Colleen Hoyle

Mathy Ways to Celebrate the New Year! 🎉 It's 2025! If you want to bring the New Year's celebration to your math classroom, here are a few ideas.

Here’s a collection of the New Year’s ideas I’ve seen shared to bring to your math classroom this week! 🎉

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Alt text - Why It's Important - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish This page helps explain why it's important to use alt text when posting images on Bluesky, best practices, and tips. Cover-WhyUseAltText-v2-flat-800.jpg Why It's Important To Use Alt Text With Your I…

To alt-text gurus: I've had several people ask about whether there are TOOLS out there to make it easier to generate alt-text, esp if time is short and/or they have trouble thinking up good alt-text. Any suggestions? Thanks!

I'll add info to publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/al...
#Accessibility

Love this game!!! #ITeachMath #ElemMathVhat

Have you tried Video or Audio Comments in @padlet.com yet?

📹🎙️💻✍️📎 They recently introduced the ability to use more than just text in comments!

If you're looking for a replacement for Flip 😞 , this is worth considering!

https://buff.ly/40TF2Jk

#EduSky

Some useful BlueSky tools:

* Find old Twitter peeps
sky-follower-bridge.dev
* TweetDeck equivalent:
deck.blue
* Delete old posts:
bsky.jazco.dev/cleanup
* Find accounts to follow (that your followers follow)
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
* See what lists you're on, who is blocking you
clearsky.app

BONUS Q: #EduSkyChat
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🌎 AI Resource Collections sites.google.com/prrd8.ca/prs...

CITES - Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems The Center on Inclusive Technology & Education Systems: Framing the Future of Learning with Technology

Bonus Q: I am a consultant & I work for the Center on Inclusive Technology and Education Systems -CITES which is an OSEP funded project that has tons of free resources for districts on how to build #InclusiveEdTech systems & has a great Community of Practice for #Edtech cites.cast.org
#EduSkyChat

MacGyver Google MacGyver Google Session Agenda - bit.ly/macgyvergoogle 🧔 Presenter Eric Curts Technology Integration Specialist, Google Certified Trainer and Innovator 💡 Eric’s EdTech blog - controlaltachieve.com ...

A1: If anyone wants my BIG list of activities I have created, you can get most all of the Docs, Slides, Sheets & Drawings activities in my "MacGyver Google" document here - docs.google.com/document/d/1...
#EduSkyChat

The image is a promotional graphic for a virtual escape room game titled "Escape the Classroom!" The background is blue, and the text "Escape the Classroom!" is prominently displayed on the left side. The word "the" is inside a magnifying glass. Below the text, there is a white button with the word "BEGIN" in black capital letters. On the right side, there are various school-related icons, including a yellow padlock with a password field showing three asterisks, a green backpack, a blue calculator, an open book, and a laptop. The background behind these icons appears to be a classroom setting with desks and a chalkboard. The bottom left corner has the URL "VirtualEscapeRooms.org" with a small padlock icon.

💬 BONUS Answer: I am a huge fan of gamification and I love to create 🔓 virtual escape rooms for all ages and subjects on my website VirtualEscapeRooms.org.

Try one out! You can get "Escape The Classroom" for free with this link ⬇️ 🔗 https://bit.ly/FreeVirtualEscapeRoom #EduSkyChat

#UDL #Edusky

Bluesky Starter Tips for Educators Social media always seems to be changing. Many tools have come and gone (I still remember with fondness my Google+ account) but many more ...

New to Bluesky? Check out my post on "Bluesky Starter Tips for Educators" including connecting with the EduSky community, following people, using Starter Packs, joining EduChats, adding custom feeds, refollowing Twitter friends, and more!
www.controlaltachieve.com/2024/11/blue...

#EduSky #EdTech

Tips to move beyond a “lurker” (and/or start to interact with the Online Math Community) Like - Who benefits: You (it acts like a bookmark) & the Poster (“Yay someone liked what I said”) Repost - Who benefits: You (it acts like a bookmark), the Poster (“Wow, they liked enough to share it”) & the rest of us (Reposting sends it back to the top of the feed increasing the chance of your followers and their followers to see it) Comment - Who benefits: You (interaction brings more friends and knowledge), the Poster (the conversation they started continues) & us (entices us to become part of the conversation too) Post - Who benefits: You (sharing thoughts and resources help to hone your own ideas) & Everyone else (the more discussion, the higher the chance we all learn) Tips for making your Posts more visible: Add an image - including a visual has been shown to increase the interaction Include hashtags (not too many) - a hashtag categorizes your Post and makes it visible to a wider audience than just your followers. Here are some math related hashtags that relate to education: #MathChat #MathsChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath #ElemMathChat #MathArt #MathSky Tag some people (not too many) - you can tag relevant people (even those who don’t follow you) in the Post or in the Image to increase the conversation potential

The #math community seems to be growing here and becoming more active. I have presented on how to get the most of being in a community like this many times and here are my tips to grow this PLN and make it useful for educators.

