The 10 tips below have helped me be an effective and energized teacher.

The following teambuilding and get to know you activities often take less than 5 minutes and have helped my students build strong bonds with each other and me.

Students need to learn how to be skilled searchers.

Over a year ago I learned about Microsoft Education’s Immersive Reader, which is a free powerful literacy tool that is transforming education.

This year’s conference was filled with so many exciting announcements by technology companies.

This year’s conference highlighted so many ways to use Google apps and tools to engage learners and make grading, assessment, feedback, pbl, gamification, student engagement, collaboration, student choice, and student voice easy to do!

Below I have embedded the recordings of both Toutoule Ntoya (@ToutouleNtoya)and Dan Kreiness (@dkreiness) of the ISTE Ignite Talks Round 1 and Round 2.

Innovation is a long, difficult journey with several failures before the right solution is designed.

The activities below will motivate your students to reflect, help others, move and learn, and think creatively

All resources have a free version or trial for educators and many are registration and ad free so that students don’t have to give their private information.

You can get students to think and problem solve with the fabulous STEAM (Science Technology Engineering Arts and Math) activities and resources below.

One resolution my elementary students and I are setting is to be more healthy with our digital use.

The new year is a wonderful time to inspire your students to set goals and plan for academic and personal success.