Just a few thoughts about GTA…
What happens when you invite the latest and greatest educators to Google Teacher Academy in Mountain View? You become a family. The GTAMTV14 cohort is an amazing, talented, and inspirational group of teachers, administrators, coaches, and other educational professionals who were chosen to become Google Certified Teachers. Many of us met on July 29th at […]
Twitter as Professional Development
I’ve had a user account on Twitter for several years (since 2009), but it wasn’t until December of 2011 that I started actively reading and tweeting. I think what got me back onto Twitter was the DreamForce (#DF11) cloud conference I attended in August. The genius CEO of Salesforce, Marc Benioff, discussed the importance of […]
My First EdCamp
My very good friend Shyra and I decided we’d trek ourselves down to CSUFresno to attend our first EdCamp. EdCampCV was headed by Alice Keeler (@alicekeeler) on February 25, 2012. For those of you who don’t know what EdCamp is, there’s a great video on the EdCampCV website that explains it. EdCamp is not your […]
EdTech Professional Development
Like many private schools, our school has one teacher for each grade level. Collaboration between teachers of the same grades is difficult, if not impossible for most of us; thus, professional development becomes an important part of our collaboration, learning, and growth. When you mention professional development to people, most people’s eyes will glaze over, […]
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