The Schoenblog

Dani and I discussed some ideas to make the #EdTechCalNYNJ a little more user friendly and functional. I got the app-smashing bug in my head today at work and spent most of my free time throughout the week and after school integrating add-ons, learning new sheets formulas, and making it all come to life. One of the new additions is the logo above....

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I was talking to someone today who was interested in my job as an English Teacher. She immediately asked me what literature I make my students read. Two things quickly stood out: Do I make them read books? We read literature--but not as much as we used to... Now this person meant no malice and none was taken, but here's my take away:...

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I typically enjoy any conference with good company, good learning, and good food, but I had really high expectations for Ednado. Ednado, a free conference that took education by storm yesterday, was a great day of learning and fun for many different reasons: I presented with my best friend Dani for the first time. How could I have not realized how much more fun...

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I started this blog motivated by #AprilBlogaDay. Educators were encouraged to blog every day in April. It gave me the push I needed, and if I end the month with 10 or so entries and a few readers, I'm thrilled with the results. Today, instead of all the talk about me, me, and me, I thought it would be a nice idea to...

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Thanks to 20 Literary Memes for this! As an English teacher and avid reader, I love pushing my students to be better readers. One of my big picture goals as a teacher has always been to nurture life-long readers and learners. I believe students today suffer from a serious case of aliteracy--they have the ability to read but lack the willingness to do so....

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Well this one didn't go as planned. I wrote this post on Thursday and had it scheduled to publish on Friday morning since I would be away for the weekend. I've since learned that scheduled posts still need to be published. Oops. Anyway, I'm glad everyone seemed to enjoy LHRIC's Tech Expo. I really enjoyed following the #LHRICtli hashtag and conversations, even from...

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I wrote about the creation of #EdTechCalNYNJ yesterday (selfish plug: http://tinyurl.com/edtechcalnynj), and today I want to write about the workflow to create the site. I like the idea of documenting workflows. Hopefully it will be interesting to anyone who wants to use or adapt the functionality, and at like most everything on this blog, it helps me process my own work for reflection. The...

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I was sad to miss the first Twitter hashtag chat for #EduAfterHours last Thursday. I follow all of the moderators and like what they have to say but I play frisbee on Thursday nights so I couldn't make it. I was thrilled to leave my game to a barrage of notifications for mentions, even though I wasn't there. I eagerly caught up on...

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A short post today. I'll be away most of the weekend and wanted to keep up my streak. I'm a bit of a contradiction with planning and organization. I can be super organized and well planned with somethings and am a total mess otherwise. You don't want to try to find something on my desk, for example, but there is one right place...

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Thanks to anyone who read and especially anyone who followed, commented, or retweeted. Also thanks to my #PLN, who helped me learn new tricks for Blogger to make the site more appealing and effective. You are all awesome. I was truly surprised and humbled by how great it was to feel like I already had an audience. Thank you. And now, today's take...

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Welcome to the SchoenBLOG. Thanks for reading my first real post, and a special thanks to my best friend, Dani (@missraskin), for coming up with the great name. I've been thinking about starting a blog or writing in some form for a while, and when she called me up with the title, I knew it was fate. My goal with this blog is simple:...

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Testing, testing, testing... It's a busy night with #ASCDL2L and #5thChat followed by the wonderful #gafechat. I look forward to my first real post on The SchoenBLOG tomorrow! ...

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