Thanks a ton @MattVillasana for hosting #HappyHalves, 30-minute ed tech talk every Friday for teachers. Today we delved into Schoology! #cpsbest

Join me on Zoom this week as we compare and contrast two of my all-time faves! #BentonBold William Joyce

Take five! 🖐️🍎 Each week, I'm giving five random US educators $100 gift cards to a few of my favorite indie bookstores. RT & follow for a chance to win one. I'll notify the five random winners on 5/15 at 2 PM PT. This week's stores: @thebookstall, Hicklebee's Books 📚, & watchungbooksellers!

Join us TOMORROW as we kick off Educator Innovation Week with our @Flipgrid SEL Panel! Join... ❤️ Kristin Merrill 💙 Joe Merrill 👓 #interACTIVEclass 🧡 Stacey Roshan 💛 soulgraber 💜 Tha Bazza ag ionnsachadh #Gàidhlig Details ⬇️ blog.flipgrid.com/eiw2020 💚 #FlipgridForAll x.com/flipgrid/statu…

Creating my virtual classroom! Usually I process what I want the future year to look like as I set up my physical space. This year, I am processing what virtual teaching will look like as I set up my virtual classroom. #cpsbest #virtualclassroom Benton Elementary

🎉 Introducing Nearpod’s biggest update ever… 🎥 ✨ INTERACTIVE VIDEO ✨ 🎥 Shift students’ video experiences from passive to active, in any learning setting. 🌟 🎬 💙 Choose ANY video, embed questions, & watch responses in real time! ✨ Retweet if you're super excited! ✨

Learning more about various online programs to find one that will best fit my virtual class and allow for a lot of interaction, even with my quieter students. #pearfair #peardeck #distancelearning #cpsbest ⁦Benton Elementary⁩ ⁦Pear Deck Learning⁩

I’m so excited! Thank you!

Thanks, Pear Deck Learning for the #PearFairPD AND the Pear Deck gear! #pearfair2020 #distancelearning #teachingtech

Feeling a bit more ready for school after getting this in the mail yesterday. #plumpaper

Using the iPEVO camera to take time to read and take virtual tours as we are still figuring out technology and learning about each other...we couldn’t help but to do a KWL chart to help our brains engage. #cpsTrailblazers #cpsbest #virtuallearning Benton Elementary Crayola IPEVO

Wow, parents! I just taught how to put books on hold this morning, and I'm already running books out to cars to fulfill your kids' orders! Thank you for supporting their love of reading! #cpsbest #BentonBold And here's the how-to ICYMI: drive.google.com/file/d/1caEvYG…

Check out that new book drop!! Now you can safely return your books to school 24/7! It's located right outside our main doors. #cpsbest #BentonBold

⁦Seesaw⁩ Can you help me understand why skills, other than “recents” do not show up when I search for them? I can find it in my skills library, but it doesn’t show up when I search for it. #help

Mr. Ray made a rap about reading! Check it out: Let’s Read! youtu.be/564aXwdlcak #cpsbest #BentonBold Benton Elementary

Capstone 📚 Sora, by OverDrive Education Open eBooks Epic for Kids Y'all get shout-outs! Thanks for giving our students high quality e-reading opportunities!! LET'S READ!!! youtu.be/564aXwdlcak

EDUCATORS & LIBRARIANS! Here’s a #KidsNeedBooks chapter book and early graphic novel giveaway, featuring some recent favorite reads and 30 *signed* copies (!) of my latest release, Geeger the Robot Goes to School! To enter to win these books: RT this tweet and follow me! 💛📚💛

Today we discussed visualizing as a strategy to engage with text and understand it. I gave students an assignment to draw me a picture of what they visualized when reading a couple of paragraphs...this one was just too good to not share. #cpsbest #cpsonline ⁦Benton Elementary⁩

Part 2 of our Scholastic grant provides 7 books to all our students to add to their personal libraries. Pics of K-1, 2-3, and 4-5 bundles. Thanks Little Dixie Kiwanis for all the help and support! #BentonBold