Posts by Dave Guymon
Google Apps Summer Camp: Sites
With Sites, you can create what you want to create, customize it to your liking, and share it with whomever you please. Fortunately, you have the entire summer ahead of you. So, how will you be using Sites with your students next fall?
Google Apps Summer Camp: Drive
Google Drive is, hands down, my favorite Google App for Education and the one which I believe could be your favorite too. Why? Because it does everything.
Get Rolling with SPRK Programming Curriculum
The SPRK curriculum is built on the belief that “play is a powerful teacher.” And rather than teaching students about programming by having them write lines of code on a computer, SPRK puts a Sphero and an iOS or Android device in students’ hands...
Google Apps Summer Camp: Calendar
Here are a few ways that you can start using Google Calendar to further enhance and streamline your work at the district office, at your school, or in your classroom without much more of an investment than just getting started.
How Teachers Use Paper Blogging to Promote Student Voice
Paper blogging, as an offline alternative, is popular with teachers and students whether they have the means for digital publication or not. And to get started, you need little more than, well, paper.
Google Apps Summer Camp: Gmail
For those who haven’t, or those who simply want a refresher on some of the more directly applicable features of GAFE, I will be sharing a six-part Google Apps Summer Camp Series of blog posts to coincide with the conclusion of the school year.
Man vs. Machine: 4 Robotics Programs for STEM Classrooms
Research shows that robotics is an effective tool for improving students’ 21st century skills. And teachers have taken note. In various school settings and across all grade levels, students are engaging in programs teaching them to design, build, and program their own bots.
Educators Continue Innovating with App Smashing
App Smashing, in other words, should provide a solution to a previously identified classroom need. It shouldn’t be a fun idea looking for an excuse to interrupt learning.
‘Digital Leadership’ a Must-Read for Educators at All Levels
Throughout his book, Sheninger shares narratives of actual educators in actual schools who have acknowledged the need to leverage educational technology for learning and successfully done so through their vision and a willingness to act.
10 Principles of Sustainable EdTech Implementation
Regardless of what kind of technology is available to you, the Digital Age that we teach and learn in requires principals and teachers to stop asking why they should be using technology in the classroom and start asking how they can maximize the tools they have available to them to enhance student achievement.