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Recently, our school purchased Schoology’s Enterprise pack to replace our previous (outdated) LMS.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