Whenever a tool I like to use updates, it makes me so happy! When Edge moved to Chromium over a year ago, I jumped for joy. Literally, in my chair. One of our goals as a department is to make every program we use seamless with Single Sign-On – and Chromium provides that. Unified Classroom and Schoology are going to work better for our students with the use of Single Sign-On. (you know, the whole not having to sign in more than…
It has been awhile since we last spoke. As we have found our footing in this new world, I have so many awesome updates to talk about, especially with PowerPoint, and they just keep coming. In this new world of remote learning, and as teachers are trying to figure out how to teach remotely, PowerPoint has accelerated their backend work to introduce PowerPoint Live along with a host of other tools. PowerPoint Live If you’ve not heard yet, PowerPoint…
Have you ever thought “my students would love to talk to an author like Cressida Cowell, Jane Yolen, Jacqueline Woodson, Kathryn Erskine, D. J. MacHale, Richard Peck, or Jacqueline West?” They might also like to go the Redwood Forest, visit an animal rescue in the UK, talk to a sea turtle expert, visit the Coral Reefs, learn about the Geology of Yellowstone, hear from Dr. Jane Goodall, meet an expert from Australia in the Great Barrier Reef, visit Joshua Tree National Park, or meet a doctor from any…
More and more classrooms are now learning, creating, reading, and testing online. To keep up with our technologically demanding lifestyles, the traditional classroom is making way for such innovative tools as wiki. It’s also a fun way to engage students in content across the curriculum.
For this week’s blog post we are kicking off an ongoing series on the SAMR model and lesson ideas. In this series we will give you real examples of how to use the tools we have to create lessons that fall into the SAMR model. A quick recap on what the SAMR model is: SAMR is a model designed to help educators infuse technology into teaching and learning. Popularized by Dr. Ruben Puentedura, the model supports and enables teachers to design, develop, and infuse…
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…
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…
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.
What a summer it has been! While you were out recuperating, taking classes, teaching summer school, traveling, planning for this year, we have been working on improving Unified Classroom training with some great documentation, going to conferences and preparing these blogs and upcoming podcasts. It’s great to be back working with teachers and I hope that PD this week was great for you! For me, I took part in two online PD summit called #DitchSummit and CUESummit and you’ll learn…