Author Archives

Brooke Carey Ahrens is a Google Certified Teacher and Instructional Technology Coordinator at a bay area high school. Brooke is currently serving as a rep Northern California Region rep for the California School Library Association.

• Technology Tuesday – Creating Video MashUps

  By Brooke Ahrens on 04/21/2015

  

  I was recently asked to introduce some emerging educational technology trends to a parent group on campus. I decided video clips would be the best way to share these trends because parents could see the technologies in action, and many of the… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – 5 Digital Tools for School Projects

  By Brooke Ahrens on 03/31/2015

  

  Each year, our science students write science research reports, and then present or share their reports in class. These reports can be a bit dry, so the science teachers asked me to share a few digital presentation tools with students… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Questionable Content: Adding quizzes and lessons to YouTube and other video sources

  By Brooke Ahrens on 03/24/2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Andrew Carlos is one of the STEM/Web Services Librarian at California State University, East Bay. He is currently working on a Masters in Instructional Science and Technology at California State University, Monterey Bay. Welcome back to the second part of… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Click on THIS video: Making Interactive Videos Using Youtube Annotations

  By Brooke Ahrens on 03/10/2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Andrew Carlos is one of the STEM/Web Services Librarian at California State University, East Bay. He is currently working on a Masters in Instructional Science and Technology at California State University, Monterey Bay. How many of you use video in… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Web Design Tools

  By Brooke Ahrens on 03/03/2015

  

  This week I’m preparing for several conferences by creating websites to share resources and materials.  I’m creating my websites with Google Sites, and I’ve used several tools to customize the appearance. Hundreds of fonts are available in Google Sites, but trying to… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Virtual Reality in the Classroom

  By Brooke Ahrens on 02/24/2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Have you seen Google Cardboard? It’s a kit that brings virtual reality to anyone with an assembled cardboard viewer and a smart phone. You can buy the cardboard holder for between $15 and $30, or download the directions and assemble it yourself… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Tools for Close Reading

  By Brooke Ahrens on 02/10/2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Several teachers have recently asked about tools to help students with close reading on digital devices. Close reading requires careful, focused attention to the text, a different reading strategy than is usually employed with reading online content. While tools like highlighters… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Using Scratch for Hour of Code

  By Brooke Ahrens on 02/03/2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This year our high school planned a coding event so our entire student body could take part in the worldwide 2014 Hour of Code simultaneously. During our Hour of Code event, we successfully had over 500 students use creativity and… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Discovery Time

  By Brooke Ahrens on 01/20/2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Last week I met with the cohort of new teachers at my school site to discuss technology.  Knowing that the end of the semester was coming, I decided that a tech training might be too overwhelming with finals and grading… Read More ›

• Technology Tuesday – Narrated Presentations

  By Brooke Ahrens on 01/13/2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Last week a social studies teacher forwarded me an assignment sheet and asked how he might better integrate technology.  The assignment asked students to analyze the 1920s as both a decade of anxiety and intolerance, and a decade of liberation and hedonism.  The students… Read More ›