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Q & A with Teq!
Over the years we’ve been to your schools
Taught you iPad, SMART Board, and other great web tools
Now it’s your turn, so ask away…
It’s time for some Q & A, the Teq way
On May 29th join Joseph and Lin
Here are the rules and the prizes you’ll win
Do you have a … Read more
Posted in Apps, Classroom Tools, Tech Support, Technology, Tips, Web Tools
Tagged Professional Development, Q&A, SMART Board Resources
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Flip Your Classroom with Educreations
Educreations is a very popular screen casting whiteboard app. From its easy to use interface and robust collection of teacher-created screencasts, Educreations is one of the best iPad apps for your classroom. Because Educreations is a blank whiteboard, it can be used in any subject to explain concepts, review topics and give a teacher a … Read more
Digital Storytelling with Toontastic
Continuing our look back at Teq’s Top 5 iPad Apps webinar from last fall, today we are highlighting a free iPad app that enables students to make fun and exciting cartoons while teaching them the importance of a story arc or plot diagram. Toontastic allows students to design, animate, and share cartoons using a variety … Read more
Posted in Apps, Classroom Tools
Tagged Apps, Digital Storytelling, iPad, Toontastic
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A Birthday Gift for William Shakespeare
April 23rd is the 449th birthday of William Shakespeare! Shakespeare’s works have made him one of the most studied, researched, and popular writers of the last thousand years. Some of his most well-known works are in form of an English Sonnet, which contains a specific rhyme scheme. (a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d,e,e)
In honor of William Shakespeare, … Read more
Snapguide
In preparation for our upcoming webinar Teq’s iPad Appy Hour on May 15, 2013, we wanted to review the apps that we covered in our last iPad webinar.
The first app we covered was Snapguide, which allows a teacher or student to create easy how-to guides on their iPhone or iPad and make them … Read more
Getting to Know Your SMART Board
Want to know more about your SMART Board? Download our SMART Board Quick Reference Guide. If you have just received a new SMART Board in your classroom, or just feel you need to know more about it, the quick reference guide will help you with setting up, familiarizing yourself with the different parts, and, most … Read more
Posted in Tech Support, Technology
Tagged Quick Reference Guide, smart board, SMART Board Resources, Troubleshooting
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Thanks a Million!
Have you noticed the Educator Resource Center (ERC) download counter in the right column of the Teq community site? The Teq Educator Resource Center is quickly approaching its 1 millionth download. In celebration, we will be giving away a prize to 5 different people in the next few weeks, or however long it takes us … Read more
Posted in Contests, Downloads, Educator Resource Center, Notebook
Tagged Educator Resource Center, Interactive Lessons, SMART Board Resources
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5 Great Apps for Assessing with Quizzes
Socrative, Edmodo, and InfuseLearning are all part of our 5 Great Apps for Assessing with Quizzes eBook!
Assessing student learning is one of the most important but challenging things for a teacher to do. Assessment reports and online grading tools take away the tedious task of collecting and grading quizzes, as well as provide educators … Read more
Posted in Apps, Assessment, Classroom Tools
Tagged Apps, Assessment, Edmodo, Flubaroo, Google Forms, infuselearning, iPad, Nearpod, Socrative
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The Math of a Zombie Apocalypse
Ever kept yourself awake at night thinking about a possible zombie apocalypse? I’ll admit that I do. But how fast would it all go down? How many days would I have before the entire globe is engulfed by brain-munching corpses? How many episodes are left of The Walking Dead?
While discussing zombies one day … Read more
Posted in Educator Resource Center, Fluidmath, Math, Notebook
Tagged FluidMath, Math, Walking Dead, Zombie Apocalypse
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Finding the Area of Geometric Shapes Using Google Earth
Google Earth is a great tool for teaching geography and Social Studies content, but it becomes apparent very quickly that the almost endless features lend themselves to other subject areas and interdisciplinary activities.
In a recent webinar, Google Earth Revisited, I covered a Common Core-based activity on finding the area of geometric shapes and … Read more
Posted in Classroom Tools, Common Core, Math
Tagged Common Core Standards, Geometry, Google Earth, interactive whiteboard, SMART Board Resources
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