Aim to Be Awesome, Not Perfect

I am sure you read the headline, and said 'Don't you know about the little shortcut with bookmarking the pinmarklet?' Yes, I do, but it doesn't seem to work all the time. Ugh.  And Pinterest is my GO TO for organizing all the fab stuff I find in the internet.  So today, while I was taking a break from water park wackiness, I was searching around my Pinterest app and noticed that there was an 'Add a pin' spot. This could be the answer to my prayer!  And it was! Any link I opened in Twitter or Facebook or Google Plus, I can now pin very easily. I know this seems really simple, but for me, it rivals the 'Pin in' extension in Chrome that is my savior.    I know this might be silly, but for me, this is Awesome! 

  So in my head, all summer, I have been thinking about a LMS for the upcoming year.  In case you don't know, a LMS is a learning management system.  Teachers use them to keep track of students' content mastery, behavior, even posting assignments and test dates.  In short, an LMS can do a lot - and it is all about what you need and what will give it to you.  So which one do I need?   The first thing I need to do is think about what I want my LMS to be.  Besides my website, I want the LMS to be a go-to place for students to get information, like homework links and test dates.  I am flipping my classroom, so I would really like there to be multiple ways (besides my website) for students to get to the videos.  I also need a location for in-class quizzes or check-ups to be housed.  So that's what I need... I think.    One issue is that there are so many out there! Some do a few things, some do many, and some are new and shiny -...

Sorry I haven't written - summer has been a little crazy, between 2 trips and a week of Girl Scout camp (that I helped run/organize).  My brain has been on overdrive though, so the next few blog posts will probably be about all my thoughts and what not that pertain to the upcoming school year.  Well, there might be one or two posts about vacation.... Anyway, in one of my overdrive moments, I was thinking about all the information I have amassed (that I might need at a later point) to help with either of my three upcoming challenges - 7th grade math, flipping my classroom, and the Next Generation Digital Classroom.   Pinterest is my main go to - I am a visual person, so I really like bookmarking with pictures.  I have been organizing my pins by unit, so that for example, when I teach integers, all of the games/foldables/manipulatives are in one spot.  When looking them over yesterday (yes, I occasionally due to cleaning and rearranging) I realized my boards ar...