K-12 instructional tech coordinator | Instructional design, learner motivation, human performance technology | Keep Indiana Learning Innovation Coach

United States
Joined June 2018
Episode 5 of the @KeepINLearning Innovation Coach podcast is live! Join @dianna_dk and @MelissaWalley as they revisit blended learning as a strategic blend of digital and in-person instruction that is just as relevant today as it was 30 years ago! open.spotify.com/episode/3uF…
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ELMO HAS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR EVERYBODY!!! 🎃 🍎 👻 🍂 FALL 🕯 IS 🍫 HERE!!! 🐈‍⬛ 🕸️ 🍭 🕷️
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A new species of cat has been identified for the first time in a century—and experts think that there may be even more to discover around the world: on.natgeo.com/n5nxra
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BBC literally built the greatest sound library on the internet. It is called BBC Sound Effects, and it gives you access to more than 30,000 recordings from around the world. Just search any word, and it instantly finds matching sounds. You can filter them by category, duration, and even the continent where the sound was recorded. Every sound can be previewed inside your browser, downloaded, or added to the built-in mixer so you can layer multiple recordings together. And the archive gets insanely specific. You can find creaking ships, old typewriters, jungle ambience, distant church congregations, and even someone vigorously washing their hands. There is a good chance a BBC engineer recorded the exact sound you need decades before you were born. sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.u…
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Together with researchers at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard, we published a study in NEJM AI showing how o3 Deep Research helped clinicians revisit previously unsolved rare pediatric disease cases, and find answers for families who had waited years.
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School screen bans are spreading fast across the country. Our CEO, Lindsay Jones, spoke with @NPR about what that means for students with disabilities who rely on technology to learn every day. Read the full story here: pulse.ly/yklsfsjpdw
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🎉 To mark the 30th anniversary of the @InternetArchive on May 10, we’re opening the yearbook to revisit the Class of 1996; the sites & organizations that helped shape the early web. Before feeds, before algorithms, before we assumed everything online would last forever, this was the era that set it all in motion: Yahoo! Quake, Hotmail, The Onion and the archivists preserving it all. Join us in the coming days as we celebrate THE CLASS OF '96 🎓 More 👉 blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/… #Classof96 @internetarchive #webhistory @waybackmachine
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I regret to inform you that Ask Jeeves is dead. The site closed yesterday. Web 1.0 lost another founder. Ask Jeeves: 3 June 1996 - 1 May 2026. Send no memes.
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Replying to @UFLiteracy
@UFLiteracy normalizing this level of foundational skills in gr. 3-5 could be an absolute game changer for national literacy. 📈 ufli.education.ufl.edu/wp-co…
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On May 1, 1997, AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) was released
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The Hampster Dance website in 1999 This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998. #InternetHistory
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I know I repeat myself on here, but I need to reiterate this routine. I have found explicitly teaching words in pairs to be quite effective. An example pair would be shortage & surplus. Here is the routine I use on a daily basis. 1. Say the word 2. Students chorally repeat the word This is the beginning of mapping a word into long-term memory. 3. Provide a student friendly defintion 4. Provide examples of this word in context Pictures/Visuals can be used as an aid. For example, sweeping your hand up for the word ascend and then down for descend would most likely aid the process of mapping words into memory. 5. Repeat the first 4 steps for the antonym (unrelated word) Mapping words into long-term memory is aided by saying the word, spelling the word, and learning the meaning of the word. 6. Have students differentiate between the pair. Provide an example sentence & students have to decide if that is an example of say the word shortage or surplus. They do this on mini white boards so they get practice spelling the words right away. Spelling words aids in mapping words into long-term memory. 7. Then encourage students to write other words that are synonyms or related to the word in some way. This builds semantic connections through categorization. 8. Grab a students white board and ask how all of these words are related? Extending learning here. All of this moves quickly. You can teach a pair in 4 minutes. Only 4 minutes.
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At @UniversityofRI, professor Daniel Kelley is teaching aspiring principals to use AI for logistic & admin tasks. His classes are using Google Gemini to help build complex schedules & save time on administrative tasks, helping them focus on supporting students & teachers.
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This is where “uppercase” and “lowercase” came from. In the early days of printing, capital letters were kept in the upper compartments of the type case, while the smaller letters were placed below for easier access.
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Looking for resources to support implementing explicit morphology instruction? Our new Morpheme Lab includes a range of free resources, including an app, an eLearning module, morpheme cards and lists, and fidelity checklists. Check it out now: irrc.education.uiowa.edu/mor…
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Homeward bound 🌎 Today’s the day our Artemis II astronauts splash down on Earth after their journey around the Moon. Here are ways to watch, starting at 6:30pm ET (2230 UTC): nasa.gov/ways-to-watch/
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Hi! I’m Rise! About a week ago, I launched aboard the Artemis II mission with four of my besties. Since then, I have been serving a very important purpose aboard the Orion spacecraft… I float. (And I look cute.) Today, I am taking over the Artemis social media accounts! -Rise
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LIVE: Watch with us as the Artemis II astronauts make their closest approach to the Moon, traveling farther from Earth than ever before. xitter.cf/i/broadcasts/1dGYljDRv…
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1972 ➡️2026 Apollo 17 ➡️ Artemis II
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