Welcome back to school! I hope everyone had a great summer and was able to relax and recharge. Our district starts with teacher professional development and classroom setup this coming Thursday, K-9 start next Tuesday, and 10-12 start Wednesday. The summer has flown by! The beginning of the year is always a little crazy [...]
School is starting soon, or has started in some places, so I thought this would be a good time to share a bunch of great resources for new teachers. Us veterans can use these too! Please share with your colleagues. Here is a collection of resources for New Teachers: New Teacher Advice and [...]
Live in the San Diego area of Southern California? Want an awesome way to spend a day in San Diego? Look no further than the 2012 ISTE Pre-Conference Day of Discovery at the University of San Diego. Held on Friday, June 22nd, this amazing day of FREE Professional Development is available to all CA Educators, [...]
I’d like to think I’m pretty darn smart, particularly when I was having a conversation with a colleague and a couple of days later the Huffington Post covers a story on that very topic! Maybe great minds think alike? The topic – are teacher credential programs preparing teachers for the type of work that is [...]
That’s right, this Friday, May 4th is your last chance to submit your videos! Looking for more info? Check out the contest website or keep on scrolling… What’s the Dr. Lodge Video Challenge? Simply select one of Dr. Lodge McCammon’s pre-selected, standards-based songs, learn the corresponding moves from the kinesthetic lectures, film your music [...]
Very soon after I had just sent a message out to my Digital Storytelling students alerting them to a good sale on editing software for PC’s, I sat down next to Steve Dembo to hear a keynote speaker at Iowa’s edtech conference. Within minutes Steve showed me a free, web-based alternative to the late (temporarily, [...]
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Yesterday was a fun filled day for Dallas Teachers with a visit from Discovery Education. About 200 teachers from as far as 3 hours away came for a day of networking and learning to increase their knowledge on Discovery tools and more. Matt Monjan led a session on digital storytelling tools for the classroom. He [...]
NEW TEACHER ORIENTATION by David Andrade, CT DEN LC, http://tinyurl.com/edtechguy I’m working on my Master’s Degree in Educational Leadership (I already have one in Educational Technology) and my current course is “Developing Teachers.” In this course we are looking at recruiting, training, and retaining teachers and this week we are looking at new [...]
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