Superhero Themed Night Idea - Green Screen
One of our schools is having a superhero themed curriculum night and in one station (in the media center) students can wear capes and masks ...
Digital Vision Boards for the New Year
I was in a classroom today and the students were brainstorming goals for the New Year. Later I was randomly emailed a post about students cr...
Websites to PDF's (Chrome Extension)
One of my favorite sites to use with students is duckster.com . It is a great site that has lots of student friendly articles (I use it most...
Parent/Teacher Conference Scheduling
If you are looking for a techie way to schedule parent/teacher conferences, instead of sending home slips of paper asking parents to choos...
Morning News Shows and How To Create Video Overlays with a Windows Device
This week I have been working with several schools as they start putting together their morning news program for the school year. Almost exc...
Blackout Poetry with Google Docs and Drawings
I love the idea of Blackout Poetry. The basic premise is using existing text and finding words within the text to create a poem...then black...
Two New (and exciting) Technology Upgrades
Exciting Technology Upgrade #1 - Google Classroom This week Google Classroom announced that they have added a way to assign work to individu...
My First Mystery Skype - Review and Resources
This week I tried a Mystery Skype for the first time with at 2nd grade class.They have a serious amount of mapping skills in their standards...
Parent Teacher Conference Resources
With parent/teacher conferences coming up, you can use https://calendly.com/ to manage your conference schedule (and it is FREE!!!). Using ...
Making Snap Chat Filters
Recently at a conference the sponsoring company (Discovery Education) posted some fun snap chat filters. This lead to the "How did you ...
Chrome Extension - CraftyText
I am currently at a conference specific to users of the Discovery Education website and I have been going to a number of classes. In yesterd...
ISTE 2016 - Honorable Mentions or for Further Research
As always there is way too much information at tech conferences to the point of shutting down (that happened to me in Atlanta at my first IS...
ISTE Top 10 - #1 - Seesaw
There were several hot topics at ISTE this year (gamifying PD...global collaboration...coding...micro-credentialing ) but one tool that kept...
ISTE Top 10 - #2 - Amazing Race Challenge Using MyMaps
I went to a ticketed session titled " Challenge Students (or Staff) to Google MyMaps Amazing Race ." (click on the link to view th...
ISTE Top 10 - #3 - Challenges and Badges
At ISTE they have a series of sessions known as Snap Shots. It is where you get two sessions in an hour verses one. I like the format mainly...
ISTE Top 10 - #4 - Zaption (?)
This WAS my favorite thing at ISTE but I just found out the company sold and is closing on September 30th. WHAT?!?! It is a lot like EdPuzz...
