Category Archives: Updates
Social Media Day with JG and the Boys
JG and the Boys are back! Today, the gang traveled to Arthur Ashe Elementary to teach the 4th graders about different social media platforms and integrating them with their African American Achievers they have been researching. The first part of the lesson, we talked about “What is Social Media?” We broke the students up into […] Continue reading
Snow Happy!
I’m no Pharrell Williams, but I figured Henrico County and Andy Jenks, Director of Communications and Public Relations, needed their own snow closing video–hopefully for tomorrow! Ha! Continue reading
Back, Back, Back it Up!
Henrico County is going through a new RFP (Request for Proposals) process right now. No, I do not know if we are going to keep Macs for next year. My fingers (and toes) are crossed in hopes that we do get to stay with Mac, but we’ll save that conversation for another day. These old MacBooks […] Continue reading
Flat Stanley Aurasma Project
During this school year, I have really enjoyed going over to Kaechele Elementary School about once a month to help teach and integrate the Augmented Reality App, Aurasma into some classrooms. Mrs. Hyman, the school librarian and information specialist, took the same Flat Stanley Project that most schools do to the next level. As usual, […] Continue reading
Cycloramic 360 Panoramic Pics
If you are a Shark Tank fan, you probably already know all about this app, have downloaded it, and made a bunch 360° panoramic pictures already! If you haven’t seen the show, this is probably one of the coolest apps I have ever seen specifically for the iPhone 5 and 5s and some Android models, […] Continue reading
Happy 101st Birthday Rosa Parks!
Today would have been Rosa Parks’ 101st birthday. In honor of her birthday, I wanted to post a fun project I did while I was a classroom teacher years back. My first year doing this project we made Tableaus. The students had to act out their own scene of an important event that happened in […] Continue reading
Tech Geek vs. EdTech Coach
I just read a great blog post from Candace Hackett Shively titled “A TechToy Story: Why Tech Geeks fail and EdTech Coaches succeed”. It is a great “fable” showcasing the difference between just knowing a lot about technology and being able work with teachers to seamlessly integrate technology into the classroom. We all know that technology […] Continue reading
Google Chrome Extensions!
It took forever for me to get on the Google Chrome Extensions boat, and I have no idea why! There are so many free Chrome Extensions that you can download to make your productivity, work flow, and overall web browsing experience much more enjoyable. From automatic copying to on-screen keyboard to splitting your web browser […] Continue reading
Book Report Movie Trailers
5th graders at Carver Elementary in Mrs. Atkinson’s class have been working on their 2nd Nine Weeks’ Book Reports. For part of their final project, each student made a Movie Trailer about their book using iMovie. For the first day of the project, we went through the Project Rubric, so they understood how they will […] Continue reading
Split Screen Web Browser? Yes, Please!
Julie Goode, one of our Elementary ITRTs, just posted about this, and it was too “Goode” not to write my own post about it! If you are a fan of using many Internet Tabs on your browser, this is definitely the extension for you. This extension will do exactly what is says it does. It […] Continue reading
