One mistake that I would like correct in my work as a technology integrationist, was using only SAMR when talking with teachers a couple of years ago. I had time with teachers in my building, not a lot of time but a couple of hours, and I decided to introduce SAMR to them. We were…
There are times where you want to blur or block out part of a video that you want to upload. I create a lot of videos for students and other teachers, and sometimes find that there is something on my screen that I want to blur so I do not share an email address or…
I attempted my second ever 3D print job today as we were testing out a new 3D printer in our district. My design was for a remote holder for our Swivl robot so that it would work better in a few situations we have encountered. I created my design using Google Sketchup and loaded it…
Draftback is a Chrome Extension that allows you to play back a Google Doc as if you were recording a video of all of the edits. This simple Chrome Extension will allow a writer, or someone who is helping to give feedback to a writer, to view their writing process and see the flow…
There is a tremendous amount of useful information on YouTube, along with a large amount of not useful information. One thing we can easily do to help students, is to create a Playlist of videos related to the topic in our classroom. This could become a great resource for them to extend or enrich their…
This year I finally got to do something that I have wanted to do for awhile, I got to put on an Edcamp in my own district. Edcamp Iowa for those that do not know, is an Edcamp where we have 5 locations throughout the state of Iowa all going on at the same time…
One of my favorite tools for leaving effective feedback for students is Kaizena. Kaizena allows you to easily leave audio and text feedback for students in a Google Doc. This is a free service and one that I suggest to a lot of people because we should be more focused on feedback than grades in…
Last summer Google released the Classroom API so other programs and apps could communicate and integrate with Google Classroom. One of the most recent ones to do this is EdPuzzle. EdPuzzle is great tool for adding questions, feedback, and your voice to premade videos for use in your classroom. You can assign videos as homework…
When I was in early elementary school, I had to use a piece of technology in order to allow me to learn as well as my peers. Without this piece of technology I would not have been able to do as well as I did in school. This piece of technology helped me greatly but…
One of the easiest ways to assist effective collaboration between teachers is to create a shared Google Calendar so all parties involved can get greater clarity. You can easily set up meeting dates and include the agendas, goals, teacher roles, in the event details. You can also share out important due dates and any other…
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