I attend a lot of webinars.  Over the last several years, we have all heard way more than we ever wanted to about "Fake News". I have attended many webinars talking about this and exploring ways to help our students determine the credibiilty of what they read/see. I know I just posted about this a couple weeks back, but... Tiffany Whitehead did a phenomenal job the other day and gave tons and tons of resources. I first met Tiffany at an ISTE librarian breakfast, maybe 2011 or 2012. She was an up and coming young librarian then, and wow- now she has really become one of the goddesses of the library world.  What you should really do, head over to Edweb.net and watch the webinar. It's about an hour long. You can get MA pdps for these if you take the CE quiz at the end.  So- here's the link and you can just head on over and watch it. I have a one tab page of links that I opened as we went along- so if you just want links... here you go. Don't miss the great infographics and lesson plans over at the Newseum.  Tiffany has an excellent blog post with some great videos to share with your students. Great way to get these conversations going. 
 
One resource that I am adding to HES/HA is the Brittanica School Insight chrome extension. This will help students bring fact-checked material to the top of their search. Read more about it here.  I'm not doing a "force-install", simply adding it to the white list.  To install, either click the big green button on that last link, or go here.   I shared the video years ago, in a different venue, but if you are not familiar with the term "filter bubble", check out the TED talk below. Think confirmation bias... before you even get to look at a range of results. If you are logged into your Google account and use Google search- you are in the filter bubble. I know that many can not use an incognito tab at school, but try it at home and then look around to see what other search engines like Duck Duck Go come up with. It may surprise you. Here's Eli Pariser's talk on filter bubbles from 2011 ( yeah- that long ago- and we still have filter bubbles).

While I am still on my research kick, citations. These used to be the bane of many a student's existence. Now, we have tools that make it ever so easy. One of the HES teachers contacted me a few weeks back because the Easy Bib online site had way too many ads, some not entirely appropriate for 5th and 6th graders- to say the least- "distracting".  However, there is an Easy Bib add-on, right in Google Docs. Easy to use- no ads. 

H/T to all my AT friends who are posting great articles and links to help us learn more about dyslexia.  Learning Ally has a great program called 1 in 5. Check it out here, and watch the video below. They also have great basic information as well as infographics you can download, print and share. Thanks to Leslie DiChiara for posting the link to  Edutopia's article as well as many others. Check out this month's blogposts.  You can find excellent resources to learn more about dyslexia at Understood.org. This is a whole page of links.  Reading about how dyslexia impacts Henry's life in so many ways was really eye-opening for me as I read A Day in the Life of a Teen with Dyslexia.  If you want to get a broad understanding of the many facets of dyslexia, check out the link here.  

Hopefully the video below will show back up... YouTube seems to be having issues

I met John Lynch at the Scratch Conference in Cambridge this summer. We were both in a hands on workshop, using micro controllers, arduino, etc... to make stuff. I was fortunate enough to get to work with John on our little  project.  I had seen his work earlier, but didn't know it was his when we were all checking it out.  Now, after seeing his work all around the web, on makey-makey and so much more, I want to build some of these.  So...HES teachers- this is a challenge for me, for you, for some of our students- let's make some of these Explode the Controller games! 

Apple released this relatively new curriculum back in March, but just this month announced that these teaching guides/ideas are now available in iBooks. Yes, they are free. 
This is the original post, from back in March, which gives you the basic info and links to download each book on iTunes.  So what is covered: " Everyone Can Create project guides introduce the language, fundamental skills and techniques of video, photography, music, and drawing." "The Everyone Can Create collection is designed to allow teachers to easily incorporate creativity into their existing lesson plans in any subject, including language arts, math, science, history, social studies and coding. " "A new teacher guide helps bring these projects to life in the classroom with 300 lesson ideas across media, projects and subjects"
Quotes from : Apple Newsroom Update 10.1.18

As part of Accessibility Awareness Month, Google is adding a new captioning feature to its Google Slides. This could be a real game changer for many of our students, as well as a huge boon to educators and their virtual audiences. This news just came out today. You can read the article here. I have not tested it out yet, but the word on social media is that is has great potential. It is currently only in US English, but the plan is to add other languages. It will be rolling out over the next few weeks. To activate it, using the Chrome browser, simply click the CC icon at the bottom of the slides and click Present. It will be interesting to see if this lives up to its potential.

