Aim to Be Awesome, Not Perfect

This week I got the opportunity to present whole-group professional development to the teachers on my campus. I know that we have a lot of different levels of technology savvy, so I wanted to differentiate. My focus was on student creation (since we are working toward becoming a Fine Arts Academy) and my goal was for everyone to learn at least one new assessment idea for their class. In order to reach everyone, and give them something they could reference,  I created a Google Site.  For the beginners, I created a Google basics section. This group had their own space. It had stations with checklists for some of the basic productivity skills in Google Calendar, Drive, Gmail and Docs. Teachers would go to whichever station they felt they needed help with. There were instructional videos and step-by-step instructions, all of which was also included on the site. I was very fortunate that two of our campus instructional coaches offered to be the facilitators for those stations. I...

It's been a long time since I have posted anything.. but I am hoping that will change. I am in a new role - Instructional Technology Specialist - so I am learning more really cool stuff that technology. I am also learning how to fix almost anything.  I also recently got my Level 1 Google Educator Certification. Here are some cool things I learned how to do recently: How to import a .csv file into Google calendar - handy for those weird repeating items (like alternating block schedules) How to create charts in Google Sheets (it's in the Insert Menu, not what I was expecting) How to make an awesome Harry Potter wand  How to use Pikochart  (very cool for infographics and presentations!