Schoology Connect MN: Advancing Schoology Usage

I am excited to be presenting in a couple weeks at the upcoming Schoology Connect MN event on August 8.

Come join me for my session on Creating Digitally-Enhanced Book Clubs to learn more about how to use the features of Schoology to extend student and staff book club conversations beyond the classroom walls.

ISTE19: Creating Digitally Enhanced Book Club with Schoology

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Thank you to everyone who joined me for my session on Creating Digitally Enhanced Book Clubs with Schoology at ISTE.

Learn how a literacy specialist, technology integration specialist, and middle school literacy literacy teachers used Schoology to create a digitally enhanced book club to share information about young adult books they were reading and how to grow their skills in using Schoology's multimedia features to make book clubs more engaging.

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Schoology 
Schoology is available in Enterprise and Basic (free) versions.  Schoology brings together the best K-12 learning management system with assessment management to improve student performance, foster collaboration, and personalize learning.





Flipgrid

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Flipgrid is the leading video discussion platform for millions of PreK to PhD educators, students, and families in 180+ countries. Flipgrid is free for educators.









Padlet 

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Padlet allows you to make boards, documents, webpages that are easy to read and fun to contribute to.

ISTE Teacher Education Network Book Study - Edumagic

Today is the first day of the ISTE Teacher Education Network Book Study that I am participating in.

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Edumagic: A Guide for Preservice Teachers 
by Samantha Fecich

"This book challenges the thought that “teaching” begins only after certification and college graduation. Instead, it describes how students in teacher preparation programs have value to offer their future colleagues, even as they are learning to be teachers! This book provides positive examples, helpful tools, and plenty of encouragement for preservice teachers to learn, to dream, and to do." ~ EduMatch

I'm looking forward to reading this book and expanding my professional learning network with other educators. Knowing what kind of edtech training preservice teachers have in their university courses helps me to support them better while they are doing their student teaching at schools in my school district.

Join the book study on Twitter under the hashtags #ISTETEN and #Edumagic.

Book Study - Coding as a Playground

#WhatWereReading - I started reading Coding as a Playground for the CIRCL Educators Book Study that I am participating in.

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Coding as a Playground: Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom
by Marina Umaschi Bers

"Coding as a Playground is the first book to focus on how young children (ages 7 and under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to become computer programmers, a process that can increase both their cognitive and social-emotional skills. Readers will learn how coding can engage children as producers―and not merely consumers―of technology in a playful way." ~ Routledge - An Eye On Education Book

I'm looking forward to reading this book and learning more about coding and how it fits in the early childhood classroom.

Presenting At ISTE19

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I received notification today that I have been selected to present 3 sessions for the 2019 ISTE Conference in Philadelphia!

My sessions will be on Personalizing Your Professional Development with the iPad, Telling Your Story With the Amazing Free TouchCast Classroom Studio, and Creating Digitally Enhanced Book Clubs with Schoology.

I'm looking forward to connecting with other educators at ISTE next summer and sharing tips, tricks, resources, and information about these topics. I hope some of you can join me at this great edtech event.

TIES18 Just Imagine: Join Me For A Workshop on Digitally Enhanced Literacy Classrooms

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I received notification today that I have been selected to present a preconference workshop for the 2018 TIES Conference!

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My preconference workshop will be about digitally enhanced literacy classrooms.

I'm hoping that some of you will join me for this professional development opportunity to explore a variety of iPad apps that can make your literacy instruction and students' experiences more engaging and impactful.