Kathy Schrock has been a school district Director of Technology, an instructional technology specialist, a middle school, academic, museum, and public library librarian, and is currently an online adjunct graduate-level professor at two universities.
Kathy has been involved with technology to support teaching and learning since the early 1990’s, and is an Adobe Education Leader, a Google Certified Teacher, a Sony Education Ambassador, and a Discovery Education STAR and a DEN Guru. In 1995, she created her award-winning site, Kathy Schrock’s Guide for Educators, to help teachers easily wade through the many resources on the Web. In 1999, Kathy partnered with Discovery Education and she maintained the site until late 2012 when the site was retired.
In addition to teaching online, Kathy writes, speaks, blogs, tweets, and conducts professional development workshops, presentations, and keynotes throughout the world. She is known for her practical presentations dealing with pedagogically sound practices for the embedding of technology seamlessly into teaching and learning. Her passions are online tools to support classroom instruction, the role of emerging technologies in the classroom, infographics, tablets in the classroom, copyright and intellectual property, and gadgets of any type! You can find her on Twitter (@kathyschrock), Skype (kathyschrock), Google+, and on many other social networks!
She currently maintains these Web sites:
Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything
iPads 4 Teaching and Learning
Unofficial American Graffiti Home Page
Blog: Kathy Schrock’s Kaffeeklatsch
Blog: Kathy Schrock’s Katch of the Month
Kathy has written hundreds of articles dealing with technology and education and has authored several books about edtech topics. In addition, she has received numerous awards for her work, including a People’s Choice Webby, the ISTE and MassCUE Making IT Happen Award, the NCTIES Service Learning Award, has served on the ISTE Board of Directors twice, and has worked with the US Department of Education on several educational technology initiatives.
Comics Head is a comic-based storytelling app that is available for both Android and iOS tablets. It is full featured and easy to use, and the items can be shared almost anywhere! There is both a free lite version (which has a watermark) and and a $3.99 full version available in the Google Play Store. How it works Your first pick a blank panel template or templates that are already... More →
Introduction An infographic is a visual representation of information. You find them everywhere from the front page of major newspapers, to the back pages of edtech journals. The process of creating an infographic includes multiple literacies-- there is the information literacy component of searching, collecting, and citing information to be used in the infographic, there is the media literacy component of deciding what type of infographic to create to... More →
Digital storytelling projects can work at every grade level and across the content areas for students. There are many reasons why one might want students to create digital stories as a formative or summative assessment. OVERVIEW Jannette Ortega provides us with some of the benefits of digital storytelling in the classroom. It encourages collaborative learning as students problem-solve and bounce ideas off one another. Students get to share work for... More →
INTRODUCTION This is the sixth in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the highest of Bloom's levels, creating. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support the remembering level Apps to support the understanding level Apps to support... More →
INTRODUCTION This is the fifth in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the fifth of Bloom's levels, evaluating. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support the remembering level Apps to support the understanding level Apps to support the... More →
INTRODUCTION This is the fourth in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the fourth of Bloom's levels, analyzing. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support the remembering level Apps to support the understanding level Apps to support... More →
Sony now has an MHL- HDMI Adapter that allows you to hook the Sony Experia Tablet Z to an HDMI port on a television, monitor, or projector and mirror your tablet's screen! Of course, this is great for the classroom! It connects to the MHL port on the Sony Experia Tablet Z and has an HDMI port on the other side. It also includes a charging port on... More →
Introduction Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is a pedagogical model we are all familiar with. This is the third in a series of resources outlining apps, Web sites, and ideas for using Bloom's Revised Taxonomy to support teaching and learning. This resource deals with Android apps for the third of Bloom's levels, applying. The previous posts in the series were: An overview of Bloom's and apps to support... More →
INTRODUCTION Last month, I provided an overview of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy and include a set of Android apps and Web sites that could be used to support teaching and learning at the remembering level. If you did not read that first installment, please take a moment to do so! UNDERSTANDING LEVEL The next cognitive level of Bloom's Revised Taxonomy is the understanding level. The understanding level involves... More →
INTRODUCTION If you were an education major in college, you are probably very familiar with Bloom's Taxonomy. In the image below, on the left, is the original Bloom’s Taxonomy, developed in the late 1950’s by Benjamin Bloom. On the right, is the Revised Blooms Taxonomy, published in 2000 by Anderson, a student of Bloom’s, and Krathwhol. The names of the levels were turned into action... More →