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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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Recently, our school purchased Schoology’s Enterprise pack to replace our previous (outdated) LMS.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 […]