Although ISTE 2017 was almost 2 1/2 months ago, I am still thinking about all of the great conversations I had with other educators after my Ingnite presentation. I was ecstatic to be able to share how my learning as a kid was affected by a piece of technology. Without that piece of technology, a…
Last night I got the chance to be a part of my first podcast as I joined the Friendly Disruption team. Craig Barnum and Maggie Pickett started the Friendly Disruption podcast to focus on accessibility with technology for students. Craig attended my session at ITEC this year where I focused on Making Learning Accessible for All…
Earlier this year we purchased Swivls for each building in our district to be used by our teachers in their work in the classroom, as well as their work with our instructional coaches. The Swivls are great when we want to record classroom situations to be shared with others, but they can also play a role…
This year at ITEC I presented about how to use some basic equations to do more with your data in a Google Sheet. There are about 10 equations that I use on a frequent basis when I am dealing with large amounts of data and I can easily move the data around to create the…
Thanks to Curt Schleibaum (https://twitter.com/curt_truc) (http://www.geekyedtech.com/home) for showing me this initially at the Google Innovator Academy this last summer in Boulder. I have tried creating my own Chrome Extension before but didn’t get very far, I mostly just did it for learning purposes. When he showed how he was using his Chrome Extension to share…
This is a test podcast that I created using Soundtrap. Soundtrap recently released some new features, and in a way to test out these new features, I decided to record this quick podcast. I may be releasing more short podcasts like this in the future but this was a good test run. If you want…
Soundtrap recently released a slew of updates but my favorite has to be the Interactive Transcript feature. This will create a transcript of your spoken words so that you can more quickly edit your recording but can also use it to help students overcome various learning obstacles. The transcript feature is great if you want…
In preparation for attending my first FETC conference (January 28th-30th) this year in Orlando, I wanted to try out a new way of sharing my learnings and reflections. I firmly believe that we have a duty, as professional learners, to share out our own learning with those we work with. The sharing of new learning…
I really wish I had my iPad when I was in college and not just so I could waste time watching funny videos while in a boring lecture, but so that I could have used it to take notes in a way that would have helped me a lot more as a learner. While I…
Intercut, from the people that brought you Swivl, have recently updated their app to allow for it to be used to create screencasts. Intercut uses AI to merge two video sources together to create a polished finished product. This app feature was seen as a beta feature in Swivl where it would merge the video…
As more and more schools have gone 1:1, giving a device to each student, you hear many schools talking about going paperless. Too many focus on the paperless part of using more technology instead of how using technology effectively can drastically improve learning. Technology won’t always be the best tool for the job but it…
Clips is an iOS app, so iPhone or iPad, that allows you to easily create a video with features similar to what you can do in Instagram or Snapchat. You can create a quick video and add over symbols, animations, text, filters, and other options. The key feature that makes this app stand out to…
In preparation for an upcoming presentation about giving digital feedback to students, I wanted to run through Goobric again just to make sure there weren’t any changes I was unaware of. I recorded it so if you have not used Goobric before, you can see how easy it is to give rubric feedback inside of…
(As a way to be more accessible to more people, this is the first in a series of blog posts where I will have audio with my written text. This way more people can get the information I am sharing despite any auditory/visual issues they may have. They can use a translator to translate the…
This weekend I picked up a pair of Apple AirPods largely due to the accessibility feature they introduced with iOS 12. You can now use the microphone on your phone to send audio to your AirPods using a feature called Live Listen. This is an awesome feature and one that I hope to make a…
