What is Mystery Skype?
Check out this School District 103 video to find out more, and you’ll be excited to offer students authentic videoconferencing opportunities in your classroom!
Check out this School District 103 video to find out more, and you’ll be excited to offer students authentic videoconferencing opportunities in your classroom!
A class of our 5th graders just participated in a Mystery Skype session with a classroom from Hawaii – thanks to Joanne Jacobs and her students for Skyping with us from the 50th state! It was really cool to sit back and watch the kids in action. What’s a Mystery Skype, you might be wondering?… Continue reading “Do you surf in gym class?” – A classroom’s Mystery Skype experience with Hawaii
Twitter can be overwhelming. I’ve seen lists for “50 ways to do this…”, “100 ways to do that…” – and hey, I love the different pieces of wisdom, and they are super helpful to me and a lot of people. But when you’re just getting a teacher started with Twitter you don’t want to overwhelm… Continue reading 5 easy ways to start using Twitter in the classroom
This is purely anecdotal – but it practically confirms something that I’ve thought for a long time about students and EdTech: If students are forced to learn from each other or problem solve themselves, they will do it just fine! If there’s a knowledgeable tech person within shouting distance, their hands will shoot up, and… Continue reading Curse of the “Tech Guy” in the Room!