This years TCEA was a great event as always. I enjoyed going and presenting and came back with quite a few ideas. The big topics of this convention seemed to be maker spaces and the maker movement, BreakoutEDU and Escape Rooms, and augmented and virtual reality. Clay and my presentation combining augmented reality and ideas from BreakoutEDU fit right in, and our session on using Office Mix helped fill in the small amount of Microsoft-centric training available. Clay and I did some brain storming on maker spaces and coding and making those ideas more relevant to the content areas. I think there are some great possibilities in taking those ideas and instead of treating them as extras, pulling them in and using them as a medium in which to teach the content area goals. I think they could be used for great PBL ideas.
AuthorI am a Instructional Technology Specialist in El Paso ISD. I help teachers with adding technology into their lessons. I have been with the district for 15 years. My goal is to help teachers become comfortable with the process of technology integration, so that they are able to integrate their own lessons with ease. Archives
April 2018
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