Who Inspires You?
I really hadn’t thought of this much until I read a blog post of the same name from Presentation Zen. Who of course linked…
Category: Teaching & Learning
Posts on classroom practice, student engagement, assessment, and how learning happens in schools and online.
The beginning of the end?
I’ve had this e-mail sitting in my box for a couple of weeks now. I had a look at this when I first got…
Google Earth and Audio Books
Two recent lessons I have been involved in are using Google Earth with 2nd Graders and having 5th graders create audio books for Pre-K…
Video: Google Search Tips
This is a must watch video for every educator. In grades 4 and above educators should then turn around and use these when teaching…
I’m done with the 21st Century!
I know it’s the largest word in my tag cloud on this blog….but really I’m over it now. I have come to hate the…
Do you give yourself permission to reflect?
I’ve been thinking about reflection lately and how we use it in our classrooms. I can remember being in elementary school and being asked…
Communicating from the classroom
As a technology person you don’t always get to decide where you are going to start with teachers. In fact, most of the time…
Parent Communication: From Print to Digital
Over the last couple of years I have helped numerous teachers set up blogs, wikis, and just plain old html pages to be used…
America….you just don't get it!
From cbsnews.com Math Tests For Five-Year-Olds? The experiment could involve tests as long as 90 minutes and change reading assessments for kindergartners through second-graders…
What's your focus teaching or learning?
As long as we continue to think of technology as a tool for learning we are going to get caught in this circle of…