I’ve had my mind on Forms a lot lately. Assisted a teacher with setting up Parent/Teacher conferences using Forms, Choice Eliminator add-on, and confirmation emails using formMule add-on. Then I joined an 8th Grade Team meeting. Prior to the agenda…
Here’s the setting. The teacher resource specialists for technology are gathered together for a team meeting. On the agenda, our, what has now become annual, Tweet 10 Challenge. One of our team members read a blog post by Alice Keeler.…
Going Google brings a whole set of new terminology to try and explain. So here is my attempt at making sense of this from what I heard in a session by Mike Marotta. Apps – quickly launch to a web…
There are events you attend which are filled with excitement; overwhelming with new ideas; and leave you with your head spinning. That’s how the International Society of Technology Educators’s conference was for me this past summer. Now I had the…
“Two heads are better than one” -John Heywood, 1546 Well I want to take that to the next level! Two resources which I like, have built in features allowing for multiple people to work together in creating collections, projects, examples,…
A few years ago, as a classroom teacher, I started a blog called TODAY IN SCHOOL… with the intention of using the site to chronicle daily adventures with my students, ultimately painting a picture with each entry of what it…
One of my new favorite tools for Chrome is Google Tone! My district invested in Hapara which allowed our teachers in our 1:1 Chromebook program the ability to manage the devices while in the classroom. One of the features I…
That’s right folks, with summer comes the opportunity for hands-on learning that is fun and self-paced. The 2015 ThingLink Summer Teacher Challenge starts shortly (week of June 28th). This 5-week challenge introduces you to a must use resource through weekly…
I believe I was in a Twitter chat a couple of months ago where we discussed the use of iPads and apps in education. Of course the conversation headed towards app smashing; the workflow of merging different apps to use…
Third graders are engaging, at the end of the school year, in an entrepreneur group project called Biz World. They form ‘companies’; select jobs like CEO or VP of Marketing; produce a product; pitch to investors; apply for loans; advertise; and much more. In addition to participating as a Venture Capitalist or Loan Manager, I was also ‘hired’ as Commercial Producer. I worked with students on concepts of product placement, slogans, ‘celebrity’ endorsements, etc. Once students are finished editing their productions, I hope to be able to add some of them on here. Below is the commercial I directed, did voice-over work & produced to play during the school’s morning news show a couple of times prior to the third graders’ sale.