Always Learning

Throughout my career, I bounced back and forth between being a classroom teacher and holding educational technology jobs. Both have been challenging and rewarding. Building a community of learners and helping them grow in academics, social skills, and character has been an honor and a delight. When the long hours of being a […]

Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?

On January 2, 2022, Scott McCleod posted the following on Facebook.

There were many comments on his post. I was delighted to see many people I used to follow join the discussion. People questioned the viability of blogs, people missed the community of bloggers, and people migrated to other platforms such as […]

Zeroing in on a Collaborative To Do List

I am joyfully back in the classroom this year. Although re-entry is brutal, I’m loving it.

One lovely aspect of being a classroom teacher at this school is that I have a half time instructional assistant. Since her schedule has her in and out of my room all day, I needed an efficient way to […]

Hosting Class Photos on a Flickr Account

Our school uses Google Apps for Education. We require our teachers to have either a class Blogger blog or a class Google Site. Teachers are expected to post photos and weekly updates.

Each teacher has their own school Google Apps account which they use for school work and school correspondence. They also have a class […]

“Hello Siri!” – Introducing Students to Siri

At this time of year, few of our grade four students cannot type quickly on a computer keyboard or an iPad keyboard. As a result, many classes do most of their drafting on paper in notebooks. However, revision is challenging on paper. Having a quick way to convert handwritten drafts into digital texts would be […]

Do You Travel with Friends?

Over the past decade I’ve had the delight of traveling with extended family and friends a few times. The only negative part of the trips were tracking expenses as we were traveling. When I saw the Let’s Settle Up Later app on the Apps Gone Free app, it sounded like just what I needed.

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