This blog is administered by Dodie Ainslie, Coordinator of Instruction at Vestal Central School District. My goal is for teachers and administrators to collaborate on how they are using technology to increase student thinking and learning.

Description of the Strategy-A-Day Calendar from a blog post

List of podcasts for classrooms

Wiki about copyright policies

Michael George presented for LCPS on copyright.

A series of 6 videos explaining UDL

The Molecularium Project is expanding science literacy globally by exciting young minds about molecular science through experiential learning and unprecedented visualizations in immersive and interactive media. We aim to excite audiences of all ages to explore and understand molecular science in the world around them

A poster outlining important aspects of a ergonomically correct workstation setup

A list of tools from EdCamp Phoenix

Web-based screen sharing

Crowd-sourced, open-source strategy-a-day calendar

Subscribe to the A.T.TIPSCAST in iTunes

The Pinterest page of AT Trainer, Christopher Bugaj.

Episode #41 is up for your listening pleasure! Episode #41 features some feedback from listeners of the show. There was too much feedback to fit into one episode so you can expect to hear more in the future. The episode also features a bumper from Sally Norton-Darr and Judith Schoonover about the new version of CAST's BookBuilder.

Episode #58 features a description of how teachers and students can turn text into short, engaging video segments.

Episode #44 is up for your listening pleasure and boy is it a doozy! It clocks in at just under 42 minutes! Yikes! Episode #44 is kind of a unique episode because it features a recording of a live event. Back on November 14th I was lucky enough to attend the Powering Up with Technology Conference in Prince George's County Maryland. At that conference I presented a session called Alternative Professional Development. I use the term "presented" loosely because, although I was listed as the presenter, the session was more of an integrated brainstorming session. I was more of the moderator for the discussion than a presenter. During the session we tried to outline some of the common problems with staff development happening in public schools and then try to come up with some solutions. During the course of the discussion a bunch of great ideas were mentioned about how to address some of the problems with the typical professional development model. Furthermore, a number of concrete resources are mentioned that can be used to assist students. You can access the entire presentation as generated by the audience here: Alternative Professional Development Presentation from PUWT09.

A short audio story about a boy who prepares for his shot at taking home the spelling bee championship. Will he succeed?

Episode #92 features a number of easy-t0-implement strategies to help students learn to be better spellers and to correct spelling errors.