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…
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!
Welcome back podcast listeners! I hope you had a great summer. This week we just touch upon many upcoming podcast and blog topics. We’ll catch you up on the latest news in the district and the directions we’ll be taking this year!
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…
Tuesday’s Learning @ISTE 2019 was awesome, check out this post with all of my sessions.
That‘s it for the 2018-2019 School Year and we go out with a bang! Come and listen to our interview with a group of girls at Boland Elementary School who were a part of the first Girls Who Code group at Boland Elementary. You will not be disappointed hearing from these girls, who were the trailblazers at their school. Follow Me on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @beardedteched Links https://youtu.be/fC9da6eqaqg https://girlswhocode.com/about-us/ https://girlswhocode.com/our-team/#our-founder
This is the penultimate episode of the 2018 – 2019 Season of the SPS Digital Learning Hour! We are looking forward to the Summer and so should you! For today’s episode we look at some fun ways for you to learn this summer. Follow Me on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook @beardedteched or my new website http://beardedtechedguy.com/
Authentic learning, if you have read or listened to me on the SPS Digital Learning Hour Podcast, you know that this is something I am constantly saying about using technology in the classroom, but do you or I even know what it means? Edglossary.com (A website that defines Ed Reform terms) defines authentic learning like this: In education, the term authentic learning refers to a wide variety of educational and instructional techniques focused on connecting what students are taught in…
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