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Lisa Nielsen is an educational administrator and permanently certified teacher with more than a decade's worth of experience working in educational innovation at the city, state, and national level. Working as an innovative educator in New York City, Ms. Nielsen was honored as Teacher of the Year and was her district's nominee for Technology Educator of the year. Ms. Nielsen has worked in various capacities in educational innovation at the NYC Department of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University including as manager of instructional technology professional development, literacy coach, instructional technology coach, teacher, librarian, and staff developer. She currently serves as Technology Innovation Manager for the NYC Department of Education. Ms. Nielsen is a Google Certified Teacher, International Edublogger, International EduTwitter, and creator of The Innovative Educator blog, website, learning network, and wiki. In addition to her blog (http://TheInnovativeEducator.blogspot.com), her work is published in "Learning and Leading," and "Tech & Learning," magazine as well as the following online media Tech & Learning, ISTE Connects, Ed Reformer, and The Huffington Post. An outspoken and passionate advocate of innovative education Ms. Nielsen is also covered by local and national media for her views on "Passion (not data) Driven Learning," "Thinking Outside the Ban" and determining ways to harness the power of technology for instruction and providing a voice to educators and students. Her first book "Teaching Generation Text" is set for a fall 2011 release.

"Just a quick proof of concept for a session I'm doing at VSTE. I'm trying to show how you can use most things in all sorts of ways despite what they were intended to do. Apparently the example Google put out for this way back when actually used choose your own adventure to demo the concept. I promise I didn't know that."

Pre-task thinking: Let's say you want to send clients an assessment test for them to do from home, and all the data should be evaluated instantly, without you having to correct it. You would like to have all of the data neatly in one table, easily available. This could be for a general assessement test that you use again and again. I've got a very short test on Making appointments on the phone just to show what the front end of such a self-grading test could look like to the client:

This Google site provides a fantastic layout for "Flipped" pedagogy professional development. 

Math and writing

Created with Google sites (former student) Welcome to Ms. Atwell's classroom webpage! This is currently a work in progress, but some of the pages are more finished than others. Especially check out the pole, the Adventure Logs, and the "About Me" page. If there is anything you would like to let me know, please sent me an email! Over and out -- Ms. A

These comments are from an educator survey asking what is the most challenging part of integrating technology into the classroom.

"Bill Ferriter teaches 6th grade language arts in North Carolina, where he was named a Regional Teacher of the Year for 2005-2006. "

About Boolean Squared This site is the home of my comic series, which I am developing as a way to tap my funny bone when it comes to learning and technology and teaching. I hope you like it.

Ginger Gregory is the Gifted Resource Teacher at Lakeview Elementary School in Yukon, Oklahoma, and currently has 117 videos on her classroom YouTube channel. Ginger has used the six iPads in her classroom and her free, district-provided YouTube channel (since the Yukon school district participates in the Google Apps for Education program) to help her students develop oral communication skills, oral fluency, as well as digital literacy skills this semester. In the following six minute video, Mrs. Gregory and eight of her students explain what they have learned as a result of their assignments this year using iPad videos and YouTube.

For those who use google chrome, here are some tips for extra knowledge:

"Instructional videos on Flubaroo appear below. Watch how easy grading assignments can be! All videos on this page are HD quality, and can be expanded to full-screen. You can also view these videos on the Flubaroo YouTube channel."