Thank you to partner educator Amanda Bickford for sharing this video about how technology’s being integrated into the Manchester Elementary Middle School classroom, in Manchester VT. It’s gratifying to hear directly from educators the difference our support is making in their classroom. Thank you, everyone, for a truly innovative year.
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Technology enhancing education at MEMS
Posted in Cool Things Our Partners Do, videos on May 17, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
“The students showed me how it was done”: Students and colleagues as educator resources
Posted in Cool Things Our Partners Do, videos, tagged iPad, QR codes, student mentors on April 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
A guest post by one of our partner educators, Jacki McCarty. McCarty is an educator at Harwood Union Middle School, in Moretown VT. “The resource I wish to share is THE STUDENTS and MY COLLEAGUES. Through encouragement by my colleagues I have taken risks with technology and found that the students can run with technology [...]
Penny Bishop interviewed for Champlain Inititiative series
Posted in News, videos on April 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
From the archives and still relevant today: Tarrant Institute director Penny Bishop reflecting on how schools can lead by embracing technology.
Book trailers from the Edge
Posted in Cool Things Our Partners Do, videos, tagged book trailers, digital literacy, iMovie on April 12, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Students at Essex Middle School recently hosted a morning at the movies, and as part of the April 9th Celebration of Learning, shared their iMovie book trailers for The Hobbit, The Giver, Hostage to War, The Hobbit, The Amulet of Samarkand, Holes, Schooled, The Hobbit (v. popular book), and Cracker. As facilitator Lindsey Slan Halman [...]
Edmodo at Warp Speed
Posted in videos, tagged dcf awards, edmodo, student voice on February 24, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Working through the Dorothy Canfield Fisher books with Edmodo: Warp Speed by Lisa Yee, Inside Out and Back Again by Thanha Lai, incorporating students into Edmodo, badging, book clubs and new scarves. It’s all in here.
Badgestack!
Posted in videos, tagged badges, badgestack, Google+ hangouts on February 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
The Tarrant Institute has recently begun piloting a trial of Badgestack, an online badging platform, featuring level dynamics, friending and hidden rewards. As part of a course they’re taking via Badgestack, Susan and Audrey recorded this Google+ hangout to talk about how Badgestack might work in a middle school classroom, and their love-hate relationship with The [...]
Wi-fi considerations for using ARIS at UVM
Posted in videos, tagged ARIS on October 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
aka What a Lovely Gravel Path That Is. Audrey muses on the current wi-fi coverage situation at UVM while trying to place characters for an ARIS game on campus.
VGo: Robots in the classroom
Posted in videos, tagged distance learning, VGo on October 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The VGO video conferencing robot visited the Tarrant Institute today, and Meredith took it for a spin.
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