Empower Students to Tell Their Stories with Adobe Spark!Adobe Spark is a fun, free content-creation tool that anyone can use. Easily accessible on web browsers, Chromebooks, and mobile devices, Adobe Spark’s intuitive and easy-to-use design makes it the perfect tool for learners of all ages to create . . . Video book reportsModern, responsive webpage “papers”Video journalsScience posters and videosWeb newsletters . . . and so much more! In the hands of creative educators, Adobe Spark provides students with a fun way to embrace critical communication and creativity skills. But what if you don’t consider yourself a “creative educator” or just aren’t sure where to start? That’s where 40 Ways to Inject Creativity into Your Classroom with Adobe Spark comes to the rescue! Experienced educators Ben Forta and Monica Burns offer step-by-step guidance on how to incorporate this powerful tool into your classroom in ways that are meaningful and relevant. They present 40 fun and practical lesson plans suitable for a variety of ages and subjects as well as 15 graphic organizers to get you started. With the tips, suggestions, and encouragement in this book, you’ll find everything you need to inject creativity into your classroom using Adobe Spark.

40 Ways to Inject Creativity into Your Classroom with Adobe Spark

Computers & Technology

Burns, Monica

Forta, Ben

Software

Elevate Books Edu

Are you looking for ways to make teaching and learning more interactive in your classroom? Do you ever feel overwhelmed when it comes to integrating technology and content standards? Are you searching for lessons that you can immediately implement in your learning environment? Then you are ready to dive into The InterACTIVE Classroom In this practical and idea-packed book, coauthors, classroom teachers, and edtech experts Joe and Kristin Merrill share their personal framework for teaching. As you implement the lessons and strategies, you will . . . &#9679; Define interactive learning and how to use it to instantly transform your learning space. &#9679; Create long-lasting bonds with students and parents that will empower your learners and lead to success both in and out of the classroom. &#9679; Learn to PIVOT You'll design interactive lessons that foster grit and challenge students to grow. Get InterACTIVE lessons you can use in your classroom tomorrow

The Interactive Class: Using Technology to Make Learning More Relevant and Engaging in the Elementary Classroom

Education & Teaching

Merrill, Joe

Merrill, Kristin

Schools & Teaching

Looking for ways to create a student-centered classroom and make your lessons come alive?The Microsoft Infused Classroom has the answers Designed to help you amplify teaching and engagement in your classroom, The Microsoft Infused Classroom equips you to use powerful tools that put learning first From this easy-to-understand guidebook, you'll learn how to . . .Transform Your Classroom. Educational Technology experts led by Holly Clark and Tanya Avrith show you how to use technology to put students at the center of their learning. You'll amplify the learning experiences in your classroom using Microsoft and other powerful online tools.Empower Your Students. Use the techniques and Microsoft-friendly tools explained in this book to create differentiated learning options, allow students to build on their strengths, and take ownership of their learning. Using what you've learned, you will be able to use technology in meaningful ways that prepare students for their future Make Student Thinking Visible. Discover how to use essential edtech tools to make student thinking visible, give every student a voice, and provide authentic opportunities for learners to share their work. Packed with ideas you can use in your classroom tomorrow

The Microsoft Infused Classroom: A Guidebook to Making Thinking Visible and Amplifying Student Voice

Clark, Holly

Avrith, Tanya

Ford, Felisa

Rachell, Natasha

Do you have Chromebooks in the classroom? Then this book is for you Conquer remote learning and digital leaning experiences like a pro Whether Chromebooks are a new addition to your school, you've recently gone 1:1 in the classroom, or you've been using them for years and you want to make the most of technology for your learners... The Chromebook Infused Classroom is a resource you will want to refer to again and again.You'll learn how to: <ul><li>Amplify student voice in the classroom</li><li>Create opportunities to promote a global perspective and cultural empathy</li><li>Use technology to assess understanding and craft personalized learning experiences </li><li>Help students develop critical skills for success in school, work, and life</li></ul>

The Chromebook Infused Classroom: Using Blended Learning to Create Engaging Student Centered Classrooms

Looking for ways to use technology in the classroom to improve learning outcomes and make lessons come alive? 
This book is written for every teacher who wants to amplify teaching and learning in the classroom using powerful online tools that put learning first!
Transform Your Teaching - EdTech experts Holly Clark and Tanya Avrith provide a guidebook to help you use technology to engage your learners and amplify the learning experience in your classroom—with Google Apps and other online tools.
Empower Your Students - This book will teach you how to allow students to show their thinking, demonstrate their learning, and share their work with authentic audiences - to use technology in meaningful ways that prepare them for the future!
Start with 20 Simple Tools - This book focuses on 20 essential tools that will help teachers to easily make student thinking visible, give every student a voice and allow them to share their work.
Examples You Can Use Tomorrow - With instructions for incorporating twenty of the best Google-friendly tools, including a special bonus section on Digital Portfolios
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The Google Infused Classroom: A Guidebook to Making Thinking Visible and Amplifying Student Voice

