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Love the phrase I read today…”Video is the new Power Point”….and I so agree! One of my favorite lines from Grey’s Anatomy that I use ALL the time is “Power Point is SO 1997.” Makes me chuckle every time, 🙂 Luckily, the days of yesteryear are gone, where it takes an expert, or an army, […]

  In my Tech Edge newsletter this week there was a fancy list of new web 2.0 tools for both teachers and students. Many of these I’d seen or heard of before, but there were a couple newbies thrown in, 🙂 I thought I’d share the list with you, just in case you too needed a

As most know by now, I have transitioned over from my role as Title I Technology Facilitator to an Assistant Principal role at Luna Elementary. I’m now fully switched over, 🙂 and have started figuring out where to go from there. One such transition is this blog. I have always been a “tech”nically driven person

The training schedule for next semester will be added to the intranet this week. One of the new classes that we’ll be offering will be on blogs and having your own classroom blog. I’m going to be doing several posts about blogs and why/how I think they are such an easy way to not only

How very misleading that title is, because I actually have TWO techno tips for you! (bonus!) First, I came across via Twitter (8Amber8) a this list of iPhone apps for education. This may be for you and your personal phone, or for your students if you have an iTouch center in your classroom. I know my daughter

I have had a lot of teachers talk about finding a virtual field trip or an author to Skype with. After much searching and PLN discussing, here is a list of what we’ve come up with. I already have a rockstar teacher at Ethridge skyping with a teacher from Canada this week! Yea Andrea! If

Here is the letter that I’ve used and modified throughout the year to introduce blogging to the students and their parents. Feel free to modify and adjust as you see fit. Letter   informR, Amber  

One of the strategies we’ve worked so hard to integrate into our trainings were the cheers that we’ve now seen at a couple of different places. The facilitator’s first saw these at the fabulous ASCD conference we went to on peer coaching with Robin Fogarty and Brian Pete. (Who, btw, are incredible! Check them out when you can!)

Remember those word of the day calendars that would sit on your desk? I’d never remember to change it…so I’d be using the same big new word for like two weeks, until I frantically noticed and would then tear off two weeks worth of words I’d never get caught up on…sigh. Quite defeating. One of

I’ve said before that I think blogging has become ubiquitous. It’s like Brad Pitt, you can’t escape it! That being said, I think there are several things to understand and consider before one jumps into the foray of “blogging”, especially when talking about with a classroom. Are you blogging to communicate with your students? Their