Resources and Downloads to Facilitate Inquiry-Based Learning

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Find information, strategies, protocols, and tools -- including resources and downloads from teachers and schools – to promote curiosity and engage students in asking questions, thinking critically, and solving problems.

Creating Comic Strips with Google Slides

From: http://ti.apps.sparcc.org/videopd/20151215-slides-comics

Creating comic strips can be a great way for students to tell stories, express understanding of content, give reports, and be creative. There are many tools available for making comics, but a great one is Google Slides. Learn how to use Google Slides, including many of the newest features, for your students (and you) to create online comic strips.

Jeopardy Game Templates for Google Slides

The key to making a Jeopardy game is to use the "Link" tool in Google Slides. Normally a slideshow is designed to be viewed sequentially, one slide followed by the next in order. However, Google Slides allows you to put links in slides that can link to any other slide in the presentation, regardless of order. By using links to other slides, a presentation can be created that is non-linear, in which the user can choose which slides to view.

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10 engaging Google Drawings activities for classes

Google Drawings is like a digital poster board. Or sheet of paper. Or a blank slate waiting for your great ideas. As versatile and powerful as it is, there are bound to be lots of uses for it. Here are the top 10 from Ditch That Textbook.

More information on using Google Draw is here.

16 Things Teachers Should Try in 2016 [infographic]

What are your goals for 2016? There are so many new and exciting things to try both in and out of the classroom. So Casey Bell at Shake Up Learning put together a list of 16 Things for Teachers to Try in 2016 to help inspire educators to try something new this year. What will you try? What would you add to this list? 

Updating Technology Resources

I used to send out YHS Tech Tips via email. The Student Senate has chosen to take that over, so I wanted to have a way to let faculty know when I run across new items that might be of interest. I hope that you will find these links useful and I would love to have your feedback. You can subscribe to this blog with an email account and have the newest posts show up in your mailbox, or you can read the feed on the high school technology page. You can also get the past tips here.

New Life-Long Learning Initiative Launched in Maine | Maine Public Broadcasting

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