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eduCanon It’s time to take those videos that students passively watch and make them interactive. With eduCanon, teachers can make their own videos or any Youtube video an active and engaging learning experience for their students. Teachers can differentiate by assigning different videos or bulbs to groups of students, and reports let you see learning needs as assignments are completed.   Create your free basic account by going to www.educanon.com   (see end of blog post for details on how to get a free upgrade to premium access) To design your first lesson, click on the design button at the top right corner. On the left hand side, you will see step by step directions for building your lesson-Enter in the title, learning objectives, grade, etc for the lesson. Search for video or enter url of desired video. Once you have inserted the video, it will show up on the right hand side of the screen. Here you can crop the video, add questions to the video...

Please incorporate a Digital Citizenship/Social Awareness lesson into your curriculum prior to using any electronic devices in your classroom. I have prepared one for you that you are free to use with videos and a short quiz for students: http://bit.ly/chhssocialmedia Additional resources: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/curriculum http://www.cybersmart.gov.au/schools.aspx http://www.netsmartz.org/Parents http://www.cybersmart.org/ http://www.edudemic.com/first-five-days-of-digital-citizenship-at-your-school/

Provided by Brandy Whitley Canned Response in GMail This tip is for perfect for those who get the same question over and over again by email. Instead of retyping the answer or searching for a copy of the answer in a previously sent message, create a response that can be saved and inserted into the message as needed. Here’s how: First you will need log into your gmail account. Click on the Settings gear in the top right corner under your name. Select Settings from the menu. Click on the labs tab. Select Enable for Canned Responses, and click Save changes. Next you will compose a new message. Once you have your message ready to go, click on the drop down arrow located at the bottom right corner of the new message. Click on Canned Responses, then click on New Canned Response. Give it a name that will make it easy for you to identify.    Now you are ready to send a canned response as needed. To insert the canned response, simply, compose a new ...

To add your Signature to your JCS Email: 1. Open your Google Mailbox and go to the settings 2. On the General Tab - scroll to the bottom and find the signature box. 3. Please be sure to include - Name, Title, School, Phone number, and Extension if you have a direct line 4. Scroll to the very bottom and SAVE your changes. 

An English teacher at another school in Johnston County shared this exciting app with me today.  Check out it out; it's called Quick Key , a mobile scanner! It's a free app that turns your phone into a mobile scanner. Please watch the short video below that explains how it works or click HERE to view. Quick, easy, and FREE!!! Quick Key Free $0 Free unlimited instant mobile scanning No Internet required to make, take, scan, or score a quiz Instantly see quiz results on your mobile Simple quiz builder Export quiz results to Excel Easy account setup/class list importer Up to 440 students per account

Many of us resort to Google to perform topic searches. A great alternative that I recently learned about is Sweetsearch ! Sweetsearch is a type of customized Google search engine that provides better hits for educational purposes. Sweet Search was created by Finding Dulcinea. The 35, 000 sites included in the search engine have been evaluated by librarians and research experts. Please encourage your students to use this search engine instead of Google. They will find the results to be more relevant and advertisement-free. Example: Comparison for "Shakespeare" in  SweetSearch ,   Google  and  Bing . Again, Wikipedia ranks first for Google and Bing. Also appearing prominently, again due to the specific domain names, are "Shakespeare.com" and "Shakespeare-online.com." Each of these is a well-written "passion site," one created by an individual who is passionate about the subject, but does not possess academic credentials that would enable a...