
Whiteboarding Made Easy: Level Up Your Planning with Excalidraw
Have you ever heard of Excalidraw? We hadn’t and we thought it could prove to be useful for teachers planning with their students or colleagues.
Carly teaches first grade, and asks, “Could anybody tell me whether it is just as easy to use a Macbook as a teacher (syncing with Smart board programs etc.), or whether it is best to use a different laptop?”
I’m loving this free, online course for planning to lead a school or district in this Digital Age. (20 hours PD available if approved by your district). Here’s a sneak peak.
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Something to think about… How can we make Eastern Kentucky a hot-bed for technology jobs in the future? What can we do to prepare our students for a world that is driven by technology? Thoughts?!? Love to have some great conversation!!!
I think one thing that has to occur: we need to bring high-tech jobs like programming and electrical engineering out of the realm of ” they do that somewhere else.” There is no real reason a programming company couldn’t locate in our region. “Our internet is faster than your internet.”
LOL! I think that needs to be a slogan of ours… We have faster internet than you!!!
I was wondering, how many of our districts allow our students to use their SmartPhones in classroom? I found this article on how smartphones can be moved away from a toy to a tool. At the end of the article you will see 5 tips for getting started with smartphones. Check it out and tell me what you think.
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In the last couple of years, I had been allowing students to use their smartphone in my classroom. We used them as clickers, ways for students to post to my blog, capture video and photos, and to create pod casts.
Technology offers extraordinary new capacities to teachers. The vast breadth and depth of educational materials and the sharing of resources available through connecting regional teachers via that technology can break boundaries, making any professional learning accessible anywhere. On February 23rd (March 2-Snow Date) we will demonstrate this…Read More
Have you ever heard of Excalidraw? We hadn’t and we thought it could prove to be useful for teachers planning with their students or colleagues.
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I will have to take a look at it. Thanks