As part of our monthly challenges at AHS and something that we have wanted to do for a while, we are having our first district Twitter Edchat. At 8pm on Tuesday, November 17 we will be using the hashtag #AmesCSDchat to conduct an Edchat with teachers in Ames. This will be a great learning experience…
ITEC was just last week but I am just now posting my resources and reflection. As usual, ITEC was a great chance to learn and connect with other great educators from in and out of Iowa. There were a ton of great sessions and thanks to Twitter I was able to follow along with those…
We are less than a week away from ITEC, Iowa’s biggest educational technology conference. This is a great time for educators to come together from across the state, and even those from outside the state, to share how they are transforming their learning environments through the use of technology. Whether you are at the conference…
Google Calendar is now integrated with Google Classroom. If you go to classroom.google.com and click on the three horizontal lines, you should see Calendar as an option. You can also get to it by going to the About part of your Classroom. It will be listed towards the bottom. If you have not…
I remember as a student teacher at ISU that I had to record myself teaching using an audio recorder. The purpose of this was so that I could go back and listen to myself teach so that I could analyze what I heard and reflect in order to improve. This is an important procedure that…
To be an effective learner today, you need to know how to curate resources. There is a tremendous amount of information out there and if you do not curate your resources, selecting those that are relevant and useful, you will be overwhelmed by what you find. There are a lot of curation tools out there…
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