We want our students to start creating…
We want them to use different media to express themselves, demonstrate their understanding, learning and connections to the world.
So, the teacher has agreed to the substitution of the traditional written book report (from years past) with allowing students (5th Grade) to create and record a PhotoStory based on a [...]

Mike Artell, illustrator, cartoonist and author of several children’s books, has contacted me because he read (on Langwitches) about the fantastic connections my school is making via Skype.
He offered to “visit” us as well, via Skype:
I’m very interested in seeing how we might be able to work-in some drawing instructions when I visit with the [...]

I have been asked by Mary Hillis, if I would be willing to be the Guest Speaker of Week 4 at Images4Education.
In this six-week online workshop offered through the Electronic Village Online, participants will be introduced to various online image manipulation tools and will learn how to effectively incorporate these resources into their teaching practices. [...]

I have been stumbling across several blog posts, links and collaborative projects in the last week that are a great way to help our students visualize and express vocabulary.
They are catching my attention, because I see each one of them being a fantastic concept that would be easily adaptable for our students in the classroom. [...]

I blogged about my quest for creating a media library for my elementary school students a few days ago. I want them to have the freedom of choosing images, audio and video to express their thoughts, writing and experiences in a different, non-traditional media in school.
Through the Whip Blog, I clicked my way though JDWilliams’ [...]

All of us who teach at an elementary school level know how hard (impossible) it is to allow our students to just roam free online to look for images, video or audio.
In the past, a simple search for the innocent word “cow” on Flickr returned very questionable images for me, not intended for young eyes.
If [...]

I have written about the SmartBoard Software and it’s  power to put the interactive in the IWB before. There is another cool feature of the Software that you might be able to use to customize and personalize images, stories, presentations, etc in order to get your students interested in what is going on “up there”.
Create [...]

There are so many website out there… So many tools… so many NEW tools to discover and try out… Sometimes one can forget the “good old” ones.
I have not used Animoto in a while. I should, since it is one of the GREAT companies that gives us educators a break, meaning a free [...]

The idea is to take a photo EVERY day for an entire year.
See you life in a whole new way.
I had looked at this project a while ago, and contemplated doing a school-one-photo-a-day project, but have missed the beginning of the school year now for the second year in a row. In the past few [...]

Recently, I was reminded by several bloggers in my reader about the site “Blabberize“. Thank you Teaching Sagittarian, Teach42,
Technology in our classroom.
I thought it might be a great opportunity for Jose, the travel bear to introduce his newest upcoming adventure to Costa Rica and Peru.

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