Virtual video walkie-talkies? Meet the Marco Polo app

Why the Marco Polo app? With social distancing and remote learning on educators’ minds, there’s never been a more urgent The post Virtual video walkie-talkies? […]

How to use Google Keep for video note-taking

A recent study from Common Sense Media confirms what those of us who spend time with young adults already believe The post How to use […]

3 ways to use virtual bulletin boards

Padlet, Google Keep and Corkulous — oh my! 1.Padlet Padlet’s been a go-to for a number of our educators for a while now, based on […]

Setting behavioral expectations in a makerspace

  2 ways to bring in transferable skills Makerspaces are amazing. They’re a big carnival of lights and sounds and glue and lasers, arduinos, controllers […]

Using audiobooks for Universal Design for Learning

Expanding student access to reading As a school librarian, I needed to think how I could adopt Universal Design for Learning (UDL)  in my own […]

4 ways students can control the pace of content delivery

Deliver the goods! Rather than creating a unit on the Civil War, imagine working with an individual student or small group on a topic that […]

The tech-rich social studies classroom

Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school The […]

The Perils and Possibilities of YouTube

How to make YouTube appropriate for the classroom YouTube can provide students and educators with hundreds of powerful educational videos that can deepen learning, and […]

Screencast-o-matic on the Macbook

A step-by-step tutorial We helped one of our partner schools, Wallingford Elementary in Wallingford, Vermont, get set up with screencasting for their MacBook-based 1:1 environment, […]

Exploring identity and current events with Chatterpix

Students tackle politicians’ identities Students at Peoples Academy Middle Level in Morrisville, Vermont, are exploring the theme of identity in their humanities class. In part, they’re doing […]

Chasing Google: A Defining Moment

Becoming a Google Certified Educator My fascination with Google started in the early 2000’s simply from a financial interest. Here was this really cool “tech” […]

Collaborative digital tools for faculty meetings

Go beyond back-channeling and unlock creative communication This summer, look for ways to liven up your faculty meetings and delve a little deeper with technology. Try something […]

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