Flipgrid for Parent Teacher Conferences
Flipgrid is an awesome tool that has been making its way into classrooms of all subject areas and grade levels across the country. If you haven’t seen Flipgrid before, the teacher creates a prompt and the […]
Formative Assessment
11 Tips to Get your Google Ready to Go Back to School
I originally wrote the post 11 Tips to Get your Google Ready to Go Back to School 2015 for my company blog at Forward Edge. It contains 11 tips to set up your Google Apps for […]
Plickers: an Awesome Assessment Tool Requiring Only One Device
During mid-February at Ohio’s educational technology conference, I learned about an awesome assessment tool that only requires the teacher to have a device: Plickers. While I am a proponent of getting students on devices as […]
#GAFEchat Recap: February 17, 2015
I swear by Twitter chats for professional development and building my PLN (personal learning network). If you’re not exactly sure what a Twitter chat is, check out my post about Twitter chats that includes a key […]
5 EdTech Tools in 5 Minutes: Episode 9
Back in October of 2013, I started this 5 in 5 video podcast series for a very brief overview of 5 edtech tools each month. The idea is that teachers don’t always have the time (who […]
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 […]
5 EdTech Tools in 5 Minutes: Episode 8
Okay… so it’s less than six minutes! During June and July (and almost August), I put the 5 in 5 screencasts on hold. Well, it’s that time of year again. By no means are these […]
5 Reasons Kahoot & Infuse Learning are the Perfect Formative Assessment Pair
***Infuse Learning will discontinue their service on April 3, 2015.*** This week we (myself and the elementary instructional technology coach in my district) are leading a number of educational technology PD sessions about many different topics […]
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 […]
5 Edtech Tools in 5 Minutes: Episode 5
With our school-wide Digital Citizenship Day, February was a little crazy and I never got around to making a 5 in 5 episode for February. Now that things have calmed down, I can resume making the […]