Edcamp Iowa was the first Edcamp that I ever went to and I have been hooked on Edcamps since then. I have traveled up to the Twin Cities and down to Kansas City for Edcamps. Every Edcamp that I go to has been a great learning experience and has reenergized me as an educator. Edcamps…
Last night while driving back from visiting my in-laws, after 5 hours on the road, I realized that we had made a big mistake. On Friday, my son and I drove 30 miles to my wife’s work to pick her up to save her the time driving home before we left. It wasn’t until after getting…
Adding text onto images or video files inside of iMovie is not always easy with the limited selection of options. By using Google Drawing you can easily add text over your video. Just create the text you want in Google Drawing, using the large variety of fonts and formatting, leave the background as it was…
As part of our monthly challenges at AHS and something that we have wanted to do for a while, we are having our first district Twitter Edchat. At 8pm on Tuesday, November 17 we will be using the hashtag #AmesCSDchat to conduct an Edchat with teachers in Ames. This will be a great learning experience…
ITEC was just last week but I am just now posting my resources and reflection. As usual, ITEC was a great chance to learn and connect with other great educators from in and out of Iowa. There were a ton of great sessions and thanks to Twitter I was able to follow along with those…
Earlier this week I was at the annual ITEC conference in Des Moines and had the opportunity to try out one of the Breakout Edu Challenges. (http://www.breakoutedu.com/) If you have not heard about Breakout Edu, head to their site to check it out. It is basically a classroom version of the breakout room challenges that…
We are less than a week away from ITEC, Iowa’s biggest educational technology conference. This is a great time for educators to come together from across the state, and even those from outside the state, to share how they are transforming their learning environments through the use of technology. Whether you are at the conference…
Google Calendar is now integrated with Google Classroom. If you go to classroom.google.com and click on the three horizontal lines, you should see Calendar as an option. You can also get to it by going to the About part of your Classroom. It will be listed towards the bottom. If you have not…
I remember as a student teacher at ISU that I had to record myself teaching using an audio recorder. The purpose of this was so that I could go back and listen to myself teach so that I could analyze what I heard and reflect in order to improve. This is an important procedure that…
One of the biggest things I wish I had been told when I started teaching was to only expect to see what we were focusing on learning in the classroom. Too often we assume our students know how to do something and then are surprised when they don’t. Working collaboratively as a group is one…
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