I don't know how everyone stays organized and remembers all the myriad details of their day to day work. I know that I have tried so many ways to do this- Google Keep, Livescribe Pens, Alexa, and more.  I saw this article the other day and I think I may well try it. I still use post-it notes- both physical and virtual.  Have you tried printing on Post-Its?  We Are Teachers has a nice tutorial to follow and free templates.

I love FlipGrid. It is an easy tool for both educators and students and has an amazing community of educators who share tips and ideas to use in the classroom. In addition to #GridPals (Think penpals, only digital) and the "Disco" library ( as of today over 4662 topics are listed in the library!) a new feature is Mix Tapes. Flipgrid can actually be a great way to build a portfolio. Now teachers can go through all the various grids and pull an individual student's work out and compile it all into a new "mix tape".  Check out the video below.  If you are new to FlipGrid or if you want to catch up with all the new changes- Karly and Sean have once again compiled a new Teacher Guide- check out the link, make your own copy.

This week I whitelisted a few more chrome extensions for our students.  As most are aware, having too many extensions up and running can really suck the life out of performance, so it is best to use something like Extensity to manage them. 
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The extensions I added are Save to Google Keep, Internet Abridged and Reader View. ​

Google Keep is becoming more and more robust, a great place to take quick notes, an easy way to collate ideas and save to Drive; it has the ability to OCR text in images, etc...  I have been using it more and more of late and like to be able to right click on a web page and Save to Keep. I can add labels as I go. ​

I was trying out new summarizers.  When looking for resources, I tend to skim through articles to weed out the fluff before settling in to actually read something closely. Summarizers can be tricky, as I am never sure of the algorithm used and so many times, they simply don't work.  This one, Internet Abridged, seems to work and the summaries actually makes sense to me vs. some I have tried which seem to simply leave out 50% of the words.

Another extension added this week is Reader View. For many who regularly use iPads you are used to seeing those little lines that indicate a web page can be viewed in Reader View- cleaned up, minus all the distractions. Now, you and your students can do the same thing in Google Chrome.  Try it! ​

Some of the other extensions I recommend  include: OneTab, SpeedDial2, and Mercury Reader, along with AdBlock and TextHelp's Read and Write for Google Chrome.  . Honestly, I do have at least 150 extensions, but I regularly use a very small percentage and leave the rest off until I need them. ​

H/T to Fred Delventhal for sharing Larry Ferlazzo's post on this science games site. It does appear that Legends of Learning is really free.
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"Over 1000 curriculum aligned science games for elementary and middle school students within the Legends of Learning adventure. Legends of Learning is always free for teachers and students in school."  Here's a review of the site.

Here's another resource, new to me, Mind over Media, from the Media Education Lab. I first met Renee Hobbs years ago at Educon in Philly.  She is an internationally-recognized authority on digital and media literacy education. Ten years ago we all thought that the CRAP test would be all the students needed to help them verify web sources. Needless to say, times have changed as evidenced by Alec Couros' recent article for EdCanNetwork: How do we teach students to identify fake news?  In a world where it is increasingly dangerous to simply trust what we read and see...

Digital Passport, the award winning suite of 6 interactive games from Commonsense Media, has been a staple in our school's digital citizenship work, so I was dismayed when it wasn't ready to go at the end of the summer.  But, it's back! What's new?  The biggest change is that students no longer log in the same way; no student information is collected.  This is both positive and negative.  The students create their own username. Their work is saved, when a unit is completed- on that computer, on that browser. If they switch computers or use a new browser- out of luck.  They can download or print certificates, take screenshots, etc.  But, you just know that someone will forget to do this.  

​One other new feature- you can now choose to play the games in English or in Spanish.

I also kind of wish there was an easier tie in with Google Classroom, but that would of course attach student data.   After taking a quick glance at the new Educator Guide- clean, simple and easy to use.   I'm looking forward to trying this out soon with our 3rd graders! 

When Wikispaces made the difficult decision to close, so many of my favorite websites also went by the wayside or had to find a new home.  So happy that my good friend, teacher, and mentor, Karen Janowski spent the time to move her incredible UDL ToolKit to a new space. If you are looking for ideas on how to accomodate students on IEPS, 504 plans, or just about any student you teach- look no further than THE UDL TOOLKIT.

