Tuesday Tech Tip: CCSD's Super Tool Smackdown

This summer, our team was fortunate enough to attend the ISTE 2016 conference here in Denver. It wa…

ISTE 2016 - Honorable Mentions or for Further Research

As always there is way too much information at tech conferences to the point of shutting down (that…

ISTE Top 10 - #1 - Seesaw

There were several hot topics at ISTE this year (gamifying PD...global collaboration...coding...mic…

ISTE Top 10 - #2 - Amazing Race Challenge Using MyMaps

I went to a ticketed session titled " Challenge Students (or Staff) to Google MyMaps Amazing R…

ISTE Top 10 - #3 - Challenges and Badges

At ISTE they have a series of sessions known as Snap Shots. It is where you get two sessions in an …

ISTE Top 10 - #4 - Zaption (?)

This WAS my favorite thing at ISTE but I just found out the company sold and is closing on Septembe…

ISTE Top 10 - #5 - More Google Extensions...for YouTube

I took a Straight Outta of YouTube class put on by the Google Education folks (click on the link t…

ISTE Top 10 - #6 - Google Tone Extension

In one session I learned that Google has a chrome extension called “Google Tone”. Once you add it t…

ISTE Top 10 - #7 - New Google Sites

One thing I got very excited about, when I heard about it at ISTE, is the fact that Google is launc…

ISTE Top 10 - #8 - Google Quiz Feature in Forms

The big news this trip was the release of a quiz feature in Google Forms that launched June 27 th…

ISTE Top 10 - #9 - Kahoot Additions

I am a big Kahoot and Quizizz user. I stopped by the Kahoot booth to see what was new (to me) for t…

ISTE Top 10 - #10 - ClassFlow

I was very fortunate to attend ISTE (the International Society for Technology in Education) in Denv…

ISTE Idea #1 - TouchCast

This was my "WOW" moment at ISTE and to think I might have missed it!  When you sign up…

ISTE Idea #2 - Random Poster Session Ideas

Before I get to the #1 ISTE Idea I was looking at my notes and ran across a few random ideas I got …

ISTE Idea #3 - Google Translate

I attend a Google Apps for the iPad at ISTE  (click for full presentation) mainly because my boss a…

ISTE Idea #4 - Text to Table (and Wordle)

This idea was presented at a Poster session titled "Unleash Cool Unknown Tools with Microsoft …

ISTE Idea - #5 - 100 Word Challenge

I saw this at a poster session and am very excited about getting some classrooms to try this 100 W…

ISTE Idea - #6 - Shutterfly Photo Story in the Classroom

This idea came from a Poster Session led by folks at Shutterfly. They have a Photo Story in the Cla…

ISTE Idea - #7 - Padcaster

This was by far the coolest "tech tool" on the Expo Hall. The tool is called The Padcaste…

ISTE Idea - #8 - Quizizz

Kahoot! was the most popular and used tool this year for classroom assessment. Students and teacher…