Using Social Media to Create a VIP System in Your Classroom

Every student wants to feel like a very important person, but the opportunities to become a classroom VIP often disappear once students leave the early primary grades. And…

Twitter Chats

I had the opportunity to participate in my first ever Twitter Chat this evening, put on by @BCEdChat all about parent involvement. It was a great way to…

Cyberbullying Lesson Plan Redesign

Take a look at the lesson Keely and I adapted and improved upon, found originally on Common Sense Education. It’s all about cyberbullying and being upstanders and allies,…

Social LEADia Chapter 1 Reflection

While reading Social LEADia: Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership, Chapter 1, By: Jennifer Casa-Todd…   Something I learnedĀ was that the American Academy of Pediatrics actually…

Social Learning Communities

Social learning communities are changing the way people access, discuss, interpret, and create information. ā€œSocial learningā€ can be defined as a change in understanding that goes beyond the…

Opening the Books to Even More Knowledge Through Open Education

According to opensource.com ā€œopen education is a philosophy about the way people should produce, share, and build on knowledge.ā€ Open education is something that I find both fascinating…

Opening the Books to Knowledge through Open Education

Open education is something that I find both exciting and fascinating. I think that it is a way to take away the financial restrictions and other barriers that…

What Good Can Come From Social Media?

I have always been the kind of person to constantly be connected, and I will be the first to admit that I spend far too much time on…

Has anyone seen my data and privacy?

Looking at data and privacy in technology was quite eye-opening for me. I have always known about big tech companies mining your personal information, andĀ  I have seen…

Digital Web Tools that Support Different Modalities of Online Learning

Kahoot! Kahoot is an online, game-based learning platform, where users create, share, and play fun quizzes and trivia games. It can be accessed on a web browser, phone,…