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Creating great video lessons is just like creating a great lesson. Here are five simple ways to increase engagement and make better video lessons.
January 9, 2019
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Resolving for Technology Integration What were your New Year’s resolutions? Did you make any for your professional career? Maybe some for your students? With a new semester starting, this is a good time to start something new. Finding new lesson structure, activities, or assessment types. With all this new resolving, integrating more technology into your…
October 10, 2018
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What if there were never any practical parts to certification tests? A part of the test that checks your manual skills and not just your ability to answer multiple choice questions correctly. For instance, you are working toward your ASE certification in auto mechanics. You study your books, go to your classes, and then the…
Gmail can be the perfect teacher’s assistant. With communication being a major component of any teacher’s job, Gmail can be the assistant in making communication a breeze. The following is my list of tools that if you are a teacher, you should be using in Gmail. Canned Responses Teachers many times the same email…
March 4, 2018
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Find Your Own Professional Learning Teachers are professionals. We have studied, passed numerous certification tests, and are expected to be constantly gaining new continuing professional learning. As a professional, it can be expected that this continuation of learning be supported by their employers, but also self-driven by the educator themselves. How does a working educator…
January 16, 2018
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The landscape of education has changed. The days of limited personalized technology is quickly going away, even to the point of being encouraged. Personalized technology could include smartphones, tablets, laptops and the continual improvements on wearable technologies like watches and glasses.
November 12, 2017
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Digital Learning and Leading Journey Change, transformation, innovation are all task that requires effort and tenacity. Many times this transformation occurs when you don’t think that a transformation needs to or can occur. Where the change happens in such gradual instances, that only by looking back at the journey can one see the transformation. That…
November 4, 2017
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Innovation Plan Shift Innovation is adapting an idea or process to make it more useful or purposeful. It is not always something new or original (that is more an invention), but more a disruption. With that definition of innovation, I don’t know if my project is innovative, but could it be? Is using iPads…
October 21, 2017
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Photo by Ken Treloar on Unsplash Journey of COVA & CSLE in Digital Learning and Leading A Masters in Education degree program that develops both digital knowledge and leadership abilities (2017), is how Lamar University describes their Digital Learning and Leading degree program. Before entering this degree program, I really wrestled what direction I wanted to take. My…
October 7, 2017
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Reflection on DigCit Learning Digital citizenship is one of the topics that can be taken for granted. One could assume that they are good digital citizens because they don’t troll others, don’t leave rude comments on YouTube videos, and attribute their sources when posting media. What I have found is that there is more…