Episode 103: Minecraft @ Liberty Elementary
Listen and learn how one school in Springfield has taken Minecraft for Education to the next level. Check out this episode with Liberty Elementary.
SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Kristyn Brannigan
In the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour, I met with Kristyn Brannigan. She is a classroom teacher from Alice B. Beal Elementary School here in Springfield. With over 15 years of experience, you will learn all about what it’s like to be a teacher that has had the opportunity to teach in schools around the world. In this episode you will learn all about her journey, you’ll get to hear some great ideas on teaching remotely, including…
SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Catherine Murphy
That’s right, we are back with another episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour. In this week’s episode we met with Catherine Murphy, a Kindergarten Teacher from Arthur T. Talmadge Elementary School. Catherine is doing some amazing work in the classroom. During this magical year, she introduces many students to what school is all about. As a CSForAll teacher, she integrates a lot of technology into her class pre-COVID, which excites her students throughout the year. If you have ever…
Mike’s Top 5 Microsoft Edge Tools
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…
Episode 100: Arturo De Bourbon
SPS Digital Learning Hour presents Arturo De Bourbon Community engagement, corny jokes, shout outs and general school announcements. For this week’s interview, we meet with Arturo De Bourbon, a Technology Teacher from Samuel Bowles Elementary. Through his work with students in the classroom, Arturo had taken morning school announcements to a whole new level. Learn how Arturo went from in person morning messages to remote messages and even expanded what the messages look like. Throughout the interview we learn how Arturo came to teaching,…
Episode 99: The Distance Learning Playbook
Module 2: The First Days of School With this week’s episode we jump into module two of the very popular book, The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie. With the SPS Digital Learning Hour podcast, we are talking our learning out loud. If you do not own this book, get it now and join us on the journey of discovery. You will also hear my thoughts…
PowerPoint or Power Program
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…
SPS Digital Learning Hour: Episode 97
In this week’s episode we met with Sumner Ave Elementary Teacher Liam Bevan. Liam teaches Science to the entire school. Being the teacher responsible for 500+ students science learning can be challenging, especially in this time. Learn how this former Geologist came into education and the ways he is finding success in the classroom. Liam also gives us a couple of things to think about regarding taking caring of ourselves. We list all the tools mentioned in this episode below….
Episode 96: The Digital Learning Playbook
Module 1: Take Care of Yourself In this week’s episode we jump into a hot new book, The Distance Learning Playbook, Grades K-12: Teaching for Engagement and Impact in Any Setting by Douglas Fisher, Nancy Frey, John Hattie. We decided here at the Digital Learning Hour we wanted to discuss what we are learning with you, or as I like to think of it, Mike talking out his thinking. If you couldn’t guess it, I verbalize my thoughts for processing….
The SPS Digital Learning Hour is Back!
We’ve been in a long winter over here at Bearded Tech Ed and we are finding our way back out of it. With all the changes in the last 7 months, we are finally feeling settled and ready to get back into the game. The first step for us was getting the podcast up and running again, and I can’t wait for you to hear what we have planned. Not only will be giving you awesome interviews with some of…