I'm Back!

It has been wayyyyyy too long since my last post. Call it a case of Spring Fever combined with a lot of other stuff going on. At any rate, I'm back and ready to give you a few thing that I hope you'll enjoy.

First of all, one of the reasons for my extended absence from the Blogosphere was due to Spring Break. If you are looking for a beautiful place to go next year, let me highly recommend Anna Maria Island in Florida! We went with my folks and my sister's family and had a great time. Between the beach and the pool, there wasn't a whole lot of time to work on my blog :)

Here's the fam "chillin" in the hot tub.

Ok, back to reality... So just a couple things I thought I'd share with you that I found really cool recently. First of all, check out this awesome Venn Diagram that students in Shannon Harris' class created at Holland Elementary. They have been using both Kahoot and Socrative this year in her classroom and decided to compare and contrast the benefits of each of these amazing "clicker apps".

Such a great idea and the students did an excellent job of capturing the most important features of these apps. If you are not familiar with either Kahoot or Socrative, check out the links below... and if you'd ever like me to do a 54tech post about either of them, let me know in the comment section below!
Kahoot: https://getkahoot.com/
Socrative: http://www.socrative.com/

Here is the other thing I'd encourage you to check out... Once a month several of us have been doing a "Hangout" in the evening to discuss some of the things we've been learning about related to technology in education. Here is the latest installment from March:

These videos are typically about 20 minutes long but packed full of information, including ideas from teachers and coaches from around the district. If you would be interested in participating in one of these Hangouts, please let me know ASAP. We will be doing another one in the next week or so and would love for you to join us!

Well, that's all I've got for now. Look for another post by the end of the week. I've got an app that I'm really excited about diving a little deeper into and hope to have a new tutorial for you soon.

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