Roxi Thompson

I can't believe it's the last day of ISTELive! My favorite session today was "It’s About How to Pivot: Teacher Educators, Teacher Candidates and Twitter" with  Dr. Sam Fecich ,  Dr. Susan Poyo , and  Dr. Sumreen Asim . I love how they designed their Twitter challenge to support teacher candidates as they learned how to effectively use Twitter to develop their PLN.  My district has a new "alternative" teacher prep program that allows participants with a bachelor's degree other than education to earn their certification while being full-time teachers. I'm curious if we could try something similar with this group to help them connect with practicing educators, find resources, and engage in authentic, self-directed learning opportunities. I'd love to try! Well, that's a wrap on ISTELive this year! I'm looking forward to watching the recordings of the sessions I missed. And I might even try to be brave and submit a proposal to present next yea...

This is the last week of school, but the next few weeks are going to be super busy! I'm presenting four different sessions at the DV Tech Fest (our district tech conference) this summer, so I'll be doing some research and preparing my materials.  This summer I will be presenting the following sessions: Unleash the Power of Google Slides Cultivating Collaboration with Google Getting started with Google Sites Elevate Your Learning: Twitter for Educators My session on Twitter for Educators is new this year, and I'm really excited about it! My experiences interacting with other educators on Twitter have really helped me grow professionally. I was able to learn from teachers who generously shared their ideas and resources, and I took those new ideas and tried them in my own classroom. Twitter also showed me the possibilities that exist when we stop assuming that we have to run schools the same way they were run when we were in school. It has been so inspiring to s...