In a post I wrote a few months back “INQUIRY: 120 CHARACTERS AT A TIME,” I constructed a fantasy teacher team, consisting of educators I’ve long admired through blogs and Twitter. The reality is, Twitter allows you to have a limitless staffroom. Once you get involved in Twitter as a way to grow professionally, the…
Month: August 2016
Digital Bytes 29th August 2016
Not All Screen Time is Equal: Some Considerations for Schools and Parents Jose Picardo provides a balanced look at screen time in this article for schools and parents. He addresses issues such as the media’s propensity for click-bait headlines that don’t advance the conversation, but instead feed the flames. Six Good Places to Find Free…
Using your iPad or iPhone as a Remote to Control Your Keynote
Keynote gives you the ability to control your presentation from an iPhone or an iPad. This allows you, as the presenter, the chance to move around and not have to stand beside your computer. Your notes from your Keynote will be available to you on your iPad. You can tap the screen or swipe from…
Digital Bytes 22nd August 2016
10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs a PLN Sylvia Duckworth’s illustrations are becoming legendary in the edtech world, and this one about PLNs is no exception! The staff at TeachThought have added some ways of getting started with each of the 10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs a PLN, so why not extend your PLN by trying…