by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 17, 2014 | How-To, Microsoft, On Our Radar..., PowerPoint
Embedding YouTube videos into PowerPoint – Thank you TubeChop! I always loved the PowerPoint feature that let me embed YouTube videos into a presentation. That way I wouldn’t have to leave an IE window open during my presentation, fumble with ALT-TAB keystrokes, and...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 16, 2014 | Common Core State Standards, Curriculum, Media, On Our Radar...
Jason and I are in Bellevue, Washington this week learning with Microsoft Innovative Educators. Becky Keene @beckykeene showed us TTribune, a great daily magazine by the Smithsonian showing current events rewritten for k-12 students. What is TTribune: TeenTribune,...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 12, 2014 | Announcements, Hour of Code
We wanted to wrap up our week long feature on Hour of Code with a view into the future and to give you all some ideas of where to go next in the coding movement. Kiki Prottsman (@thinkersmith), a prominent voice on Computer Science across the K-12 curriculum, was...
by Dr. Jason Neiffer | Dec 11, 2014 | Hour of Code
Jessi Anderson is a a science teacher at Powell County High School, oceanography teacher at Montana Digital Academy and is a co-founder of #MTEdchat, a weekly informal professional development Twitter chat that regularly engages teachers across Montana and the nation...
by Mike Agostinelli | Dec 10, 2014 | Announcements, Hour of Code
In our continuing week long series around the Hour of Code we sat down with Jamie Ewing, 5th grade teacher from Mount View Elementary School, in Seattle, Washington. We were excited to talk to an elementary teacher who has done so much with coding in the elementary...
