Posts by Alison Anderson
X-citing STEM Partnership for All Schools
The USA Science and Engineering Festival is looking to sign up 500-700 K-12 schools nationwide to their X-STEM school project this fall in anticipation of the largest STEM festival in the United States happening in Washington DC, April 24-27 2014.
7 Social Media Tools To Tell Your Classroom Story
As the school days get long and teacher fatigue sets in, we educators forget that parents, loved ones and members of the community truly want to hear the stories that arise in classroom. We can’t forget the importance of facilitating learning opportunities is equally as important as sharing them.
Transforming Special Education with iPads in LAUSD
Working with 20 students at various levels of ability, with significant learning disabilities and multiple handicaps, it is extremely difficult to meet all their varying needs with textbooks, paper and writing utensils
#Edtechchat Discusses Tech for the Flipped Class
Last night #edtechchat joined forces with #flipclass chat and the result was an endless flow of great ideas, thoughts and conversations around the best tools and methods for flipping the classroom.
What Blended Learning Looks Like in Kindergarten
Last year, Barbie Gossett volunteered to turn her Kindergarten classroom into a blended learning environment. Along with 7 other teachers from elementary to high school, these pioneers introduced blended learning to their students as well as to the entire Lawrence district.
DLN Launches Myth Busting Online Learning Paper
Today DLN, iNACOL and Getting Smart launched a myth busting paper focused on online learning as part of the DLN Smart Series.
10 Tools Every Teacher Should Master This Summer
These are the tools that will transform your classroom in the fall because you’ll notice the definite threads that run throughout all these applications... real-time, collaborate and creative! Those words together are sure to build a lot of excitement around exactly how educational technology is developing!
Techlandia, For Your Listening Pleasure
I’m not exactly sure how my love of listening to podcasts transformed into recording one, but over the last six months it has. We now Google hangout every Saturday night to talk about 3 apps, 3 good people to follow on Twitter and 3 cool things happening in education, strip the audio from the Youtube, post it to iTunes, and label it Techlandia.
EdTechWomen Community Continues to Build
At the EdTechWomen Dine #ISTE13 event we are proud to say that we hosted educators, entrepreneurs, founders, professors, administrators, writers, bloggers, reporters, technologists, programmers, and teachers.
#EdtechChat Chimes In on ISTE
Monday night at 5:00 pm PT/ 8:00pm ET is time to tune into Twitter and #edtechchat to stay updated on what is happening in education technology.