As I was collecting resources for our school-wide digital citizenship day, I decided to make a Storify of a number of news stories about people losing their scholarships and jobs over poor social media choices. A […]
In October I started these monthly 5 in 5 episodes to help teachers quickly learn about available tech and web tools they could use in their classrooms. By no means are these five minute episodes a […]
It’s the time of year for ‘Best Of 2013’ lists, so I thought I’d create my own. This list contains the 13 best multi-platform (web, iOS, Android, etc.) apps and sites for the classroom (in […]
You don’t know what you don’t know, right? And there are SO many educational technology tools out there, with new ones arriving and leaving us everyday, that it’s hard to keep up. That’s why I […]
Since October, I’ve been putting on monthly Lunch & Learn PD sessions for teachers. December was dedicated to tests and quizzes in Schoology (our new school-wide LMS). As usual, I shared the results of the pre-survey […]
**Note, I updated the chart in January 2017 (using Google Slides and Docs)! It’s not quite as “pretty,” but it will be much easier to update and add to as new tools are developed. I’m […]
Working in a 1:1 high school, you can imagine we’ve had our fair share of digital citizenship (digcit) violations along with our classroom successes. But just as we can’t expect our kids to grow up […]
The other day I met with a teacher to go over some things about our LMS. When I arrived to her classroom she had a student who had to give her a presentation before we […]
The second session of my Lunch & Learn series took place today. It was the session I was most looking forward to in the whole series- Collaboration in the Classroom: Tools for Student Collaboration! This […]
You’ve seen, heard and read it everywhere: teachers need ongoing technology professional development. That’s where my job, and might I note one of the favorite aspects of my job, comes in. But where is the […]