End of the Year Tech Ideas

The end of the school year gives us an opportunity to reflect on what we have learned as a class and to show how much we have grown over the year. Each activity below utilizes a different Google application and is intended to be collaborative, so please make sure you don’t delete someone else’s work.

I don't know about your students, but so many of mine, coupled with Senioritis, were done after state testing. (The well had run dry, no blood from a turnip -- all those sayings applied!) With just a few precious weeks left in the school year, what do you do to keep the kids energized and on board with learning?

You know how it goes. Grades are turned in. Textbooks have been collected. The computer lab is shut down. But the activity level of our students has gone up. What's a teacher supposed to do? As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I've been trying to get my students to reflect on the year.

As another school year comes to a close it’s time for students and teachers to celebrate and reflect on all the wonderful experiences from the school year. ThingLink is the perfect tool for creating multimedia memory books to help students capture memories, preserve them, and share them with friends and family across the globe.

The end of the school year is high time for review. Make your experience EPIC with the review to end all reviews!

I always laugh when people say that we should end school earlier in the year because the last few weeks are a waste.  What do they think would happen if school stopped in April?  Somehow I doubt th…

Vialogue (Video + Dialogue ) is an online video with a group discussion feature. Vialogue allows users to interact with videos by adding time stamped comments to them. This can be a great tool for teachers to use with their students to get them engaged in video prompted discussions.To get started, upload a video, grab one from YouTube, or choose one from the growing collection on this site.

The kindergarten students are working on the idea of "personal history". We made a list of activities we participated in for each month of the school year we have completed so far. The students enjoyed looking back at themselves engaged in these various activities and discussing their favorite things.

Help your students explore the world of politics with government themed virtual field trips.

May 20, 2014 There are a wide variety of activities you can use with your students to wrap up the school year. In today's post I am sharing with you 4 ideas you can apply in your classroom. I have also included web tools and apps to help you carry them out.

The end of the school year will soon be upon us. This is the time of year that we think about activities that we can do to help students review the school year. At this time of the year I start to get a lot of requests for suggestions for tools to create review activities.

I think we've already established that I have very little imagination. I admire creativity, but I am much better at borrowing other people's ideas than I am at generating my own. When I first learned about Word Clouds, for example, I thought they were fun but really couldn't think of too many applications for their...

I can hardly believe this year is almost over! I am so incredibly proud of my hard working students, and will miss this little group so much! They have grown so much as leaners this year, and I have so enjoyed sharing that learning with them.