For use with new Instructional Technology Resource Teachers! This 90 day plan will help you adjust to your new role!

Phase 1
Day 0-30: Listening and Learning
During this phase you will enter your new role and take this time to listen to and learn from your schools/districts' stakeholders. During this time you will develop your coaching mission and vision based on the needs of your school community

Phase 2
Day 31-60: Focus and Frame
During this phase you will work on creating and implementing frameworks that support your mission
and vision. You will most likely start leading professional development as teachers return and communicate your coaching vision.

Phase 3
Day 61-90: Empower and Accelerate
During this phase you will work with the frameworks put in place during phase 2 to support teachers and improve instruction. Reflection will guide you as you move forward after entry.

Wordle is a great word game. How can you use it in your classroom? In 90 seconds learn how to play the game, options for class play and competition and creating your own both digital and hard copy. ISTE Technology Stanrdards for Educators:  2.1 Learner; 2.4 Collaborator; 2.5 Designer

A brief video showing how to set up a Canvas assignment in Canvas.  Meets ISTE Standard: 2.3 Citizen - Educators inspire students to positively contribute to and responsibly participate in the digital world., 2.5 Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability.

Companion video to Canva Canvas for Teachers, showing the step students would follow to complete the assignment along with a short overview of Canva.  Meets ISTE Standard: 2.1 Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.

Learn some simple tips and tricks to use Google Chrome for school and personal use.Addresses ISTE Standard for Educators: 2.1 Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning.

Learn how to work with images in PowerPoint. This EdTech Short shows you how to remove backgrounds from images and how to create image animations.  Addresses ISTE Standard for Educators: 2.5 Designer 

This 2.5 minute video from Chad Fisher about how to use dropdown menus in Google Docs.

This is the first epiode from the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series featuring renowned Blended Learning author and educator, Catlin Tucker.

This is the 2nd episode in the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series. Host, Tom Landon interviews  Dr. Lisa Coons, Superintendent of Public Instruction about the principles of All in VA.

This is the 3rd episode from the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series featuring Emily Burrell from South Lakes High School in Fairfax, VA and Wezi Thindwa of Adobe Systems,

Katie Fielding is a STEM Coach for Prince William County Schools, and Chris Bugaj is an author and Assistive Technologist in Loudon County, VA. ActiVAtED Learning host Tom Landon sat down with them at the 2023 VSTE conference, where Katie shared her experience as a child with Cystic Fibrosis and how that led her to become a leader in assistive technology and inclusion, and Chris shared his thoughts on how assistive technology can help ALL students, not just those with disabilities.

This is the 5th episode from the ActiVAtED Learning Podcast series featuring several teachers from Rocky Gap Elementary School in Stafford County, VA.

On this episode we travel to Henrico County to visit with Yvette Lee of J.R. Tucker High School. Mrs. Lee is a finalist for the 2023 Presidential Award for Math and Science Teaching sponsored by the White House and the National Science Foundation. She talked about the challenges of learning how to teach American students after leaving South Korea. We also caught up with Louisa County Technology Coach Nikki Wagoner at the 2023 VSTE Conference in Roanoke.

When two newly-minted instructional technology resource teachers went to the administration in Washington County, Virginia with an idea for a mobile technology lab, they were met with a resounding YES, after which they had to figure out how to make it happen. Andrew Smith and Thomas Larimer join Activated Learning podcast host Tom Landon to share how they created a trailer that contains drones as well as virtual reality and robotics equipment. Now that trailer travels the mountain roads of their rural county to bring state of the art learning opportunities to teachers and students while maximizing the investment in teaching tools for the county.

The scribble tool in Tinkercad is a quick and easy way to get youngers students (K-2) designing and creating objects for 3D printing. This video will help teachers and ITRTs get started using this resource with students!

This video describes how teachers can embed activities such as Phet simulations and Google apps such as Docs, Slides, Sheets, Maps and forms directly into Pear Deck so students can interact without leaving the app. Addresses ISTE Standards for Educators: 2.1 Learner, 2.5 Designer, and 2.6 Facilitator

This video demonstrates how to embed a PowerPoint Presentation from Microsoft OneDrive into Canvas.  Addresses ISTE Standards:  2.1 Learner - Educators continually improve their practice by learning from and with others and exploring proven and promising practices that leverage technology to improve student learning., 2.5 Designer - Educators design authentic, learner-driven activities and environments that recognize and accommodate learner variability., 2.6 Facilitator - Educators facilitate learning with technology to support student achievement of the ISTE Standards for Students.Screen reader support enabled. 

Tim Mays of Sussex developed this short tutorial on a nice formula trick for combining cells in a Google Sheets document, and then making everything lowercase. Running time: 3:41