Had a ton of fun in this preconference session with Lainie and Chris!! They had us up and moving, doing a lot. I’ve been wanting to play more with QR codes and one of our 1st activities was exactly that. Take a look at the activity here. If you want to see some of my … Continue reading
Another wonderful preconference with Ewan McIntosh this morning. Today it was all about looking at data. I have a lot of great resources that were shared in my google doc. Take a look and enjoy! There is some really wonderful stuff. We did about 2 hours of work in groups preparing our own data story. … Continue reading
My first pre-conference at BLC. Design Thinking: Genuine Epic-Scale Problem-Based Learning from Whole-School Planning, to Supporting and Measuring by Ewan McIntosh. Learned a lot and had a ton of fun. A lot of time was spent scribbling on post-it notes, but here are the notes that I jotted down. A big part of my work this morning … Continue reading
In my quest to find more useful iPad apps, I found some good recommendations from Lainie Rowell. I attended one of her sessions when I was at BLC last year and am excited to be attending her pre-session again this year! The following resources come from her via twitter: Did an iPad workshop over the … Continue reading
I just got an iPad! Excited would be an understatement!! I will have a class set next year, so I really am looking into apps that will be necessary to make everything work well next year. My goal in looking for apps at this point would be more “productivity” apps, at least for the moment. … Continue reading
It was an exciting week! I have been asked a lot about how my students did this year, after “flipping” my class, compared with the past. I have always responded that the students were happy, I was happy, and it alleviated the anxiety, which was my aim… And there were various other pleasant “side effects” … Continue reading
Today I had a chance to touch base with the director of technology at our school. And we talked about the Canvas and Haiku demos. And now I see why so many schools are turning to Haiku… Haiku is really geared towards the K-12 market, whereas Canvas is targeting the University level, at the moment. … Continue reading
Over the last 2 days, I heard demos from two Learning Management Systems – Canvas and Haiku. I am in love with Canvas and have been for some time. It is so feature rich and user-friendly. It has a very clean look and there aren’t excessive “clicks”. The ability to drag-and-drop within: 1. the Calendar … Continue reading
2 cool sites that I just learned about: 1. http://www.timer-tab.com/ in the chrome web store. See “Timer Tab – Create a Custom Timer to Use Online or Offline” post on Richard Byrne’s freetech4teachers site. 2. http://www.symbaloo.com/ – a visual bookmarking and sharing tool (60in60 from ISTE: http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/60in60fromiste11) <– thanks @ipadSammy
Worked a lot on computers today. Did a couple hours working through Java material. Also, have been doing reading on App Inventor in my spare time. Came across this site today with lots of good stuff: http://www.tair.info/
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