functioning as an all-in-one instructional suite. The podcast highlights key features like the ability to create interactive lessons from uploaded documents or websites, generate questions from existing passages, and even integrate interactive video content. The podcast emphasizes the platform's versatility and its ability to faci...

This episode describes how to create superhero trading cards using various online tools. It highlights the use of Microsoft Designer for creating superhero images, SchoolAI for generating superhero names, and Canva for designing the trading cards. The newsletter also encourages readers to explore additional resources, such as card games and templates for creating anti-heroes.

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If you use Google Classroom there are some housekeeping tips every teacher should use to get ready for the next year. I scoured the internet to find the foremost authorities on Google Classroom clean up and I put together two lists. The first list consists of six things everyone agreed should be done with your Google Classroom at the end of the year. The second list consists of six unique ideas to help you stay organized and set up...

This week I have three resources to help you get started digitally cleaning your personal and professional workspaces.

TCEA.org blog titled, “How to Spring Clean: Digitally.” In the article, Andrew Roush lays out 6 Principles to get started with digital cleaning and then looks at more specific examples and describes ways your can clean up your inbox, clean up your social media feeds, find out the access you have granted to y...

A few weeks ago I put out my newsletter sharing resources to sign up for a Canva for Education account. Throughout the newsletter, I demonstrated how to set up your Canva classes, some of the classroom features within Canva, provided you with links to blogs and playlists to get you inspired, and gave step-by-step instructions you can follow to get started. Now that you’ve had a few weeks to digest that i...

Recently, Flocabulary introduced a new feature to their platform. It’s called Flocabulary Mix. Teachers will choose a Skill Video to pair with a Video Text to create a Mix. In a Mix, the videos will play back to back. The Skill Video provides direct instruction on a skill the students should demonstrate when they watch the Video Text. After students watch the Skill Video and Video Text they demonstrate their understanding in...

I recently learned about Tango from several different creators on social media and I must say that this is going to be a game-changer for anyone that creates written directions for the internet. For example, if you need to create directions for how to navigate a website, how to turn in an assignment, or how to send an email. This website will follow every step and click that you make, immediately take a screenshot of the step, and ...

More and more people are discovering their love of Canva and the power it can have in the classroom.  This week’s newsletter is all about Canva for education. If you don’t know what Canva is, Canva for Education makes it easy to create, collaborate, and communicate visually in the classroom. Also, Canva is 100% free for K12 teachers and their students! As the teacher, you can create and share engaging assignments with y...