If you haven’t heard of Nearpod by now, you really need to check it out! This versatile tool takes your presentations and instruction to the next level. Nearpod allows you to embed quizzes,polls, Fill in the Blank activities, drawing activities and more! Have I made you curious? Check out, “Nearpod: Bring…
A Case for Blogging in the K12 Classroom
According to Wikipedia, as of February 16, 2014, Tumbler had around 172 million registered blogs, and WordPress had 75.8 million blogs in existence worldwide. These are only two of many blogging platforms available around the world, so you we can only imagine the true number of blogs being published on the Internet each day. A…
More Totally Awesome Things to do with Spreadsheets in the Classroom
If you read the first Totally Awesome Things to do with Spreadsheets in the Classroom post, you’ll know that I’m a little obsessed with spreadsheets right now because I made the lowest grade of my life on a recent grad school assignment involving spreadsheets. As I do more research, I’m…
Totally Awesome Things to Do with Spreadsheets in the Classroom
Since last January (2013), I’ve been working on an add-on for my teaching license that will qualify me for my current position as an Instructional Technology Specialist/Facilitator. This spring I had one assignment in my current class that gave me quite a bit of trouble. In fact, I made the lowest…
TechToolThursday: Uploading Videos to YouTube
Yes, I know that today is Friday, not Thursday, but life is CRAZY right now. My apologies! 🙂 Last Thursday I introduced you to the series Putting the YOU in YouTube. I discussed setting up your YouTube channel and personalizing to let your students and parents know more about you…