January was another busy technology-rich month at Blackland Prairie. Two educators, Valerie Rollans and Stephanie Inzana, because Google Educator Level 2 certified. Ten teachers learned about how to use green screen movies in an afterschool training and are already...

Did you know that Texas has had eight capitals? That was just one of the many facts that our fourth-graders at Blackland Prairie had to learn to break out of the Texas History maze! Mrs. Inzana, the librarian at Blackland Prairie Elementary, created a digital breakout...

This week, Ms. Rice, a fourth-grade teacher at Blackland Prairie, and Mrs. Rollans, the Instructional Technology Specialist, took four of our fourth-grade classes on a Google Expedition to explore slow changes to the Earth. The students explored the Grand Canyon,...

During our second week of Hour of Code, we worked on "plugged" activities, or activities that involved using technology. Each grade level experienced a different activity, ranging from using the code.org website to Ipad apps. The most impressive was how some of our...

While November is a short month for schools, our technology integration didn't slow down at all! Mrs. Rollans worked with over 95% of our students during the month. Eight of our teachers spent an entire day become Google Level 1 Certified Educators. Two of the...