The Power of Video – Part 2: Modeling for PD

This week during our Wednesday morning professional development time we were focusing on getting teachers to create differentiated plans to meet the needs of ELL students. Part of this plan involved having teachers working in the PLCs to plan their lesson while focusing on the english proficiency levels of their students and determining what scaffolds…

Think Before You Blog

One of the issues that has really become evident to me lately is that we have a lot of people, teachers included, who are posting onto blogs in a way that is not modeling what we would expect from students. We have educators posting rants and overreactions about topics where they may be misinformed or…

You Are Your Own Best PR Person

With all of the negativity in the news this week for schools across the country, I am reminded more and more of what I have heard so many great digital leaders state; that we need to be our own PR department.  There have been a lot of negative stories concerning schools and teachers that the…

AHS Tech Times Biweekly Newsletter

One of things I took away from ITEC this week was some advice from Brian Abeling (@wdmTECH) about how they developed their tech newsletter for teachers.  I had been working on a similar idea ranging form a weekly video podcast to a newsletter like this to better share some of the tech tips and updates…

gMath Add-on for Google Docs/Sheets

This is an old post, go to https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/equatio/ to find about the replacement for gMath.   Something that some people did not like about Google Docs was the lack of an in-depth math equation editor as they were accustomed to in Word.  Through the use of a new Add-on, you can get a lot of the same functionality…

ITEC 2014 = Success!

(Thanks to @sandirankin for taking this picture of me presenting) Finally had some time to reflect and recover a bit mentally from ITEC and I am certain that it was a great success for me.  I thought both of my presentations went well and I had some great conversations with others that will help me…