To quote Karen: " My passion is to remove the obstacles to learning for all students and these free tools offer opportunities for struggling learners that promote academic success. When material is digital or electronic, it is flexible and accessible. It is our responsibility as educators to provide materials that promote success. Please encourage all educators to consider using these free tools."

I just learned about an amazing tool on Bookshare from @karenjan last week.  I never knew they had Special Collections.  If you have students on Bookshare- check it out!  You can take some of these amazing collated collections and add them as reading lists for your students. For example-

• 2016 ALA Youth Media Award Winners
• ALA Award Winners - Young Adult
• or browse by lexile level. 

 Very cool tool to know about. 

I just wanted to share this info from Shelly Terrell with excellent directions on creating and sending parent newsletters.  I embedded her tweet below. Her original post can be found here.  Check it out as Shelly shares her templates too!

It's here! All week! Online! Free!

Look at the flyer below and check out all the ways you can participate!

Kasey and Matt are back with more great tips. Listen to the podcast, download it to your device and listen on the way to school. One tip that I really like is the new sidebar on Google with Save to Google Keep. Try it! Check out the show notes here for clickable links.

Deb Norton presented a great selection of some of the lesser known Google tools. Some of these experiments I had seen before, but some were new to me.  One app that I didn't realize the potential of is the Google Arts and Culture app. Using the app, you can access Google street view and virtually tour some of the greatest museums on Earth.  I can see our HES students loving Meme Buddy and Mystery Animal and all of the wonderful AI experiments. 
Please click on the image to see her slidedeck.  Thanks Deb!

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Several teachers have asked about using GreenScreen videos in the classroom. Tricia Fuglestad has pulled it all together! Check out her great ideas below. We have a green screen in the STEAM lab, which is pretty portable, as well as a small box for stop motion animation. We also have the DoInk Green Screen app on the ipads in the STEAM lab.  One other resource is Camtasia Studio software, which is installed on the PC in the STEAM lab. 

I attended an excellent webinar presented by Tia Cooper recently. She showed so many amazing science resources- for all ages. I asked her if I could share them on the blog with everyone, and she very graciously said yes.  Connect Create and Collaborate ​- a 30 minute webinar with more than 30 resources shared!  Click on the image to check it out.

We are so fortunate to have a district subscription to Read and Write for Google chrome.  It is a phenomenal tool for all, not just for students who struggle with reading/writing. If you haven't looked at it lately- check it out!  The updates below will be rolling out over the next several weeks- so keep an eye out. 

I have only read about these upcoming changes, but would love to see a new spelling and grammar checker and the Data Desk for Google Classroom certainly has me curious.

As I'm sure most of you are aware, Google Classroom made some changes over the summer.  Aside from what I consider the 3 big changes, two things I have noticed over the last couple weeks as we begin our year: One: Don't forget to click on the gear for settings!  This is where you can adjust who gets to comment. Depending on your class, you may well not want student comments on your assignments. Two: You can now turn off notifications for some of your classes. Getting too many emails from classes you co-teach? Turn them off by going to Menu/Settings/Notifications/Class Notifications. H/T to Jenn Judkinsfor the gif.

The 3 big changes:

1. All assignments go into "classwork", which you can organize. It is no longer just a long list in chronological order.  Take advantage of this feature by creating topics- eg. Unit 1 Week 1, etc.
2. Although the "About" section is no longer available- there is now a Materials choice in the Create button. This essentially gives you an About section to add to the whole class- or to add as needed for various units.  Great way to put in docs or links that your students will need.
3. One last new feature(there are others...) is the comment bank. You can use this to store frequently used comments. Here's a video from Richard Byrne to help you. 

This is a new site for me. I had never even heard of this until #edcampCT in August.  At a session on Primary Sources (notes) folks from CT public TV, as well as CT teachers brought this site up several times. So, what is this Thinkalong? Created by CT public television, its goal is "to help students become better critical thinkers and media consumers by giving classrooms access to news-based learning activities made to enhance their curriculum." Aimed at middle and high school students, it can help students learn to discuss difficult topics and have important, serious discussions. I love the approach they take. Check out the intro video... or just go ahead and check out the topics. 

