I enjoyed virtually “visiting” Brooklyn Public Library and learning all that it had to offer for its patrons. The website was appealing, and even more impressive was the amount of richly diverse classes and programs that it offers. Check out this fantastic library through my presentation!

For library visit #2, I was excited to visit Old Dominion’s library- one I spent many many hours in during my undergrad and graduate school. I loved going back onto campus after 7 years and seeing how much has changed! Click this link to explore the exterior of Perry Library on the Old Dominion campus…

I have a experience with both 3D printing and coding from being involved with my school’s STEM club. 3D printing is definitely more complex, so I’ve worked a little more closely with it with the students than I have with coding. For that reason, I chose to play around with Hour of Code for this…

I enjoyed this week’s Sandbox- exploring all of the augmented reality tools. In her lecture, Dr. Kimmel mentions that if we haven’t seen these tools pop up in our lives as educators thus far, to be prepared to see them in the near future. I’ve seen and used many of them in my teaching career,…

After exploring presentation tools this week, I can confidently say that I will not be using Google Slides any longer. There are so many more tools out there that provide for more creativity! When exploring this week’s Sandbox tools, I didn’t play around with Prezi for too long, as this is one that I’ve already…

In exploring the Sandbox tools this week, I noticed that I was already familiar with many of them. Loom was one of my favorite tools for distance learning.  It is a great and pretty easy-to-use tool to screen record, and I loved that my face could still be in the corner of the video while…

In my classroom, I listen to the Podcast Six Minutes with my students. Six Minutes is a mystery/adventure podcast that follows the life of an 11-year-old girl named Holiday. Holiday faced a terrifying accident and woke up unknowing of who she was, where she was, or anything about her history. Throughout the podcast, we learn…

This week when exploring different audio tools to use in the classroom or library, I found three that stood out to me. In the past, my students have had a lot of fun with Voki.  I’ve used this tool as a vehicle for students to present information that they’ve researched, and also to give book…

For my infographic, I put together a few lyrics from a funny rap song by artist Lil Dicky called $ave Dat Money. The song is about all of the ways that he is frugal and different things he does to save money. In my infographic, I chose some of the more *appropriate* lyrics and found…

My first image is a photograph that I found on Pixabay. Using the photo editing tool Pixlr, I added a quote. In the classroom or library, this would be a fun tool to use with students. I would have them choose their favorite quote from a book and edit it onto a photograph. I would…