One of the best things that I did this year was attend a couple of Ed Camps. Before last spring I had never attended an Ed Camp or really even heard too much about them. I would see some stuff on Twitter about them but didn’t think too much about it. Luckily I had some…
(I posted this on my Google Site that I made for my job at Ames High School but wanted to also post this here.)While at the Midwest Google Summit this past week at the Wisconsin Dells in Wisconsin, I had the extreme fortune to listen to Krista Moroder. Krista is a Director of Learning for Instructional…
This Sunday I was reading the local paper and I was kind of confused. The majority of the front page of a large newspaper in the state was dedicated to a story about goats. Now I know the story was more than just about goats, but if you looked quickly at the page all you…
As of August, 2013 I am no longer a classroom teacher. I do not have my own set of students, class periods, study halls, grades, parent/teacher conferences or many other things but I do have a whole new adventure in front of me. I am hoping to blog often about my journey as a Technology…
Conducting a Google Hangout with students is one way we can extend the class day beyond the 45 minutes we are given. Teachers have had review sessions at night or have even had online meetings with students who may be working on an assignment or project and need some help. This is not something that…
Evernote is a tool that has a lot of potential to do a lot of different things in the classroom. It can be as basic as a sharing spot for articles and other resources for your students, a place to put all of your lesson plans so you can access them at any time from…
Just like in class, in Moodle we can create different groups according to whichever variable you choose. You can create groups to work on different projects, to carry out different discussions or you can even use the groups to differentiate your class based on mastery of a learning standard. The groups feature can easily be…
The Forums option in Moodle is a great way to carry on a conversation or discussion online. Students could have to respond to a question, pose an idea, work collaboratively to answer a question or just even ask questions of each other and the teacher. Forums in Moodle are controlled by the teacher and it…
In Moodle we have a few different options when it comes to adding resources for our students. We can add a file, a folder of files, create a page or use a url to send our students to the resource. There are different viewing options and you can even assign different resources to different groups.…
Moodle can also be used to create and assign quizzes. These quizzes can either be used as a formative assessment or a summative assessment. There are advantages to having a student type out their answers instead of writing them, especially if they do not have great handwriting. I will point out that there is no…
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