by Meredith Martin | Oct 19, 2012 | Collaboration, professional development, Sharing
I often feel that Twitter is the most underused and under-appreciated tool in education these days. Twitter has broadened my horizons as an educator, connected me with other educators around the world, and become my go-to resource when I’m looking for ideas or...
by Meredith Martin | Oct 16, 2012 | Apps, conference, iPads, professional development
This was my second Edscape conference, and it was even more awesome than last year’s since I brought a coworker with me! We started our day with an inspirational keynote by Vicki Davis. She shared some of her experiences as a teacher, and talked about how there...
by Meredith Martin | Oct 6, 2012 | Collaboration, conference, edcamp, iPads, professional development
As a certified EdCamp Junkie, I was excited to attend EdCamp Hagerstown this weekend. After our InService on Friday, Little Dog and I headed out to Maryland for the weekend. After a 3.5 hour drive, we arrived and got settled in. Early this morning, it was time to...
by Meredith Martin | Nov 13, 2011 | conference, professional development
It’s been a busy week for me, with lots of opportunities to be a student instead of a teacher for a little while. Wednesday was our County-wide In Service day, and I had the chance to do some more work revising our technology curriculum. It’s...
by Meredith Martin | Oct 19, 2011 | Collaboration, Presentations, professional development
As you can probably gather from my posts about it, I’m really enamored with the EdCamp style of conference. I’ve been attending as many as I can reasonably attend, and have been working up to eventually presenting at one. I decided to start small, in my...