Happy Thanksgiving! On this Rest Stop of the EduRoadTrip we discuss what we are thankful for in our lives and in our classrooms. We love recording Rest Stops as an opportunity to reflection on where we’ve been, where we are, and where we’re going in our schools. As a bonus, you’ll also hear about our favorite Thanksgiving foods!
Doug Robertson was our guest at Area 51 to discuss the weird in education. He shares with us the vision behind his methodology of teaching, as well as some amazing wisdom nuggets. You will also be connected with our travel agent and hear what we have in our suitcase this week.
On this episode, we met with Doug Robertson at Area 51 to discuss the weird in education. He shares with us the vision behind his methodology of teaching, as well as some amazing wisdom nuggets. Doug is an engaging, interactive, and incredibly weird teacher from Portland, Oregon, and he is on a mission to share his passion for teaching with us all. Not only is he an excellent teacher, but also he has published two teaching-related books (links below).
Our travel agent this week is Geneine Delahunty, an EL Coordinator in Kentucky. She is the moderator for #admin2b and #ptchats, and is the founder of humanbeacon. Not only is she a supportive educator, but also she is a very sweet person in general.
In our suitcase this week is TweetDeck, a Twitter program that aggregates tweets, hashtags, or lists into columns. Run multiple columns to follow the latest news on Twitter, participate in chats, and interact with great people. You can also allow others to tweet from your account without sharing the password. Check it out at www.tweetdeck.twitter.com
Happy Birthday to the one and only Doug Robertson! In honor of your epically long interview and general awesomeness, we are releasing a special bonus episode with outtakes and goofiness that did not make it into the full episode. Be prepared to laugh along with our bloopers and sidetracked conversations on the EduRoadTrip. It’s bound to be an adventure!
In this episode of the EduRoadTrip, we met up with Jerry Blumengarten at the Google Headquarters to discuss digital curation in education. He provided a wealth of knowledge, including resources for our classrooms, students, parents, and professional development. After we met with Jerry, we featured Todd Whitaker as our travel agent, and pulled Explain Everything out of our suitcase.
We met with Jerry Blumengarten at the Google Headquarters, and discussed curating resources for our classrooms, students, parents, and our own professional development. Jerry provided great information about allowing students find answers for themselves, and evaluating websites for reliability. He reminds us not to be afraid to use books, and to allow our librarians to become “techbrarians” in their “libratory” and to use this expertise to our advantage. At the end, Jerry reminds us to use our students and their “textpertise” to work together to uncover new learning.
Our travel agent this week is Todd Whitaker. He is a talented leader and author whose primary focus is leadership, teaching, and motivation within education. Whitaker is the author of What Great Teachers do Differently.
In our suitcase this week is Explain Everything, a video production tool. It is simple for students to create engaging and interactive slides, then record a voiceover of them explaining their work. Explain Everything is an excellent formative and summative assessment tool.