The region 10 digital fluency training has only just begun, but there's already so many great things to share!

This sketchnote was created and shared by Teach Thought, which is a great blog for technology ideas! Check out their blog and follow them on Twitter! (Click on the image to enlarge.)

Tech Tools to Try:

Answer Garden - Create a collaborative word cloud. Multiple people can enter words, and the responses will be gathered into a common word cloud. The more times a certain word is added, the larger that word or phrase grows.
Easily tweet the word cloud, or the site will create a QR code automatically.

Tozzl - Create a connected backchannel.

Diigo - Highlight or annotate a website or an online article or blog post and then share it with your students or parents. Tag or bookmark articles you want to read later. Curate the great resources you find.

classkick.com - "As students work on a teacher-made Classkick assignment on their iPads, teachers see every students' work progressing all at once. Students can privately raise hands, teachers give individualized, real-time student feedback, and so much more."

Class Craft - "Classcraft helps teachers manage, motivate and engage their students by transforming their classroom into a role-playing game."

Padlet - Collaboratively post on a board or wall. You can add a graphic organizer or chart as the background, and students can post to that diagram or on that image. There's a free app and the online format. The "padlet" will update in real time similarly to Google docs.

Google Classroom - Tips

Tackk: Create a e-newsletter, infographic, e-poster type of display for images, video, or text. Check out mine used to reflect and set goals based on my learning in the class. This site is similar to Smore in it's final product, but it's free!

Paper FiftyThree - great iPad app for sketchnoting.

Learning Gems & Food for Thought

Consider gamifying your class a little bit, by allowing students multiple attempts at quizzes, projects, reports, etc. After feedback, they get another chance, similar to video games when they have multiple lives.
A shift in teaching: Digital Age Learning Ecosystem
Classroom Cribs: Brain-friendly classroom arrangements.
Student feedback is colossally impactful in motivating students to do quality work.
Curate a digital learning library. Collect digital resources (videos, articles, ebooks, digital tech-books, etc.) and bring them together into 1 location, ie. a teacher website (Wiki, Google Site, etc.) so that students have this resource to go to as they're learning. Then you, the teacher, can facilitate their learning instead of being the sole or main giver of knowledge.
Give students choice in how they learn and how they show their learning.
****Our new PDAS system, coming soon, will rate you on how teacher-centered vs. student-centered your classroom learning and lessons are! Check out the digital learning toolkit.
Are you just digitizing something you already did in the past, or are you truly using digital learning. The great graphic organizer below was created by Dr. Tim Clark @BYOTNetwork.