You’ve seen it before. In fact, we’re all guilty of it. Telling teachers to personalize/individualize/differentiate (insert your preferred buzzword here) learning for students. But then when PD time rolls around for teachers, we give them […]
Every chance I get to tell someone about the benefits of Twitter for an educators’ PLN, I take it. Twitter has truly become my go-to source of real time ideas, feedback, Q&A, etc., which allows […]
Tonight I had the pleasure of moderating my first Twitter chat: #1to1techat (1:1 teacher chat). This has been my favorite Twitter chat, professional development, and weekly motivation for a long time now. I was flattered […]
As I was collecting resources for our school-wide digital citizenship day, I decided to make a Storify of a number of news stories about people losing their scholarships and jobs over poor social media choices. A […]
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 […]
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 […]
**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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]