This is My Passion
I had the amazing opportunity to share an Ignite Talk at iPadpaloozaOU. It was an honor that I will never forget. Jun Kim captured it on Periscope. My forever thanks to him and the iPadpaloozaOU team!
30 Amazing Teacher Days
Happy Teacher Challenge! The Amazing Teacher Days Challenge! Happy new school year! Many of you have just started or will be starting the 2017-18 school year! What better way to kick off the year than take the 30 Day Happy Teacher Challenge! Print the Happy Teacher Challenge and paste it in your …
How I Am Organizing Professional Reading
It ‘s hard to be ABD (all but dissertation), but I am continuing to plug away on my writing. I realized today that the way I have organized my work could benefit others. I am using three programs: EndNote, Adobe Reader, Microsoft Word, and OneNote. EndNote If you are a …
ISTE Day 2
ISTE Day 2 Day 2 is in the books. As with yesterday, much of the day was spent on the Expo floor. There are so many things to take in and process in this single space. Wow! Gale was interesting – sort of like a Google for teachers in the …
ISTE Day 1
ISTE Day 1 The fantastic educational tech conference that is ISTE is officially off to the races. It hard to pin down the official day one of ISTE, they have been doing things since Saturday…But today the Expo floor opened up, and that seems as good a place to start …
Using IFTTT
This post will be short and sweet. I have been playing around with a couple of different sites: Medium and LinkedIN. Trying to combine my blog with both of these sites led me to try out using If This Then That (IFTTT). Have you tried any of these sites? Do …
I Have No Words
There was a recent article posted concerning one way to save some money for our education budget. This super cool plan even made it all the way to the Washington Post. What is this amazing plan? The plan that will help put a dent into our almost $1 billion deficit? …
Student Appreciation
We recently wrapped up teacher appreciation week – which is nice. I always enjoyed the ice creams and occasional gift cards. My administrators were always on the lookout for ways to show their gratitude. My favorite was when Carrie Higdon hand delivered Starbucks coffee – she came by my room …
New Stuff
It has been a long time since my last blog post. One of the things all of those blogging/social media websites say is most important is the frequency with which you blog. Oops. It is not for lack of wanting to share, more like exactly what…New Stuff is coming. The …
So Frustrated
Ongoing Issues Another year, another reason not to increase funding for education in Oklahoma. I am so frustrated. What needs to happen for our elected representatives to figure out how important an educated society is? And there are more looming shortfalls in revenue – monies that schools budgeted to spend …