3 Videos to Rejuvenate You!
After having two weeks off followed by two snow days (thanks to the Polar Vortex), I found myself feeling pretty sluggish and having next to no motivation to leave my dogs and go back to […]
Professional Development
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 […]
Lessons in Education from Steve Jobs
In one of my graduate courses, I had to pick a leader and read a biography about them. Since the name of my game is technology in education, I decided to go with someone in […]
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 […]
A Conversation with the US Secretary of Education
Hello, I wanted to tell each of you about a wonderful, unique experience I had the other week. For about an hour, I was privileged to have a conversation with the US Secretary of Education […]
Lunch & Learn: PD Reflections
You’ve seen, heard and read it everywhere: teachers need ongoing technology professional development. That’s where my job, and might I note one of the favorite aspects of my job, comes in. But where is the […]
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 […]