In Need of Professional Development?
Guest Posts
Tweet The following is a wonderful description, step by step, how one librarian upgraded traditional “animal reports” with a first grade class (six year olds). from handing in paper reports to sharing eBook/pdf files with the world from consuming information to creating and remixing their own information from using and …
Tweet Andrea Hernandez, known as edtechworkshop in the blogger- and Twittersphere has written a thought provoking blogpost about Where’s The Authentic Audience? She takes a closer look at the buzz word circulating among blogging educators and classrooms and asks tough questions. What happens when there is no audience coming to …
Tweet I invite few guest bloggers to share posts on Langwitches. This makes it especially rewarding to be able to present to my readers an incredible young lady. Zoe is growing by leaps and bounds as a blog writer and commenter. She is a fourth grader at the Martin J. …
Professional Development
Tweet There are, no doubt, many technophobes (among educators and in general) out there. Technophobia is defined by The Free Dictionary as: Fear of or aversion to technology, especially computers and high technology. Over the years, I have seen “the fear” many times. A popular idiom used here in the …
Tweet Our 4th and 5th grade students(9-10 year olds) have been working with Mike Fisher, co-author of Upgrading your Curriculum and author of children’s poems. The goal of their collaboration is to create an eBook of Mike’s poems with students’ illustrations. Once produced, students will work on marketing, advertising and …
Tweet During last year’s edJEWcon conference (a Teaching & Learning Institute for Jewish Educators, which I help organize with Andrea Hernandez and Jon Mitzmacher), we invited our Middle School students to attend our keynote session with Heidi Hayes Jacobs. We all watched magic happen, when students (without being asked) created …
I like the smooth progression you are framing here for staff. The charts that outline the concepts and your thinking are very useful. Elaine
[...] blogging and posting our homework on the internet each night? In a recent post, Langwitches shared a flowchart demonstrating the transition from static website to blog, moving [...]
[...] Each classroom and resource teacher at our school has a blog, that they are “required” to keep up to date for communication purposes to parents. Updated, meaning to at least create a post once a week. I have written about my effort to encourage teachers to Creating a learning community with your Elementary School Blog by pointing out the differences between a Blog vs. Static Website. [...]
[...] of our teachers at my elementary school maintain their own classroom blog. As I wrote about in Blogs vs. Static Website and Changes in Classroom Blogs, we need to move forward from merely a one sided communication tool [...]
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