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.
Join us for our third Rest Stop of the EduRoadTrip as we hang out and chat about the scary and sweet of education. In this exciting EduRoadTrip adventure, we pause to think about the great things happening in our classrooms, and think deeply about issues we face in education.
Paul Solarz was our guest at the geographic center of the United States to discuss a student centered classroom. Paul is the author of Learn Like a Pirate and leads the #learnlap chat on Mondays at 8pm EST. He shares how he engages all students, and puts much of the responsibility on students while he guides their learning. We also hear about our Travel Agent, Laurie Baker Worthington, and discuss IFTTT in the What’s In Our Suitcase segment.
Our Travel Agent this week is Laurie Baker Worthington, a middle school math teacher in Chula Vista, California who was honored as a district Teacher of the Year in 2015.
In this episode of the EduRoadTrip, we met with Nicole Link at Mt. Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley) to chat about the journey of the first year of teaching. Nicole shared her journey to becoming a teacher, then we discussed the different factors that helped us through our first years. After the main content, you will hear about our latest Travel Agent, and hear about the tool in What’s in Our Suitcase.
We met with Nicole Link at Mt. Denali (formerly Mt. McKinley) to chat about the first year of teaching. Nicole is a second year middle school math teacher in San Diego, CA, and shares her successes and struggles as a new teacher.
This week, we feature Symbaloo, a social bookmarking tool that makes it easy to share bookmarks with friend. Find Symbaloo online at www.symbaloo.com or on the iTunes and Google Play stores.
