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Inspire, Relate, Connect: Be a Teacher Worth Remembering

Mr. Tony taught me in high school. It was my first year of high school, actually. Honors Lit. And I strongly disliked reading anything without pictures. Over the Summer, like…

Google Sites: The Perfect Digital Portfolio

Imagine with me. We’re right, smack-dab in the middle of the 1990s and little Buff is sitting in a classroom, middle row, three seats back. It’s notebook check time. Y’all…

Google Slides: The New Microsoft Publisher

As a middle school teacher in 2005, I was all about the poster projects. Just give the students some gluesticks, a pair of scissors, a pack of markers, and a…

Blast from the past: 8 Teachable Memories from Douglas, GA

This past year, I held a workshop in my hometown of Douglas, GA. It was a blast from the past, driving through town and seeing old friends. Jennifer, on the…

Music in the Classroom: Rockabye with Spotify

Y’all, the Buffs were doing Spotify when Spotify wasn’t cool. Or at least when it first began. I’ll get into why we like Spotify at the end of this blog,…

My First Year of Teaching

This blog post has absolutely nothing to do with technology…and it takes us all the way back to 2005…to my first year of teaching. Buckle your seatbelts for a wild…

Brian Buffington 🤟 #BuffMagic @brianbuffington

Now, this is a nice addition to your student-centered creative tools! https://t.co/k6h9TJaNxT

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Google for Education @GoogleForEdu
Introducing: @canva for Education. With heaps of Google integrations (including #GoogleClassroom & Drive), it has all the creative tools 🎨🔧 needed to create awesome posters, reports, & more. And it works well on touch screens & tablets! https://t.co/y8ayNFfCWL #Bett2020 https://t.co/zf0UgksR2a

Brian Buffington 🤟 #BuffMagic Retweeted · Ari's Take @ArisTake

They say that 80% of what the audience remembers is visual. So even if you sounded like Led Zeppelin, if you looked like Weird Al, that's what they're going to remember.

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Brian Buffington 🤟 #BuffMagic @brianbuffington

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Jesse Cole @YellowTuxJesse
“When we’re at our best, we don’t wait for external pressures. We are internally driven to improve our services, adding benefits and features, before we have to. We lower prices and increase value for customers before we have to. We invent before we have to.” - @JeffBezos https://t.co/Fr7vYzL0KJ