Snowline Technology News

Welcome Back Welcome back to school. I hope we all have an amazing school year. I am super excited for my new position and can't wait to start working with everyone. I plan to use both a Google Site and Blogger to share information with you. The site will be where I store tutorials, links to set up appointments, forms to ask for specific help, and materials for each grade level for digital citizenship and student technology. The blog will be where I store technology news, which will also be emailed when appropriate. This may include upcoming training opportunities, Google news, district-wide app news, and other interesting technology tools. Google News Google Classroom is probably the one tool that most fundamentally changed how I integrated technology into my classroom practice. Then as Forms started to integrate with Google Classroom, I even started to use Classroom to administer tests. Now Google Classroom has more improvements. The most exciting for me is that they ar

Summer Planning is Summer Fun As this school year ended the strangest thing happened, I realized that I all of the plans that I had kicking around my head for next year were no longer relevant to the new position. I love teaching, and my favorite part is planning lessons and playing with new tools all summer long. Since I can't apply my planned changes to my classroom, I am going to share them here. This is a short list of ideas that I had kicked around for next year. Have weekly discussion questions in Google Classroom using frames from Zwiers for good responses. I did this intermittently in the past, and it was successful. Integrate Flipgrid into class to discuss learning on a more regular basis and have students respond to one another. Have more frequent scaled listening practice using Story Corp s and Listenwise materials. Develop a really good Hyperdoc for a novel like this amazing one for The Outsiders  I found on the Hyperdocs site. Use Pear Deck to teach and p