#DigCit Day for High School Students
Now that our school’s Digital Citizenship (DigCit) day is right around the corner, plans are really starting to fall into place. I haven’t been this excited for something in a while-and it’s for work! That’s […]
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Experts in the Trenches: Teacher Led EdTech PD
This year I decided to implement a new plan for teacher edtech PD to try to accommodate their schedules as best as possible. I came up with the monthly Lunch & Learn idea, and so […]
Facing the Consequences: Poor Social Media Choices Lead to Lost Opportunities
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 […]
5 Edtech Tools in 5 Minutes: Episode 4
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 […]
3 Videos to Rejuvenate You!
After having two weeks off followed by two snow days (thanks to the Polar Vortex), I found myself feeling pretty sluggish and having next to no motivation to leave my dogs and go back to […]
13 Best Multi-Platform EdTech Tools of 2013
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 […]
Celebrate Your Colleagues
Educators are all in this field because we like to help and support others, right? However, due to the traditionally isolated nature of our profession, we can often feel disconnected from one another. A teacher […]
5 Edtech Tools in 5 Minutes
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 […]
Lunch & Learn: Teacher EdTech PD
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 […]
Backwards EdTech Flow Chart
**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 […]