Frustrated that I wasn't being considered for Instructional Technology positions, I created The Tech OG to share my knowledge of all things ed tech.
My kids are my biggest cheerleaders, and one of them suggested I do my own thing as "The Tech Granny" (because I often feel like my age is what is keeping people from taking a chance on me). I decided "Tech OG" better suited my personality, so I ran with that - Old Grandma or Original Gangsta' - you decide lol!
I have a lot of plans for this website, but right now I am focusing on curating a collection of awesome ed tech tools and sharing my knowledge of apps and learning platforms with other educators.
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Digital Planning Guide 2022-2023
This is a digital planning guide for the 2022-2023 school year created in collaboration with the 5th grade team at Main Street.
This is a collaborative document that the team will be adding to throughout the summer and next school year. The Planning Guide serves as a one-stop resource for each content area as well as Morning Meetings, Common Formative Assessments, WIG Goals at a glance, and special events happening at school. This is particularly helpful to other service providers such as Special Education teachers, ELL teachers, etc.
Links to the Unit 1 Pacing Guide, individual lesson plans, and supplemental materials are included.
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Unit 1 Pacing Guide
This is a pacing guide I am working on for the 2022-2023 school year for the 5th Grade Math Team at my school. The Pacing Guide is also linked in the Planning Guide.
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Unit 1 Lessons
This is a link to a shared Google Folder for 5th Grade Math Unit 1. These lessons are linked in the Planning Guide and the Pacing Guide.
I have created lesson slides and other materials for each session in Unit 1 for 5th grade math.
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This is an interactive choice board that I created using Keynote. This was created for my 4th grade special education reading resource group, and the focus skill is reading CVC words. Students can choose to watch a video, play Boom Cards, or use the mark up tool on their iPad to read and find words.
Try the Boom Cards:
Username: testbarry
Password: 1234
Note: I did not create the Boom Cards included in this activity. I purchased them from another creator for my students to use.
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I created these interactive Google Slides to provide a hands-on opportunity for students to model multiplying whole numbers and fractions by manipulating fraction pieces.
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I created these interactive Google Slides which allow students to use the rules of syllabication to decode words.
Students drag and drop items to mark up the multisyllabic words, then use their markings to decode the word.
Click to Watch Video
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I created a Padlet for students to use in order to access pre-selected, appropriate sources about the Civil Rights Movement.
They then used their research to write about a moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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The students and I created a timeline of major events in the Civil Rights Movement. The timeline included the year, title, and a picture of each event.
A final copy of the students' research report was posted underneath each event.
Picture of Civil Rights Timeline before student writing was added
Students typed their final copy using Google Docs (with editing help), then recorded themselves reading what they had written using Vocaroo.
A QR code was added to the final copy of their writing, which linked to the Vocaroo recording of the student reading their essay.
These were displayed on the timeline for the whole school to enjoy. Students in the school could scan the QR code with their iPad to listen to the essay read aloud by the student author.
Rosa Parks (redacted).pdf
I created these "Number of the Day" Boom Cards on Boomlearning.com.
These activity allows for digital practice with place value, expanded form, building numbers with base ten blocks, and more.
Try Boom Cards:
Username: testbarry
Password: 1234
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I created these reading response activities as a quick and easy ways to analyze and discuss characters, setting, problems, solutions, summarization etc. using books read aloud online.
Note: these are for my use and the reading response record sheets were purchased for my use only. If I were to share these activities with other teachers, I would create my own response sheets so as to not violate copyright.
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I created these work mats to provide scaffolded instruction with targeted math skills such as subtraction with regrouping, dividing multi-digit numbers, and multiplying using the standard algorithm.
These work mats can be printed and placed in dry erase sleeves for students to use with a dry erase marker or shared with students on their iPads to use digitally with the mark-up tool.
Subtraction Work Mat.pdfPartial Quotients for Division (4).pdfStandard Algorithm Work Mat.pdf
This is a Google Sheet I created to easily reference where the Missouri Math Priority Standards are addressed in the Bridges Interventions Curriculum (The Math Learning Center).
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