I have enjoyed using Storyboardthat since it first came out. It provides a clean, safe, easy way for students to visually organize and tell a story. Great templates are provided as well as lesson plans. This afternoon I attended a webinar which featured the new story cube and worksheet design tools. These are pretty easy to use and if you use worksheets in your classroom, you may want to check them out.  They have over 40,000 objects to choose from and lots of pre-made diagrams, and instructional templates. One thing that came up at the end of the webinar was that they are having a one day sale at TPT on all of the "stuff" they have created. Each packet is going for $1.00/each. Some of these are usually 5, 10 or even $20 each.  Great deal if it's something you can use...and it's a One Day Deal- Wednesday 9/12/2018

As many of you know, I spent time this summer learning more about makerspaces, raspberry pi, new features of Scratch 3.0 and more.  One of the things I really liked learning about was physical computing... making "stuff" and using tech to code it to do something. 
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Microbits have been used extensively in the UK as part of their national coding instruction. Now Microbit.org has combined forces with The World's Largest Lesson and ARM and will run a global challenge, based on UN SDGs ( Sustainable Development Goals). Cool idea!  Read more about it here. 

I was really curious to learn about some of the edtech tools Brandee Ramirez is using and enjoyed listening to her presentation: “Creating the Perfect BLT: Balanced Literacy and Technology. Brandee, an instructional coach at TUSD gave an interesting presentation to Classroom 2.0 Live, which you can see, along with a ton of other resources here.  Along with going through TPACK and SAMR with some nice examples, she also highlighted some of the edtech tools that she is using in her schools.  One of these, ABCMouse, was a surprise to me.  I had seen the site, played with the app a bit, but thought that it was a premium service.  Much to my surprise- it is totally free for teachers!  You just have to click on the tiny "teacher" link to sign up.  It seems to work much like Epic- teachers and their students can use it for free in school, and they try to market it to parents on a subscription basis.  It has a nice selection for preK-2 and they are adding a couple more grade levels. Check it out, as well as some of Brandee's other resources in the livebinder.

Google announced a great update to their free Expeditions app. Now students can take new augmented reality tours. The original list of tours is here, but I don't know if all of these will also be AR tours. There are hundreds of really cool places to check out. Simply print out the marker/trigger sheets and the AR content appears on the tablet/phone screen.  One thing that I really like is that you don't have to use Google Cardboard or an AR viewer to use this app. You can still get much of the AR experience without the "stuff", which we simply don't have in elementary schools.  You can read more about it here.

​This is a post from Richard Byrne that I know I will be going back to. He lists 5 different websites to use to create animated videos on chromebooks, especially since the service we currently use- GoAnimate will be closing  next year.  Check out his great post with examples here. 

I know that everyone is incredibly busy finishing up their year, but what are you going to do this summer for PD?  Kids, family, other jobs, breathing... all take precedence, but aside from working in my gardens, I use the summer to try to catch up on all the edtech "stuff" I missed or didn't have time to explore. This summer I will be going to the Raspberry Pi Academy in NJ in June, then July will be a week at the Pathfinders Makers Collective Bootcamp in Indianapolis and of course the Scratch conference at MIT. August brings the GooglePalooza in Huntington and EdcampCT down at the Ethel Walker School. 

What do I want to learn?  I want to learn how to get more buy-in/time allotted for the makerspace through connections to existing standards and curriculum- not as a special or add-on. I really would like to be able to use raspberry pi and not drive myself crazy with mistakes on the breadboard. Scratch is coming out with Scratch 3.0 this summer and it will be non-flash... so it will be usable across more devices and it will be integrated into more hands-on devices, like microbits. I really want to learn to use microbits in the classroom.  The price is right, at ~ $15/each and there are more and more sensors and add-ons and you can even do all the coding online with a simulator. Oh, and I need to take the Makerbot 3D printer certification course.  And I want to learn more about how to use Merge cubes in the classroom. That's my "short" list.

Summer is such a great time to learn, to relax with friends and family and to refresh/re-ignite your passions for teaching/learning.  If you're looking for edtech learning opportunities, check out KQED https://teach.kqed.org/ They are offering free media literacy courses. Want a more hands-on course- check the various tinkering courses from Exploratorium. Feeling like you want more Google in your life- check out the Applied Digital Skills. Want to learn more about the "Maker Movement" and how it could apply in your classroom, check A Year in the Making. 

If these lists don't inspire you and you actually need help finding some edtech PD, let me know. If your plan is to go to the beach and hang out with your grandkids or your own children, to travel to exotic places or to sleep in the hammock in your own back yard- Enjoy! You certainly deserve all the best!

