Hello, and happy Tuesday! Last month, I tried something new by starting a monthly "mystery post" where I choose one of my favorite topics from my blog to share with you! Last month, I geeked out about my flipped classroom - if you're a regular reader of Teaching with Technology (thanks!) you know I'm a bit of a fan ... and that may be a bit of an understatement :) This month, I'm sharing another ... Read More about November Mystery Post-Teaching with Technology
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Visible Learning: Charting Pre & Post-Assessments with Google
Hello, and happy Wednesday! I hope you're enjoying an amazing week and that the weather outside your window is prettier than the dreary, rainy scene I'm experiencing today. It's at this point in the year that I begin to think on rainy days ... "what if it were about 30 degrees cooler ... I wonder how much snow this would amount to ..." #teacherlife :) I took a rare mid-week personal day today to ... Read More about Visible Learning: Charting Pre & Post-Assessments with Google
My Flipped Classroom: Adding Learning Checkpoints
Hello, and happy Monday! I don't know about you, but I drank ALL the coffee today. It's that lovely time of the year when it starts getting dark a bit earlier in my neck of the woods, which always seems to translate into me being sleepier than usual. I'll eventually get used to it ... sooner or later :) My Government students are beginning their Missouri Constitution and Federalism unit this week ... Read More about My Flipped Classroom: Adding Learning Checkpoints
Essential Smartphone Apps for Teachers
Hello, all! Happy Friday! I hope you've had a fabulous week! I was out of my classroom Tuesday at a PLC conference at a local university and, please tell me you've done this before, I COMPLETELY forgot to send information to my students until we were on our way to the conference. Fortunately, I wasn't driving so I was able to send the daily tasks with my students. My laptop was, of course, dead so ... Read More about Essential Smartphone Apps for Teachers
Using Padlet for Pre-Assessments
Hello, and happy Thursday! Fall has FINALLY arrived in Missouri - I saw an extremely accurate meme on Facebook yesterday that said, "Missouri weather just went from 90 to 55 like it saw a State Trooper," and that description could not be more accurate! At our daughter's soccer tournament the week before last, my husband, younger daughter, and I were in shorts, t-shirts, and flip-flops. At our ... Read More about Using Padlet for Pre-Assessments