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Week 7: Iowa Teachers Share Their Digital Journeys
This week I listened to a podcast on Wesley Fryer’s blog, Moving at the Speed of Creativity, in which teachers interviewed each other to talk about their digital learning journeys. One interview in...
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Week 8: Blogging in the K-12 Classroom
Langwitches Blog, which I’ve talked about before in Week 2: Langwitches Blog, has a post called Implementing Blogging in the Classroom. It talks about the way in which the school has begun to use...
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Week 9: Resources, Resources, and More Resources I Can Use!
My assignment for this week was to explore some resource websites and find more resources that I can use in the future, specifically with my teaching career. I definitely found a lot, and following...
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Week 10: The Thinking Stick
Today I read Social-Networks: Grabbing the Skunk by the Tail from The Thinking Stick. It addresses the use of social networking sites by educators. I really appreciate Jeff Utecht’s perspective on...
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Week 11: One to One with iPad & Laptops in Inman, Kansas
In the last year, schools in Inman, Kansas have implemented a one-to-one program using iPads and computers. This means that teachers, students, and administrators each have their own machine for daily...
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Voicethread in the Classroom
Last week we talked about Voicethread, which was a completely new tool to me. It is basically a slideshow on which people can leave audio, video, and written comments. Here is an example of a...
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Celebrate Kansas Voices
“Celebrate Kansas Voices is a statewide digital storytelling project empowering learners to become digital witnesses, archiving local oral history and sharing that history safely on the global stage...
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Final Reflection #1: Teachers, Throw Away the Old Playbook
When I began this technology course in August, I was not sure what outcome to expect. As little as I knew about technology, specifically incorporated into teaching, I hoped to learn a lot; I must...
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Final Semester Favorites
I have used a lot of new tools this semester. In this post, I will talk about my three favorites, and explain a little more about how I intend to use them in the future. 1. iMovie I never would have...
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My Wow Moment
I have enjoyed a lot of things in my Education Technology class this semester. I think the coolest for me, though–my “wow moment”–was when I took a minute to look back on everything that I have done...
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