https://youtu.be/SF6Kve47gyE Welcome back to a new episode of Tech Tuesday! I know many of you are shifting your mindset for the last quarter, reviewing, and preparing for finals. This week’s episode focuses on big end of the year project ideas to keep your students learning! I’m really excited about today’s topic because once AP testing… Continue reading Tech Tuesday – Season 3, Episode 15 BIG End of the Year Project Ideas
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Using Google Tools to Support Writing Webinar Review
Disclaimer: I am not being paid for or benefiting from this review in any way. I simply attended the webinar and wanted to share my thoughts about these tools with other educators. I recently participated in a webinar from Text Help, a Literacy, accessibility and dyslexia software that helps students with reading and writing difficulties.… Continue reading Using Google Tools to Support Writing Webinar Review
What’s an Edcamp?
Several years ago I started hearing about these untraditional conferences known as Edcamps or unconferences. Unlike a traditional conference, where a list of breakout sessions with titles and descriptions are given ahead of time and you can decide on which sessions to go to, you instead help decide the sessions the day of and create… Continue reading What’s an Edcamp?
Tech Tuesday – Season 3, Episode 14, Testing Review Sites
Welcome to a new episode of Tech Tuesday! This is episode 14 and this week I’m focusing on some review sites you can use to help students prepare for those end of the year exams, like SOLs and finals. Let’s jump in! https://youtu.be/mLKSlwj0yP4 I’m sure when I say the term “review sites”, you all immediately… Continue reading Tech Tuesday – Season 3, Episode 14, Testing Review Sites
Tech Tuesday – Season 3, Episode 13, 10 Ways to Use Animated GIFs
Welcome to a new episode of Tech Tuesday! This week I’m returning to a recent topic. In the last episode, I showed you Brush Ninja, an animated gif tool. But did you know there are lots of other ways to make animated gif’s? Inspired by a blog post from Free Technology for Teachers, I’ll show… Continue reading Tech Tuesday – Season 3, Episode 13, 10 Ways to Use Animated GIFs
EdTechRVA Conference: Keynote
I was so inspired by the Keynote Speakers at the EdTechRVA Conference, I had to write a separate post about their work at Hungary Creek Middle School in Henrico, VA. The keynote session by teacher Jason Vest and principal Robbi Moose was entitled "Explore – Collaborate – Create: Making #LifeReady Learners at The Creek". They… Continue reading EdTechRVA Conference: Keynote
Tech Tuesday – Season 3, Episode 12 – Brush Ninja
Welcome to a new episode of Tech Tuesday! I’m back after recovering from the flu and strep throat and ready to jump into this week’s topic! This week I’m focusing on Brush Ninja, an easy to use animated GIF tool. https://youtu.be/5Xbcqq5EUi4 Now originally, I asked Andrea Barbuzza, the MPHS Digital Media Specialist who first… Continue reading Tech Tuesday – Season 3, Episode 12 – Brush Ninja
Notes from the EdTechRVA Conference
On Wednesday, I attended the EdTechRVA Conference sponsored by the Virginia Society for Technology in Education (VSTE) at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. This was a new conference I recently discovered for the schools in the Greater Richmond area. While I'm slightly out of the area, it was still close enough for me to… Continue reading Notes from the EdTechRVA Conference
Shake Up Learning Show!
If you couldn't tell by now, I am a huge fan of both Kasey Bell of Shake Up Learning and Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook. Together they have a podcast called The Google Teacher Tribe that I am addicted to. It has all of the Google news I could possibly need besides great ideas… Continue reading Shake Up Learning Show!
Why is Storyboarding Important?
In my last post, Creating Video-Based Projects, I shared a workshop I had created about how project-based videos can move students to create, turning them from consumers into creators. When I went about developing what this workshop would look like, I made sure a good portion was dedicated to Storyboarding and why it should be… Continue reading Why is Storyboarding Important?
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