Month June 2015
Consider the selfie sticks hoisted, capturing images of you at the “Rocky Steps,” with Moby in the Exhibition Hall, in Love Park, with your Twitter friends you are finally meeting In Real Life. What purpose are these selfies achieving? Do… Continue Reading →
It is easy when you are a teacher, an expert, surrounded by other experts we defer to each other as writers of the grade level newsletter or calculators of recent fundraiser and feel smart amongst each other. Very smart. And… Continue Reading →
If you are lucky enough to attend educational conferences you know they are as much an experience as anything else. The comradery, the openness with which teachers learn from each other is inspiring! So how do you approach such an… Continue Reading →
The good news is that there are more resources than ever with which to teach! The not-so-good news is how are you supposed to keep track of all of this? In an online world how is a teacher supposed to organize… Continue Reading →
Everyone has Something to Share The expansion of social media is meaningful. People want to share with each other and people want others to share with them. Whatever your topic, if you are sharing digitally you may as well share… Continue Reading →
What does a Teacher Need to Know about Twitter? Twitter is by educators and offers a peer-to-peer, grassroots professional learning opportunity never before experienced by educators. Twitter is called micro-blogging because it limits messages to 140 characters at a time. Twitter can be… Continue Reading →
Why Are Teachers Using Twitter? It is safe to say no other social media has been co-opted into education like Twitter. A recent post by one of the founders of #EdChat, @Tom Whitby, sums the relationship between Twitter and educators nicely:… Continue Reading →
I really like to train others in educational technologies It is my job and something I used to do from the classroom out of passion. When I was in the classroom I will confess that I trained people differently. First,… Continue Reading →
I took a new approach to my annual list of who/what you need to be following while attending #ISTE2015 this year. I looked through both the #ISTE2015 program and my complete followers list on Twitter. I checked anyone who had… Continue Reading →
It takes me a while to get ready for an ISTE conference, the International Society for Technology in Education’s annual conference, and #ISTE2015 is like no exception. Last year the Atlanta conference was 50 miles away from our Georgia district and… Continue Reading →
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