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A Commitment to Digital Learning

A Principal's Reflections

After students decided as a group, they voted individually as a class about their opinion on the source with “ Poll Everywhere ,” using their cell phones. Using Mac Books: one student recorded and shared their comments on a Google Doc while the other searched for and viewed the paintings.

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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

For the most part they used a program called Poll Everywhere to check for understanding, review prior learning, and informally assess. I provided a workshop on Poll Everywhere and some tutorials, but many of my teachers experimented on their own time and quickly figured out how to use this web 2.0

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The Blended and eLearning PBL Classroom… A Journey from Analog to Digital Project Based Learning

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Check out my Booking Page . Is there a good online Mentor Book that might help? Perhaps it an ebook using Book Creator , a video , or one of the many apps found on the Padagogy Wheel.

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10 Great PowerPoint Changes You Probably Don’t Know About

Ask a Tech Teacher

The first time I ran into these was with a link checker called AbleBits.com to find dead links in my tech ed books. This includes DropBox, Google Drive, Poll Everywhere, Camtasia, and Adobe Stock. They are like the add-ins you download to your browser but work within PowerPoint. Now, the add-ins available has exploded.

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The Case for Quiet Kids: Helping Introverts Get Heard in the Classroom

Edsurge

This extra prep time can make all the difference in the quality of a class discussion, book talk, or when students turn and talk with partners and small groups. For those comfortable experimenting with tech, try the Ask a Question feature in Google Classroom, Poll Everywhere , Google Forms, or Answer Garden.

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Instructional Upgrade

A Principal's Reflections

With the first month of the school year in the books, I am extremely pleased with how more staff members are embracing educational technology and effectively integrating a variety of tools into instruction. Students from Algebra 1B and Elements of Geometry have used Poll Everywhere in order to answer multiple choice questions.

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Technology Tools for Teaching and Learning

eSchool News

Digital textbooks and e-books offer a more interactive and dynamic alternative to traditional printed materials. Digital Storytelling: Tools like Adobe Spark or Book Creator allow students to create digital stories. Real-Time Feedback: Edtech allows for instant feedback through tools like Socrative or Poll Everywhere.