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Why eBooks? Wes begins by challenging us to think about the benefits of having a longer narrative opportunity to tell our story. The gatekeepers of publication are now more on […]
This is going to be Hard begins Will Richardson. To quote danah boyd, “For adults to hear the voices of youth, they must let go of their nostalgia and suspend their […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. With “Back to School” signs cropping up all over stores, educators are certainly aware of the imminent countdown to the first day of school […]
What a week! On Monday, Samantha Morra gave a presentation at the Chromebooks and Common Core Symposium on “Extensions and Add-ons: Making Google Work for You.” Greg Kulowiec led custom workshops in Lawrence and Mendon, […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. Google Docs (found in the Google Drive suite) is a powerful word processing tool that many schools have adopted. As it’s similar to Microsoft […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Evernote is a helpful productivity tool when used effectively on iPad and can play a significant role in a 1:1 iPad […]
August 19th, 2014 Whether you are launching into your first year as a classroom teacher, taking on a new role, or moving to a new school, come […]
August 28th, 2014 The first few weeks of school are the perfect time to bring parents on board with your technology use in the classroom. Come join us as […]
September 9th, 2014 After a summer of preparing for iPads in the classroom, the school year has begun. Now what? Come join us as we offer up recommendations for lessons, […]
September 18th, 2014The video above will be a LIVE STREAM of the webinar. This webinar is broadcasted for free using Google Hangouts on Air. Press play or refresh if the video doesn’t […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. Having just wrapped up a successful iPadpalooza and seeing all the chatter around ISTE 2014 online, I wondered: what makes a memorable and meaningful […]
Summer Workshops continued on in Cambridge this week. At the beginning of the week, we spilt the iPad Classroom into two workshops focusing on Elementary and Middle & High School. Then, we […]
This guest post from ETT Summit presenter, Ginnie Pitler, first appeared on Edudemic. A Curated View Is social media the “big fake?” Fake because there is so much more than […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. Professional coders work collaboratively, and rarely does a computer scientist create a program solely on their own. Every successful programming project evolves as a […]
This post first appeared on MindShift. When many of today’s teachers who grew up in Generation X are asked to reflect on traditional learning objects from their classrooms of the […]
This post first appeared on The New Yorker Elements Blog. In the 40 years since computers and software first started assisting students, how much has changed? How much has stayed […]
It was another big week of Summer Workshops! We had our first West Coast workshops in Berkeley with Holly Clark and Douglas Kiang as well as four in Cambridge with Tom Daccord, Justin Reich, Greg […]
This post first appeared on Edutopia. … We can learn a lot from children’s infatuations with cardboard boxes. It shows us how much they want to shape and construct new things, […]
This post first appeared on Greg’s blog, The History 2.0 Classroom. Over the past few years I have facilitated a number of iPad workshops with teachers from across the country. […]
This post from Lisa Dabbs (@teachingwithsoul) – our Director of Business Development for the West Coast – first appeared on Edutopia. I grew up loving to read and waited excitedly […]
Happy 4th of July! Given the soggy conditions here in the North East, we decided to post our weekly resources a bit early. This week, Greg Kulowiec kicked off another Full Year […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. If you have email, iTunes, Facebook, or any other online account, then you are familiar with Terms of Service; you know, those excessively long, […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. For years, I spent my summers teaching sailing and leadership skills to high school students on a 50-foot boat in the Caribbean. I cherished […]
EdTechTeacher News It was our biggest week of the Summer Workshop Series yet! We had four workshops in Chicago with Beth Holland, Shawn McCusker and Holly Clark as well as four in Cambridge with […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. Fueled by an incredible demand in the workforce for proficient programmers and the need to teach critical thinking skills, the coding movement in schools […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. Rapidly approaching the dog days of summer (give or take a few days or weeks), I felt a need to share a power packed […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. The year may be winding down, but you still have your students for a few more precious weeks of school. If you […]
EdTechTeacher News What do Texas, California, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Illinois, Iowa, and Ontario have in common? We had workshops or presentations in all of them this week! Shawn McCusker and Greg Kulowiec continued our Summer Workshop […]
This post first appeared on Edutopia. We have always struggled to envision the future, often superimposing new technology over our current views. Remember the Jetsons? Though they lived in a […]
This post first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. While gathering resources to share with campus teachers, I stumbled upon the Photo Mapo app and quickly added it to my list of […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. The end of the school year is a time for reflection. What did we do well? What do we need to improve upon? These […]
