Technology
August 21, 2018
A while ago, I stumbled upon a site called Sugarcane. It was a game platform, and it was amazing. The platform was owned by IXL Learning, a company making headway in online learning. It was fantastic. And it was free. The games were mostly easily created, they offered a variety of game types, they let […]
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December 26, 2016
The title of Who Owns the Learning came up as a possibility for this past summer’s #langchat, and the title immediately caught my eye. It’s been a huge dilemma in my quest to figure out why students don’t continue in their language journey – if they don’t own the learning past my classroom, have we all wasted […]
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October 10, 2016
Rabbit trails aren’t always a bad thing. Sometimes they turn out to be the yellow brick road with the Emerald City at the end. Here’s the one I hit today: I subscribe to Richard Byrne’s Practical Ed Tech blog’s Practical Ed Tech Tip of the Week. Weekly, I get Richard’s great tip of the week […]
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September 16, 2016
Sometimes, a mildly interesting idea takes root and then morphs into something you never expected. That has happened to me this year, and I cannot contain how excited I am about it. A toe in the PBLL waters At the beginning of this past summer, I was planning for Camp Musicuentos, deciding on what unit […]
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July 28, 2016
Do you remember Kodak and Blockbuster? I do. My students do not. Listen to the man in the NYT video about the death throes at Kodak: What if? What if somebody else would have been a little more innovative? What if the board would have thought, let’s think a little bit farther out? And Blockbuster? When baby […]
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January 29, 2016
What’s the technology that gets used the most in my classroom? Broadly, I suppose it’s YouTube. Outside the classroom, Edmodo and Google Docs for sure. But as far as a little tool, certainly the one I use the most is a timer. If you’ve been teaching any length of time you know that setting a […]
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January 26, 2016
I love networking with great people. Not only is it how I figure out answers to what I’m doing wrong, it’s also where I get the best tips on new tech tools that will simplify my life without further stressing me out. This tool is a great example. I was talking to Thomas Sauer at […]
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January 22, 2016
I may seem pretty techy to some, but let me tell you, technology overwhelms me quickly. It changes every half second, right? And with all the blogs I follow, some days it seems like I get several blog posts delivered at almost the same time referring to approximately 72 different technology options I must use […]
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