You may have heard of Twitter being touted as a great place to find teaching resources, ideas, and other professional development opportunities, as well as a place to grow your Personal Learning Network (PLN.) You may also have signed up for Twitter at some point, only to be confronted with suggested follows consisting of comedians, musicians, actors, athletes, and politicians, but not necessarily educators. Perhaps your Twitter timeline currently consists of updates on what your uncle watched on TV last night. So where is this promised land of professional resources for educators on Twitter? [Read more…] about Exploring Educational Hashtags on Twitter
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Featured Resource: TweetDeck
Tweetdeck (https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/) is a customizable, multi-column interface for Twitter that makes it easy to follow twitter chats, hashtags, or events as they happen in real time. Users can set up as many columns as they choose, showing not only the regular timeline of updates from people they follow, but also hashtags or other search results, twitter lists, notifications, and much more.
We are featuring TweetDeck today because it is a simple tool for following a twitter chat (such as the upcoming #GSDEdTech Chat.) Here is a quick video that shows how to sign in to TweetDeck and quickly set yourself up to follow and participate in the #GSDEdTech chat or any other Twitter educational hashtag chat.
Digital Conversion Spotlight: Student Creativity
In the lead-up to next year’s Digital Conversion implementation, we will be featuring spotlights and discussions from teachers and students who participated in pilot classroom Chromebook programs during the 2014-15 school year. In today’s video, teachers highlight ways that students use classroom Chromebooks to explore their own ideas and interests, develop creative projects, and become creators and producers of knowledge rather than simply consumers of information.
Spotlight Created by Patrick Flanagan, Granite School District Director of Educational Technology.
Digital Conversion Spotlight: Initial Struggles and Successes
In the lead-up to next year’s Digital Conversion implementation, we will be featuring spotlights and discussions from teachers and students who participated in pilot classroom Chromebook programs during the 2014-15 school year. In today’s videos, teachers discuss some of their initial struggles and initial successes in using digital devices with students.
Spotlight Created by Patrick Flanagan, Granite School District Director of Educational Technology.
Granite EdTech Monthly Newsletter – April 2015
Granite EdTech Monthly Newsletter – April 2015
Our department’s monthly newsletter was just sent out to all teachers in Granite School District, but if you missed it you can also access it here.
This month’s highlights include:
Teacher Spotlight: Jeffrey Horne, Skyline High School
Jeffrey Horne is not your average teacher. His students regularly use laptops and 21st Century skills to expand and invigorate their learning. [Read more…] about Teacher Spotlight: Jeffrey Horne, Skyline High School
Featured Resources: National Poetry Month + Poetry Foundation
As April is National Poetry Month, we are featuring two great digital resources for bringing poetry into the classroom. [Read more…] about Featured Resources: National Poetry Month + Poetry Foundation
Digital Conversion Spotlight: Impact on Practice
In the lead-up to next year’s Digital Conversion implementation, we will be featuring spotlights and discussions from teachers and students who participated in pilot classroom Chromebook programs during the 2014-15 school year. In this video, several teachers discuss the impact that classroom Chromebooks has had on their teaching practice.
Spotlight Created by Patrick Flanagan, Granite School District Director of Educational Technology.
Digital Conversion Spotlight: Student Thoughts on Chromebooks
In the lead-up to next year’s Digital Conversion implementation, we will be featuring spotlights and discussions from teachers and students who participated in pilot classroom Chromebook programs during the 2014-15 school year. In this video, students share their thoughts on the benefits of having access to Chromebooks in their classrooms.
Spotlight Created by Patrick Flanagan, Granite School District Director of Educational Technology.
Library Spotlight: Susan Booth, Churchill Jr. High School
Susan Booth is the Library Media Educational Technology Specialist at Churchill Junior High School. [Read more…] about Library Spotlight: Susan Booth, Churchill Jr. High School