Connecting Students to Curriculum Through Google Tour Builder
As someone who is no longer in the classroom on a daily basis, it’s really fun for me to get to work with a teacher on a project that we know is going to have […]
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Schoology’s New Assignment Grading Platform- Finally!
I’ve written a few times about Schoology before. I truly believe Schoology is the best K12 LMS available to teachers and administrators today for a number of reasons. One thing that I didn’t like about […]
Top 10 on Talk Tech With Me in 2016
I’m big on cliches around the new year. Life gets so busy, and for me, the new year forces me to reflect. So as I read over my Top 10 in 2015 post from last December, […]
New Ways to Log Into Chromebooks- No More Wasted Class Time!
During the opening keynote for the Americas on Google’s Education on Air, Google announced two new ways to log into Chromebooks! If you’re in the classroom with younger kiddos, or kids who are pretty new […]
Google Education on Air- What’s Your Spark?
Education on Air is a free, online conference hosted by Google. There are presenters and participants from all around the world! I was really excited when I was asked to present with the Google Innovator team and […]
Global Classroom Connections via Classroom Bridges
Last February, I was accepted and attended the Google Innovator Academy in Mountain View, CA. It was the three most inspiring and eye opening days of my career so far. As part of the application […]
The Google Drive Integration Schoology Was Missing: Drive Companion
I work with a lot of teachers, principals and curriculum directors in a lot of schools. Almost all of them are using Google Apps (called G Suite now), and more and more are moving toward […]
Automate Your Life with Google Tools
I’m a HUGE fan of Google Apps (Google has rebranded GAFE to G Suite) for in and out of the classroom. I use Google tools for everything in both my personal and professional life. One […]
GEG Ohio, Southwest Meetup
As Co-Leaders of GEG Ohio (Google Educator Group), Stacy Smith and I decided to host the first Southwest Ohio meetup on November 2. It was hosted at Forward Edge (in our new office space). It was a cool […]
Classroom Bridges Update: Connecting Classrooms Around the World!
It’s been almost one month since I launched Classroom Bridges, my Google Innovator project. It has been going great! There are already 63 teachers from 14 countries on four different continents signed up to start connecting […]