While the sensationalism of ChatGPT and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools has calmed down slightly in the last month, the capabilities have not. There are many concerns about students’ ability to use these tools to cheat. Still, I want to continue to focus on how we, as educators, specifically School Library Media Specialists (SLMS), can […]
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Split Screen On A Chromebook
Remote and hybrid teaching is challenging. It’s exhausting, and things never really go as planned. One of the top tips that I can give to teachers, students, and parents right now is to split your screen for better efficiency. On a Chromebook, you can drag a window into a corner to get it to take […]
Veteran’s Day
Do your students know what Veterans Day is? Here is a fun mini PBL for students to learn about the day and design a memorial for their home town. Sixth graders were engaged through the entire project and designed amaingly thoughtful monuments. https://sites.google.com/millburn.org/veteransdaymonuments/home
Student Voice AND Admin Voice- Library Remodel Part 2
Looking for Library Remodel Part 1? Click here Who uses your space the most? … the students. When redesigning the library I had a goal, ask the students. This was going to be their space. We as educators also have ideas in mind of what we need but this was there going to be their […]
Disrupting Thinking
We as humans often get stuck in routines, even with our thinking. We do the same things, day after day, and expect things to change, to get better. As teachers, this happens with our teaching and it ends up extending out to our students. Sit in the same seats, take attendance, read this chapter, answer […]
Moving Up and Moving On
So much has happened the last few months but the biggest news is after 10 years in elementary school I am moving to high school. My excitement is indescribable. Before that happens I want to write all about all the amazing projects I have done that I never took the time to write about. Please […]
Augmented Reality, Post 2
Upper Elementary students love Augmented Reality too. Some of my favorite AR apps for the older students tie-in amazingly with the curriculum. Chromville (Free and $$) Chromville, Barcy, and Chromeville Science engages students by bringing their coloring pages to life. The original Chromville allows students to color different characters that animate using AR. Each character […]
#coffeeedu
On Saturday I met up with some amazing like-minded teachers for CoffeeEduNJ. CoffeeEdu is a one hour chat, or “unconference”, where people get together and talk about…anything. Learn more about it here: http://www.coffeeedu.org/ There were not only awesome local teachers, but Alice Keeler, the creator was able to come. I learned, I was inspired, I ate breakfast, […]
I’m Back and It’s Getting Better
I’m BACK! This August I came back to my computer lab looking like this: It’s hard to tell but there are 200 new Lenovo N21 Chromebooks, 40 new iPad Airs, 12 Chromebook Carts, and 4 iPad docking and charging stations. What does all this mean? After two weeks of unpacking, assesst tagging, inventorying, and synching the second, […]