Day One
Remove Background from Images with this Nifty Site!
Drag & Drop or Upload or Original Image
Click Remove Background
You can edit what the site identified as the background to remove more or less as necessary and re-download your image.
Derek Oldfield
Day Two
Vocabulary
Fakebook Page
Day Three
A gift to help monitor noise level in the classroom. Don't be the one always telling students
to be quiet.
Get a little help from Noisy. Choose from the free version, but the pro version is only $18 for the year.
from edtechmonster.com
Students decorate a Christmas tree
with an area provided that can be used for
creative writing.
Day Four
Credit to Eric Curts /Control Alt Achieve Blog
Chrome's Manganum
Day Five
I just added this to my Chrome and really like it. I go to my Macbook and it is there also when I go to chrome. It seems to make my day more organized.
Want to know if kids really "got" your lesson? Want to check the classroom climate and know how the students are feeling? Ziplet is a classroom conversation tool that can help you with bell ringer, exit tickets or tracking social/ emotional learning. Teachers can create questions or choose from an extensive list of premade questions and then give students the code to answer. There is a free version and a plus version of this program, but the free version gives you the opportunity to have 150 responses so it would work for most teachers.
CLICK THE PRESENT for more information.
ZIPLET
Day Six
Day Seven
Click here to learn about Wakelet's options for Teachers!
Wakelet is an online platform allowing users to organize any content on the internet and create shareable collections.
Day Eight
Have you checked out Quizizz lately? You can now choose from several question types, including audio, video, and draw (you'll need a subscription for some question types). Click on the present for ideas!
I stumbled upon this app while trying to answer the questions of a knowledge-hungry 5 year old whose brain never stops. SkyView Lite is a free app that allows you to point your device at the sky to identify stars, constellations, satellites, and more!
Available in the App Store & the Google Play Store.
SkyView Lite
Day Nine
"Present"-Day College/Career Readiness
Day Ten
49%
of today’s job openings do not require a four-year college degree
growth rate of digital-based, middle-skilled jobs compared to other kinds of jobs
More than of jobs require an “engineering mindset."
*emerging fields include: artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and data research
50%
150%
UNWRAP: Google's Applied Digital Skills
This activity is a PowerPoint Template that allows students to identify 4 holiday traditions that they have with their family. They will title the tradition on the tree and then provide a description of the activity as well as a picture on an additional slide.
Maranda Ralph
Day Twelve
RetroDesmos takes math concepts and places them within retro video games. It. Is. Awesome!
- Tecmo Bowl Linear Equations
- NBA Jam Quadratics
- Donkey Kong Circles
- Super Mario Systems Races
- Punch Out! Mean, Median, and Mode