Have you heard of Sub Hack? It was an idea designed by Charlie Shryock to create building-wide sub plans where students work on a passion project when their teacher is absent. You can read more […]
As part of our school-wide Digital Citizenship Day on February 24th, all science classes had a research/poster contest (special thanks to one of our science teachers-Lauren Wulker- for the idea!). The students were given a […]
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 […]
**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 […]
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 […]
I’m sure by the time I publish this post, there will be eight more awesome tools to create images, audio and video on the web. In the mean time, I wanted to write about some […]
Unfortunately, my flight left too early on the last day of ISTE 2013 to see Adam Bellow’s closing keynote. After hearing a number of reviews and seeing the buzz about the speech on Twitter, I […]
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 […]
Working in a 1:1 tablet PC school, I am always trying to help teachers find new tech tools to use in their classrooms and enhance their (already great) lessons. I stumbled upon some great resources, […]
For my first idea post, I’ll go back to my roots: Social Studies. This idea was inspired by the popular History Channel series, Pawn Stars. If you’ve never seen the show, I invite you to […]