Tips and Reflections on Technology Integration in the Classroom

Why Google Slides is one of the Best Google Apps for Education: As a teacher who embraces technology integration in the classroom, I must admit I was extremely excited when I found out that my department was going to get to pilot a new Google Classroom program within our school.  This pilot program was offered to us four years ago and I can't say enough how much it has not only improved our content deliver but has enhanced our lessons.  Google Apps for Education has given our students more opportunities to learn and develop the skills they need as 21st century learners.  When we first piloted the program we were a BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology) school which was equally exciting but also a tad bit frustrating.  We didn't know what devices our students were going to have, if they had any devices at all.  The first year of technology integration we were learning as much, if not more, about it than the students were, but it was a start. The Google Toolbox:...

Why use HyperDocs from the mouths of our students: HyperDocs is one of the million new tools that can be added into our digital arsenal of resources that 21st century teachers can use to deliver content to our students.  However a tool is just a tool unless we understand why or how it can be used.  When thinking about this weeks post about creating and using HyperDocs I decided to take a slightly different approach.  Instead of focusing on the how, which I did last week check out my post titled Hyped about HyperDocs , I wanted to focus on the why.  Why do we use HyperDocs?  I believe two of my students, Campbell and Logan explain it better than I can. I encourage you to listen to their thoughts and reflections after using a HyperDoc activity in class just this week.  Grab some popcorn and enjoy!... What I learned from my Students:   As a teacher the power of the HyperDoc is simple, it's the flexibility and ease of linking sever...