Project Falcon is not really the name of this project, it just sounds cooler than Gamification Model of Technology Teacher Learning. Earlier this year when I applied to the Google Innovator Academy, I had to decide on a project related to education that I would want to work on. Over the last year we have…
UPDATE! – It looks like you can’t publish Chrome Extensions for free anymore if you are just doing it in your school district accounts. The developer fee is $5. If anyone has a way around this, please feel free to tweet at me @donovanscience. I will add that the new interface for publishing extensions is…
One of the things I am happiest with that we tried last year, was the start of our own district Twitter chat. We have been sharing Twitter as a powerful professional learning tool for the last couple of years but I wanted to help our teachers experience the effectiveness of a chat by giving them…
On the 15th anniversary of 9/11, it is still very easy for me to remember where I was and what I was doing on that day. I remember waking up to the sounds of my AOL instant messenger beeping like crazy, back in the days when AIM and ICQ were the main forms of communication between…
In an effort to keep growing and to try new things, I have decided to try creating quick 2 minute video blog posts about various topics related to educational technology and learning. I have written many blog posts about various topics but I have also been a big proponent of using video as you can…
Earlier this month, Google released a great update to Classroom to help keep Parents/Guardians informed of class assignments and announcements for their students in Classroom. Teachers can enter the Parents/Guardians email address in the Student section of classroom where it says to “Invite Guardians”. You should easily see if their email address is already in…
Google released some great updates this week to get ready for the new school year. You can easily annotate assignments in the mobile Classroom app, add parent/guardian emails to send weekly reports from Classroom, create Topics for sorting in Classroom, and add images to options in multiple choice or similar questions in Google Forms. You…
Another new update to Google Apps this summer was the introduction of the new Google Sites. The new Sites will be the standard Sites sometime in the next year or so but you can still use the old Sites for the time being. The new Sites are very simple and easy to use, which is…
Over the summer Google added a Quiz option to Google Forms, similar to what was available before using Flubaroo. This new feature allows you to easily mark questions correct or wrong when using a selected response question. This is a great feature for quick checks, exit tickets, or any other type of quick formative assessment.…
Recently I was given the chance to test out the Expand Lens by Swivl for free. I have been a big proponent of the Swivl robot for a while now and was very pleased to be one of their Swivl Video Pioneers. I think that teacher reflection using video is something we should be promoting…
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