Let’s face it, your life is hectic. You have a million things to do, and only a short amount of time to do them in. Lucky for you, Google Calendar can bring order to your chaos and simplify your schedule with just a few clicks. Keep track of multiple calendars and events, reserve school or district resources, and schedule appointments with others all with the greatest of ease. Take control of your life and your schedule with Google Calendar! Caryn Kelly from SOITA shares the basics of using Google Calendar

If you're looking for a great tool to make short screencasts or instructional videos look no further than Screencastify. Watch to find out how to add this free tool to your Chrome browser and begin making videos today! You can access the presentation slides at http://bit.ly/screencast2020?. Other links: Screencastify http://screencastify.com? Screencastify courses: https://www.screencastify.com/courses

Learn how to create a survey in Excel, Word, Google, Facebook, and SurveyMonkey.

This article examines the sixth of seven essential principles of the climate sciences--"We Change Earth's Climate." Written for the science teacher, the article covers greenhouse gases, land-use changes, and other human-induced causes of global climate change. Each issue of the free online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle is structured around one of the seven principles. The content provides background information, lessons, and activities for K-5 classrooms.

Hyperdocs and Playlists are great options for delivering online content that is simple for students to work through, step by step. This video goes over the basics of Hyperdocs and Playlists, including resources for templates and examples.

Find the ICoach webinar recordings, links to slides, and assessments for contact hours in this slide deck.

For many Google is their preferred search engine and Google Apps for Education is taking education by storm. However, Google has even more to offer! Join us as we explore some of Google’s lesser known tools and tricks from the fun and useful to the completely obscure.

INFOhio is one of the most valuable resources that Ohio teachers, students, and parents have available. Whether you're investigating a topic, conducting research, or preparing for an important exam, INFOhio has a high-quality resource to support you!
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HyperDocs are digital lessons created with Google Apps for Education that engage and challenge learners to explore, analyze, and synthesize information. INFOhio has teamed up with inquiry to create two content-specific HyperDocs using INFOhio digital content. Participants will advance down the court by learning how to use all-star content, and proven powerhouse practices for a common goal. Discover how to use the inquiry process and the HyperDoc template to create your own lessons using quality INFOhio content and strategies that will connect students with critical thinking and collaboration for a winning outcome!

Discussion of providing students with a purpose for reading from a college class site entitled "Advanced Study of the Teaching of Secondary School Reading." Along with discussion and background on the topic, some specific strategies are presented including Anticipation Guides, DRA, DR-TA, KWL, Semantic-Feature Analysis, SQ3R, and Think Alongs.

This class will show you how to implement student-led workshops and tutorials that empower learners, encourage creativity and facilitate innovation. You will see examples of how educators can guide students to articulate personal learning goals and give them opportunities to teach their peers. We will also go over a few instrumental tools that make this blended learning process happen, including how to create Podcasts and utilize FlipGrid.

This brief gives teachers strategies for incorporating student and family voice into classroom learning.

The reading strategy known as inferring is also one of the six basic process skills in science. How to apply the strategy in teaching K-5 reading and science is explained in this article from the free, online magazine Beyond Weather and the Water Cycle. The magazine is designed to prepare elementary teachers to teach climate science concepts while integrating inquiry-based science and literacy instruction.

Ohio's K-12 digital library, INFOhio, offers free resources for students and teachers in Ohio. In this presentation we will focus on the resouces available for early learners. Find out how to utalize this free resource from anywhere in the state of Ohio.

This is a presentation that I used to help English teachers find the resources at through INFOhio that best matched the required writing in the pacing guides.

This content pack is intended to be a way for educators to discover new resources and lessons for teaching information literacy skills in grades 6-12. The instructional materials contained within this pack were selected to support students as they grow and develop the following skills. Develop a topic for research. Explain research goals. Formulate essential questions and questions to guide research. Reflect on prior knowledge.

As high school students transition from consumers of information to creators of multimedia projects, understanding copyright, fair use, and citation issues is critical for educators and students. Students must be aware of the complexities of using online information, including text, images, audio, and video. Teachers require high-quality materials to support the teaching of information literacy, especially using resources ethically and responsibly. This content package is intended for educators to easily find lessons, eBooks, videos, articles, and other resources to support the teaching of using various content ethically and to help students understand their responsibility as creators to cite others' work.

This guide offers teacher actions and resources to give students more frequent opportunities to be respondible for "doing the thinking" that can help build motivation in school.

Google Slides are interactive with the add-on Pear Deck. View how to add questions to your Google Slides presentations to check how students are processing information. Learn how to link the Google Slides into Google Classroom with a student paced mode to view as a homework or synchronous presentation. For schools closed, premium features of Pear Deck are now free and enables students to have a “take away file'' in their Google Drive to use as a study tool.

IEA advises 26 countries as they attempt to ensure reliable, affordable, and clean energy for their citizens.