by brholland | Jul 10, 2014 | All Topics
A few weeks ago, I published a post about Cardboard Box Tools on Edutopia. The premise behind the article was the idea that children love to play with cardboard boxes because they are empty. A box could become anything, only limited by the child’s imagination....
by brholland | Nov 7, 2013 | All Topics
Strange things keep me awake sometimes, and last night it was Tellagami. Some of my EdTechTeacher colleagues love Tellagami. Sure, I can create a talking avatar. It can speak with my own voice if I record audio or via text-to-speech. However, I just found it sort of...
by brholland | Oct 26, 2013 | All Topics
A few weeks ago, I wrote about having a “no duh” moment. On Thursday, at the MassCUE conference, I had another one….. Though I had previously glanced at the FREE iSolveIt apps for iPad – MathSquared and MathCubed – I did not fully...
by brholland | Sep 17, 2013 | All Topics
I woke up this morning to discover these two tweets from Drew Frank (@ugafrank), Lower School Principal at Davis Academy in Atlanta, GA. Drew helped us coordinate our first set of EdTechTeacher Summer Workshops in Atlanta two years ago, and has recently become...
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...