Oct 13, 2016 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities, Tech Tools
By Anna Rozzo Previously on Tech Tips for Teachers, we explored some of the logistics of setting up YouTube channels and project ideas such as having students use them to create oral journals. Read on for four new ways to utilize student YouTube channels in your...
Sep 13, 2016 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities, Tech Tools
By David J. Rosen Why note-taking is important, for you as a teacher and for your students Note-taking is a way to quickly and concisely record information; if done well, it is also an efficient method to learn and to store what you have learned in your long-term...
Sep 6, 2016 | Lesson Plans and Classroom Activities, Tech Tools
By Anna Rozzo YouTube, like Google, has become part and parcel of daily internet use for many. Because YouTube is not simply a video hosting service, but rather a social network, it allows students and teachers to interact and collaborate in new ways in and outside of...
Jul 11, 2016 | Inspiration and Ideas, Tech Tools
By Anna Rozzo We all know that our students are busy; they work long hours in addition to attending class. Not only are our students holding multiple jobs, they are learning English faster than generations of immigrants before them. In addition to this inevitable...
Mar 4, 2016 | Inspiration and Ideas
By Connie Rivera Some videos are a good support to classroom instruction, but I don’t need to take class time for students to passively watch them. Typically, I put these videos up on our class Weebly site and reference them as homework – either before or after the...
