Archive for the 'Classroom Projects' Category

Looking for “Experts” to Help Us Learn With Perspectives About Christopher Columbus

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

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 [...]

Space Real Estate Agents?

Saturday, May 29th, 2010

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 [...]

Amazing Web 2.0 Projects Book

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

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. [...]

Math Tutorial Music Videos

Wednesday, January 6th, 2010

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 [...]

Podcasting with First Grade

Friday, December 11th, 2009

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 [...]

Setting up and Introducing a Collaborative Student Math Wiki

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009

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 [...]

We Need More Examples from the Classrooms!

Saturday, October 3rd, 2009

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 [...]

Collaborative VoiceThread- I have a Dream

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

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 [...]

Making Waves Around the World

Friday, January 16th, 2009

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 [...]

Skype Connection Rituals

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

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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