Dear Reader, Thank you so much for reading the Teacher Reboot Camp blog.

This is the new Teacher Reboot Camp eNewsletter to keep you informed of all the upcoming professional development events, projects, e-conferences and webinars I co-organize. Additionally, I will be sharing inspiration from others, recommended tools and apps, share a few of the top posts at Teacher Reboot Camp, and keep you posted about The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators and the Reform Symposium Free EConference. You can subscribe for free at https://tinyletter.com/shellyterrell. You will get 1 to 3 newsletters per month. Keep Inspiring! Shelly Sanchez Terrell @ShellTerrell Founder of Teacher Reboot Camp & the 30 Goals Challenge Co-founder of RSCON & #Edchat

Your reboot for the week.

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Technology Tips
20+ Ways to Bring Your Textbook to Life Fostering Meaningful Peer Collaboration with Digital Tools 20+ Tips and Resources to Engage Learners with Comics

Teacher Survival Tips

Build Your Teachers Survival Kit Survival Tips for Teaching Kids

The 30 Goals Challenge

The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Make the Difference Goal 1: Prepare for the Journey Vicky Loras Interviews Fabiana Casella About Teaching in Argentina

Upcoming Professional Development Events

Teaching with Instagram, Webinar, Fri., Feb. 14th, 4pmET/ 9pmGMT Students Sharing Stories Through Digital Storytelling, SK12 Webinar, Sat., Feb. 22nd, 2pmET/ 7pmGMT Learning Fun with Playdoh, Webinar, Fri., Feb. 22nd, 4pmET/ 9pmGMT Mobile Learning with Language Learners Online Certificate Course, March 2nd-30th

Other News & Guest Posts

Free sample of my upcoming book, Learning to Go! Reaching Over 300,000 Send Them on Learning Missions Your Best Year Yet as an ELT Teacher! 20+ Free PD Events & Resources Its Not About the Technology, Its About the Experiences How Have You Developed as a Teacher in the Last 12 Months?

Edugems
Tyson Seburn (Canada), Maria Theologidou (Greece), Jake Duncan (US), Sarah Thomas (US), and Sylvia Guinan (Greece)

Featured Apps & Tools

Drawp for School IOS app Share Board IOS app Educlipper iPad app 3D Game Lab

Technology Tips
20+ Ways to Bring Your Textbook to Life
I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein

Your textbook is just another tool in your teacher's instructional kit. Discover over 20 ways to get your learners engaged with the content. Continue reading

Fostering Meaningful Peer Collaboration with Digital Tools

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill Everyday, millions share the narratives of their lives through written words, images, music, audio, and video they post on various social networks. They eagerly crave feedback in the form of likes, retweets, mentions, reblogs, and tags. The trend is to be more social and participatory and the web is evolving swiftly with new technologies, apps, tools, and trends to enhance these experiences. Its time we tapped into the potential of these developments to engage our students in meaningful collaboration, research, and writing. Continue reading

20+ Tips and Resources to Engage Learners with Comics

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. - Nicholas Cage Comics can be powerful learning tools. The mix of art, dialogue, character expressions, and frames engages learners and is brain-friendly. Moreover, comics break down a storys plot and text into bite-sized chunks that are supported with visuals. Find many resources and ideas in this post. Continue reading
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Teacher Survival Tips

Build Your Teachers Survival Kit
There are often moments in the teaching profession when we have to save the day. The days are hectic and school events, assemblies or drills sporadically pop up. A teacher always has to be prepared and one way to do this is to have a survival kit to help you give a great lesson anytime. Continue reading

Ideas for Teaching with Masking Tape

Sometimes the technology fails us or plans change. Masking tape, one item in my teacher survival kit, is easy to carry around, cheap, and easy to set-up. In this presentation I share activities, games and tips. Continue reading

Survival Tips for Teaching Kids

I recently conducted a presentation for the Young Learners IATEFL Sig in which I

shared my Teachers Survival Tips for Teaching Kids. Check out the resources, tips, and webinar archive. Continue reading
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The 30 Goals Challenge

The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Make the Difference
Welcome to Cycle 5 of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators: Make a Difference. Join 100s of teachers worldwide as we aim to achieve 1 to 30 goals by December 31st, 2014. Our new home is 30Goals.com. We will be visiting teachers' blogs from around the world. They will suggest goals and introduce us to their culture and traditions. Continue reading

Goal 1: Prepare for the Journey

"All glory comes from daring to begin." - Eugene F. Ware The first goal is to Prepare for the Journey. To accomplish this goal: 1. reflect on your teaching in 2013 and share at least one accomplishment, 2. introduce yourself to the 30 Goals community, 3. make a connection with at least one person in the 30 Goals community. Try doing a 321 activity to accomplish this. Find our participant 321's here, Facebook.com/group/30Goals. Continue reading

Vicky Loras Interviews Fabiana Casella About Teaching in Argentina

Goals covered- Teach Digital Citizenship, Make a Global Connection, and Confront the Issues. Join Vicky Loras from Zug, Switzerland as she interviews Fabiana Casella from Buenos Aires. Fabiana shares student projects and a fantastic slideshow about her project. Continue reading
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Upcoming Professional Development Events

Throughout the year I help organize and host many professional development events, courses, and webinars for teachers. Most are free and participants can receive certificates. If you miss any you can still access the free recordings and bookmarks. Currently, Im co-moderating The Crafting Your ePerfect eTextbook open online course. Below I have listed my upcoming webinars, presentations, and courses. Just click on the title to view.

