Connecting Students to Curriculum Through Google Tour Builder
As someone who is no longer in the classroom on a daily basis, it’s really fun for me to get to work with a teacher on a project that we know is going to have […]
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20 Ways to Use ThingLink in Education
When I first learned about ThingLink late last summer, I was immediately impressed. My mind started racing about all the ways that ThingLink could be used by teachers, students and even beyond the classroom. If you’re not […]
Learning to Drive
In February, our district will begin state testing. Once testing begins, there will be at least one grade level in at least one school in our district testing every single school day until May. This big span […]
Lunch & Learn: Teachers Spotlight EdTech Successes
April marked the last of this years monthly Lunch & Learns, where teachers were invited to bring their lunch to the library during their lunch bell on a designated Thursday each month. I wanted the last […]
#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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]