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…
Author: Mr. G.
Mr. G. started out as a fourth grade teacher. His love for integrating technology led him to a Master’s in Instructional Technology. He became the Technology Specialist in a K-4 building prior to its reconfiguration into a K-1 building. The following year he was the Instructional Technology Coach, assisting K-1 teachers on how to best use technology for student success. He also started as an adjunct professor for Instructional Technology at Arcadia University. In May 2012, he was accepted into the SMART Exemplary Educators program. Currently he is a teacher resource specialist for technology focusing on iPad & SMART Board integration in NJ. In addition to being a SMART Exemplary Educator he is a Nearpod Author, appoLearning Expert, ThingLink Expert Educator & Symbaloo PD Pro.
Great Ideas Are Started With: “Is there a way…”
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.…
Apps, Extensions, Add-ons… My Head is Spinning!
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…
ISTE 2015
Getting Collaborative!
“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,…
TODAY IN SCHOOL… a Global Blogging Project
Google Tone
Get Ready for Some More Hands-on PD
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…
The Power of the PLN
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…
Biz World Commerical
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.