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Classroom teacher with a Master's degree in Educational Technology from Northern Arizona University. 2017-2018 LA Country Teacher of the Year. My professional passion is creating more technological engaging environments in education. I attend conferences to keep up with technology and have given ed Tech presentations in Arizona and South Africa. When I am not improving my skills in ed tech, I also like to travel, dance, and ride vintage cycles. I also enjoy pets and have adopted 2 wonderful dogs. Follow me on twitter @Miltology

• Comparison of 4 Virtual Discussion Boards

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on August 5, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Comparison of 4 Discussion Board websites/apps with pros/cons. Google Classroom, SchoolLoop, Canvas, and Parlay Ideas.

• SAMR Model and Canvas

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on August 3, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The SAMR model in Technology: For the past several years I have been integrating Google Suite and Google Classroom into my teaching. Our district has finally moved us to a Learning Management System, and excited is an understatement. I spent… Read More ›

• Make Your Homepage in Canvas Rock!

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on August 2, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The beauty of Canvas is that it is an empty canvas with limitless amounts of tools to use at your disposal. Creativity in course design is also open to imagination. The rich text editor is quite robust, but if you… Read More ›

• Dictation App in H5P

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on July 30, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  One activity that my students in our keyboarding unit complete is a weekly dictation activity. As simple as it is, my kids have learned to look forward to it. What is it? I walk around the room and say letters… Read More ›

• Make a GIF to Display Student Work

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on July 29, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  How many times have you wanted to showcase a lot of students’ work, but you just could not choose which projects to show on your parent newsletter or which ones to post on your limited bulletin board space? Did you… Read More ›

• Learning Virtually? Get Parent Signatures with DocHub

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on June 30, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Since many school will be choosing remote learning to start the school year, how on earth can you get parents to be involved and to sign the slew of classroom (albeit virtual) rules and expectations this coming year? Instead of… Read More ›

• Play in the SandBox with Karel and CodeHS

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on June 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  There is so much more to CodeHS, than just the user friendly lessons! The most creative part of the platform is the chance to create using the Sandbox. In many learning programs, you follow instructions to create lessons. CodeHS, also… Read More ›

• Gif Maker for Short Instructions

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on May 10, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  Let’s face it, the world today is full of GIFs. If you’ve embarked in screen-casting and you have NOT yet created a short GIF set of instructions, you certainly need to begin. For a short series of instructions, videos simply… Read More ›

• School Film Fest

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on March 14, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Our First Film Fest was met with huge success. The films showcased were the very best that were submitted to the Teens Dream Film Competition. This is a competition in which students submit 2 minute films of their dreams of… Read More ›

• Student Made Infographics

  By Kari Milton, NBCT on November 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Instead of a poster, have students make infographics of statistical facts. Doing this makes numbers meaningful and can reinforce the concept of fractions and percents. It’s helpful to show students infographics and have them pick out their favorites and explain why. Infographics… Read More ›