The third annual Maker Ambassadors’ facilitated Take Apart Day happened on December 20th & 21st, 2017. (You can check out the posts from 2015 & 2016-17) The ‘Maker Ambassadors’ is a component of PRISM, a self-selected offshoot of my school’s…
Category: Projects/Activities
Posts in this category describe projects I have assisted in and feel are good examples of technology integration.
A Google Slides Hack…
I was asked recently by a colleague, Stacey Lindes if it was possible to link to a specific slide in a Google Slides presentation. After a little thinking, this is what I came up with. ***Note: I truly cannot recall…
Assisting My Colleagues with a Holiday Inspired Tech Exchange…
If you have read previous posts on here, I tend to get asked questions like, “Would it be possible to…” Well two of my colleagues, Kim Lowden & Jess Verrault, are putting together a pretty cool way to celebrate the holidays…
‘Force a “Comments version” Copy’ Integration Activity…
Google recently announced the ability to make a copy of a Google Doc w/ all the comments &/or suggestions from the original document replicated. (You can read about it here) By the time of this posting, after November 29th 2017, all…
Building Upon an Idea…
I recently read a blog post by Eric Curts at Control Alt Achieve about how to have mathematical notation in a Google Form. The resource he shared is a free web tool, Online LaTeX Equation Editor, which is similar to EquatIO. This tool provides several…
Dabbling in a Little Scripting out of Necessity…
This past October was a PD day for my school district. Our afternoon sessions at the middle schools and high schools were designed around an unconference model. I was asked to create the digital board for the middle school and…
A Department Meeting Success!
Ever have a meeting where you feel the group vibe is a… can’t say World Series win, maybe a Pennant Series win? People are leaving inspired with new ideas and come up to verbally share them with you; that’s what…
New School Year; New Challenge
***Update for 2018-19 School Year*** Change occurs all the time, this year, the Community Based Instruction (CBI) program is no longer managing the school’s lost & found, so I had to shut it down (un-publish the site). I was asked…
2 Video Tool Recs… #EdublogsClub
This post is part of the #EdublogsClub – a group of educators and educational technology enthusiasts that blog around a common theme each week. Simply write a post and share it (via social media w/ #edublogsclub or posting a link…
I Just Had To Have It… #EdublogsClub
This post is part of the #EdublogsClub – a group of educators and educational technology enthusiasts that blog around a common theme each week. Simply write a post and share it (via social media w/ #edublogsclub or posting a link…