Want to make learning more meaningful in your classroom? 
Looking to better prepare your students for the world of tomorrow? 
Keen to help learners create authentic connections to the world around them? 
Dive into Inquiry beautifully marries the voice and choice of inquiry with the structure and support required to optimise learning for students and get the results educators desire. With Dive into Inquiry you'll gain an understanding of how to best support your learners as they shift from a traditional learning model into the inquiry classroom where student agency is fostered and celebrated each and every day. This book strikes a perfect balance of meaningful pedagogy, touching narrative, helpful processes, original student examples, and rich how-to lesson plans all to get you going on bringing inquiry into your classroom.
After reading this book educators will feel equipped to design their own inquiry units in a scaffolded manner that promote a gradual shift of control of learning from the teacher to the learner. Exploring student passions, curiosities, and interests and having these shape essential questions, units of study, and performance tasks are all covered in this powerful book. Learn to keep track of the many inquiry topics in your classroom and have students take ownership over their learning like never before!
Trevor MacKenzie provides readers with a strong understanding of the Types of Student Inquiry and proposes a framework that best prepares both educators and learners for sharing the unpacking of curriculum in the classroom as they work together towards co-constructing a strong Free Inquiry unit. Helpful illustrations for in-class use, examples of essential questions from a variety of disciplines, practical goals for making progress in adopting inquiry into your practice, and powerful student learning on display throughout, Dive into Inquiry will energize, inspire, and transform your classroom!

Dive into Inquiry: Amplify Learning and Empower Student Voice

MacKenzie, Trevor

Want to harness the power of curiosity to foster students’ love for learning in your classroom or school?
 From their youngest years, our children are innately curious. They explore the world around them through play, imagination, and discovery. They build meaning, they create understanding, and they unabashedly share their learning. It’s in this process that they find joy in life and relevance in the world around them. 
Why, then, do some of our students become disconnected from their learning in school? Where does this natural curiosity go? And how, as educators, can we ensure all of our students experience a meaningful and wonder-filled journey through their education? It’s these questions that Trevor MacKenzie, author of the critically acclaimed book Dive into Inquiry, answers in Inquiry Mindset. Co-written with kindergarten teacher Rebecca Bathurst-Hunt, Inquiry Mindset offers a highly accessible journey through inquiry in the younger years. 
You’ll learn how to . . 
Empower your learners
Increase engagement
Accelerate achievement.
Harness the wonderings and curiosities of your students and leverage them into powerful learning opportunities. Cultivate an inquiry mindset both as a teacher and in your students! Adopt an inquiry approach that results in the most authentic and inspiring learning you’ve ever experienced!
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Inquiry Mindset: Nurturing the Dreams, Wonders, and Curiosities of Our Youngest Learners

Bathurst-Hunt, Rebecca

NEW UPDATED VERSION - AUGUST 2019 .Discover the Benefits of Doodling!Educator and internationally known sketchnoter Sylvia Duckworth makes ideas memorable and shareable with her simple yet powerful drawings. In How to Sketchnote, she explains how you can use sketchnoting in the classroom and that you don’t have to be an artist to discover the benefits of doodling!Sketchnoting (aka visual note-taking) allows students to see the bigger picture in the concepts they are studying, make connections in their learning, and display their learning process—and all of that leads to better retention. In this fun and inviting book, Sylvia equips you with the basic tools you and your students need to introduce doodling and sketchnoting in the classroom. With step-by-step sketchnote practice sessions and 180+ icons you can use or adapt to represent your ideas, How to Sketchnote will inspire you to embrace the doodler within—even if you think you can’t draw.

How to Sketchnote: A Step-by-Step Manual for Teachers and Students

Duckworth, Sylvia

Higher & Continuing Education

Sylvia Duckworth is a Canadian teacher whose sketchnotes have taken social media by storm and this book is being given as an inspirational gift to educators everywhere 
Her drawings provide clarity and provoke dialogue on many topics related to education. 
This book contains 100 of her most popular sketchnotes with links to the original downloads that can be used in class or shared with colleagues. Interspersed throughout the book are Sylvia's reflections on each drawing and what motivated her to create them, in addition to commentary from other educators who inspired the sketchnotes. 
To see samples of the drawings in this book, please visit sites.google.com/view/sketchnotesforeducators/home
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Sketchnotes for Educators: 100 Inspiring Illustrations for Lifelong Learners

Self-Help

Motivational

It’s time to think differently about lesson design. Technology gives students immediate access to information, the ability to connect beyond the classroom, and a myriad of opportunities for collaboration and creativity. But do your daily lessons reflect this shift in instruction? HyperDocs are digital lesson plans that are designed by teachers and given to students. They provide access for students to all content and learning in one organized digital space. HyperDocs shift instruction by giving students the content to explore before direct instruction, and by asking students to apply their learning using the 4 C’s: critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity. We can’t always do things the way we’ve always done them and with this book, we encourage you to consider, “What is it that I can do now that I couldn’t do before?”The HyperDoc Handbook is a go-to for all K-12 educators looking to transform their teaching into blended learning environments. It is a practical reference guide you will refer to again and again that strikes a perfect balance between pedagogy and how-to tips. After reading this handbook, educators will feel equipped to design their own HyperDocs using Google Apps and the endless web tools available online. This book will be your guide to:Explore the pedagogy behind digital lesson designFollow step-by-step directions on how to create a HyperDocReflect and revise digital lessons using a checklist to “hack” your own HyperDocsSelect tech tools best suited for lessonsConnect and share with other educatorsCopy and customize sample HyperDocs to use in your own classroomImprove collaboration and instruction between all education stakeholders, including students, teachers, administrators, instructional coaches, professional developers, and families with the ideas shared in this book. After reading The HyperDoc Handbook you will be connected with the HyperDoc community and inspired to create and share with other HyperDoc’ers on Twitter at @TsGiveTs, search Facebook groups for “HyperDocs”, and discover lessons at TeachersGiveTeachers.net.

The HyperDoc Handbook: Digital Lesson Design Using Google Apps

Highfill, Lisa

Hilton, Kelly

Landis, Sarah

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