My Thoughts on Social Media - How I stay 'in the know' -  I was excited to wake up the other day and see that my Twitter video had been posted by my buddy, Jeff, on Edudemic.  This made my day!  If you've searched any topic relating to education and technology, I'm sure you've landed on his amazing site.  I've been fortunate ...

A Safe, Refined Search Engine for Education The theme of 'organization' seems to be popular in my posts lately.  I find myself gravitating towards resources that are easy to use.  With so many available options, I don't have the time to learn the ins and outs of every resource.   After seeing someone share Gooru on ...

Our most recent #ohedchat topic was flipping the classroom (archive here). The chat extended into several days as a small group of us continued chatting about education reform and big picture overhauls for the future of education. Jeremy Brueck (@brueckj23 on Twitter) made some fantastic points about how we’re getting lost in trivial ...

Online Support for Pre-K - 8th   Plus Algebra & Geometry - click here to try IXL -  I've been using IXL for the past several months with my own two children, Jacob (4) and Riley (8).  As a parent, I love how organized the site is to use.  I do not have time to teach myself how to navigate a site prior to signing up.  ...

Create a Fake Screenshot of Text Dialogue between Characters I ran across this fun web tool last night on Pinterest.  I linked the resource back to Tammy's site where she shares wonderful technology resources for the classroom.  You can click here to see more examples of using this fake texting feature in your classroom from ...

Coding is Cool! A parent stopped me during a recent social at our school to tell me how excited her son was to program an app.  While we aren't programming apps in class, I'd sure like to learn how!  A friend of mine and I have been discussing the idea about creating a Coding Club at our school.  We will not start out on ...

Greetings! I’m Kate Peila and I blog about technology integration for student engagement and teacher sanity over on my blog, Purely Paperless. I have been a long-time reader and lurker over here at Kleinspiration. Erin always has amazing ideas and resources for classroom teachers. I am thrilled and honored to be sharing with you ...

I recently submitted a piece to my friend, Laura Candler, for inclusion of her new eBook: 20 Terriffic Presentation Tech Tools for Kids.  I'm honored to be included among such fantastic contributing authors.  Even more so, I'm looking forward to trying out a few of these tools with my own students. What I really like about this ...

New guidance documents from PARCC today are now posted on ODE’s Website. Because I’m a big dork who likes to read this stuff, I thought I’d take the liberty of highlighting and passing along to those of you who are less interested I’d encourage you to draw your attention to a couple of things: 1. Note the recommended number of devices chart. ...

A colleague of mine (hi, Stacy!) posted recently on her co-authored blog about the blended learning program offered through Medina Schools.  (Side note–if your school/district is considering a blended approach, be sure to follow their blog as they weed through the muck and mire of actual implementation.) What I thought was fascinating about her ...