This week is a whopper! We discuss teaching 4th Graders and CS Education with Natalie Velez Cotto of Frederick Harris Elementary School in Springfield. Listen to all of the great wisdom and ways she is elevating teaching in Springfield. Plus we have a huge PowerPoint Update along with a few reminders for Unified Classroom. You don’t want to miss this week’s edition of the SPS Digital Learning Hour!
Every year tools that we love get updates, especially during the Summer when teachers are on break. Adobe Spark is one of those tools. For a quick review, Adobe Spark is a tool that allows students and teachers to create and share impactful visual stories using three media types, Video, Page and Post. I’ve used it for my Favorite Quote Friday’s, which is now Motivational Mondays, which you can find on Instagram @beardedtechedguy or my website https://www.beardedtechedguy.com When you ask Adobe what each…
Blog Updates! Awesome Tools! A shout out to Mike Tholfsen from Microsoft EDU! Check out this week’s podcast featuring Melany Laroe from Glickman Elementary and hear her journey as a teacher in the Springfield Public School District! Learn about what technology looked like in the classroom back in 2006 compared to today, listen to Ms. Laroe’s journey through teaching and technology and some awesome advice she has for new teachers.
What is Flipgrid? According to Flipgrid they state “Flipgrid is simple. Engage and empower every voice in your classroom or community by recording and sharing short, awesome videos … together!” I just believe they are just awesome! In short, you as a teacher create a grid which is a meeting place and then the students go into that space and create a short video to answer that questions. Flipgrid has a great educator’s guide that you can get here. Your…
Do you like to organize your students? Do you wish that there was a better way to create a Pinterest board that you could share with your students and not worry about all the other stuff that comes along with Pinterest? Do you wish you could organize materials for your classroom in a more elegant way? Have no fear, Wakelet is here! Wakelet’s mission is one of helping people find, organize and share information in a clean, elegant way. They…
This week I sat down with Springfield CIO Paul Foster and we discussed all the exciting things happening in Springfield. If you want to know what the future of Springfield Public Schools holds, this is a can’t miss interview! If you are thinking about wanting to be a teacher, consider Springfield as a destination after listening to this!
We love Microsoft and there is so many awesome updates that they made this summer and this blog post doesn’t even cover all of them.