Leyden Techies

I just received the following email from EDpuzzle about some new updates: Short email to share a few improvements that we built in...

Last week I blogged about EDpuzzle ( Supercharge and Personalize Videos for Your Students with EDpuzzle ).  Since my original post, I have l...

By now, most educators have found that video can be a powerful tool to integrate into their lessons.  Some are creating their own.  Some a...

Have you ever reviewed the slides from a presentation and wished you could hear "the rest of the story" behind each slide?  Givin...

A few Leyden teachers have been effectively using VoiceThread with their students for a couple years and, with our evolution into a 1:1 dis...

Yesterday, while cruising up I-57 back from the University of Illinois in Champaign after presenting at the AdvancEd conference , Jason...

In case you missed the news about the Auto Awesome feature roll-out in Google+ a while back, if you upload a series of photos taken in succe...

Scrolling through my Google+ feed, I came across a post that introduced me to Fotobabble .  This easy to use tool allows you to upload a p...

There are plenty of other posts and articles out there that speak to the power and value of growing your Personal Learning Network (PLN), es...

With every student having a Google Chromebook in our district, I have heard that many of our teachers have become fans of using  Socrative  ...

A valuable resource we provide to the teachers and students in our district is access to the Discovery Education website.  It contains tho...

If you'd like to start having your students listen to iTunes audio podcasts on their Chromebooks, there is a solution.  Just have your s...

During the first week of school in our new 1:1 environment, I had a few teachers inquire about different options for getting their student...

I just came across the following presentation by Richard Byrne ( @rmbyrne ) on his Free Technology for Teachers blog.  This is a great intr...

Here's a great explanation of many social networks by Douglas Wray on Instagram .

Let me start by saying that I only wish I could take credit for the slides below.  These are great!  This slide deck was put together by Cha...

The following video shows a great way to use screencasts to provide feedback to students on their digital assignments.  This comes from Amy ...

I really got a kick out of this movie and it was a great reminder about the animated movie making tool available at  http://www.xtranormal.c...

If you use Gmail and Chrome, check out the WiseStamp extension. It allows you to create custom signatures that include social icons and em...

Thanks to the Digital Inspiration blog I learned about a great way to have students collect resources from the web and then organize them ...