Last year in iOS 12, Apple introduced a handy new feature called Screentime. Screen Time allows you to monitor your own usage of your smartphone and see which apps you use the most, as well as which ones cause the most notifications. Smartphones can be powerful tools for learning and work but they can also…
As someone with pretty much no artistic ability whatsoever, I am continually looking for images and graphics from others to use in my resources and presentations. I always look for copyright free media or media that has a Creative Commons license for reuse/remodification. This is why I like to use https://pixabay.com/ so much but there might…
Earlier this year we pushed out the use of #ameshighpride to our teachers, and then our students, to promote all of the great things that are happening at our school. Many other schools have done this, or something similar, so this was not something new but it was definitely something that I wanted to keep…
Yesterday I decided to try out a new tool that others were talking about on Twitter to create images for presentations or to just share out. Unfortunately that tool had a lot of paid features and that means it will most likely not be one I would suggest to other teachers, unless those paid features…
Last week we rolled out the use of #ameshighpride to all students at the high school through homeroom. Teachers were introduced too the use of the hashtag in the fall and there have been a lot of great posts using that tag before we rolled it out to students. There are a couple reasons why…
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…
We are now living and learning in the digital age and there is something lacking in a lot of educational settings. We use digital resources, we post online, we have students traversing the highways of the internet and yet we do not address the ways in which we should behave when online and how this…
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…
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