If case you weren’t aware of the change, Wallwisher has changed its name to Padlet. Wallwisher is a site where people can post sticky notes pertaining to various topics. I received an email today that you can now export your Padlet in a variety of forms for offline use or storage. This is great news [...]

Despite some unexpected technical difficulties, there was a full house today during my presentation on "Cell Phones as Instructional Tools in the Math Classroom". In the previous post, I have the embedded the Livebinder that has all the tools and more listed. I failed to mention Livebinders during the presentation as we ran out of […]

As part of the organizational team for the K12 Online Conference, I just wanted to remind everyone that proposals for video presentations were due on July 31st. Below is information from the official K12 Online Conference website: The theme for the 2013 conference is "Transforming Learning." The conference will begin with a pre-conference keynote on […]

It has been awhile but one of my favorite topics to present to teachers is how to use web conferencing in the classroom to enrich instruction and add to what the teacher is already doing with technology. This Thursday, August 1st at 3-4pm PST, I will be presenting a "Connecting Globally using Web Conferencing to […]

Below are the resources associated with the DEN Fall Virtual Conference 2013 associated with my "Cell Phone Tricks and Treats" presentation. I have embedded the slideshare and livebinder referenced in my session. I apologize for the technical difficulties and hope that didn’t deter anyone from attending the session. If you had questions that I didn’t […]

iTunes isn’t the only ‘game’ in town to find educational apps to use with students in the classroom anymore. I use the term ‘game’ facetiously in the title of this post as we know iTunes has tons of apps for use in the classroom with students and learners of all ages on a variety of […]

Siteground.com now offers free websites/blogs for students and educators. The educator gets a free site regardless of whether their students blog or not but student accounts are also free. The URL for the accounts would be: http://  .siteground.net and there is no limit on the free accounts. The accounts are fully featured accounts, integrate with […]

This week, Nov. 18-23, 2013, is the free online global conference hosted by Steve Hargadon and Lucy Gray. The conference has sessions 24 hours each Monday - Friday. If you are interested in learning about collaboration or global education this is the place to be! The main website for the conference that contains the schedule, […]

Below are the resources shared during my presentation for the 2013 Global Education Conference (http://globaleducationconference.com) on Wednesday, Nov. 20th at 10pm CST. The audio and video recording will be added once they are made available online after the session concludes. Thank you to everyone who attended this evening - especially for those in time zones […]

It’s time for the Edublog Awards! Nominations are open and the process to nominate a blog for a category award is listed below: How To Nominate To nominate your favorites: Write a post with your nominations for the different categories on your own blog (or a website - anywhere public) - here is an example of a […]