Throughout the past year, I have been taking a professional development course on blended learning and what that means for the personalization of education for students. As the course progressed, I was tasked with creating a prototype of blended learning that I could use in my own class that would help me to meet my goal of creating independent learners in my classroom.
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In my previous post on Developing a Professional Learning Network, I mentioned a professional development event called EdmodoCon that I attend each summer. I wanted to take a few moments to share with all of you a little bit about my experiences there and why I would recommend it to all my teaching colleagues. EdmodoCon …
I was really excited to learn today that Apple has created a new section in the iTunes Store just for educators. It is rich with a fantastic collection of apps, iTune U courses, iBooks, and other really useful educational resources. What a fantastic idea for teachers trying to incorporate technology such as iPads into the classroom. Previous …
I am always on the lookout for activities that will help me make the learning process fun and interesting for my students. A couple years ago, I came across this great idea for a review game to play with them called Bazinga.
Classroom is an incredible new product developed by Google available to anyone with access to Apps for Education, a free suite of Google tools (Drive, Gmail, etc). In a nutshell, teachers are able to setup classes quickly and add students directly or share an invitation code. Within minutes your whole class can have access and be ready …