Applying tech tools to meet classroom needs.
As a GAFE school, there is a tool that is readily available that makes it easy to carry out student blogging in the classroom. Student blogging can serve many purposes as part of the learning process, from reflective writing to posting student creations to share with others. There are tools that make using Google Sites…
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…
When I started teaching I was given some advice from a veteran teacher to keep away from using red when correcting assignments. They said it was because students had viewed the red pen as being negative and instead we should be focusing on helping our students improve, not just telling them what they got wrong.…
Today is Teacher Appreciation Day and Google may have given us teachers a great gift, Google Classroom. This might be the best teacher appreciation gift I get today, even better than the buy 1 get 1 free deal at Chipotle. A free, easy to use LMS that incorporates Google Docs and should include some great…
One of the biggest fears for many teachers heading into a 1:1 environment is the effect on classroom management. The problem is that the classroom management that happened before the 1:1 is going to be very similar after the 1:1. If you have good classroom management before, you will most likely have good classroom management after. If…
Just because I am no longer teaching science, does not mean that I am not a giant science nerd at heart. Take for instance the Lunar Eclipse that we had last night. Although I only found out about it in the last couple of days, something that would have never happened when I was teaching…
As I try to grow as an educator, I am constantly looking for great professional experiences to help me grow in ways that I can not imagine. I believe that the Google Teacher Academy could be one of those experiences and I have spent a considerable amount of time thinking about it lately. As part…
In case you haven’t seen my previous post, here, I am trying something new this term to help share out the effective uses of technology that are happening in our classrooms at my school. I fully believe collaboration and sharing are integral to a program’s success and this is one way that I am trying…
Something gaining a lot of speed with those that use iPads in schools is App Smashing. App Smashing is when you use multiple apps to complete an activity or task, that there is no one app to do all of which you want to do. A fun one to see is when a student uses…
One of the biggest comments from our last full day tech professional development day was the appreciation to learn from other teachers about what they are doing in their classrooms. This is a common comment from many teachers about how we like to learn from each other especially about what each person is doing in…
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