4 ways to help middle school students organize their tech
Standard 3-part story-driven post: 1) what it is, 2) what it looks like in a school, 3) how to do it in your school
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3 visualization exercises for proficiency-based learning
Outcomes, process and automaticity I worked with a group of teachers this summer to re-think goal-setting with their students. We
Read more4 ways to begin using scales for assessment
Getting started assessing proficiency School systems in Vermont and elsewhere are in the midst of a shift to proficiency-based learning.
Read moreW is for Weekly Geek Podcast
Creative ways to share learning opportunities Teachers at Lamoille Union Middle/High School learn about the latest tools and resources available
Read moreL is for Learning Management System (LMS)
What can you do with an LMS? LMS stands for Learning Management System. An LMS is an application for planning, delivering, managing,
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I is for Identity
3 tech-rich strategies for exploring identity with students “Who am I?” is the question at the heart of the adolescent
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4 edtech tools for family communication How can technology help make communicating with your students’ families easier? These 4 edtech tools
Read moreiBook Authors at Harwood Union Middle School
Be your own Hero Using the free iOS Shadow Puppet app, I created this brief look at an amazing unit
Read moreToo much good stuff: a wealth of reading and curation resources for the classroom
The technology cannot thwart us, it can only make us stronger As many of you are aware, I was out
Read more4 ways personalized learning plans are taking off in Vermont
Educators are embracing digital tools for planning and sharing Personalized learning plans, or PLPs, are non-traditional pathways by which students
Read moreEssays on Rube Goldberg: capturing the scientific process with iPads
How one class of 8th grade scientists at Harwood Union Middle School used Google Docs, Schoology, and iPads to capture
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Authentic cell biology with Notability on the iPad
This spring, Nancy Spencer and her class discovered something amazing about their cheek cells. The students discovered that by placing
Read moreePortfolios with Evernote at Harwood Union Middle School
Students are creating narrated, curated and portable evidence of their work Back in November, a group of educators from Harwood
Read moreiPad how-to: saving auras to your Evernote portfolio
A 1-minute iPad how-to from Harwood Union Middle School science educator Brian Wagner, showing you how to save augmented reality
Read moreMeet Aurasma: an augmented reality app for the classroom
Augmented reality apps allow users to experience a layer of additional information — usually visual or auditory — meshed with
Read moreExplain Everything, um, explained.
A middle-schooler from Harwood explains how they’re using Explain Everything for a class project to capture stills and videos.
Read moreHow to: use iMovie on the iPad
A brief but effective demonstration of how to use iMovie to construct a poem recital video, courtesy a student at
Read moreIn the spotlight: Harwood Union Middle School
Traveled down to Harwood Union Middle School in Moretown VT on Friday to interview some of the students and teachers
Read moreBrian Wagner on Aurasma, continued
Page 1 | 2 The annual Rube Goldberg Challenge is an opportunity for students to engage in their inner creative,
Read moreBrian Wagner on: Aurasma and the Periodic Table
An augmented reality periodic table One of our partner educators, Brian Wagner, teaches eighth grade science at Harwood Union Middle
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