Multiple Chrome Profiles
As a teacher, you know that juggling your personal and professional life can be challenging. But you’ve got to stay organized and keep your school stuff separate from your personal stuff! Multiple Chrome profiles can help you do just that. If you are like me, you probably have more than one Google account to help […]
Mindfulness Meditation Apps for Teachers and Students
Why is mindfulness important? Finding a balance between the perks and challenges of today’s digital environment can be taxing, but it doesn’t have to be! Read on to see how using mindfulness mediation apps can help you and your students! Mindfulness meditation apps can help support both students and teachers! Technology in the classroom certainly […]
Teacher Self Care: 6 Tips for the Holidays
While teacher self care has not always been at the forefront of discussion in the field of education, most educators will agree that teaching is time- and emotionally-intensive work. But the joys of the profession have often outweighed the challenges! However, in the past couple of years, we have faced circumstances that we never imagined […]
How to Run Hour of Code Activities in The Classroom, Even if You Aren’t a Coder
Many schools and classrooms across the country, and around the world, will be participating in Hour of Code activities in celebration of National Computer Science Education Week, December 6-12, 2021. Hour of Code is a great time to expose students, and teachers, to the field of computer science and general coding concepts. What is the […]
5 Tips for Using Google Slides Templates for Virtual Learning
Even as many schools move back to face-to-face instruction, virtual learning days are also now an integral part of our school year. But being anxious about them should not be! Using Google Slides templates for virtual learning can be helpful in making teaching virtually learning less stressful. Why Google Slides templates for teachers? Our favorite […]
The “Techie Teacher” Myth
Over the past year in my role as a digital learning coach, I have noticed the way so many teachers adapted to teaching in the post-Covid classroom. For some of you, Google Classroom was a brand new platform that you had to learn and teach your students to use at the same time! For others […]
SCETV Guest Blogger Series: Ideas for Teachers to Incorporate Digital Citizenship into Their Instruction
Many teachers feel overwhelmed by everything they already have to do in the classroom each day and can’t imagine having to do one more thing! Many teachers using technology complain about the management aspect of 1:1 initiatives. However, digital citizenship instruction can go a long way to improving classroom management in a 21st-century classroom. In […]
Celebrating Reading with Epic! Books for Kids
This month as you are celebrating National Reading Month, try celebrating reading with the ebooks app Epic! When choosing any type of technology, I always consider my instructional goals first. When it came to choosing a reading app, I chose Epic! because it offers a wide variety of reading options for students, gives students options […]
“Ready, Set, Grow!”: Reflections on Digital Leadership
This year our district theme was “Ready, Set, Grow!” Many of us have spent the year sharing and highlighting the amazing work of our students, teachers, and entire district on social media with the hashtag #Lex3grows. While I have been very caught up in my new position this year as a digital learning coach, I […]
Blogging Buddies
So I started off last year strong . . . I even had my list of things I wanted to try (I did get to some of them) in 2017, and had every intention of trying and sharing about every single one of them! But when school started back in August, I was in a […]