Just published: a fabulously useful tool for back-to-school professional learning and professional development. With the excitement of a tech-tools smackdown, it promises to have far longer legs and far stickier value. The Epic eBook of Web Tools & Apps, will serve as a digital palette or dashboard to remind you and your partner educators of […]
The Epic eBook of Web Tools and Apps: a new crowd-sourced manual for back-to-school and beyond
August 9, 2020 by Leave a Comment
A couple of new remote teaching tricks
July 28, 2020 by 3 Comments
Over the summer, I’ve been picking up a few little tools to add to my existing kit for enhancing online teaching and learning. Here are a couple of my current faves. What’s nice about these and so many other recent tools we are introducing in schools is that they present real-life functionality. They introduce the […]
ALA highlights: What I saw and what I missed (Banquets not included)
July 10, 2019 by Leave a Comment
This started as a post and got completely out of hand. It made far more sense to recap ALA 2019 Annual Conference using a social media approach. So here’s a Wakelet offering my personal highlights both of the events I had the privilege to attend in the brief time I had before ISTE as well […]
Revisiting #ALATTT: Trend #1: AR/VR/MR and a touch of AI
March 17, 2019 by Leave a Comment
Back at ALA Midwinter, I was honored to present on LITA’s Top Tech Trends panel, with fellow panelists Kate Tkacik, Suzanne Wulf, Becky Yoose, James Neal and Cynthia Dudenhoffer. Here’s the slide deck. Each of us was initially assigned two trends to explore and discuss. I thought I’d break my own twoish trends and resources into two posts. […]
A Collection of Best-of-the-Year Lists (and a spotlight on one)
December 31, 2018 by 3 Comments
While I suspect some of you are quite sick of them, for me a truly fun part of the new year is stopping to look back at the bounty of the past year’s discoveries in the form of best lists. Many of our friends–reviewers, publishers, bloggers, etc.–have been hard at work collecting their picks for […]
DBQuest and Case Maker: Two more critical thinking tools from LOC!
September 17, 2018 by 1 Comment
Alert your social studies and ELA teacher friends or dig in on your own. This past week the Library of Congress launched DBQuest and Case Maker, two new web and mobile apps that join a suite of digital resources introduced back in 2016. The Library of Congress announcement shared that these new interactive opportunities for middle and high school […]
A new kids app on the block: Khan Academy Kids launching learning fun for little learners
July 17, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Khan Academy Kids launched this week. In collaboration with experts from the Stanford Graduate School of Education and children’s book authors, and in partnership with Super Simple Songs, Bellwether Media and National Geographic Magazine, the new app is designed to inspire a lifetime of learning and discovery with our free, fun educational program for children ages two […]
Google Science Journal: A lab in your pocket
May 19, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Sometimes an app truly demonstrates the power of mobile. Google’s Science Journal app transforms your mobile device into a little science laboratory, encouraging students to conduct authentic experiments, collect and visualize data and record observations from the world around them. Use it to enhance learning in your classrooms and in the field, and to facilitate the […]
PuppetMaster: An app to inspire animated storytelling
March 17, 2018 by 2 Comments
I’ve been exploring the new PuppetMaster app and I am enchanted. I see serious potential for this free, intuitive, open-ended tool to encourage creativity across a wide range of ages, from pre-school to adult! PuppetMaster allows children to animate anything and to record their action and sound to create movies. It encourages the creation of visual art in any medium and […]
Seeing AI: Leveraging artificial intelligence to better view the world
March 9, 2018 by Leave a Comment
I’ve been writing about apps for a long time, but they are not of equal importance. Microsoft’s free Seeing AI app may be a game changer for people with visual impairments. The research project is designed to turn “turn the visual world into an audio experience,” narrating the world for those who cannot see it, in real […]
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