As we are nearing the end of the semester for many schools, many students can get tripped up as they are experiencing a lot of tasks all due at the same time. Making sure that students have easy and quick access to a list of tasks they are supposed to be completing should be key…
I have very high hopes for how well AI can make teaching and learning more effective in the next few years but there are ways that we can start using these new tools now to make learning better. Using an AI chat tool like ChatGPT or Bard, we can start to look at ways to…
This is a test podcast that I created using Soundtrap. Soundtrap recently released some new features, and in a way to test out these new features, I decided to record this quick podcast. I may be releasing more short podcasts like this in the future but this was a good test run. If you want…
Soundtrap recently released a slew of updates but my favorite has to be the Interactive Transcript feature. This will create a transcript of your spoken words so that you can more quickly edit your recording but can also use it to help students overcome various learning obstacles. The transcript feature is great if you want…
Color blindness is something that can affect a number of the students in our classrooms and it is hard for many to understand how these students see the resources we use. There are some free tools you can use when helping to design for students or for the students themselves to use when working with…
One of my fears I had as a classroom teacher was always centered around misspelling words when I wrote them on the whiteboard. I remember one time when I hurriedly tried writing out the word “assignment” but switched around the “g” and the “n” (you should be able to tell what I wrote). This was…
One of the most powerful things we should be able to do with technology in classrooms today is make learning more accessible for all. As I work on my mini-keynote for the Iowa 1:1 Conference on Making Learning Accessible for All, I am still amazed that we aren’t doing more. Then again, it is not…
Although ISTE 2017 was almost 2 1/2 months ago, I am still thinking about all of the great conversations I had with other educators after my Ingnite presentation. I was ecstatic to be able to share how my learning as a kid was affected by a piece of technology. Without that piece of technology, a…
Last night I got the chance to be a part of my first podcast as I joined the Friendly Disruption team. Craig Barnum and Maggie Pickett started the Friendly Disruption podcast to focus on accessibility with technology for students. Craig attended my session at ITEC this year where I focused on Making Learning Accessible for All…
This is the first in a series of videos I am going to do where I take about 3-4 minutes to discuss technology use in the classroom. Each video will be about 50% pedagogy and 50% technology as we need to ensure that we have strong pedagogy whenever we use technology, or anything, in the…
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