A new school year has started for us here in the Northern Hemisphere. We are off to a fantastic start. I am working with our 5th grade teacher and class on their Christopher Columbus Social Studies unit. We are looking to involve students in researching the historic figure from different perspectives in order to put [...]
A teacher’s heart smiles when students become creative, enthusiastic and take ownership of their work. This was the case with the 4th grade class at my school. Their classroom teacher asked me to introduce podcasts to her class, she and her students took it from there and RAN… with it… I came to their classroom [...]
Terry Freedman published his new “Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book”. It is free for anyone to download as a pdf file. I loaded it on my Kindle and have been enjoying the wonderful project ideas. Thank you, Terry for all the hard work and thank you to the contributors for their project ideas! 87 projects. [...]
Middle School students are working hard on their Math Wiki. They are using a variety of tools to create tutorials (Garageband, SmartBoard Notebook, PowerPoint, Animoto). Their latest creation to be embedded into the Wiki were Animoto Music Videos. They created PowerPoint slides, then exported them as jpg files to be imported into Wiki were Animoto [...]
If you have not thought of podcasting with your younger elementary school students, I encourage you to think again. The first graders at my school had listened to the second grade podcast about animals, and had really enjoyed their story.They were especially thrilled that the second graders had received so many comments from teachers around [...]
A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about my Thoughts on Setting up a Student Created Wiki. I chose to use wikispaces education wiki as the platform of the Math wiki. The set up of student accounts was very easy and fast, no email was required for the students. I also pre-created a page [...]
Cross posted on the TechLearning Advisors Blog As the Technology Integration Facilitator, I was “stationed’ in the computer lab. Although classroom teachers did not “drop” their students off at the lab for me to teach a separate lesson, I still felt disconnected. This was mainly due to a lack of (or no) collaborative planning time [...]
Nancy von Wahlde from the American School of Madrid and I have been trying to collaborate on a project for a while now. We finally settled on connecting two of our first grade classes (Allison W. & Meghan M.) We started looking at each others curriculum maps for the next few months and paid attention [...]
Around the World with 80 Schools is making waves around the world. Check out some of the sites that have blogged about the project. Thank you bloggers for spreading the word! Bulgaria Teacher Blog Israel Israel Teacher Ning Portugal Around the world with 80 Schools :: ZarcoEnglish England Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom:: Around [...]
In the process of Skype becoming more and more popular in schools and teachers are becoming more comfortable in using it with their students. there seems to be something else emerging: Rituals Two of the Around the World with 80 Schools participants have let me know of a ritual that they are observing at the [...]
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