Looking for a book to read? I really liked the Google For Littles book and plan to pick up Chris Bugaj's  The New Assistive Tech: Make Learning Awesome for All!. Out of all the books I had to read when I did my assistive tech degree- his first book was the best- funny, and actually useful.

​If you're still on the fence about using Google Suite with younger students, check out Google Apps for Littles: Believe They Can by Alice Keeler and Christine Pinto.  You will find creative, easy to use ideas to get you started.

This is a great app, especially to support readers and is on sale thru 6/9 for half price.  

I got an email from Chris Parker asking to spread the word,  so here's a repeat of last week's post:
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Don't miss out on special pricing- only $45 thru June 30. A full day of PD and breakfast and lunch!   I know I always end up driving for hours for PD- this one is just over the hill with some great presenters.

Gateway Public Schools and MassCUE  are looking forward to hosting its first ever Summer Googlepalooza on 8/8/18 in western MA.  Register today for the special rate of $45 for a full day of learning and breakfast and lunch! (Regular registration rate of $65 will resume on 7/1/18.) Extra bonus:  any educator who attends will be able to purchase a MassCUE membership for half-price.
Hope to see you at the Summer Googlepalooza at Gateway Public Schools in Huntington, MA

I got an excellent list of resources the other day and will just share the DM I received:

THANK YOU for your ongoing support of our mission: to engage and empower every classroom on earth with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Many of you have asked for the best resources to help you get started.

Here are our suggestions… and they’re all free!

• Best #TeachSDGs course: 1 hour lesson from @MicrosoftEdu https://education.microsoft.com/courses-and-resources/courses/SDG …
• Best K-12 #TeachSDGs lesson plans: @TheWorldsLesson & @Participate http://worldslargestlesson.globalgoals.org/  https://www.participate.com/marketplace
  
• Easiest way to #SparkEmpathy through a class-to-class video match: @EmpaticoOrg https://empatico.org/  #SparkEmpathy
• Best #TeachSDGs "hook" videos: @TheGlobalGoals' YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRfuAYy7MesZmgOi1Ezy0ng …

If you would like to serve the @TeachSDGs movement even more effectively, consider turning on your notifications if you haven’t done so already. We are only as strong as you are active. Please continue to share and celebrate how you #TeachSDGs and, again, THANK YOU!! Wishing you a wonderful and well deserved summer break, The #TeachSDGs team http://www.teachsdgs.org 

The amazing Alice Keeler has put together a great set of videos on how to get the most out of Google Slides. Check out her post here.
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I was happy to catch Michelle Luhtala's webinar a week or so ago on Data and Data Literacy.  I was kind of thinking that this was going to be more fake news kind of material, but she really took it in a different direction which I hadn't looked at in a while.  Those of you who teach middle and high school social studies or science, probably know these sites, but if not- check them out. Even if you teach elementary students, some of the basics are also highlighted- check the scale of the graph, etc.  I simply find Hans Rosling and his data visualizations to be pretty amazing.

This site was new to me- Social Explorer. As you might expect-lots of maps and data visualization. There's also a youtube video to demonstrate how to add your own data.  She also shared some of Mark Liddell's work on statistics.

The other two links that I really liked were Lea Gaslowitz' How to spot a misleading graph- which can easily be used across both grade levels and disciplines, and  David McCandless' Information is Beautiful site. Check out his visualization of Snake Oil Supplements and so many more!

Please check out Michelle's webinar recording on edweb.net or her Pearltrees links.  If you have never explored Gapminder... check it out either link.  I couldn't decide on my favorite Hans Rosling video... but put one below.  The world certainly misses Hans, but we are so fortunate to have so many videos available to view and review. 

Don't miss out on special pricing- only $45 thru June 30. A full day of PD and breakfast and lunch!   I know I always end up driving for hours for PD- this one is just over the hill with some great presenters.

Gateway Public Schools and MassCUE  are looking forward to hosting its first ever Summer Googlepalooza on 8/8/18 in western MA.  Register today for the special rate of $45 for a full day of learning and breakfast and lunch! (Regular registration rate of $65 will resume on 7/1/18.) Extra bonus:  any educator who attends will be able to purchase a MassCUE membership for half-price.
Hope to see you at the Summer Googlepalooza at Gateway Public Schools in Huntington, MA.

