Last night I got the chance to be a part of my first podcast as I joined the Friendly Disruption team. Craig Barnum and Maggie Pickett started the Friendly Disruption podcast to focus on accessibility with technology for students. Craig attended my session at ITEC this year where I focused on Making Learning Accessible for All…
This is the first in a series of videos I am going to do where I take about 3-4 minutes to discuss technology use in the classroom. Each video will be about 50% pedagogy and 50% technology as we need to ensure that we have strong pedagogy whenever we use technology, or anything, in the…
The other day I was in a Language Arts class working with some students around Google Search tips and techniques. Knowing that we are now living in the information age, when we have access to so much information, it is more about how you find the information as opposed to what information you know. We…
This week I am easily reminded how difficult it can be for some of our students to be able to learn in our classrooms if they have a physical/cognitive/social/emotional/psychological issue. As it is every time I get a cold or other illness that causes congestion, my hearing decreases in one or both ears. This week’s…
I have been using a Swivl for a couple of years now and I believe it is a great tool. I am part of the Swivl Pioneer Program and received a Swivl to try out but that is not the reason why I like the Swivl so much. I like it because I believe that…
Over the summer, Swivl announced they were going to release the ability to record from 2 cameras at once for free in their Swivl app. Earlier in the year they updated their app to allow you to record from up to 5 devices at once to get a single video that allows you to see…
It has almost been a week since I dipped my bike tires into the Mississippi as I completed (well, 6 of 7 days so mostly completed) another Ragbrai. Ragbrai is a bike ride across Iowa which this year’s route meant over 400 miles with a difficult last day due to the biggest hills I have…
Another week being surrounded by 20,000 other educators is over and it is time to decompress and reflect over what I have learned. ISTE is a large conference and there is a lot you can learn and take away. #1 – New Challenges Keep You Learning This year I challenged myself to present multiple…
I am lucky to be attending the annual ISTE Conference again this year, in lovely (and probably very hot for this boy born in Minnesota) San Antonio. I wanted to be active this year at #ISTE17 and I think I have met my goal. I am slated to present (either alone or part of a…
One of my favorite things to do as a kid growing up in Minnesota was to go out on the lake and spend all day fishing. I spent a large part of my childhood in the summers fishing and would jump at the chance to learn something new in order to become a better fisherman.…
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