Written with my colleague, Dr. Celeste McDaniels, who teaches Chemistry. In our 2017-2018 chemistry class, students took up the challenge of integrating creativity with science and technology by making and marketing unique soap bars, utilizing chemistry and technology skills in our new Discovery Center building. Students began the project brainstorming a unique design for their … Continue reading
I created a series of tips to share with teachers at my school that I wanted to share out here on my blog. These tips are related to using Pear Deck Takeaways and how to review individual student work (this requires that you have a Premium Pear Deck account). Before reading on, you’ll want to make … Continue reading
If you’re a fellow Pear Deck user, you’ve probably seen their announcement — Introducing a Fresh New Look for Home! To follow-up on the homepage refresh, I made a video walkthrough: to share the new process for creating a Pear Deck through peardeck.com (which now launches you to a Google Slides presentation); and to talk through … Continue reading
These past couple months, I have been playing with both Read&Write and EquatIO, by TextHelp, to brainstorm ways we can be using these tools to help all students learn. Currently, we are using Read&Write mainly for students with learning accommodations. But I feel that we are missing out on an opportunity to help all students engage … Continue reading
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