Seems like I'm always talking about PD.  I used to love professional development. I enjoyed having choices, getting to learn about lots of things to improve my practice. Although I actually still enjoy PD, I now see the "dark side"- required professional development that someone else seems to think will improve my or other teachers' practice.   We all know that some things are necessary for all to stay on top of, but so many PD sessions are so boring, that even if it's good material, I stopped listening  a long time before they got to the "good part". I recently read an article by Dean Shareski, entitled Bad PD is Sometimes Your Own Fault.  And yes, I agree that we can also substitute staff meeting for PD.  I have met Dean, listened to him present at various conferences over the years and have a lot of respect for both the breadth and depth of his knowledge.  However, he is looking at this from his perspective as a PD provider. I also agree with some of his statements about factors of time, community and context that are often problematic.  But- they don't have to be!  Here in Hadley it's a pretty darn small community. We can pay attention to context, to what the needs of our community are- if we take the time to listen to the teachers and staff. If we actually ask for and use their input, I think we could serve the "needs of the district" by meeting the needs of the teachers and students. Give them a voice and a choice, please.

This really resonated with me.  Is it a love of teaching? A love of learning? Most of the best teachers I have had, teachers that I know,  are people who listen, who love to learn and to share with others. They have a voice; they choose how to present the content.  They have learned to listen.

​If we could take Azul's concluding statement and transfer it to teacher PD issues...teacher voice and choice-  "And can you imagine if we took the time to ask those students, "What would make a good teacher great? And then we actually listened, we could transform schools and education.

When I saw the announcement last Wednesday that Google has created a really cool, easy to use tool to make VR tours right on a chromebook, I envisioned using it for a current 4th grade project on regions.  Well, we're still waiting for it to roll out for our district.  But, I do have access on my personal Google account and will keep checking the domain settings to see when it lands out heah.  Essentially, you start here, then you go to Google Maps, street view (grab that little peg man and plop him where you want to look around), use the images found there or upload your own 360° images. So, I decided to test it out by looking around on the Kenai Peninsula where my son is doing some forestry work. Guess what- no roads= no Google street view- duh!  But I did check out Yellowstone and found some good street view images there- although of course not everywhere I wanted to see.

But, if you want a couple of really good tutorials- turn to Richard Byrne's blog and learn more.  I will put the 1st tutorial below, but he has another one to add even more detail. Check out his second tutorial here.  

​I posted a video about this back in March, and although I signed up to try it out for Digital Skills Week, life intervened and I didn't get back to it.  Since then, I have talked with other educators and some are using pieces of this all the way down to 3rd grade- or at least upper elementary. EdTechTeam hosted a couple of half hour webinars that you can check out on YouTube.  There is so much to explore in this well organized system that is already made for you. I loved the clickable pdf that Heather Sanders made.  If you have a few minutes, check out a tiny piece of the curriculum- theIf-Then adventure stories are great for all ages.

I know- too early to even think about... let me get through the year... BUT I just wanted to let you know that MassCue is sponsoring yet another PD opportunity in Western Mass!  This one will also be at Gateway- over in Huntington. Their IT director-Chris Parker- is a Hadley native and I have to say, having met him all of one time at #EdCampWesternMass - he's kind of awesome.  Lots of ideas, runs a great program in his district.  So- this will be in August. My all time favorite Google Guru to learn from- Jenn Judkins will be there. Honestly, I can sit in her sessions all day long and come away with something new every time.  She actually uses these tools, has incredible work flow ideas, and she's funny.  It's $65 for the whole day. I can pretty much guarantee that you will come away with ideas that you can use in the classroom, as an admin, etc.  Check it out here.  

Those of you who know me, know that Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality both make me feel seasick. I can be sitting down, I can hold a 3D image way out away from me, but I am the Dramamine queen. But, that does not mean that I don't see the value in this for some of our students. I have a whole box of Merge Cubes that I picked up when they were on sale at Walmart for $1/each, but haven't had the time to mess around with them. If you have time, stop by- I'll share. I love the Merge Cube educator group on FB. The ideas being shared every day are really amazing.

​I was fortunate enough to catch Michael Fricano's webinar on Saturday. It went long- so you can watch the whole hour plus if you have time, or just check out the resources he shared in the Livebinder.  He is also consolidating all of the AR/VR stuff into a nice new website- check it out here.