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đ Ditch Summit starts Monday! Details inside
Plus AI ideas for sub plans and more ...
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Wow, Ditch Summit starts Monday!
Weâre putting the finishing touches on all of the new presentations â and polishing up the site to get it all ready for you.
If youâve never participated in our free online conference for teachers, youâll get a good, clear picture in todayâs email.
Also: Ever wake up sick and struggle through making plans for the substitute teacher? AI can help you do that now! We have a guide to creating quick sub plans with the help of artificial intelligence.
Weâll also share our list of free time sites, a popular one at the end of a semester.
This is a good newsletter ⊠onward!
Inside:
đ„Ž NEW: How to create sub plans in 15 minutes with AI
đș What to expect from Ditch Summit on Monday
â° 40 sites for students with free time on their hands
đ Template: The free time sites choice board
đ„Ž NEW: How to create sub plans in 15 minutes with AI

It happens a LOT this time of year. You go to bed and you suspect that itâs going to happen.
Then you wake up the next morning and confirm it. Youâre sick.
No, youâre not just sick. Youâre SICK. đ„Ž
Thereâs that saying we use as teachers: âItâs easier to just go in sick than it is to get sub plans ready!â
But what if it wasnât? What if AI could help us draft some useable sub plans in a hurry so we could get back to bed?
In todayâs new post, we share a step-by-step process to create quick sub plans â in 15 minutes â using a couple of freely available AI tools.
Oh ⊠and you can use these to plan normal lessons too if you want!
đș What to expect from Ditch Summit on Monday

The Ditch Summit arrives on Monday! If youâve never participated in the summit before (or would just like a little refresher), hereâs what you need to know âŠ
The summit opens on Monday. Thatâs when youâll get access to presentations and resources.
We send you everything youâll need by email. You donât even need a username/password. Just click links in email.
During the summit, weâll email you as new presentations are released â Monday through Friday. Youâll get a bit more email from us than normal during the summit.
On Sunday, youâll get our traditional âTwas the Night Before Ditch Summitâ email. đ
Hereâs what happens during the summit âŠ
We release new sessions Monday through Friday for the first two weeks. Weâll email you links to them.
Each day for those two weeks, we release two sessions: a featured speaker session and a spotlight sponsor session.
Featured speakers are educators, thought leaders, authors, speakers ⊠people with big ideas to share.
Spotlight sponsors have great products and share about them â and, sometimes, their own big ideas about education.
By being a subscriber to this email newsletter, youâll get those summit emails until the summit closes Jan. 5.

When you click on a link to a Ditch Summit presentation, youâll land on a speaker page like this one.
From there, youâll be able to get your certificate of completion, get downloadable notes, and more with the buttons below the video.
If you click on the âBack to all presentationsâ button, itâll take you here âŠ

⊠to the Ditch Summit Video Library.
This is the main page where ALL of the Ditch Summit presentations live, all ~100 of them.
From here, you can scroll to browse all of the sessions and click one to watch.
Or, if you go to the yellow search section, you can use the white drop-down menu to sort by a particular category.
âWhen does the summit close?
It closes on Friday Jan. 5. When it closes, all of the videos and related resources become unavailable. Watch as much as you want until then!
âCan I still win prizes for referring people to the Ditch Summit?
Yes indeed! You can earn prizes through our referral program. To join the referral contest, go to ditchsummit.com and register yourself. In the welcome email you receive, youâll get a unique link you can share with others. The more people that sign up with your link, the more prizes you can win!
â° 40 sites for students with free time on their hands

Sometimes, at this time of year, students get done with their work and have free time on their hands.
They come up to you and say, âNow what do I do?â
If you need something academic for them to do ⊠something that, you know, promotes learning and not mindlessness, send them to a site on this list:
This is our ever-growing list of sites that can stimulate students, let them learn, but also let them have fun.
đ Template: The free time sites choice board

Want to give students some choice over the free-time sites they choose?
This interactive free time choice board can do the trick.
Give them this link and the template asks them some questions to guide them to a suggested free time site.
Want to personalize this choice board? Click the âReuse This Geniallyâ button at the bottom of it. You can make a copy of this template in Genially and make your own version of it!
đ Smile of the day
This child is so, so perceptive âŠ

h/t Teacher Nation via Teacher Memes Facebook group