MassCUE Makerspace Special Interest Group (SIG)

by Cathy Collins The idea of collaborative learning spaces for creative activity has gathered a great deal of momentum in education recently. The makerspace movement is being embraced by the…

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Introducing MassCUE Learning Tours

By Shelley Chamberlain Learning Tours: A new exciting match program by MassCUE Is your school or district thinking about implementing a new initiative and teachers from the district would like to…

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Leadership in Social Media — #LFL2016

By Sara Ahern In honor of the upcoming MassCUE/EdTechTeacher spring conference, Leading Future Learning, I thought I’d write my first blog post. This year, the theme of the Friday, March 11,…

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Getting the Most Out of MassCUE Winter Camp: Featuring Google Apps for Education (or any conference for that matter.)

By Jonathan Schmid We’re looking forward to this year’s Google-themed February break workshop, MassCUE Winter Camp. Building off of last year’s Googlepalooza, we were struck with the overwhelming response by…

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Special Interest Group: Southeast Coast, Cape and Islands Technology Coordinators (SCITT)

By Karen McGrath and Ryan McGee SCITT Special Interest Group has had a very active 15-16 school year so far! The group meets monthly on Fridays to explore many different…

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Center of Gravity

By Rayna Freedman Who should be at the center of gravity in the classroom? The teacher or the student? In the old education models it was the teacher, but in…

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Spoonful of Sugar

By Rayna Freedman Students walk into a classroom, eyes full of wonder. They see computer pods set up and running, enticing their curiosity for how they will be used. Parents…

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Educators as Rock Stars

By Cathy Collins Up until this week, the closest I’d ever come to rock star status was extremely peripherally, as the teenage girlfriend of the drummer in a popular rock…

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CUE Rock Star Camp Reflections from an Innocent Bystander

By Shelley Chamberlain I will be honest. I did not participate in the 3-day CUE Rock Star Camp this past week (Aug. 4-6) in Bedford, MA, but I did get a…

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The Science, Technology, Literacy Connection

If a piece of toast covered with jelly falls to the floor, which side will it land on? This was the question we broke into groups to answer as…

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2015 Edcamp Boston

It’s mostly true that Educational Technology Conferences and Workshops are very exciting, both the lead-up hype and the actual day’s events. What is even truer, though, is that the…

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The Makerspace Phenomenon

By Cathy Collins The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.   — John Maynard Keynes Makerspaces are all the rage these days, and…

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