Yesterday I received an email stating that a new tech tool had finally come in and I was very excited. The person who was next to me was a little confused that a tool could make me so excited. Now I know many people think of me as a techie who loves all technology but…
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…
This weekend I will be heading down to Kansas City to attend Edcamp KC on Saturday. I am spending 3.5 hours on the road Friday so I can spend a large chunk of my Saturday with other teachers, learning together and not getting paid for this. Many would be asking why I would be doing…
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…
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…
If you use Google Chrome as your main internet browser, as you should, you may have run into situations where you had to switch to a different Google account. There is a way to add an account while in Gmail or other apps but this is not the best way to do this as it…
I am a firm believer that video is a powerful tool in the classroom, both for the students and for the teacher. I am not talking about just watching a video for 45 minutes and hoping that the students took something away but video in the sense of how many are not using it. We…
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…
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…
(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…
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