Digital Bytes – 30 April, 2018

Goodnight  Stories for Rebel Girls Podcast The popular books, Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls, now have a podcast! These stories are longer and more detailed than the short stories in the books. The running time is around 15-20 minutes. Why not have your students read a story and then listen to the longer podcast story?…

Not all bots are bad…

When you hear the term ‘bot,’ you may think about the US Presidential election or political propaganda in general, but that’s not the entire story about the ways coders are getting creative. If you haven’t followed or heard of @Horse_ebooks check out this introduction as an introduction to the wild ways of Twitter bots (for a really cool visual…

Digital Bytes 23 April, 2018

Talk To Books Have you ever wanted to try to find a quote or explore books in an easier way? A new and interesting way to search from Google is called Talk to Books. Simply type in your question and Talk To Books does the rest. The program works best when you ask questions using…

Three Resources to Spring into Last Term

April is a time to take a fresh perspective. As the year just starts to turn into the final lap, this is typically a time for teachers and leadership teams to reflect on what we’ve done well and want to preserve as well as where we need to rethink strategy. To help you with this…

Dealing with Digital Distractions

UWCSEA East has been requiring students in grades 6 and above to have laptops for learning since 2011. Since then, we’ve learned a lot about how students learn with technology, and we continue to push our pedagogical practices to ensure that technology is leveraged in the best ways possible to enhance student learning. We also…

Digital Bytes April 16, 2018

Newseum Looking for a great place to find primary resources to support your students’ media literacy and examine current and historical events? Check out Newseum where it is free to sign up and access great content. Free Music A reminder that we have access to all kinds of free music in the Creator Studio part…

How to BookMark Tweets: A Digital Curation Top Tip

The Twitter-verse marveled over the release of the new Bookmark-option available to the users on mobile a few years ago (if you missed that, here is a quick refresher). Bookmarking tweets is an excellent way to gather information, curate relevant shares without publicly liking the content.  This might be useful if you are doing research and…