March 2021 – Bearded Tech-Ed Guy

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Kristyn Brannigan

March 29, 2021 Mike Thomas

In the latest episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour, I met with Kristyn Brannigan. She is a classroom teacher from Alice B. Beal Elementary School here in Springfield. With over 15 years of experience, you will learn all about what it’s like to be a teacher that has had the opportunity to teach in schools around the world. In this episode you will learn all about her journey, you’ll get to hear some great ideas on teaching remotely, including…

SPS Digital Learning Hour featuring Catherine Murphy

March 9, 2021 Mike Thomas

That’s right, we are back with another episode of the SPS Digital Learning Hour. In this week’s episode we met with Catherine Murphy, a Kindergarten Teacher from Arthur T. Talmadge Elementary School. Catherine is doing some amazing work in the classroom. During this magical year, she introduces many students to what school is all about. As a CSForAll teacher, she integrates a lot of technology into her class pre-COVID, which excites her students throughout the year. If you have ever…

Mike’s Top 5 Microsoft Edge Tools

March 3, 2021 Mike Thomas

Whenever a tool I like to use updates, it makes me so happy! When Edge moved to Chromium over a year ago, I jumped for joy. Literally, in my chair. One of our goals as a department is to make every program we use seamless with Single Sign-On – and Chromium provides that. Unified Classroom and Schoology are going to work better for our students with the use of Single Sign-On. (you know, the whole not having to sign in more than…