Holiday Countdown Abounds!

Here on the 16th of December, we are on the 5th day of Hanukkah and progressing into the single digits of days toward Christmas.  While we are doing our counting and countdown-ing, here are some #edtechy ways to keep you busy!




Two Edtech bloggers out there have some countdowns going that are totally worth sharing! The first here is Eric Curtis' Control Alt Achieve: Transforming Education With Technology has his "12 Days of Tech-Mas" series for 2017.  Included in those are the following:

6 Googly Winter Activities"  includes....

1. Build a Snowman with Google Slides
2. Wintertime Magnetic Poetry with Google Drawings
3. Holiday Greeting Cards with Google Drawings
4. Pixel Art Ornaments with Google Sheets
5. Wintertime Emoji Rebus Stories
6. Holiday Lights Writing

There's a bunch of other goodies there, including (to date):

• 10 Excellent Extensions (for Chrome)
• 9 Terrific Trainings
• 8 Docs Drawings
• 7 Helpful Hacks (for Google Tools)
• 6 Wintery Wonders (mentioned & linked above)
• 5 Golden Nuggets (excellent #edtech quotes)
• 4 Rubric Writers (for Google Docs)
• 3 Meme Makers
• 2 Turtle Coders
• And an Add-on for a Pear Deck

Over at EduTech4Teachers, you'll find the 12 Digital Days of Christmas for 2017 (Part VI).  Jamie Forshey created a ThingLink to touch on the clickable hot spots, making it a one-shot-stop to be able to link to her suggested holiday ideas/activities/apps. To date her "tech treasures" include:

1. A Visit to Northpole.com
2. Holiday Hideaways, a digital adventure 
3. Sugar Sugar Christmas at MathPlayground.com
4. How to make light up holiday cards using circuitry from Makerspaces,cin
5. "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" at the iTunes app store
6. Santa Paparazzi puzzle game at Squiglysplayhouse.com
7. Adventure Elf at Quiglysplayhouse.com

For her previous 12 Digital Days of Christmas ThingLinks, click the captions below!

Click below to get there. Screenshot from
http://tech-knowledge-y-rocks.wikispaces.com/The+Twelve+Digital+Days+of+Christmas+I

Click below to get there!  Screenshot from
http://tech-knowledge-y-rocks.wikispaces.com/The+Twelve+Digital+Days+of+Christmas+II

Click below to get there!  Screenshot from
http://tech-knowledge-y-rocks.wikispaces.com/The+Twelve+Digital+Days+of+Christmas+III

Click below to get there! Screenshot from
http://tech-knowledge-y-rocks.wikispaces.com/The+Twelve+Digital+Days+of+Christmas+IV

And one last find.... read John Spencer's article "10 Creative Alternatives to Showing Movies Before the Break." Here, you'll get some wonderful high tech, low tech, and no tech ideas for rounding out 2017 before winter break that are all definitely high on the creativity side!!

Coining Eric Curtis' phrase.... may it be a very "Tech-Mas" time of year for you!!  I think this could keep you quite busy until well into 2018!


Images from http://www.controlaltachieve.com/2017/12/winter-activities.html, screenshots from http://tech-knowledge-y-rocks.wikispaces.com/ (as listed above); and https://gaylelantz.com/2011/11/07/the-holiday-excuse/