Google has come out with another update to Google Apps, which it does with regularity, and this one appears to be one that could seem small to many but according to my Twitter stream, it was a big one. You can now finally merge table cells in a Google Doc. Now I know many people…
One very important aspect of the learning process is how feedback is used to help guide the learner to improve and grow. We must focus on giving effective feedback otherwise we will not be continuing the learning process. When the only feedback that we give is a grade or a percentage, that is not going…
As we get ready to start our shortened week due to Thanksgiving, I thought I would reflect on something I am very thankful for. I would not have survived my first couple of years of teaching if it wasn’t for other teachers sharing with me everyday. I worked with a great bunch of teachers during…
While many people fear what kids will do when given an iPad or other piece of tech on break, there is a lot more you can do than just sit there and consume. While this has nothing to do with high school tech integration, many high school teachers have kids who are young and needing…
Google has done some updates to Drive recently and one that I really like is that you can now open your Drive files from in the browser into desktop applications. You can open a photoshop file from your Drive in your browser, edit it, hit save and it will be saved in your Drive automatically.…
Yesterday I received an email stating that a new tech tool had finally come in and I was very excited. The person who was next to me was a little confused that a tool could make me so excited. Now I know many people think of me as a techie who loves all technology but…
This week during our Wednesday morning professional development time we were focusing on getting teachers to create differentiated plans to meet the needs of ELL students. Part of this plan involved having teachers working in the PLCs to plan their lesson while focusing on the english proficiency levels of their students and determining what scaffolds…
This weekend I will be heading down to Kansas City to attend Edcamp KC on Saturday. I am spending 3.5 hours on the road Friday so I can spend a large chunk of my Saturday with other teachers, learning together and not getting paid for this. Many would be asking why I would be doing…
One of the issues that has really become evident to me lately is that we have a lot of people, teachers included, who are posting onto blogs in a way that is not modeling what we would expect from students. We have educators posting rants and overreactions about topics where they may be misinformed or…
With all of the negativity in the news this week for schools across the country, I am reminded more and more of what I have heard so many great digital leaders state; that we need to be our own PR department. There have been a lot of negative stories concerning schools and teachers that the…
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