It’s been a crazy last 6 months! So many changes to keep up with. I’m excited to get back to writing and podcasting. In the next few weeks we will be up and running again and you’ll hear all about our adventures in new LMS’s and new tools that I love. Keep your eyes and ears open as we will drop new content in the coming weeks.
In this week’s episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour we look at CSforAll Springfield. This is the second in the series of episodes all about CSforAll Springfield. This episode is focusing on our the researchers from UMASS Rick Adrion & Florence Sullivan and a few of our coordinators Rachel Chouinard, Melissa Zeitz & Scott Wohlers. Check out Part 1 here. CSforAll Springfield is a four-year project which started during the 2018-2019 school year. UMass Amherst, in partnership with Springfield…
Learn how to make interactive content in your online classroom to make it come alive. H5P is a tool that allows the user to create interactive content.
Check out the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Sarah Tobias of Sci Tech!
If you missed me at MassCue this past week, check out this blog post to learn more about my presentation!
This week I sat down Katherine Kruser, the Art teacher at Mary Pottenger on how she is integrating technology into her classroom through authentic practices.
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!
This week I sat down with Pre-K Teacher Kerri-Ann Keenan over at Kensington Avenue Elementary School to talk about all things Pre-K and technology. I learned so much about how Pre-K works and I think you will too! We also have a bunch of announcements this week! You don’t want to miss this! Follow Me on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @beardedteched
As our district has transitioned to a one-to-one model and we continue moving toward the take home model, we need to start to evaluate concepts like Flipped Classrooms and Blended Classrooms. We need to be asking ourselves intentional questions, such as: what are they, how can we use them, what benefits do these ideas have, what are some of the negatives, why would we make this change? Flipped Classroom is an instructional teaching strategy for running your classroom. Essentially, a…