Apple Distinguished Educator Program
When I think about professional development, I don’t think there is any conference or program I would want to be involved in more than the Apple Distinguished Educator Program. Put on by the makers of...
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Starting the year with feedback, effort, and prototyping
How do you go from this: To this: Or this: To this: This is how! The start of the year is the time to set expectations for how students work and live in the classroom. At my new school (!), we are...
View ArticleClass Trailer 2014-2015
I’ve taken a bit of a hiatus from the blog, but I am back for the new year at a new school – The American School in Japan! I am looking forward to writing more about my technology learning and...
View ArticleTellagami – Mindless Fun or Educationally Worthwhile?
While chatting with our librarian a few weeks ago, she introduced me and a few of the students to an app called Tellagami. With Tellagami you can create and share animated messages like the one below....
View ArticleASB Unplugged – Day 3
This piece is a long time coming. My excellent visit to India sadly went downhill as I got a bit sick and had to miss part of the ASB conference. Still, I wanted to get these notes and thoughts up to...
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ASB Unplugged Day 2 – Classroom Visits
Day two at ASB Unplugged brought us into the classrooms to see how technology-infused learning is happening at ASB. The school did a great job offering a schedule of classes to observe, along with a...
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Technology Learning in Mumbai!
Quote of the day: Gary Stager: “You can’t teach 21st century learning if you haven’t learned anything this century.” Today is the start of the ASB Unplugged conference in Mumbai. We have quite a...
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Social Networking … 4th Grade Style!
It’s always exciting to go to the library, but one of our most exciting times in the library each year is when the students have their access to Destiny Quest turned on. DQ is a social network of...
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Digital Portfolios
Well, I have been loathsomely neglectful of this blog over the past few month. This is just due to the busyness of school and life, but the technology is still going strong in Grade 4. Our current...
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Reflections from The iPad Summit
Attending the iPad Summit at the American Embassy School in Delhi was an amazing experience. Here are my top take-always from the conference: Blogging – One of the things I’ve noticed at the conference...
View ArticleStop Motion Animation
Peter, Joanne, and I worked on a stop motion animation video this morning in a workshop session. Here is our final product (not perfect, but we only had about 30 minutes):
View ArticleReflections from Day 1 of the iPad Summit
We’re about to start day 2 at the iPad Summit, so I don’t have too much time to type, but I wanted to share a few take always from day 1. The best session I attended was Alan November’s keynote...
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iPad Summit Delhi – notes and quotes from opening keynote from Alan November
This was one of the best keynotes I’ve seen in a while. Here are my unedited notes from Alan November’s speech this morning: It’s an interesting time to make stuff up Assuming technology will change,...
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iPad Summit in Delhi – Day 1
We’re getting close to the end of our first full day in Delhi at the iPad Summit at the American Embassy School. I’m still a bit jet lagged but doing well, and I’m enjoying the Indian food (of course)....
View ArticleOff to Delhi!
11:32 PM London time – location unknown … I’m current at some altitude over the earth, somewhere over Europe or Asia, but unfortunately it’s too dark and I can’t figure out how to get my TV screen up...
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Exciting Connections
One of my big themes this year for technology use was making connections. Technology allows us to easily connect with other people and experts around the world. We’ve started by doing a Mystery Skype...
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Book Creator as an eNotebook
Well, I’ve continued to be slow on my blog posting, but we are deep in the use of our iPads this year. I think one of my favorite things has been continuing to use the app Book Creator as a storage...
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Mystery Skype!
My goal this year was to continue writing on this blog on a regular basis, but it seems that I’ve been posting less than ever. As it went longer without writing it seemed I needed something especially...
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It feels like New Year’s
Well, we are back into the swing of things! Today was the sixth day of school, and it was the day we finally got out the iPads. I was actually a bit surprised that our Darth Vader looking iPad cabinets...
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New storage for iPads
With the expansion of our iPad program to the entire 4th grade, we’ve got lots of new toys and tools. This year the tech department has changed our storage system, so I look forward to seeing how it...
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