ISTE 2016 was held in Denver last week and this was my third time attending ISTE, first time presenting there. As usual there was a ton of sessions and my favorites this year were the poster sessions as you get to talk more with the people sharing their information than you do during a regular…
(This is just the first blog post in a series as I work on my Innovation Project. I will have more reflections to post in the future but I wanted to post something to get the big ideas out first.) Last week I got to participate in what should be a career altering experience at…
ISTE 2016 is just weeks away and as part of my preparation for this great conference, I have created a new Flipboard magazine for the event. For those of you that do not know, Flipboard is a great tool for resource curation – at least that is how I use it. You can easily flip…
One of my favorites hobbies is golfing. I started golfing in high school and still go out and play 18 holes when I get the chance. I come from a family of golfers as my dad and grandpa both played. When my grandpa started golfing he had to use wooden clubs, because that was the…
Last Friday I received an email that was the best email I have received in quite a while. I got the acceptance email from the Google Innovator Academy and I will be taking part in the Boulder Cohort this June, right after ISTE. This was my 4th time applying which just goes to show that…
One mistake that I would like correct in my work as a technology integrationist, was using only SAMR when talking with teachers a couple of years ago. I had time with teachers in my building, not a lot of time but a couple of hours, and I decided to introduce SAMR to them. We were…
There are times where you want to blur or block out part of a video that you want to upload. I create a lot of videos for students and other teachers, and sometimes find that there is something on my screen that I want to blur so I do not share an email address or…
I attempted my second ever 3D print job today as we were testing out a new 3D printer in our district. My design was for a remote holder for our Swivl robot so that it would work better in a few situations we have encountered. I created my design using Google Sketchup and loaded it…
Draftback is a Chrome Extension that allows you to play back a Google Doc as if you were recording a video of all of the edits. This simple Chrome Extension will allow a writer, or someone who is helping to give feedback to a writer, to view their writing process and see the flow…
There is a tremendous amount of useful information on YouTube, along with a large amount of not useful information. One thing we can easily do to help students, is to create a Playlist of videos related to the topic in our classroom. This could become a great resource for them to extend or enrich their…
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