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Climate is Everything

A Principal's Reflections

Manzo asked the students to take out their mobile devices and submit their questionnaire answers using Poll Everywhere. This was an extremely significant event as this represented the first time that a teacher and students used mobile devices in NMHS as a learning tool.

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NMHS Social Studies Teacher Brings Technology to Capitol Hill

A Principal's Reflections

For more information on this event check out the summary provided by ISTE. The event began with an introduction and panel discussion moderated by the Executive Director of Learning First Alliance, Cheryl Williams, who discussed the pertinent value of integrating technology into our 21 st century classrooms.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Never could I have imagined giving twenty different educators a voice during a presentation let alone thousands. Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. Mentimeter is a great tool that allows you to poll your audience in a variety of ways. You can even create a presentation that has multiple polls.

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Small Changes, Huge Results

A Principal's Reflections

Last week my school was fortunate to have the NJ School Boards Association (NJSBA) visit to produce a live event called Learn@Lunch: Technology as an Engagement Tool. You can view the archive of the event here. The first small change was my philosophical enlightenment as to the educational value to web 2.0

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New Year, New Adventures

A Principal's Reflections

Each September I am excited like most educators to get back to business doing everything I can to help students succeed. Many of the initiatives I am about to briefly discuss are not new to the field of education, but they are to NMHS. So what''s on the horizon at my school? Here is a quick synopsis: 1.

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Spice It Up! 6 Tech Tools to Transform Your Staff Meeting

Fractus Learning

I am sure every educator looks forward to staff meetings, right? I create a Month at a Glance, sharing a screencast presentation with upcoming events and tasks for the month. Poll Everywhere. I have used Poll Everywhere in many staff meetings. Educators are talkers, and we are also multi-taskers!

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Just Another Typical Day

A Principal's Reflections

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. He also had students use Poll Everywhere to check for understanding in the beginning of the lesson. This past Wednesday (February 6) was the second annual Digital Learning Day.

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