Remote Learning Opportunities

Family Reading Night is an annual statewide event held on the third Thursday of November to encourage families to read together. This year, instead of holding an in-person event, a virtual alternative was provided to the New Berlin Pretzel Families. You can learn more about this remote learning opportunity on my New Berlin Library Website. While you are there, be sure to also check out the virtual bookshelves students are able to access to find books they can request from the Remote Book Checkout System.

Alternative Teaching Strategies

The Global Twitter Read-a-Thon is a passion project that I lead twice a year for students all over the United States. You can read all about this day of reading and tweeting for students over at www.globalstudentreadathon.weebly.com It is one of my favorite activities each year!

Free online tools are fantastic ways to reach students with multiple learning styles.

Tech Tips

Quick, easy-to-follow tech tips to provide professional development at an individualized pace.

Promotional Videos 

Celebrate student and athletic achievements with the use of promotional videos.

 The staff at Tuscola CUSD #301 likes to celebrate Christmas each year with a customized video Christmas Card. These yearly video greeting cards were so much fun to make!

There's an App for That!

I love TableTots as a way to use interactive "manipulatives" on the iPad. So much so that the creators of this app asked me to demo it during a Google Hangout.

Website Work

My very first task as Director of Technology at Tuscola CUSD #301 was to update the district website. To the left is what the site looked like when I inherited it. Below is the version I created.

PechaKucha - Freativity

In September 2017, I was asked to present a PechaKucha during the Pygmallion Fest in Urbana, IL. First devised by a pair of Tokyo architects in 2003, PechaKucha Nights have become an international phenomenon that use a simple concept to create big community exchanges.  Presenters have 20 images and 20 seconds per image to share their ideas, works, and passions for a total of 6 minutes and 40 seconds flat. Of all the presentations I've given over the course of my career, this by far was the most challenging!