With the release of AASL’s newest version of the standards, curation has been on my mind quite a bit this school year. Unfortunately, I don’t see myself as much of a curator. I’m a fantastic explorer and gatherer. But the extent of my curating usually involves mass deleting of links and articles after my bookmarks… Continue reading Cool Tools for Schools, Thing 6: Curation Tools
I heard about Google Keep awhile ago and loved the idea of virtual post-it notes instead of physical ones I could lose or misplace. I loved that it synced across all my devices so that I always had the notes no matter where I was. I try to keep it open in a window on… Continue reading Cool Tools, Thing 26: Note-Taking Tools
I love my Bitmojis! I use the chrome extension to add them to my emails, I Snapchat, and text with them. I’ve had entire conversations with friends and co-workers using nothing but Bitmoji but I’ve never thought of using them in school. Which, now that I think about it, is crazy! We were faithful users… Continue reading Cool Tools, Thing 16: Bitmoji Fun
I have tinkered with Google Draw in the past but always got frustrated and gave up on it before I’d actually finished anything. My frustrations seemed to be twofold: I could never seem to get the sizing right and, to be honest, I didn’t really get the point of Google Draw. So much of what… Continue reading Cool Tools, Thing 43: Google Drawings
Since our Boces SLS director (hi Molly!) purchased a “green screen in a backpack” kit this year I thought this would be a fun topic to try out. The first takeaway I gathered from the readings was that this whole green screen thing isn’t nearly as complicated and technical as I thought it would… Continue reading Cool Tools, Thing 37: Green Screen Fun
