Tiny Certifications

I love the idea of leveling myself up with useful skills that I can use immediately. Not every single part of these are immediately useful, all the steps that it requires builds important technological pathways in my head. I have finished one of the three, but have so many new understandings and ideas making the time spent a great investment.

Here are the top three that I have found so far.

Microsoft Educator

We all have access to a ton of Microsoft products and have used them for years. I started this course and have identified a ton of things we need to do more with. I feel some of the topics will reinforce or add value to things we are already doing. I am most excited to dive into what they offer for OneNote.

Google Certifications

I started but have not gone very far yet. While the test costs $10, it will help you dive deep into everything Google has to offer teachers and students. You can keep leveling up to become a coach or innovator.

Apple Learning Coach

I earned this over the summer, it was not easy! What I walked away with is new ideas on coaching and how to use Pages to capture learning over a period of time. If you are interested in this, I do recommend first earning your Apple badges as you will need these to level up to the coach.

Maybe this summer I will start the Adobe path.

Comments

Like your ELMO but with an iPad (elementary classroom teachers)

I used AirServer to create the infinity mirror effect. We were in a meeting today and Dominic told us about this fantastic idea. As we discussed all things technology he explained one method of using the iPad as a portable ELMO. It was too cool not to share. Step 1 Make sure you have AirServer running on your laptop. 1. Click the Windows key on your keyboard or click the icon in the lower left of your screen. 2. Just start typing AirServer. 3. Click AirServer. Don't see it? Contact technology or your building tech person. Step 2 Connect your teacher iPad to your laptop. 1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Start by swiping in the bezel, the black plastic part surrounding the screen. 2. Click AirPlay Mirroring. 3. Click your name. Step 3 Open the camera app and instant portable ELMO! Anything you see in the camera's len will be broadcast to the big screen. I just used this method to take a picture of my notebook as a demonstration of how co

Who is emailing me? The Blue Man Group??? (Add an image to your Google account.)

WHY It is always nice to put a face with a name. Sometimes we need a tiny little reminder of what someone looks like because we don't see them very often. Follow these steps to add/change the image associated with your Google account. HOW Open your email. Click your image. It might just be a blue circle if you have not added something already. Click Change . Find an image you like. Your amazing new image will appear. From now on everyone can put a name to a face!

Annotate PDF? How might I do that?

So I have a PDF and I need to edit it. Here is one method that works pretty well for me. Open Word. Click File . 1. Click Open . 2. Click Browse . 3. Find the PDF you want to annotate. 4. Click Open . Click OK when you see this box. Bam! Your PDF now opens in Word. Note: you maybe have to click Enable Editing at the top of the screen. Finished editing and want to turn it back into a PDF? Click File . 1. Click Save As . 2. Click This PC . 3. Pick a location. I usually save things to my desktop. 4. Click Save as type - and choose PDF. 5. Click Save .

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