I read an excellent blog post by John Spencer that included this video. (It’s worth the 2 1/2 minutes!) As I reflect on my time at my school as its elementary digital learning specialist for the past fourteen years, I have witnessed unsure students. I have encouraged them to take risks and try things out. […]

A simple task for today: Google yourself. What are the results? Are you happy with the web links and images associated with you? Are you surprised by them? A part of good digital citizenship is taking ownership and control of your digital footprint.

You’ve set up a classroom blog. It has an eye-catching theme, and you’ve included tons of pages to help the students and parents know the expectations of the classroom. You even write a post updating the latest happenings. Maybe, you have your students writing posts, too. So how come no one is reading it? I’d […]