Tag: education

  • My Summer Reading List part 1

    Every summer, I plan on reading at least one book for fun, one book for work, and one book for leadership or technology. My first book for the summer is Outcasts United by Warren St. John. I picked it up in the nonfiction section at McKay’s Used Books back in April and haven’t had a…

  • IFLLEX 2022

    One of my favorite changes this year is the idea of an all-digital presentation process. An interactive Google Doc was created for presenters to post links and be able to connect with attendees. This also made the login process not necessary by having all your links on one doc even if you were posting across…

  • Blogging and Digital Writing in the Classroom

    I was walking with my oldest daughter tonight in Kroger and commented that I had a blog after she mentioned reading a blog in class. Without missing a beat she said, “You have a blog?” I responded, “Yes, I have had a blog since 2008.” Needless to say, I spent most of our time in…

  • Why Use Wakelet

    Wakelet is a great way for educators to build resource collections and share with people anywhere.

  • Haymarket and History

    Teaching can be dicey sometimes. In a world full of soundbites and political blurbs, talking about an event that is highly political and complicated can be difficult. Haymarket and all that is associated with it fall into that category. Using some of the following resources can be helpful when looking at the event. FAQ Was…

  • Sumer of Adobe 2020

    For the summer, I decided to give myself the task of completing at least one creativity project every week. I did give myself some lattitude and decided that it could be anything digital or physical but it could not just be blog posts or writing. As a result, I spent a lot of my free…