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👊 Welcome to the Latest Edition of the Official Super-Mammoth-Sized Newsletter of Epic Proportions of Techy-ness!

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🤔 Thought Bubble

Happy Today!

First - I'm Thankful for Teachers

Second - It's easy to look at all the negatives that this year has brought. I mean,  it's been wilder than a goat rodeo.

It's not been easy. There hasn't always been time to explain. But all of you have said, "Hop On, Let's Ride!" and continually have risen above the negativity and put your best foot forward. I know there's a lot to complain about, but "Our job as leaders, teachers, and parents is not to prepare kids for something; our job is to help kids prepare themselves for anything." - AJ Juliani. The independent skills that students have learned because of this time, will serve them the rest of their lives. 

May your day be great. 

Stay Curious. 

Give more than you take. (But do what you can without being overwhelmed.) 
 

🏗  PBL - Project-Based Learning

• The Goals Project
• Some PBL Workshops - $$

🐤 For the Littles

• Christine Pinto, Templates - you're missing out if you haven't seen anything from her. 
• Toy Theater - Fun Online Education Games
• Didax Virtual Manipulatives
• K-2 Can Chromebook, TOO - Seesaw + Google
• Ideas for Google Slides activities + More
• Jarrett Lerner Activities - sketchy stuff. 
• ClassroomScreen - an awesome thing to have up on your desktop to keep everything flowing. It has a timer, random name generator, traffic light, stopwatch, visual work symbols, noise sensitivity measurement, + more. 
• Learning Through Play

🏡🏘️ Teaching / Learning / Leading Resources

• Connecting Students in a Disconnected World
• Virtual Social Learning Spaces
• Canvas' Rich Content Editor is changing over Christmas Break. You can switch it over now if you and your students want to try it now. 
  • Student Guide
  • Instructor Guide
• 33 Best Leadership Books You Haven't Heard Of
• Under Pressure: Why Athletes Choke.
• Forward Thinking with Roger Martin long watch. 
• Holiday Gratitude Activities for Grades 3-5
• First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge
• The Learning Loop - Consuming content isn't enough, you need to go put it into practice. 
• What Happens when students launch their work to an audience? 
• 5 Tips to Boost Your Confidence and Believe in You
• 10 Ways to Teach, 10 Ways to Learn - The Basketball Podcast - good listen for coaches, but teachers, too. YouTube link, too. 
• 5 Tips to Become a More Effective Manager 
• Strategies for Engaging Students in Virtual Learning
• Computer Science Education Still Has Diversity Gaps
• Mathematical Problem-Solving Digitally
• What is StoryTelling? 
• Assessment at a Distance: Not so different from assessment in person. 
• OER - Workspace - Teacher Setups
• Writing Historical Essays  - OER
• Urbanization from the Ground Up - OER Project
• You Can't Be a Leader without Empathy: 5 Strategies as the Pandemic Continues
• Adapting Maslow's Hierarchy for a Remote World
• The Science of Well-Being Course from Yale
• 21 Financial Concepts on a Napkin
• Soft leadership vs. hard leadership
• How's your morning routine? 
• How to stay engaged with your work, even when you feel like checking out. 
• Learning That Works for the Learner
• Creating eye-popping infographics with Google Drawings. 
• Little Inventors - cool stuff - could be used across all grade levels. 

👩‍🏫👨‍🏫 Teaching With Tech Links

• Ditch Summit Sign-Up - Free 4 Week PD put on by THE Matt Miller
• Crafty Cursor - helps with making your cursor easily able to be seen. See: Google Meets)
• Perusall - Social e-Reader - Read something together and comment on it. Think Commenting on a Google Doc
• Learning Forward Webinars - lots of topics here. Possibly $
• Sketch Quotes - a visual notetaking hyperdoc lesson  - great for note taking
• Whiteboard.Chat - another whiteboard option
• How to Create Cool Looking Sticky Notes - Visual Thinking
• 19 Ways to Use Wakelet Spaces in Your School of Class!
• Wakelet for Educators
• Wakelet Surf School
• More Wakelet for Educators
• 5 Quick Team Building Activities for Conference Calls - Trello is a good project management board. 
• Blended Learning with Google - Part 2 Storytelling
• The Google Slides Master Slide HUGE time saver. 
• Google Meet: Share and See Students on One Monitor/Screen
• How to Improve Your Handwriting
• Wanna be a Canvas Certified Educator Program?
• Little Inventors - cool stuff
• Text comments are now in Flipgrid
• Remote Learning Flowchart
• Tons of Open Educational Resources (OER)
• The Power of Journaling
• Izzit.org - resources
• When I Share, I Learn - what are you sharing? 
• How to Use Wakelet in The Classroom
• Adapting Reading Comprehension Instruction to Virtual Learning
• Writing for Change : Adobe Spark X Wakelet
• World's Largest Lesson - We promote use of the Sustainable Development Goals in learning so that children can contribute to a better future for all.  From citizenship and justice to climate change and the environment, inspire children to make a difference!

⚡Learner Experience Design

• Decision Journal
• Learning That Works for the Learner

📋 eCoaching Sessions

I  know a lot of you reach out informally, I'm also available for formal coaching huddles where you and I would meet regularly and we'd work on just one thing you want to improve or on a challenge that you have. It could be over anything teaching related, not just technology. 

I think it would look something like the following. 

1. Identify a challenge/goal you have
2. Investigate strategies to tackle your challenge/goal
3. Select one to try
4. Implement the strategy
5. Reflect on it. 

If you're interested in doing something like this, please let me know. 
HERE  are ways that I can help in your classroom. I'm up for anything :) 
Coaching Huddle Request

 Link of the Newsletter 

• Sign Up, Sign Up, Sign Up to the Indiana eLearning Lab with you school Google Account
• Dream House Design
• How to Make a YouTube Channel - Maybe for your class, maybe for you personally, maybe to tell your story?
• Create a Digital Story using multiple tech tools
• INeLearningLab Resources
• INeLearningLab Lesson Ideas
• INeLearningLab Events - New topic each day

🎧  Cadet Architects Podcast

⚔ #CadetArchitects 

• If you post anything about your learning experiences and put them on social media, please use the hashtag #CadetArchitects that way we can see and learn from each other.
•  Here's the #CadetArchitects feed. 
• This is the MCCSC list of those on twitter. Don't see your name? Let me know and I'll add you. 

📰 Old Newsletters 

• #CadetArchitects Newsletters HERE
• 2020-2021 - Quick Tech Newsletters HERE

🦄 Imaginary Bonus Points! 

• 15,254 IBP for impersonating a colleague sometime this month. 
• 14,256 points if you NERF gun sneak attack a colleague this month.