I started this week off by heading down to Fort Madison, IA to talk with their MS and HS teachers about effective technology use in the classroom and to conduct some Google Apps workshops as part of their professional development day. The main focus of my talk started with a simple slide that asked “What are…
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…
October is always a busy time for teachers due to the first quarter ending and parent/teacher conferences starting up but yet we also have another thing to look forward to, educational conferences. At least in Iowa, October is when the educational conferences start up. We have ICTE (english teachers) next week, ITEC (ed tech) the…
Padlet is one of those tools that I keep finding uses for when I am using it. It helps that they keep rolling out new features that add to its usability. It is a great tool for collaboration and getting feedback but the recent updates make it even more useful as both a curation tool…
One thing that I am really looking forward to this summer is the online PD class that we are doing for our MS and HS teachers. About 13 signed up for this experience, they will get renewal credit, and it is focusing on becoming digital teachers and learners. One important aspect had to include some…
One of the advantages to having books available on electronic devices is the ability to quickly share out key ideas and statements in order to start or continue a discussion. I have seen many groups try to start an online discussion about something they were reading and by using the digital form of that book…
We just finished the latest Tech Time 2.0 Google Hangout on Air. These are just a way I thought we could have teachers share out what they are doing with technology that is effective in their classrooms. This is just another way to support collaboration between teachers. If you look at the topics of the…
In case you haven’t seen my previous post, here, I am trying something new this term to help share out the effective uses of technology that are happening in our classrooms at my school. I fully believe collaboration and sharing are integral to a program’s success and this is one way that I am trying…
True learning involves a process that never ends, we are continually growing and changing as we learn. The learning process is one that should make us continually evaluate what we “knew” before and allow to us make changes to everything as we learn something new. Learning involves a process of trying things out, possibly failing,…
One of the biggest comments from our last full day tech professional development day was the appreciation to learn from other teachers about what they are doing in their classrooms. This is a common comment from many teachers about how we like to learn from each other especially about what each person is doing in…
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