Tech Tip #1
During Covid a lot of things changed overnight for teachers. We were thrust into the world of online teaching whether we wanted to be there or not. As I mentioned in a previous post, I'm not a natural techie, so this sudden reliance on technology to do my job was huge learning curve. I learned A LOT in the past couple of years about incorporating tech into my lessons and there a couple of tools that have definitely found a permanent place in my post-Covid classroom. I use YouTube a lot in my classroom. I love to start lessons with a short 3-5 minute video hook/song, I use longer clips to help with building background knowledge; and I use videos for classroom meditation, or brain breaks. Naturally there are times when I need to share these videos via Google Classroom for homework/home support work, but there are other times when my students just really love a song or video and request that I share the link in our Google Classroom. However,...