#DigCit Day Reflections
It’s been over a week since the area’s first ever Digital Citizenship (DigCit) Day took place. It was a complete whirl wind and worth every second of the time put into planning it. I’m not […]
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McNick Promotes Ditgital Citizenship | The Catholic Beat
This post was originally published as McNick Promotes Ditgital Citizenship via The Catholic Beat. McNicholas High School (Mt. Washington/Cincinnati) held its first Digital Citizenship Day Monday. It was the first school in the region to devote […]
Facilitating PD in my PJs: Moderating my First Twitter Chat
Tonight I had the pleasure of moderating my first Twitter chat: #1to1techat (1:1 teacher chat). This has been my favorite Twitter chat, professional development, and weekly motivation for a long time now. I was flattered […]
Busy as Can Be? Time for Online #EdTech PD!
Cheesy, I know. I can’t help myself if there’s a good rhyme to be made! If you’re reading this from my part of the world, you’ve had more snow days than you can count, too. […]
#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 […]
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 […]