This is my twelfth thirteenth year in public education. I started as a 5th and 6th grade teacher in a country school outside of Wisconsin Rapids, WI. After seven years of teaching, I served as a dean of students at a junior high, which developed into an assistant principalship along with my athletic director duties. Now as an elementary principal, I am enjoying the curriculum, instruction and assessment side of education.
The thoughts expressed here are mine alone.
Nice blog about the apps for administrators. I have resources to share in case you are interested. I have been doing two day “iPad 4 Administrators” workshops around North Dakota for the past two years.
Just wanted to point out more of the value of Flipboard. You probably know this, but you can set up panels to search hashtags such as #edchat, #commoncore, #ccss, #ipadapps, etc.
Then I use IFTTT (http://ifttt.com) to set up a rule so that when I click on the Favorite icon in any app, including Flipboard and Tweetdeck, it gets copied directly into a Evernote note. Several weeks ago Twitter closed the direct API that IFTTT had been using, so now it is a two step process using Google Reader to pull the info from Twitter, and then triggers IFTTT to copy it to Evernote. But it all happens seamlessly once you have it set up.
Where did you find the whistle chairs?
We purchased five of them from Highsmith for $80/piece. I see Highsmith was recently bought out by Demco out of Madison, WI. Here is the link: http://www.demco.com/goto?BLK167912
Thanks for getting back to me. I appreciate it.
Just read your post on the Nerdy Book Club blog. Thank you. I work for a children’s literacy nonprofit in Nashville, TN. One of our programs is Reading Is Fundamental (RIF) through which we send about 140 volunteers into nine Metro Nashville public schools to read and give each child a new book. We would like to share your post with our RIF volunteers and we hope to purchase some of the books, with some grant money, you mention for use in our RIF lending library from which volunteers choose books to read to classes. Also, would it be okay for us to link to your site on our website?
Thanks for all you do for our children and their teachers and parents/guardians.
Martha Ann Pilcher, coordinator of volunteers, Book’em, Nashville, TN
volunteers@bookem-kids.org
Fine by me. Good luck with your reading project.