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 […]
Powerful Uses for Google Forms: Forward Edge Webinar Series
As part of the free Ed Tech Webinar series my department is doing at work, we covered Google Forms last week. Topics that we covered in the webinar include: Classroom uses for Forms How to […]
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 […]
Connected from the Start by Kathy Cassidy Review
Whenever I’m talking to teachers about the importance of global connections for our students, I often have elementary and primary teachers assume that they couldn’t do these types of activities with their students because of […]
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 […]
Thoughts on Draft 1 of the New ISTE Standards for Teachers
Earlier this week, I wrote about the ISTE Standards, the release of the first draft of the new Teacher Standards, and the Ed Tech Coaches PLN Twitter slow chat to give feedback to ISTE about […]
Give Your Feedback on the New ISTE Teacher Standards!
The International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) has developed internationally accepted standards for the use of technology for Students, Teachers, edtech Coaches, Administrators and Computer Science Teachers. I refer to these often in my posts, and I use them […]
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 […]