Today was session 3 in Independent Education’s Teacher-Mentor Leadership Institute which I have the opportunity to participate in this year. We will meet a total of 4 times over the course of the year, each time mentors and mentees for the full day. Session notes can be found here.

Some awesome tools shared here: Slides from Presentation Tweets from session storified here.

Session description: How can we better help students capture an abstract concept in the humanities? Often we teach abstract skills, whether it be an understanding of tone, mood or symbolism, through writing and discussion, but how can we create a deeper understanding for students? And how can we make this a more creative process? Simple … Continue reading →

In the 21st Century Classroom, it can be difficult to design learning experiences that both incorporate student choice and differentiation for learning levels and styles. This session will show you how to make that happen with student choice menus created in Google Apps, creating a paperless classroom where the students take ownership of their learning. … Continue reading →

Thomas Murray has been a big inspiration to me and he is doing incredible, innovative work. You know those people that take time to talk with you and make you feel like you need to constantly keep dreaming forward — Tom is one of those guys! Now, I have a sad story. I was really excited to … Continue reading →

Jenny Lawton, CEO of MakerBot, was supposed to Keynote this morning. She was unable to make it, so Yuri Salnikoff stepped in. A typical education takes twelve years to achieve. A dozen years from now, students graduating form high school will have had exposure to 3D printing all throughout their education. What will this mean for … Continue reading →

FETC kicked off with a keynote by Jane McGonial: “Gamers spend 80% of their time failing” And yet they are motivated to keep trying and keep playing. ~@avantgame #FETC — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) January 21, 2015 .@avantgame talking about Re-Mission – a video game to help kids fight cancer http://t.co/jFIkc6qJ7o #FETC — Stacey Roshan (@buddyxo) … Continue reading →

One of my favorite tools to use with teachers this year has been Buncee. It meets so many needs and is an extremely easy tool to use – for students and teachers. To get started, I suggest watching this 3 min video overview of Buncee. I think it is worth watching the whole thing because there … Continue reading →

If you use Haiku LMS to embed you screencast.com videos, you may have noticed that there is no option to go fullscreen. (Haiku strips a piece of the code, which disables the full screen option.) But there is a solution! The embed code generated by screencast.com will look like this: iframe class=”tscplayer_inline embeddedObject” name=”tsc_player” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ … Continue reading →

Thank you, all, for making 2014 a year full of so much learning and growing! A highlight of my blogging was being named one of EdTech: Focus on K–12’s Top 50 IT Blogs. I’m very thankful for all of the opportunities and look forward to even more in 2015! 1. My Thoughts on the Surface Pro 2. 3 … Continue reading →