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Weird Wednesday: 3 Weird Unit or Lesson Hooks You Can Use Today!
If you’ve ever met me in person, you know I’m a strange guy. I’m also authentically strange. The me you see online, in public, presenting at a conference…that’s me baby! My weirdness is probably biological (the woman dyed her hair vibrant colors until the day she died). My academic weirdness stems to a core memory…
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Getting Social: Engage Your Students with Ready-to-Use Mock Social Media Templates
I’ve made it no secret that I’m a huge Ditch That Textbook fanboy. Heck, I’m wearing my Ditch… hoodie today! One of my favorite tools that I’ve ever taken from Matt’s massive collection of templates is the Mock Social Media templates! During ISTE last summer, I was joking around with the illustrious Lunch Lady (aka…
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Make Thinking Visible: Your New Favorite Learning Toolkit
We’ve all been there. You just finished explaining a concept, laying out a brilliant plan, or sharing an exciting new idea. You pause, look out at your audience (whether that’s a classroom of students, your kids at the dinner table, or your team at work), and you get… blank stares. It’s frustrating! We spend so…
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My Top 10 Adobe Express Templates To Use in Your Classroom (Plus a Thrice Album Review!)
Two quick announcements at the top: The podcast is bumped to next week; my editing software ate it, so now I’m trying out Adobe Podcast! As an appateaser, here’s the new logo/theme! On October 15th at 11E/10C I’ll be presenting at the Wakelet Appsmash Festival, showcasing the power of appsmashing wakelet with Edpuzzle! Horizon/West by…
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Igniting Student Creativity Using Adobe Express in the Classroom
I’m guilty, several times in my past, of creating an assignment for students and simply telling them to “be creative!” As someone who can engage in creative acts, I’ve known that I struggle when I do not have a deep connection with the prompt. I’ve also become overwhelmed with ideas and die a slow death…
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How to Embrace “March Madness” in Your Classroom
I have always been a massive basketball fan. Living near Lawrence, Kansas nearly all of my life has always made the ever presence of the Jayhawks in March impossible to avoid! It always feels like the first four big days of the tournament head into our spring break. However, with us headed back to school…
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Why Blog? Why Now?
Its not everyday that you decide “well, its time for me to write something.” When I was in middle and high school, I was very excited for periods and/or classes of “creative writing.” It was fun flexing that muscle, getting lost in some sort of other world I was weaving. Then, out of nowhere I…