This guest post from Martha Slack (@slackmartha) first appeared on Edudemic. The recent 3D printing explosion on the educational market has left many educators wondering how they can afford to […]
What a week! Our team traveled from Atlanta to Toronto and led 16 different workshops! Shawn McCusker and Beth Holland kicked off our Summer Workshop Series in Atlanta with The iPad Classroom, The Advanced […]
Cathy M. Rubin, author of The Global Search for Education Series on the Huffington Post interviewed Carl Hooker last weekend about the ongoing “Device Debate.” “Which digital device is the better learning […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. The modern classroom is a messy one! Schools are entering the world of technology at different speeds and levels; some institutions have invested in […]
This post first appeared on eSchoolNews. For nearly a dozen years, I’ve traveled to various schools and districts to deliver professional development workshops and presentations. These experiences have taught me […]
This guest post from Summer Workshop instructor, Maggie Keeler (@KeelerMS), first appeared on Edudemic. As more and more states adopt the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), teachers are beginning to […]
We are honored to be able to run this guest post from EdTechTeacher Summit presenter, Michael Cohen (@TheTechRabbi). Do you remember your first plane ride? As young children, we remember […]
This week, we continued with end-of-year professional development workshops and kicked off our first Full-Year program for 2014-15. Our team of instructors criss-crossed half of the country, working with schools […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. Helping kids show what they understand by making their thinking visible should be at the heart of most pedagogically sound technology integration. Chrome apps […]
Sugata Mitra painted a picture of a School in the Cloud during his 2013 TED Prize Talk. Gary Stager, in his book Invent to Learn, calls on schools to become engineering labs where […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. I was fortunate to teach in a 1:1 laptop classroom for seven years. In my classes, students took daily notes on computers, did research, […]
We’re back and better than ever! This week, we would like to give you a tour of the all NEW EdTechTeacher. With over 250 pages of content, there are tons […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. A class set of novels, binders, poster boards, and enough post-it notes to wallpaper a school…. all supplies associated with a traditional middle school […]
Special thanks to ETT Summit Presenter, Sabba Quidwai (@askmsq). She will be presenting Cast a Spell to Flip Your Class with TouchCast. In the Passenger Seat Placing students in the driver’s […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. A challenge of raising a connected generation of students is figuring out how to be a connected learner yourself. This requires learning about the […]
Recently, Lisa Johnson has been writing and presenting on Device Agnostic Tools for the classroom. Yester, she published this great ThingLink on her TechChef4U blog. We just had to share! To […]
This is guest post from ETT Summit presenter Sabba Quidwai (@askmsq) first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. At the top of my list these days is an app called […]
This post first appeared in Edudemic. Providing timely and effective feedback on student work is a critical component to any classroom. As students increasingly operate and create in a digital […]
More and more teachers are transforming their classrooms by flipping their instruction. Ten Reasons to Attend a Flipped Classroom Workshop 10. You are ready for a change in how […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. Selecting apps and planning projects in a BYOD can be a formidable endeavor. What device does Gavin have? Does this website work on Caroline’s […]
Though we teach Google Apps in just about every summer workshop, this year, we are running Google Chromebook & The Google-Infused Classroom in four cities. June 26-27 in Chicago July […]
This post, Use Your Voice to Give Students Feedback on Google Drive – Cool Kaizena Updates, first appeared on Free Technology for Teachers. Kaizena is an outstanding web based tool […]
We know that there is still one more weekend in May, but we have BIG NEWS! Our plan is to launch the completely re-designed EdTechTeacher web site and blog over […]
This post first appeared on Edudemic. This past week, I introduced 3D printing into my classroom. Next week, we will receive 3D pens from Dim3printing, an Austin-based 3D printing distributor. […]
This post first appeared on Diversa – an initiative from the Rodrigo Mendes Institute. Imagine the impact if a student could play back the directions for an assessment rather than […]
We have iPad Classroom and Advanced iPad workshops in Atlanta, Austin, Berkeley, Cambridge, Chicago, & Los Angeles! NEW iPad Workshops for 2014 Lights, Camera, Action! Moviemaking with iPads – Cambridge […]
May 19, 2014: SCRATCH is a fantastic, FREE platform for teaching students about coding. Samantha and Douglas had some great ideas for how to integrate it into the curriculum.May 19th […]
May 15, 2014: Courtney Pepe is half-way through a 60 day experiment of Google Glass in the Class. Come hear what she’s learned so far!Time: 7:00pm EST/ 4:00pm PSTSpeakers: Beth Holland (@brholland) and Courtney […]
May 6, 2014: Looking to meet the needs of your 21st century learners in a BYOD setting, this fast-paced webinar is for you. Come learn a toolkit of web tools […]