50 States - Digital Breakout Activities

Escape rooms are  popular social challenges for people around the world and as most of us are aware they've made there way into our classrooms through physical and digital breakouts. Digital breakouts are a great way to engage students in content and the 4Cs of collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration. I've used both digital and physical breakouts with students and they both have their places in today's classrooms. 

Today I wanted to share a collection of incredible digital breakouts connected to the 50 States created by Peggy Reimers. I've also included some great resources for additional breakout ideas at the end of the post. 

Brain Breaks - Primel Number and Ooodle Number Challenges for Students and Classrooms

I've long been a huge proponent of finding creative ways to give students a break. Call them "Brain Breaks" or whatever. I believe these types of activities have real benefits for students. These breaks can also be a fun way to interact with students outside of the content or they can be connected to your content in creative ways. I find that my students typically are able to refocus and are usually more productive after we engage in a quick creative brain break. 

I recently shared a brain break resource called Wordle. Wordle is an online daily word game that has became a popular social trend in 2021 and continues to be played and shared in 2022.  Today I wanted to share a similar game, but instead of words it's all about prime numbers.

Twitter Tips - The Power of Twitter Notifications and More Tools to Streamline Your Twitter Experience

I don't know about you, but I always have a lot of Twitter FOMO. Not sure if this is a really thing or it is just me?

I've always stuck to the model that if someone connected to teaching and learning follows me, I will follow them back. This has let me to some great follows, but it has also added more to my Twitter stream than I can follow most days. 

Today, I wanted to share a few resources I use to streamline my Twitter experience. There are many great resources that can help organize and streamline Twitter, but today  I will focus on 4: Twitter Notifications, Twitter Lists, IFTTT, and Tweetdeck. 

Adobe Education Exchange - Free Lessons, Activities, and Projects for Teachers and Students

"Created by educators for educators, the Adobe Education Exchange is a free learning platform offering instant access to professional development, teaching materials, and other tools designed to ignite creativity in the classroom." (Adobe)

Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark) has been one of my favorite resources to help my students engage in creating. We've used graphics, videos, and pages multiple times this year.

Today I wanted to share some creative resources connected to the Adobe Education Exchange, a great place to be inspired. 

Sir Links-a- Lot Chrome Extension - Google URL Shortcut Tool

Recently I shared a post about creating url sharing shortcuts for Google Drive files.

Awesome Shortcuts for Sharing Google Docs, Sheets, Drawings, Slides, and Forms (Copy, Templates, or Preview)

Today I wanted t share an extension that automates the process of creating these shared url that includes an automated option. The Sir Links-a-Lot extension for Google Chrome will generate a preview, copy, template, or PDF URL for a document you have open.

You do need to make sure the file's sharing setting is set to viewable and not private before using the extension. You then open the extension, click a button to create the link, and copy the generated link.