The learning lowdown with Miss Lawson

Many of you may already be experiencing #flipgridfever at the moment with this fantastic new App which helps gives students a voice in the classroom. Karly Moura and Sean Fahey have put out excellent blogs via Twitter about how to use FlipGrid in the general and Mathematics classrooms. If you haven't already seen the awesome resources, check out the links below:       15+ ways to use FlipGrid in your classroom      10 ways to enhance maths lessons with @flipgrid As a Science teacher I am always looking for ways to continue to improve students learning and see FlipGrid as a valuable tool. Over the winter break I brainstormed ways that I could integrate this App into my Science classroom. Many of these tasks could be further extended by requiring students to reply and provide feedback to their peers. So without further ado, here are Miss Lawson's 10 ways to use FlipGrid to improve learning and engagement in the Science classroom: ...

Have you ever felt way out of your comfort zone? Well, that was me two years ago sitting in one of the Google Educator Bootcamps learning about what it takes to be a Google Trainer and Innovator. Everyone around me seemed to know more about tech than I did. I promptly put my head back inside my shell like the proverbial turtle and continued to work on developing my skills with the Google Suite of Apps. In January this year our independent school system held it's annual teacher PD day and I volunteered to run a session on HyperDocs . Presenters were asked to volunteer to do a Demo Slam which I put my hand up for, and then found out I was going up against professional EdTech team presenters! Our system's eLearning Coordinator and myself were the only locals to take part in the event. I asked a few presenting teachers why they weren't getting up as I knew they were as techy or more so than me. Their response: "we're scared" and "we can't go up aga...