We wish you a 2025 full of beautiful things, love and joy ❤️🎆

Day 7 of websites to get students in the giving spirit ☃️ #DigiGift Free Wheat! Solve a simple math problem and the website donates wheat to children in poverty. You can see the amount of wheat grown with each math problem solved. freewheat.gear.host

Make a Difference with Your Device! 10+ Websites and Apps to Inspire Students to Make a Difference Digitally teacherrebootcamp.com/2024/12/digi... #DigiGift

Day 6 of websites to get students in the giving spirit ☃️ Bean Bean Bean- answer trivia to earn digital beans. The host converts this to a dollar figure donated to a charity. Categories include math, knowledge, language, geography & science. beanbeanbean.com/html/categor... #DigiGift

The Be My Eyes app connects blind / low-vision users who want sighted assistance with volunteers through live video. bemyeyes.com/download #DigiGift I share how I use this app in my classroom here teacherrebootcamp.com//2024/12/dig...

Day 5 of websites/apps to get students in the giving spirit ☃️ With SciStarter and Zooniverse your students can choose from several research projects and become citizen scientists. scistarter.org and zooniverse.org #DigiGift

Day 3 of websites/apps to get students in the giving spirit 📷 Freerice is a trivia game. Every question students answer correctly raises 10 grains of rice for the World Food Programme (WFP). play.freerice.com/categories/ #DigiGift

Students can use Super English as a personal AI tutor that helps them with revision, review, and learning. This is free. No login required and no data collection. Students can use a nickname or made up name to start. superenglish.super-voice.net/w/chat #AI

Day 2 of websites/apps that get students in the giving spirit ☃️ St. Jude's E-Greeting- Send a free card to hospitalized children with cancer. Also in Spanish and provides suggested messages and examples to help students. stjude.org/get-involved... #DigiGift

Make a Difference with Your Device! 10+ Websites and Apps to Inspire Students to Give teacherrebootcamp.com/2024/12/digi... #DigiGift #EduSky

Check out the DeSTEMber calendar with 31 days of STEM projects girlstart.org/events/categ... #STEM #STEAM #Edusky

Make a Difference with Your Device! 10+ Websites and Apps to Inspire Students to Give teacherrebootcamp.com/2024/12/digi... #DigiGift

Letters of Love helps makes the elderly smile by sending them letters. They have a free writing prompt calendar to inspire your students to write! Scroll to download the pdf. loveforourelders.org/letters or click here to access the clickable prompts loveforourelders.org/s/Countdown

December Happiness Calendar in multiple languages ☃️https://actionforhappiness.org/calendar#download-block-anchor

Want to help your students get into the giving spirit? You can use websites and apps to share a learning story then help. I will be sharing websites and ideas regularly this month. #1 Click for Paws! paws.greatergood.com

🌟 **Padlet Adds Auto-Captions for Video & Audio!** 🎉 🙌 #Accessibility! 🤩 Perfect for: ✅ Noisy environments ✅ Non-native speakers ✅ Hard of hearing learners ✅ Learners who prefer caption-accompanied video or audio Learn more: 👉 https://buff.ly/3Z9fipM #EduSky

#EduSky peeps. The Virtual Author Visit list for World Read Aloud Day (courtesy of @katemessner.bsky.social ) just posted. You can find available authors (who will do a free 15 minute virtual visit read aloud/Q&A) here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Question for US History teachers: I'm making a "Guess Who" game of US History people for students to play on Chromebooks. I'm making Funko Pops of each. Any feedback on who I have so far and who else needs to be included? #sschat #ushistory #edusky

Is it Bad to leave Twitter? No. Here are 7+ years of insights from my lab’s research that explain why. Featuring work w/ @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social 🧵

The Public Domain Review is counting down to the 2025 by revealing a new work entering the public domain every day of the month, advent calendar style. First up is Virginia Woolf's "A Room of One's Own"! #EduSky publicdomainreview.org/features/ent...

Fascinating story! Astronaut who was stranded in space for 311 days after his country stopped existing reveals his first emotion after returning to Earth www.uniladtech.com/science/spac...

If you see this, post fungi! 🍄 Characters drawn as part of #Funguary Which is hosted by feefal on IG

The Heart Nebula telescope.live/gallery/hear...

AI Literacy Lessons for Grades 6–12 (free) www.commonsense.org/education/co...

Agree!

I truly appreciate these starter packs for educators. This is the easiest way to get inspired and connect with other educators.

Great post! I use Spent every year with my students. They play through at least 3 times: just for "fun", making the "easy" choices - ones they want, making the "hard" choices - ones they have no choice if they want to make it to the end of the month. It is usually pretty powerful. #EduSky #EdTech

Blogging again! Check out my latest post, Play SPENT and Learn About Homelessness! A Lesson Plan for Teens and College Students teacherrebootcamp.com/2024/11/pove... #EduSky

Games and apps that support the giving spirit:

SPENT is a free game good for teens and college. Make life choices and better understand poverty playspent.org/html/

The Medium Blinds Us: How AI Sentiment Shapes Our Judgment mikekentz.substack.com/p/the-mcluha...

I found useful tips and educators to follow in this post by @leonfurze.bsky.social What is Bluesky and Why Are Thousands of Educators Signing Up? leonfurze.com/2024/11/14/w...

In an AI tool of your choice, copy and paste the following Thanksgiving inspired mini-prompts. Explore history, culture, gratitude, and more with the results! Via AI For Education www.aiforeducation.io/prompts/than... #EduSky #AI

This is a great list of educators to follow who share Google and education technology tips and resources #Edtech #EduSky

Thanksgiving themed writing prompt from Makebeliefscomix makebeliefscomix.com/printables/t...

This is a great free game for upper elementary and middle school students. Students investigate the first Thanksgiving as historians youarethehistorian.org

If you are new to Bluesky like me, this is a great list of people to follow in STEM! #EduSky #STEM

These are the slides and resources from my recent plenary for Westcliff University, Navigating the Seas of Innovation: Empowering Students to S.A.I.L (Several Attempts in Learning) shellyterrell.com/sail.html

We start every morning with mindfulness and reflection which really has helped my elementary students manage their emotions better. We like Brighten Up Kids videos. This one is perfect for this week www.youtube.com/watch?v=C86H... #EduSky

My elementary students have been enjoying this Turkey Freeze Dance brain break www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQCQ... #EduSky

Good article with tips for teachers as we head towards the end of the semester! Doing the Best You Can With the Time You Have www.edutopia.org/article/avoi...