Dear Friends! Merry merry Christmas! Weekly Tech Tips I read a good article on what kids are saying about breakout rooms and how teachers can use them more effectively. Since we may be stuck in zooms for a while I thought it might be helpful to share these tech tips accumulated and amalgamated over the last near year of online zoom classes. I extracted and pasted the abridged list below and you can Read the full article here . Assign roles: Mix things up: Use shared docs: Keep it short: Except when it’s useful to go longer: Find the right group size: Give each group a different assignment: Put everything in writing: Give students agency: Create connection: I had surprisingly remarkable success with my 8th graders giving them a task to do on zoom a few weeks ago. One girl had them organized and working in no time and they managed to successfully clean up and format a massive amount of data on a shared spreadsheet. Study...