You will not believe how great Edji is for annotating and discussing text, images, and even GIFs. It is easy to share with your class via Google Classroom or a direct link. You upload a PDF or copy/paste text or images, share it with your students, and they respond with text, emojis, pre-populated comments that you create, or even audio. The coolest feature is Heat Vision. Once you turn that on, everyone can see what has been highlighted, and the more a word or phrase is selected, the darker the color becomes. (Think word clouds for highlighting.) Teachers see every selection and comment on their own document or in a nice list. This is very user-friendly and great for both in-person and remote learning. We highly recommend it!
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Thank you to everyone who visited our virtual presentation at NCSS 2020! Remember that everything is available until April, which is great because there are SO MANY awesome presentations. You can always bookmark our site so you can visit any time!
Thanks to the Library of Congress for the invitation to join the Teaching with Primary Sources poster session today at NCSS. We met so many great people and had a fabulous time talking about maps!
Our bags are packed and we're excited to be heading to Austin on Wednesday! We'll be presenting our ideas for using maps in the classroom on Friday 2-4 PM in Ballroom D, Level 4. We'll be with a whole group of amazing educators sharing ideas for Teaching with Primary Sources.
For a copy of our MACUL 2019 presentation, click here.
We are CRAZY about our Cricut machines and we can't wait to share how we use them. We'll be at MACUL 2019 in Room 140C at 4:00 Thursday, March 21. Our session is called "Cricut in the Classroom" and we'll be teaching the basics of using the Cricut and the design software. We have so many ideas for you that we had to take pictures because we don't have room to bring everything. Here are a few pictures of things we make with our Cricut for our classrooms. We hope to see you at MACUL in Detroit! We recently participated in a poster session at the National Council for History Education conference in Washington DC. Jane was there in person and Sara and her class joined virtually to demonstrate using primary sources as clues for a Breakout. It was great to meet so many teachers who are interested in adding a new way to examine primary sources to their classrooms. We had such a great time at NCSS in Chicago last week. Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Library of Congress poster session on using Primary Sources. You can find more information about our Primary Suspects activities here.
We are so excited to be part of the Library of Congress Primary Sources Poster Sessions again this year. We are going to be sharing our ideas for using BreakoutEDU to engage students in new topics or review a unit you've been studying. We make our own breakouts using primary sources as clues, but you can find TONS of ready-made sets on the Breakout website. There are different subscription levels, including a free option, so you can find the one that's right for you. Our students love finding clues and solving puzzles, so this is a great activity for them.
It was AMAZING to meet so many wonderful educators this morning during our poster session. We really enjoyed sharing ideas and learning about new things, too! One of the ideas we talked about was using the "jigsaw" method with primary documents. If you have a letter or newspaper article, cut it into a few pieces and give the pieces to different students. They will be excited to find the missing pieces to their document and find out more about it. That way, the whole group is engaged and excited about their learning.
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Sara MuladoreSara is currently a sixth grade social studies and ELA teacher at Charlevoix Elementary School in northern Michigan. She is part of the northern Michigan Social Studies collaborative. Sara has also taught math, science and reading. Jane GarverJane is a fifth grade English and social studies teacher in Charlevoix, Michigan and the MCTE 2018 Middle School Teacher of the Year. She loves teaching writing and matching students with books.. She spends her summers exploring the attic archives of the Little Traverse History Museum in Petoskey, Michigan. |