Digital Progress

The tour features the following regions: Western Cordilleran Interior Plains Canadian Shield Great Lakes/St Lawrence Lowlands Appalachian Region Arctic/Innuitian Regions In the Google Earth file, the tour features one prominent/representative stop in each region, with information and pictures! Also included is a worksheet to work through, so this is a good standalone lesson to compliment the learning.

3 files in this package: 1. Short Google Earth tour of Ancient Egypt territory and landmarks with worksheet 2. Longer, more detailed and specific tour (for older grades) - no worksheet for this one, but feel free to use the template from the shorter one and just add your own questions! Enjoy :)

This nicely designed powerpoint presentation covers most of the important aspects of staying safe online. Touches upon popular platforms such as facebook, instagram, and snapchat. Easy to understand yet 'scary' so kids will be sure to pay attention!

This is a real-looking passport template students can fill in and print out. NOTE: If you're not that great with printing, contact me and I will send you a double-sided version for printing on a regular printer. Otherwise, you'll need this one so you can edit the pages, add new ones, or customize it to your liking! :)

This is a flash-based (open in your browser) digestive tour which allows students to go through the human digestive process, exploring the different bodily functions and enzymes at each stage. I created a worksheet for this game, with an answer key included.

Made this for a class project to introduce kids to Google and show off some features such as searching with "quotes" and -minus signs to help them find what they need easier for their research.

This is a demo of a book trailer done in Windows Movie Maker and an instructional powerpoint. Students were assigned to make a 'trailer' of their book using Windows Movie Maker and this package includes a demo video as well as a powerpoint outlining how to replicate it and basically everything to do with 'working with windows movie maker'.

This is a worksheet and answer key for the NOVA-produced video, 'Riddles of the Sphinx'. It is an hour long and can be found here: http://video.pbs.org/video/1390312942/ If that doesn't work, here's a mirror: http://vimeo.com/13402076 It is a great video in terms of entertainment and education. Enjoy! :)

This is a powerpoint presentation/lesson explaining step by step with screenshots of how to use Blogger by Google. Create your own blog, or assign it to a class as something to keep throughout the year for their book in English class for example.

This is a presentation designed to be done in multiple sessions. It covers the basics of doing a data analysis project: 1. Plan 2. Gather/Measure/Collect 3. Analyze 4. Interpret and Present I touch on using multiple collection sources and give examples of good and bad data, introduce excel and what it can do (and make some graphs with it), and SurveyMonkey for collecting data.

Powerpoint instructional on how to use voicethread - including logging in, making a voicethread, etc.

A powerpoint designed for kids and teachers teaching how to use Glogster step by step with screenshots.

This is a powerpoint presentation outlining the privacy settings and features of Facebook for kids/young students. It goes over screenshots of where all the settings can be found, and discusses some habits those using Facebook should be aware of.

This is a great activity for students to create their own custom virtual rock exhibition with any rock they can find online. 3 files in this zip: 1. Powerpoint instructional on how to use 2. Demo word document showing the completed version 3. Template without the 'glass' enabled on top that allows students to easily change out the given rocks and descriptions with their own.

This powerpoint will briefly demonstrate and show some key features of using 'Drawing' document type within Google Drive.

This is a set of 8 cards with thought-provoking questions about facebook privacy for kids. It has a nice design ready to be printed double-sided I made for a class.

A nice powerpoint presentation showing how to use Penzu, for teachers.

Powerpoint Presentation for teachers and kids outlining how to use the VOKI Gadget within SMART Notebook

In this powerpoint I go over what Penzu is, what the features are, and how to use it as a teacher as well as a student.

This powerpoint will aim to teach you how to use the great online resource called Glogster.