How do we retain and attract teachers? Business as usual certainly is not making happen. Education, like business, has to change to accommodate families
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Live from TCEA – Sharing the Learning
If you missed TCEA 2022 in Texas here are the live snippets I shared. Technology connects us and brings us together. Sharing the learning is how we can all benefit even when we can not be together in person.
EdTech Can Make Life Better – Edufuturists Podcast
Alice Keeler was a guest on the edufuturists podcast. Check out episode #159 for how EdTech can make life better.
Shifting the TikTok Trend: Students Have the Power!
Eductor and Leader, Carly Spina, shares a resource to counteract the latest TikTok trends and a way to help students use social media in positive ways. FREE RESOURCES included!
3 Things to Check Out in EdTech!
Melody McAllister loves scrolling through socials and finding great things, ideas, and people to share.
10 EdTech Tools to Try for 2018
1. Flipgrid 2. Formative 3. EquatIO 4. Quizizz 5. Adobe Spark 6. PhET Simulations https://phet.colorado.edu/en/ 7. Mentimeter 8. Classcraft 9. Pear Deck 10. Newsela
Online Teaching: The Creative Approach By @EBGtech
For right now, if you can’t focus on it, don’t focus on it. Focus on what you can. What new skills are they learning because of this situation? Focus on those skills and celebrate those successes.
Educator Spotlight: @Knikole
Follow @Knikole! She is in the business of helping teachers!
From the Author @mjmcalli – I’m Sorry Story
The Journey to be an Author Guest Post by Melody McCallister To sign up for author read aloud https://forms.gle/oUMqq2NgJUVpbBMR9 How the I’m Sorry Story Developed Roughly eleven years ago, the I’m Sorry Story was floating in my head. I was teaching fifth grade in Garland, Texas and pregnant with my first child. I had been…
REJOICE! Your Interface Has Changed
“The only constant in life is change”-Heraclitus. Being an expert in Google Apps is a lesson in humility. Constantly Google (and hopefully every product you use) is making their product better. Which means when you open Google Classroom or any other Google App it may look differently. Your favorite feature may be completely gone or a new…
5 Homework Assignments for the Thanksgiving Break
A friendly reminder that a break is a break. This is not an excuse to give extra work to students. There is NO research that suggests that we should give students work to do over the Thanksgiving break or any break. Actually, rest and breaks are very important. So please, let your students have a…
No Paper or Google Forms Spelling Tests
Ditch the Spelling Test I’ve been asked how to turn off spell check (facepalm) for Google Forms to administer spelling tests. There are a few issues with this. Do not fight technology, change what you do. If spell check has made the spelling test obsolete, own it and let’s value spelling a different way. Same…
Well Intentioned, but Damaging
How Does That Score Make the Student Feel? I have fond feelings about my 4th grade teachers, both of them. Because I could not do math facts fast I had to repeat the 4th grade. My teachers were well intentioned with the timed math facts, but it has had a lifetime of negative impact on…
Project or PBL via @edutopia
What is the Difference Between a Project and PBL? On Twitter, Edutopia gave an example of the difference between a project and PBL and provided a video. As I struggle to provide my students with authentic PBL projects I gather resources and information on what PBL is to help me get started. Project: students spend…
Teachers, Take a Break!
Our Bodies and Our Brains Need a Break Last year I wrote Don’t Be the Holiday Grinch: Ditch the Break Packets. For years I made these giant holiday worksheet packets. WHY? No one told me to do that? I thought I had to do that, what from my past made me think this was something that was…