Teaching with Instagram, Webinar, Fri., Feb. 14th, 4pmET/ 9pmGMT Students Sharing Stories Through Digital Storytelling, SK12 Webinar, Sat., Feb. 22nd, 2pmET/ 7pmGMT Learning Fun with Playdoh, Webinar, Fri., Feb. 22nd, 4pmET/ 9pmGMT Mobile Learning with Language Learners Online Certificate Course, March 2nd-30th

Other News & Guest Posts

Free sample of my upcoming book, Learning to Go!
Im excited to announce that my first publication with The Round, Learning to Go: Lesson Plans & Tips for Teaching with BYOT, Cell Phones, iPads, and Other Mobile Devices, will be available in the next few months. This ebook is a collection of lesson plans and tips for teachers wishing to incorporate mobile devices, cell phones or BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) into their lessons. Download the free sample and discover how Im testing the possibilities of digital design. There are no page numbers and the Table of Contents is a mindmap. You get to choose where to go. The completed book will feature artwork by John Spencer!

Reaching Over 300,000

Slideshare is where I post my slides for my webinars, workshops, keynotes, and presentations. You can download them for free or embed them anywhere. I have over 150 published and continually update this resource. Slideshare recently published my Year in Review. I was excited to discover I was in the top 1% of their most viewed content. Over 318,000 viewed my presentations in 2013. I feel very blessed to be able to share these free resources and help teachers with ideas, lesson plans, and tips. Find all my latest presentations with free PDF downloads here, http://www.slideshare.net/ShellTerrell/presentations.

Send Them on Learning Missions

I feel honored to be a regular contributor to Tech & Learning. This is my latest

contribution on creating learning missions versus homework. Continue reading

Your Best Year Yet as an ELT Teacher! 20+ Free PD Events & Resources
I blog regularly for ESL-Library. This is my latest article highlighting free professional development for language teachers, which include online conferences, courses, Twitter chats, Facebook discussions, and more. Continue reading

Its Not About the Technology, Its About the Experiences

Edsurge invited me to share my 2014 predictions for technology and education. Read about my 4 predictions including how technology is creating more experiences for learners. Continue reading

How Have You Developed as a Teacher in the Last 12 Months?

I was honored to be invited as an associate for Teach English. Each month we are given topics to blog about. This is my latest contribution in which I discuss Peeragogy, PLNs, Co-learning and Howard Rheingold. Continue reading
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Edugems
Each month, I will be highlighting a few educators and the incredible ideas and resources they share. The Edugems for this first issue are:

Tyson Seburn (Canada), Maria Theologidou (Greece), Jake Duncan (US), Sarah Thomas (US), and Sylvia Guinan (Greece) Follow them here, http://list.ly/list/Ect-edugems
Tyson Seburn created the English Language Teaching (ELT) Calendar which features professional development events, physical and virtual, from around the world. Many are free and you can submit any event you know of including physical ones, like conferences and workshops. Maria Theologidous new blog, Class Objects Revisited, provides lesson ideas, activities, and games associated with an ordinary object like a pencil or eraser. I think many teachers will enjoy these ideas. Jake Duncan, this months honorary Tech Ninja, has a site with a list of helpful Google Apps and Scripts. Learning about Google Apps and Scripts this year has

saved me tons of time with grading, providing feedback to a 100+ students, sending mass communication, and creating lesson materials. I recommend learning Goobric, Formmule, Doctopus, and Flubaroo. Sarah da Teechur does free technology training sessions on Google HangOuts. I really enjoyed her recent one, Level Up! 5 Steps to Gamify Your Class. These sessions are easy to follow even if you have very little experience with technology. Sylvia Guinan is one of the moderators of The Crafting the ePerfect eTextbook online session. She has recently written two fantastic posts about visual design in developing teaching materials. She talks about the importance of visuals, color, multimedia, happiness and much more. Click to visit Thoughts on Visual Design Inspired by Global Educators and The Importance of Imagery in Materials Design.
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Featured Apps & Tools

The following apps and tools do awesome things and are free!

Drawp for School IOS app

Drawp for Schools is an amazing IOS app (free) for teachers. Kids can draw collaboratively, share images, add voice messages with characters, and more. Teachers are given virtual classes and can send assignments within the app. The Android app comes in the spring.

Share Board IOS app

Share Board allows up to 32 to draw, sketch, and discuss collaboratively on a whiteboard.

Educlipper iPad app

Educlipper now has video and audio in addition to curation, eportfolios, and more!

3D Game Lab
Thinking of gamifying your classes. 3D Game Lab is the easiest tool Ive seen to do this. Before it was expensive but in February they are rolling out basic free accounts with 75 students.

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