May the Tech Be With You

This week, I was gently pushed back into a resource I used a few years ago that made a great impact on my learning and resources to share with others – Twitter Chats.  A twitter chat is a common time weekly, monthly, or whenever scheduled that people with common interests meeting online.  There is a facilitator or two who asks questions and others respond all within Twitter .  Here is a short video about Twitter Chat .  The first time I participated I was extremely overwhelmed with everyone tweeting at once, but have since discovered TweetChat that lets you get control of the chat.  I got so many ideas and added people to my network to learn from by following them on Twitter and face to face as the chat I participated in on Monday was about Alabama Education, #Aledchat.  Below is a list of other live, regularly scheduled Twitter chats that you might be interested.  I have not attended all of these, but have found them through recommendations online.  The chats are 1 hour. Monda

Google is everywhere at this year's ISTE conference in Philadelphia.  We have piloted Google Apps for Education with specific teams and grade levels.  This year, all students will have GAFE accounts so it made since for the team attending to focus on learning more in depth about the tools and how others are using them.  Our goals are to assist students and teachers to move beyond the typing and receiving of information to connecting, collaborating, creating and publish which we feel is necessary to prepare students to be future ready.  The ISTE 2015 team consists of: Laura Graves, high school Teacher-Librarian, Joy Young, high school assistant principal, Morgan Cruit, middle school English teacher, Anjell Edwards, middle school assistant principal and myself, Technology Coordinator. We are all comfortable with organizing our work within Google Drive and sharing with others.  The connecting piece for us is Google Classroom.  I am amazed at how simplistic it is yet packs so muc