Ignite talks are tag lined with “Enlighten us, but make it quick,”. Ignite is a presentation format where a presenter speaks while slides advance automatically to support them. An Ignite presentation is exactly 5 minutes, and contains exactly 20 slides. The slides advance automatically after each slide is displayed for 15 seconds. I think this […]
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Who knew way back in college when I became besties with a gentleman that I worked with that I’d eventually be SUPER indebted and impressed with his wife?? Well, he probably knew that, 🙂 I mentioned on Facebook last spring how completely confused with creating my own website & blogging platform. I needed it
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During a conversation with a new colleague recently, she expressed surprise at the fact that I have two daughters, not just one curly headed one. I heart social media, especially when it lets me share my sweet baby girl with my friends and family. I am very cautious, however, about sharing my big girl. She
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At the beginning of the year there is always a need for scaffolding basics, especially for younger students or students who may need a reminder of what reading is all about. Teach your Monster to Read is a free game to practice the first steps of reading. It is built on the principles of synthetic
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Do you find yourself spending a TON of money at the beginning of the school year? Me too! To help teachers ease that financial burden, the Dairy Queen® system has launched the Orange Julius® Treat for Teachers essay contest, presented by Orange Julius at DQ®, which gives teachers an opportunity to receive funding for classroom
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Remind 101 is a free service that allows you to send text messages to groups of people. You can do it from your phone or your computer. The best part (other than the ease and free-ness!) is that you can send messages and parents in your class and they won’t see YOUR phone number. Did
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How many of your students get to meet a Paralympic or Olympian? they’re not just hanging around the mall these days, are they? Coincidentally enough on today’s jog (and by jog, I totally mean walk) I listened to my second Edu All-Stars podcast with Todd Nesloney, Stacey Huffine, and Chris Kesler and heard about this program called
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Continuing on with my tweets from sessions I attended at ISTE…this will be MUCH easier for me to reference back too, reflectively, once we go back to school. 🙂 Cool Google Tools for the BYOD Classroom, w/Tammy Worcester Cool collaborative tools for any device Simple but basic, use google forms to aggregate answers from Ss,
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I have used twitter as my note taking guide from other conferences and it has worked fine. The problem with using it at ISTE was I was there for 5 days and there were over 50,000 tweets. Bah! Impossible to scour and dig deeper. Here are my tops from a couple of sessions I attended
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Before I go Piaget and deep thinking on some of what I saw at ISTE this week, I want to talk about some of the sessions I went too. I’ve seen a push back via Twitter on people complaining about sessions in a couple ways. One person very snarkily asked if anyone actually went to