Wow, the Spring 2017 #BookSnaps Challenge has been a memorable event! Thank you to all of the participants. You have really taken #BookSnaps to a whole new level, and I LOVE IT! We had over 1100 tweets made to our three-week #BookSnaps Challenge hashtags. WOWZERS! You guys ROCK MY SOCKS OFF! Check out the hashtag #BookSnapsWk3 or view our Storify presentation below for […]
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The students OWNED the #BookSnapsWk2 Challenge! In fact, we had so many entries, we have two sets of Student Guest Blogger winners. We had over 550 tweets made to the hashtag and some of these contained Padlet links of 20+ #BookSnaps each! I didn’t know how the #BookSnaps could get any more creative after week one, […]
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This past week we had a little over 300 #BookSnaps entered in the #BookSnapsWk1 Challenge. I thought the final count was 279, but there were about 25 more in a class Padlet! AMAZING! All of the participants totally ROCKED making personal connections with #BookSnaps! In fact, the creativity of the students blew my mind; check […]
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Are your students weary and ready for summer break? Need something to motivate them to keep reading? Look no longer! I got you–for the next three weeks, anyway. The #BookSnaps Challenge! It is as easy as 1-2-3! 1) Simply have the students make personal connections to the text they are reading and create a digital […]
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For the last four years, I have had the honor to work alongside many educators as an instructional coach. It seems as though each time we would reflect together about best practices in our profession, we often found ourselves discussing questioning techniques. In the “Siri At Our Fingertips” world we live in, it seems a bit […]
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