NCCE Day 3 - Inspiration Into Action

It's 8am - Why are all these people excited to learn about classroom management in a personalized learning environment with Patrick Green? Because this is what we all want but have NO idea how to do!
Gerry Brooks is hilarious. I would like the link to his talk. Also, he is my spirit animal.

Alexa, how can you make my life better in the classroom? She already does! I need to look into building skills as I haven't dived in on that yet.









Apps I Now Have To Try:
  1. Emoji Builder
  2. FlipGrid
  3. Talking Points
  4. Canva (Already used it, but I forget...)
  5. Videezy
  6. Loom - Screencasting software, user friendly
  7. Career Village
  8. Lastpass
  9. Novel Effect
  10. xplorlabs - FORENSICS!!!!!
  11. Thinking App - track student activity
  12. Sero - Mindmapping as assessment

Books I Now Have To Read:
The End of Average by Todd Rose
Classroom Management in the Digital Age by Heather Dowd and Patrick Green
Be REAL by Tara Miller
SO MANY MORE!!!

Mostly, more questions than answers, more to do, but better focus, renewed energy

Lastly, I will now be Tyler Rablin's best friend. You can be too. Follow his blog; Follow him on Twitter @Mr_Rablin . Everything I believed before today was reinforced by what I learned this week, but I've not had the tools or the examples to wade deeper and get results. I din't have what I needed to turn inspiration into action. Until Tyler. He is real. He works in the classroom. He is willing to try and to fail and to try again. He is willing to share it ALL with ALL of us.


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