Entries by chad

Da capo

Am super excited to share the inaugural episode of Da capo. This is my foray into podcasting, which has turned out to be a lot of fun! Friend and colleague Stephen Keys and I kept running into each other out on the conference circuit in the spring of 2019. We thought, instead of limiting our […]

Ubiquitous Learning

“Today’s students will be a knowledge producer, drawing together a range of available knowledge resources – instead of a knowledge consumer, fed just one source, the old textbook. They will work effectively in pairs or groups on collaborative knowledge projects, creating knowledge to be shared with peers. They will continue to learn beyond the classroom, […]

SJBS Spotlight

In my current position at St. John the Baptist School I was asked to share some student work and EdTech ideas at our monthly Catholic Schools Dioceses of Oakland tech coordinator meeting. In this presentation are highlights of our student produced SJTV Network, and student work from our Project Based Learning curriculum. Am really proud of […]

Apps I can use in my Elementary Music Classroom

At the 2018 CMEA Bay Section Winter Conference I presented a couple of sessions around music and technology, along with colleagues here in the Bay Area. A subject that I feel is somewhat less represented in our community are Apps that Elementary music teachers can use in their classrooms with their students. So… why not […]

A former student still teaching at my Conference Sessions

At one of my first Music Education Conference Sessions, I wanted to espouse the benefits of a really cool, new web 2.0 piece of software called Noteflight as a cost effective alternative to Finale and/or Sibelius. At that time, I had already implemented and was using with my students and thought: why not have my students […]

learning | innovation | technology

In my role as Technology Coordinator at St. John the Baptist School, I maintain a staff/faculty blog page as a way to share and curate educational technology information and resources. http://sjbstechspace.blogspot.com