OETC 2025 Presentations & more!

I presented twice at Ohio's Educational Technology Conference (OETC) in early February. I haven't presented in quite some time - and thanks to the encouragement from my curriculum director, I put in for and was accepted. It felt really good to get back into the presentation world and I very much enjoyed going to OETC this year.

My first presentation was "Citizenship, Connection, & Collaboration in the Tech Classroom." When I began at Madeira Middle School, I felt it was important to infuse digital citizenship with my students. And I wanted to encourage a community infusion, so I asked the Madeira Police to join forces. They happily agreed and we are on year 2 of our collaboration. It has been a wonderful collaboration.

My second presentation was a collaboration with the art teacher at Madeira "Collaboration to Create a New Course". We were tasked with creating a course for our incoming 6th graders this year and we designed Digital Art. We shared our story of creating Digital Art and where we are going from here. It was great to co-present with Liz and share our success. I hope we can inspire you - or someone you know - to create a new course. Our students love this class and we do, too!

Finally, the day after I returned from OETC I did a super fast - 2 minute - demo slam for Book Creator. I've never done one of these before and it was great! In my 2 minutes, I shared how Liz & I use Book Creator for our Digital Art class' portfolios. They love using it and we love seeing them build them over the semester.

You can watch my 2 minutes here: 2025 Demo Slam. You can see the entire list of slams, from this one and previous ones here: Community Demo Slams

I hope you enjoy these!

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