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 […]
Classroom Activities
8 Awesome Free Tech Tools to Create Images, Audio and Video
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 […]
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 […]
Bloom’s Revised Technology Taxonomy
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, […]
QR Codes: More than Smartphones
We’ve grown up around barcodes our whole lives, and now they take a whole new meaning with the craze for QR codes and smart phone technology. QR stands for “Quick Response” Code. And a quick […]
Play on Pawn Stars: Classroom Activity
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 […]