In my 22nd year as an educator, I will easily say that being an Esports coach has been one of the top or maybe the top things I have done. Having been part of the start of an esports program at two different school districts has allowed me to help create experiences and opportunities for…
As someone who has worked for a while now helping others learn about effective use of educational technology for teaching and learning, I have seen a number of reflective frameworks, but none of them really hit the spot with me. I just want a framework that will help focus us on whether or not that…
One of the best metaphors I have heard when it comes to talking about identifying those barriers that are created around student learning in our instructional design has to do with fish and the water they swim in. A fish may not be fully aware of the water they are swimming in as it is…
Google seems to be constantly updating Sheets to make it easier to not analyze and use data but also easier to enter data. One of main features I have always used is the ability to have a dropdown in a cell. This dropdown makes it easier to either enter the same information time and time…
Although ISTE 2017 was almost 2 1/2 months ago, I am still thinking about all of the great conversations I had with other educators after my Ingnite presentation. I was ecstatic to be able to share how my learning as a kid was affected by a piece of technology. Without that piece of technology, a…
This year at ITEC I presented about how to use some basic equations to do more with your data in a Google Sheet. There are about 10 equations that I use on a frequent basis when I am dealing with large amounts of data and I can easily move the data around to create the…
I am helping out this week in a classroom where the teacher wanted to do something other than the posters they had done in the past. We decided on allowing the students to choose what they use to do the project as long as it could be shared with others and met the contextual guidelines.…
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