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Advancing Mobile Phones as Learning Devices

A Principal's Reflections

This shift in mindset can be directly attributed to what I have learned from innovative educators in the social media spaces that I now delve into on a routine basis. For the most part they used a program called Poll Everywhere to check for understanding, review prior learning, and informally assess. StudyBoost GoKnow Wiffiti.

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Is Your PD Workshop Up to Par? 5 Ways to Tell

Graphite Blog

Take a moment to reflect back to a workshop that has had a lasting effect on you. To be effective leaders and trainers, it's important to identify these elements so we can best engage participants during our own workshops. Have you experienced a workshop in which you were forced to work with an unfamiliar or ill-matched group?

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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? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Thanks so much.

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Is Your PD Workshop Up to Par? 5 Ways to Tell

Graphite Blog

Take a moment to reflect back to a workshop that has had a lasting effect on you. To be effective leaders and trainers, it's important to identify these elements so we can best engage participants during our own workshops. Have you experienced a workshop in which you were forced to work with an unfamiliar or ill-matched group?

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4 EdTech Ways to Differentiate in a Student-Centered Classroom

The Web20Classroom

Co-Written with my friend and business partner Shaelynn Farnsworth In all the work that Shaelynn and I do with teachers across the US and beyond we see educators creating amazing learning environments for students. From the use of 1:1 technology to enabling students to learn authentically, these really are incredible times to teach and learn.

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Ideas and Tools to Give Everyone a Voice

A Principal's Reflections

Whether during a class, meeting, presentation, or workshop it can be at times extremely difficult to give everyone a voice. Never could I have imagined giving twenty different educators a voice during a presentation let alone thousands. Mentimeter – Move over Poll Everywhere. AnswerGarden – My new favorite tool!

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Here's what you missed at the MidWest Technology Conference 2014 #METC14

MSEDTechie

I co-presented two workshops this year. You can create an educators account for free. I left feeling refreshed, revived and rejuvenated ready to tackle the last few months of school. This conference was packed with experts sharing their knowledge with cool and exciting ways to integrate technology in the classroom. Or pre annotate it.