Lemon Tech Tidbits

     Every Wednesday at 12:00, there will be an exciting opportunity for your students to participate in a Skype session with another class, a famous author, or subject expert. This opportunity will be there whether the students are in class or participating virtually from their home. Some examples include a session over monarch butterflies, Roald Dahl celebration day, draw with the Minecraft design team and celebrate dot day with Peter Reynolds.  To participate, you will need to sign up for a free account in Skype in the Classroom. When you are done, click here to see the weekly events for the month. To see more information about the event, simply click on it. If it looks like something you would like to do, click on JOIN LINK on the day of the event and watch it online. You will not need to worry about using Skype or Teams to watch, all sessions will be broadcast on a website. You can share the link to virtual students through Google Classroom, SeeSaw, email, or...

Open Education Resources There are several Open Educational Resources (OER) available online for teachers and students to use for free. The problem is how to find them. A simple Google search does not limit the results and so you have to either have a very refined and specific search or spend valuable time going through all of the sites. A new search engine, OASIS , solves this issue by offering users worldwide “the ability to search a range of OER materials including textbooks, courses and corresponding materials, interactive simulations, public domain books, audiobooks, modules, open access books, videos and podcast on a variety of topics - from anthropology to zoology. OASIS also is the only tool that allows users to limit searches by creative commons licenses or by faculty review.” Other places to search include OER Commons and one created specifically for students in grades 6 and up called HippoCampus .