Bonus Tip - Use the Feeds:
#MathChat #MTBoS #iTeachMath #MathSky

Bluesky Starter Packs - Bluesky Directory Browse a list of Bluesky Starter Packs. Discover and connect with your community on Bluesky

Did you know there’s a site to search for starter packs of people to follow? Built by @mubashariqbal.com

blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

deck.blue Get the most out of Bluesky with a multi-column layout

You can also use deck.blue to make a column for the moderator @catetolnai.bsky.social and a column for the #EduSkyChat hashtag. Go to the column settings to set the refresh rate to be every 15 seconds.

Frontiers | “UDL is a way of thinking”; theorizing UDL teacher knowledge, beliefs, and practices Using design research methodology, we explored changes in experienced educators’ beliefs, knowledge, and practices related to Universal Design for Learning (...

I have done some research with math and special educators, where we introduced them to UDL Math and then followed up to see how they used it in their practice. This article was cowritten by one of those teachers. www.frontiersin.org/journals/edu...

🔥Browser tip: Press Ctrl + Shift + T to reopen that tab you accidentally closed. I somehow need to do this pretty much every day! 😂 It’s also one of my favorite tech tips to share. #EduSky

Text reads "how to control what you see & don't see on Bluesky". Background shows tree with blue butterflies instead of leaves. QR code in bottom left, credit to @debbieohi.com.

To Bluesky newcomers: Before you start posting, I STRONGLY recommend taking a few min to review basic moderation tools on this platform. It can make/break your user experience:
publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...

Includes how to block/mute, how to limit who can send you DMs, moderate replies, etc.

I've been collating all the #edu book recommendations from my newsletter every week, and of course, added a few of my own to my virtual Amazon Bookshelf. 180 great #Edu reads for the cold winter months.

www.amazon.co.uk/shop/alkings...

Enjoyed seeing you at the 2023 ITSE. Here's hoping it comes back to Philadelphia one day! I agree, I am really liking BlueSky! @colleen0121.bsky.social

There are some amazing conversations happening on our book study of @mathematize4all.bsky.social's book Rethinking Disabilities and Mathematics. All are welcome!! #ITeachMath
mailchi.mp/225ca3466014...

YouTube video by Ann Elise Record Consulting, LLC Rethinking Wk7

Last discussion of @mathematize4all.bsky.social's Rethinking Disability and Mathematics Ch 14 Rethinking Assessments and Ch 15 Reimagining IEP Goals. Let's work together to remove the systemic barriers and ensure successful math journeys for all Ss. #ITeachMath youtu.be/2YAy6OZp6bY?...

Padlet is so on 🔥! Love it!

a. Welcome - Debbie Ridpath Ohi - Obsidian Publish Welcome to Debbie's Unofficial Guide To Bluesky Greetings to those finding me via the recent Vox post about Bluesky! You may already be familiar with my Bluesky tips blog post, Bluesky article in Sch…

Oh HURRAY! My @obsidian.md links now show preview images on Bluesky. Now I just need to add proper images to each of my resource pages to replace the boring default black previews. 😬

publish.obsidian.md/debbieohi/bl...

Welcome to #EduSky 🍎 a community for educators!

Check out the list: tinyurl.com/EduSky

Join the list: tinyurl.com/EduSkyForm

Pin the feed: tinyurl.com/EduSkyFeed

For accessibility, please use alt text in pics & videos, & use CamelCase ( #EduSky not #edusky ) in hashtags.

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A great toolbox for #AI #medialiteracy

YouTube video by SCCOE EdTech Teacher Innovation Network EdTech Playground Eric Curts 2024-08-27

A3: For those that prefer to learn via video, I recently did an hour and a half webinar jam packed with my favorite AI tools - www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-X6...
#EduSkyChat

Tweetbot used to be great for keeping up with multiple feeds for Twitter chats. Well, now you can take your Bluesky chat game to the next level with deck.blue which effectively replicates the functionality! 🥳

Check my earlier post to help you get started:
➡️ bsky.app/profile/abid...

#EduSkyChat

Video of how to get the #EduSkyChat column set up in deck.blue

cc. NYC #iTeachMath ♾️
bcc. #MathSky

"Counted Out" Film Screening

Date: Wed, Nov 20 • 6:00 PM EST

Location: 25 Broadway 12th floor, New York, NY 10004

www.eventbrite.com/e/teach-for-...

How We Survive This Mess Podcast Episode · Next Comes What · 11/14/2024 · 1h 8m

THREAD: There’s a truly incredible podcast episode we all need to listen to from @andreapitzer.bsky.social about what we can do, why we need to do it, and how we can do it. 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n...