by Jennifer Van Blair | Jul 13, 2020 | Technology
What’s the plan? Despite my district floundering while coming up with a plan to get students back to school, I found a surefire way to feel confident about back to school despite the uncertainty. Sadly, many teachers in my district, state, and throughout the US are...
by Jennifer Van Blair | May 17, 2020 | Technology
Remember that year classrooms had to shift gears and go digital suddenly? I know for many teachers, that was a really challenging time. There is one reason it was easy for my students. You see, I didn’t wait till it was NECESSARY to be digital. I was already...
by Jennifer Van Blair | May 3, 2020 | Technology
Get the sparkling wine ready because we are going to be celebrating by the end of this post. That’s how confident I am that you are going to absolutely love how easy and revolutionary this technology tool is to use. In fact, you better put that bottle on ice...
by Jennifer Van Blair | Apr 26, 2020 | Technology
Are you ready to say goodbye to the most abusive relationship you have at your school? I am talking about that one relationship that always seems to fail you. That’s right. It’s time to say goodbye to the office copy machine. Say adios to paper jams, toner...
by Jennifer Van Blair | Apr 26, 2020 | Technology
I Tried Using Scratch With My Reluctant Writers and Here’s What Happened This is a post on writing. We expect writing to be full bodied, so our wine should be too. Try a cabernet sauvignon. Getting students to write can be challenging, especially when writing is...