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Welcome

Welcome to the Ed Tech Treats blog, brought to you by the Council Bluffs Community School District Office of Instructional Technology - i.e., me, Devin Schoening.

Actually, that's not 100% accurate. I will also be relying on many of the teachers I work with, including the Model Technology cohort, as well as Director of Information Systems David Fringer, Director of Secondary Education Corey Vorthmann, the instructional coaching team and others for the content of this blog.

If all goes well, here is what you can expect:

• An update once a week

• Tutorials - video tutorials and written instructions to aid the implementation of technology tools

• Tools - Examples of technology tools that teachers can use in the classroom.

• Podcast - A weekly or biweekly audio/visual production looking at current issues in education, especially with regards to technology.

• Lesson plans - Eventually, I would like to include lessons plans from teachers that highlight technology use.

Please bookmark this blog, use an RSS feed, or do whatever you are comfortable with so you can continue to check back. Also, please feel free to send any comments, questions or suggestions.

Powerful Collaborative Sticky Notes - Linoit

Linoit is one of my favorite Web tools to promote collaboration.

Many times in classrooms students and teachers are utilizing sticky notes and a big piece of paper or an open wall to collaborate. Sometimes these are brainstorming activities. Sometimes it might be to categorize or sort. And sometimes it might be to have students share their thoughts (on a piece of writing, a problem, etc.).

Sticky notes can also used during many different parts of a lesson: do-it-now, bell ringer, exit ticket, group work, independent work, and more.

Linoit allows the user to recreate much of that experience online.

With Linoit, teachers (and students) can create a board and allow others to post sticky notes to that board. There are a number of features within Linoit that I think are really helpful:

• Boards can be made private (only those invited) or they can be public (just share the link)
• Many different color sticky notes
• Users can insert images
• Users can insert videos
• Users can insert links
• Notes can be moved around the board
• iPad, iPod Touch, iPhone, Android app available
• The tool is free

Registration for Linoit is free and you can have a board up and going in a matter of minutes.  Just go to en.linoit.com, click sign up in the upper right hand corner (or give it a try first without signing up) enter a username, password and email, and start creating!

Creating a Class Email List

A communication piece that makes a teacher's life much easier - especially in a 1:1 environment - is to create a group email contact list. This will allow the teacher to email all students with a simple click. Below is a video tutorial to help teachers create those email lists. Below the video is a link to written instructions.

Click here for the written instructions.