by Mike Agostinelli | Feb 10, 2017 | Conferences, Google, Make!, NCCE 2017 in Portland
Dean began his career as a middle school teacher where he continually offered his students the opportunities to learn from their environment, experiences, and real world applications of content. He created problem based lessons where his students constructed bird...
by Mike Agostinelli | Feb 7, 2017 | Conferences, How-To, Make!, Professional Development, Slides
We were fortunate to get to spend Monday morning at the IETA conference in Boise, ID with a great group of educators from the Northwest learning about Sketchnoting and integrating it in the classroom. If you are interested in Sketchnoting or new to the concept, our...
by Mike Agostinelli | Oct 6, 2016 | Apple, Coding, Digital Design, Digital Resources, Make!, Professional Development
Do you have Macs in your school? How about iPads? If so, Apple has developed new training resources called Apple Teacher Learning Center to help build your skills and enhance your instruction with Apple products. We’re excited to announce Apple Teacher, a new...
by Mike Agostinelli | Jul 14, 2016 | Digital Design, First Look, ISTE 2016 in Denver, Keep Kids Coding!, Make!, Media
First Look is a series from the Tech-Savvy Teachers featuring innovative services, hardware and software from our exploration of conference vendor floors from around the country. ISTE 2016 had many interesting new technologies and vendors, many of which we will be...
by Mike Agostinelli | Apr 27, 2016 | Announcements, Hour of Code, Keep Kids Coding!, Make!
I am sure each and everyone of you have some students who are interested in creating games for iOS and Android. Flowlab.io is a great place for them to start learning. Flowlab’s browser based interface means there is nothing to install and will even work great...
by Mike Agostinelli | Feb 17, 2016 | Apple, Conferences, Digital Design, Make!, Microsoft, NCCE 2016 in Seattle, STEM
Aaron Maurer is an Instructional Coach for Bettendorf Middle School. He has been in education for over a decade teaching sixth grade social studies, literature and computer as well as spending many years teaching gifted education in grades 4-8 before taking on the new...
