by brholland | Aug 29, 2013 | All Topics
Last August, while leading a two-day EdTechTeacher iPad workshop with a school about to go 1:1, Tom Daccord (@thomasdaccord) recommended that I wrap up the final day with an activity called The First 5s. This faculty felt a bit overwhelmed about the influx of devices,...
by brholland | Jul 25, 2013 | All Topics
I remember being in elementary school and thinking that crutches looked like fun…. not so much anymore. However, they do make a great analogy, and I enjoyed writing about them in a recent article for Edutopia: iPads – From Pedagogical Crutch to Education...
by brholland | Jul 17, 2013 | All Topics
Since the iPad Summit last fall in Boston, I’ve been working on this concept of iPads And… vs iPads Or… It just feels like there’s this concept struggle between: should it be a paper book or an iBook, a paper drawing or a digital one, blocks or...
by brholland | Jun 20, 2013 | All Topics
The only benefit to being couch bound right now is that I’ve been able to read and write – a lot. Thanks to the contributions of three fantastic educators – Kristen Wideen, Kristin Ziemke, and Jill Gough – I was able to get my first post...
by brholland | Jun 3, 2013 | All Topics
For the past few weeks, I’ve been playing with a few new tools that could completely change the ways in which I approach collaborating and connecting. As I’ve written before, I really like Evernote as both a teacher as well as a student portfolio solution....