Google Forms is a web-based app used to create forms for data collection purposes. Students and teachers can use Google Forms to make surveys, quizzes, or event registration sheets. The form is web-based and can be shared with respondents by sending a link, emailing a message, or embedding it into a web page or blog […]
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We get customer support requests about editing HTML and CSS code in Google Drive. Chromebook users want to be able to use TechnoHTML with their students. TechnoHTML is a technology project with simple programming activities for middle school students that allow them to make a web page. Acting on a customer request I reviewed several
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PLEASE NOTE: The TechnoKids Activity Book for Kid Pix 3D is no longer available. Does your school have Kid Pix 3D software? Are you asking, “My students love Kid Pix. But what can I do with it now?” Good news! TechnoKids has a new collection of Kid Pix 3D teaching ideas designed for Grades 1
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Do you like Kid Pix 3D? Here is a fun language arts activity you can do with your students! Compose an acrostic poem with moving letters. An acrostic poem has the first letter of each line spell out the topic name down the left side of the page. Each line of poetry begins with one
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This blog explains the seven steps to producing a Photostory about leadership. A Photostory shares a message using only images. The individual images are sequenced together to produce a video. A Photostory can be time consuming to complete. You should allocate roughly eight classes. Why a Leadership Photostory? This year the school launched a leadership
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Staff at Dr Frank J. Hayden Secondary School in Burlington, ON, Canada are opposed to a proposal to install Internet filters at HDSB schools. They sent a copy of their letter to school trustees to a local newspaper for parents to understand their viewpoint. Their letter highlights the ongoing issue that educators face – should
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TechnoKids is at ISTE 2014. We are at the Software MacKiev booth #1628 and Learning Services booth #2228. Come and see our projects for the award-winning software KidPix 3D or talk to us about our Office 2013 projects. Discover resources for technology integration. Request a personal tour to learn more about TechnoKids. Find out about
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This article is a continuation of my previous post. In that post, I offered insight into what students think about blogging. To gain feedback, I had provided seventy five Grade 7 and 8 students with a survey after the blogging unit. In the previous post, I outlined some of their responses. Here are their remaining responses
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A few months ago I taught a blogging unit to several Grade 7 and 8 classes. After the unit was complete I designed a survey to gain student feedback. Some of the questions had a list of choices, while others were open ended. The results were interesting – so I thought I would share them
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A few months ago several teachers approached me and asked it I would assist in teaching a leadership unit. The school was incorporating a leadership model inspired by the book The Leader in Me by Stephen R. Covey. I developed several technology-based activities that would help students recognize their leadership strengths, as well as apply
