Google Apps for Ed: Resources to Inspire!

My district finally got on board the Google for Ed train. Since my school has been using the apps for the past six years (as a PBL magnet), they invited me to show ed tech leaders from across the city how the apps can be used in practical and transformative ways.  

The goal was to inspire, but I didn't want to overwhelm first-timers, so I made sure there were plenty of templates they could copy and use right away, and I also built a resource site to further support their exploration of each of the tools (you'll see a link to it in the last slide). 

If you have any questions, or you hit a wall after clicking on an enticing link to a resource, feel free to comment and I'll make sure you've got access.  Hope this helps!  I enjoyed developing it!

Differentiate with Digital Tools: Five Free Web Apps

This is a presentation I gave for my district-sponsored Digital Learning Conference.  

I love sharing at this local conference each year because it's teachers teaching teachers! If it helps others, all the better.  

The link to the slideshow is HERE should you want to comment or ask questions. 

Resource Wiki: Big Ideas & Guiding Questions

I created a wiki as a store for collecting big ideas and guiding questions. I completely forgot about it until I recently began brainstorming ideas for new Humanities projects and needed to consider some essential ideas I'd want my students to explore. It was exactly what I needed and I was glad to have already done some preliminary work on building the collection. 

Since it's a wiki, feel free to join and contribute.  There are plenty of big ideas, so far, but not all have been expanded on. 

The site address is 
http://thebigideas.wikispaces.com/