Once again ISTE delivers – Kevin Carroll of Katalyst fame was the keynote speaker this morning and man what a story of inspiration! Some key take aways for me were: Do amazing magical things; Use Play; That Play is as important as eating, sleeping, and drinking; Play is serious business …
It started off really early, super excited to have a table session at ISTE! Up late and couldn’t sleep, so at 5:30 this morning I headed to the hotel fitness area and got in a four mile run. The breakfast area wasn’t open for Kristina and I yet, so we …
My colleagues and I started our journey to ISTE yesterday and had the good fortune to not feel so rushed by the trip. And since we are in Atlanta it was a great opportunity to see my little brother. After arriving and getting settled in, Jeremy picked us up and …
Ok – so I’m just barely not a newbie for this. Last year was my first ISTE conference. This event changed my entire professional career: I went from being interested in how educational technology can impact learning to applying to graduate school to get a PhD in education technology. There …
I teach and am proud to do so. At the risk of being just a little self-serving – I think I am pretty damn good at it! I try super hard to form relationships with my students. To really get to know them. To understand them and what is going …
It seems that over the past several years, going back to No Child Left Behind, we have increasingly started using the phrase “Failure is Not an Option.” My question is why are we allowing students to be stuck in this mode? What happened to being able to make a mistake …
An Open Letter About My 2nd Family, I want to take a few minutes of your time and talk about my family away from home: the Edmond Memorial Girls Soccer team. What a super wild ride – and it was super fun. We, I mean they, started off the year …
It’s my fault…I should have done a lot more of this earlier, but for the first time in my teaching career, I have been actively following all of the different items in my legislature. I have emailed and tweeted different politicians this year for the first time. I participated in …
As if one blog page wasn’t enough, I have started a second one, haseledtech.wordpress.com – I wanted to have a spot that would give a little more room for me to explore some of the wonders of #edtech and a place to post podcasts of kids/faculty in my school. I …
Monday March 31st was amazing, the strength of the voices from all different aspects of education, from students, to parents, to teachers, to legislators was amazing. I cannot adequately put into words how great it was to hear from all who had the opportunity to share. So here is the rally …