The 2017-18 cohort of Cool Tools for School is well underway. With over 40 topics to choose from and a requirement that they pick either 5 or 10 topics to earn PD credit, there ends up being a lot of variety in how people approach the workshop.
Happy New Year! Looking back on 2017, these were my top 10 blog posts. And following that list are my top tweets from each month of 2017. Hope some of the links and resources mentioned […]
Earlier this year I put together a web site widget called Books for Kids: Empathy, Diversity and the Immigrant Experience that anyone can embed on their own websites. (see details on that earlier blog post) The […]
For the holidays this year, some of our fellow #edtech experts are sharing lots of wonderful tech tips and tricks in the form of calendars, 12 days christmas and such. I’ve listed just a few, […]
Have you joined the #12daystwitter challenge? There’s a theme for each day and all you need to do is post something related to that theme. Then follow the #12daystwiter hashtag on twitter and connect with […]
The 8th annual Global Education Conference is coming up soon, Nov 13-16. This online conference runs around the clock, with participants from around the world. There are over 50 presentations already scheduled and they are […]
We’re getting ready to launch the 2017-18 Cool Tools for School workshop. This is our 10th time running the workshop with over 850 participants in that time! This year’s workshop will launch at the end […]
The 2018 Learning with Innovative Technology (LIT) Conference will be held on June 29, 2018 in Saratoga Springs, NY. This free conference is for educators of all types and is a terrific day of learning […]
The Connecticut State Library is offering the EXCITE Transformation for Libraries program to library teams from throughout the Northeast. An IMLS grant has fully funded the program. That means it’s free! Let’s hear it for the CT […]
Jane Hart’s 2017 list of the Top 200 Tools for Learning was released today. This list was compiled with input from over 2,000 learning professionals from around the world. The list includes tools for personal & professional […]
In our Cool Tools for School workshop, we include a lesson on Digital Portfolios that gives educators participating in the workshop a chance to explore a range of tools to help students build a collection […]
I’d say these are 21 communication skills we all need! This is one of the terrific graphics from Lisa Johnson’s (@TechChef4) recent book Cultivating Communication in the Classroom: Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students I’m looking […]