I was lucky enough to be able to attend the ISTE conference in Atlanta this year. I have been to various state conferences before but never to a conference of this magnitude. I was taken aback by how large the conference is, both in terms of people and events/sessions that take place. According to the…
To make my experience at ISTE more meaningful, I decided to set some goals for myself before heading down. These goals will help me focus my time and energy to make this trip as effective towards my continued growth as possible. I am open to these goals changing slightly when I am down there but…
They will be coming at you quickly so you have to be prepared, how will you prepare to curate all those resources and great ideas coming out of the ISTE 2014 conference? You should have a plan in place so you can easily and quickly curate those resources to have for later, both for yourself…
If you are like me and you will be using Tweetdeck in the Chrome browser as your main way of accessing Twitter for the ISTE conference next week, you can easily remove those spam tweets that will pop up. You can set up filtering options in a search column to remove the key words that…
I started the summer by challenging myself to write a blog post every day about something we can do to improve instruction and learning in the classroom. The issue is that this is causing me to force ideas instead of coming to them naturally. So I am modifying my challenge to myself to keep focusing…
My summer is full of books that I either want to read or have to read. I have the text about cognitive psychology and learning I have to read for my Masters class, the book about instructional coaching I am reading as part of work I do with our other instructional coaches and then there…
I did not meet my goal yesterday to blog every day this summer as I was dealing with a sick kid. My son was sick with a fever as well as other symptoms which meant I was pretty busy with him. Point of advice, if you suspect any chance your kid might be sick, do…
Instead of a quick post about something you can change quickly in the classroom, I had another idea for today’s post and it was inspired by my son. My son is 3 years old and has no fear when it comes to trying out a new toy or anything else that he can play with.…
One thing that I am really looking forward to this summer is the online PD class that we are doing for our MS and HS teachers. About 13 signed up for this experience, they will get renewal credit, and it is focusing on becoming digital teachers and learners. One important aspect had to include some…
One of the things we had to do when I was student teaching involved recording a lesson we were teaching in order to better reflect on how we could improve. This was something that was very useful as a student teacher but is something that I have not really done much since then. Which is…
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