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SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Catherine Murphy

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…

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Mike’s Top 5 Microsoft Edge Tools

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…

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Episode 100: Arturo De Bourbon

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,…

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PowerPoint or Power Program

PowerPoint or Power Program

​ It has been awhile since w​e 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…

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SPS Digital Learning Hour: Episode 97

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….

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The SPS Digital Learning Hour is Back!

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…

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Episode 94: CSforAll Part 3

Episode 94: CSforAll Part 3

After a short hiatus, we are back with a brand-new episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour and we look at CSforAll Springfield. This is the third episode in the CSforAll Springfield series. I might virtually with Caitlyn Sayers and Aimee Baron, and we discussed CSforAll. We are also trying out a new format, getting you to the interviews earlier and our news and announcements afterwards! Let us know what you think! CSforAll Springfield is a four-year project which started…

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Episode 92 featuring Principal Vinnie Regan

Episode 92 featuring Principal Vinnie Regan

This week we stopped by Mary M. Walsh for a chat with Principal Vinnie Regan to hear about what’s been going on at their school. During the interview you will hear all about how Principal Regan is helping his school take the next steps, moving towards Student-Centered Learning. This year, Walsh was selected as one of three Springfield School to be a part of the Kaleidoscope Collective for Learning pilot. For Walsh and Principal Regan, there is a strong focus…

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