3C Engaging Learners

Are you thinking about developing a Makerspace, or want to learn more about this kind of space to best utilize one at your building?  Explore these resources to get a deeper understanding of the maker movement!

Use this module to earn clock hours when going on a learning walk to explore how others engage students in learning in their classrooms.

This module is created to support an independent or collaborative book study of the book, Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In.  

Lit Trips are downloadable files that mark the journeys of characters from famous literature on the surface of Google Earth. Along the way, placemarks with pop-up windows contain "just in time" resources including relevant media, thought-provoking discussion starters, and links to supplementary inf…

Get your students fully engaged by providing them the tools to create websites, videos, and graphics that demonstrate their learning. Learn to use Adobe Spark's three, easy-to-use components (post, page, and video) while exploring the unlimited possibilities using this tool in every subject area.

Create collaborative, current magazines with this website. Think a Pinterest-like version of a student magazine on whatever topic your class is studying!

ThingLink is an online tool that allows you to bring images and videos to life. Use ThingLink to embed text, images, links and additional videos right into an image of your choosing. 

Educators will learn how to use Kami to annotate .pdf documents and how to view student annotations.  We will also cover why (from a research standpoint) digital annotation is a powerful reading strategy.

Watch multiple video clips to examine what strategies the teacher is using to effectively engage students.  Take a strategy back to try in your classroom! 

This course will introduce you (and your students) to the world of using Powtoon to create engaging presentations.

Learn about this specific strategy to use with a text your students are currently working with.  This strategy will help them gain understanding of grammar as well as author's craft.

HSTRY is a tool for creating great looking multimedia timelines. Insert video, audio, text, questions and interesting facts, then share them publicly or directly with the students who have joined your class. Take it to the next level by having your students create their own timelines of important h…

How can you use simple charts and journals to support students' correct grammar use?

Learn about this specific strategy to use with text your students are currently working with.  This strategy will help them gain understanding of grammar as well as author's craft.

We are going to look at another alternate use for Google Slides ... having students create storybooks with Slides. Student writing does not just have to be done in a word processor, but can come to life in an online book with engaging images, colors, fonts, and more.

Learn fun and creative ways to address Math Common Core Standards with Google Drawings. Topics include symmetry, angles, polygons, pictographs, line plots, area, fractions, algebra and more. The content will focus mainly on elementary and middle school level math, but the ideas can be applied to ot…

Read this article that discussed clarity, context, culture and challenge as the keys to engagement and apply them to a lesson you are teaching.