Gearing Up for a Digital Citizenship Day
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 […]
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Help Students Build Confidence as a Presenter Through Screencasts
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 […]
Collaboration in the Classroom: Teacher PD
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 […]
Twitter Professional Development for Teachers
So I’m a little late with my blog post about this PD, but better late than never! The Twitter PD I put on for teachers was broken up into four parts (Understanding Twitter, Creating an […]
10 Reasons I Prefer Schoology Over Edmodo
Recently, our school purchased Schoology’s Enterprise pack to replace our previous (outdated) LMS. Obviously I am a fan of Schoology since I was a champion for the switch. Through grad school classes and my own […]
Untangling the Web: Perfect Summer Read
At the beginning of the week I purchased Steve Dembo and Adam Bellow’s Untangling the Web: 20 Tools to Power Up Your Teaching. I was so impressed by Bellow’s ISTE 2013 Keynote that I had to read his […]
Free Digital Citizenship Resources from the FTC
In my ISTE13 reflection post I wrote that I had learned about FREE print resources the FTC will send you for students and parents about digital citizenship, online safety and more for FREE! Just as […]
Tablet PC and Web 2.0 Tools for High School Students by Category
In the fall of last year, I created a Blooms Revised Taxonomy Technology Chart that I used with my faculty for PD. Since then I have used that chart multiple times when I meet with […]
ISTE 2013 Conference: 4 Days in 1 Post
I was fortunate enough to attend my first ISTE conference this year. It was an awe inspiring, eye opening and often times an overwhelming experience. I want to reflect on the sessions, posters and products I loved and the key […]
Twitter Contest: Digital Learning Day 2013
Yesterday was a fabulous day of Twitter chats, webinars, live chats, and resource sharing: Digital Learning Day 2013. Being a 1:1 school, I thought we have to do something to celebrate this day! In the midst […]