TwosDay - Sean - Fake Ticket Generator

Getting creative in class is fun. There’s a cool tool that I stumbled across that allows you to make fake tickets to whatever you want. You can make them yourself to hand out to students or you can have students use this tool to make tickets for a project or activity. It’s a pretty straightforward tool on a website called www.faketicketgenerator.com.

My Marzano Connection: DQ5E25

TwosDay - Bob - Google Alerts

Google Alerts allows you to have web search results sent to your inbox on a regular basis.  If there is a guru in your field that you want to follow or a topic you are teaching that you would like to have some sources about, just enter the search criteria and set some parameters at alerts.google.com and you will receive updates. Students can use it, too!

TwosDay - Brandon - Thinglink

Annotations are a valuable skill to summarize and highlight  information, and we all know the phrase “a picture is worth a thousand words.”  Thinglink blends these two ideas together to create a unique and powerful learning tool.  Take visual literacy images, math problems, and diagrams to the next leveling by using Thinglink to tag those images with additional resources.  Simple webquests, tutorials, and digital field trips are all one click away.  Thinglink

TwosDay - Amanda - WeVideo Update

Video creation is a great opportunity for students to demonstrate what they’ve learned as well as providing a vehicle for student voice. Don’t forget that all students have premium access to WeVideo. If you need help getting students started using this tool, please reach out to a HOTSpot member to ensure your students are set up. Also, WeVideo has great educator tools and resources for creating lessons. Visit their Blog or this Educator’s Guide for great tips and to see updates like new sound effects and lesson ideas. 

TwosDay - Cory - FAQ Page

Getting students to take a little initiative when it comes to questions for a project or a unit can be challenging.  The “asked and answered” questions can take up more time than they should.  Try using an FAQ page that could create a great space for peer answers, repeated questions, or simply a reference page to pre-load a few answers that will help students without a face-to-face response. You know, exactly how you have to operate when you can’t get a real person on the line for customer service... “Press 1 if you are frustrated and wish to hang up.”
My Marzano Connection: DQ4E23 & DQ2E10

TwosDay - Sean - BackChannel Chatting

Getting students to talk and communicate with each other can be a challenge. One of the greatest back channel chatting tools, Today’s Meet, has closed down on us. In response, I threw together this template that can be used (not as beautifully as Today’s Meet, of course) with students for back channeling during an activity or a video.

My Marzano Connection: DQ4E21 & DQ9E40

TwosDay - Amanda - Google Classroom Materials

With the about page gone from the google classroom update teachers were searching for a way to still share materials like syllabus to their students. Classroom has added the material option for the classwork tab.  This will now allow you to post announcement type materials in the classwork tab and allow you to add to topic and rearrange. I suggest you make a topic called “classroom materials” and you continue to add to this topic throughout the year.