As a teacher I was always looking out for new tools that could help improve the learning environment in my classroom as well as help me help my students more efficiently and effectively. I have tried out many gadgets with a goal of finding out how they can improve something in the classroom or if…
One statement that I have been seeing a lot lately, and one that I agree with, is that there is really no such thing as “digital natives”. Many people, including many teachers, look at todays kids/students and just write off their abilities with technology and the internet as being naturally born with the ability to…
One of the changes made to Google Drive and Docs this summer was the addition of the Suggesting option for edits in Google Docs. Previously if you wanted to suggest any changes in a shared document, you could add a comment to the side or just use a different colored font to add that change.…
Right before I left for ISTE I was given access to Google Classroom and I have been playing with it ever since. As a teacher I mostly used Moodle as my LMS and used Google Docs, this was before I knew about Doctopus which is what I would have used if it was available then.…
One thing you can definitely say about ISTE 2014 was that there was a session about pretty much anything you wanted in relation to education and technology. From the flipped classroom to maker spaces, there was something for everyone in the large sessions and in the poster sessions. With all of the sessions available, making…
I was lucky enough to be able to attend the ISTE conference in Atlanta this year. I have been to various state conferences before but never to a conference of this magnitude. I was taken aback by how large the conference is, both in terms of people and events/sessions that take place. According to the…
To make my experience at ISTE more meaningful, I decided to set some goals for myself before heading down. These goals will help me focus my time and energy to make this trip as effective towards my continued growth as possible. I am open to these goals changing slightly when I am down there but…
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…
If you are like me and you will be using Tweetdeck in the Chrome browser as your main way of accessing Twitter for the ISTE conference next week, you can easily remove those spam tweets that will pop up. You can set up filtering options in a search column to remove the key words that…
I started the summer by challenging myself to write a blog post every day about something we can do to improve instruction and learning in the classroom. The issue is that this is causing me to force ideas instead of coming to them naturally. So I am modifying my challenge to myself to keep focusing…
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