Increased Technology Use Impacts Learning
As technology use becomes more ubiquitous in classrooms around the globe, the need for professional development and enhanced infrastructures to handle additional devices comes into play. Quality professional development that helps teachers feel comfortable taking risks, try new hardware devices or software applications with students and positively impacts student achievement is essential to implementing successful [...]
Wallwisher is Now Padlet with New Features!
If case you weren’t aware of the change, Wallwisher has changed its name to Padlet. Wallwisher is a site where people can post sticky notes pertaining to various topics. I received an email today that you can now export your Padlet in a variety of forms for offline use or storage. This is great news [...]
Children Use Technology to Connect with Santa Claus
This is a great time of year if you have little ones that are eagerly awaiting Santa’s arrival Christmas Eve for them to contact Santa Claus online or receive a phone call from him! I am reprising this blog post from last year and have added some new ways to connect to Santa Claus using technology. [...]
Great Ideas to Share and Publish Student Work
I wrote the blog post below for the Texas Discovery Educator Network (DEN) blog and decided to add additional resources for posting, publishing and printing student work. I didn’t mention another avenue for students to publish their work or creative writings is to post to a word cloud resource. With word clouds, you can’t necessarily [...]
Two Unique and Innovative Ways to Use Twitter
There are tons of innovative ways of using Twitter but I am only going to touch on two ways. First is the use of hashtags. Whenever I am in a webinar talking about hashtags, I am always asked what to explain what a hashtag was. A hashtag on Twitter is a word or phrase with [...]
Achieving Harmony with Harmon.ie
I have recently started using a MS Outlook Plugin and have come to love this plugin. It is called Harmon.ieand it helps bring ‘harmony’ to your email app and Google docs. If you use MS Sharepoint, the plugin will work with MS Outlook and Sharepoint. I use it strictly for Google docs and Ms Outlook and [...]
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