Even More

Today I will be giving a very general overview of my time in Mountain View, CA at the Google Teacher Academy. Each Monday for the next several weeks (probably waiting to start until July 7), I will address a new application. I will be providing screencasts or links to tutorials on how to use each [...]

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Google Day

It is finally Google Day!  I am so excited to be in Mountain View, California.  I flew in yesterday afternoon and met up with some of my fellow attendees last night for dinner.  Amazingly enough more than 20 of us “found” each other online prior to this week.  2 Wikis were created, blog posts were [...]

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Today’s Classroom?

I know that I primarily hit elementary, but today I am addressing a video put together by Michael Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at KState. While it does speak more toward higher ed, these “kids” didn’t start these habits in college. Many of our elementary, middle, and high school students have these [...]

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Off to California!

This is probably my last post until late Wednesday or sometime on Thursday.  I am heading out tomorrow morning to fly to Mountainview, CA for the Google Teacher Academy.  I am super excited and hope to learn all that I can.  I will be sharing what information I can on my blog, so keep checking [...]

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iPhones in class?

Abilene Christian University has done some research into using iphones in their curriculum. The video (way down below) shows what it might look like to have the iPhones fully integrated into university life. This fall all freshman attending the university will be receiving and iphone. This is the first university to undertake this [...]

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What are we here for?

This morning I read a great post by Vicki Davis AKA Cool Cat Teacher. The post titled Mainstream Media vs. Blogosphere: Mainstream Ed vs. Edublogosphere? In the post, she talks about how the media is dealing with the change that everday people now have the ability to give “breaking news” to the world. [...]

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Wordle

CoolCatTeacher posted this week about a neat site I hadn’t seen before,called Wordle. It will allow you to take either your delicious tags or any other text that you type or copy-paste in, and it will create a word cloud from the text. With the most frequently used words larger and lesser used [...]

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SMART Technologies

SmartBoards are very big in our district as are many of the SMART Technologies. This week I took a class on the new Notebook 10 software. I thought I would take a minute to introduce you to some of SMART Technologies products.
Notebook 10
I was pleasantly surprised at many of the changes. They [...]

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Generators

There are all sorts of generators around the web.  I am going to highlight a few of the ones I find valuable and give some ideas of how to use them.
Coat of Arms
I have done these with students when we studied Don Quixote, medieval times, and other aspects of history or genealogy.  There are numerous [...]

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Palms in the Classroom

Palms seem to have become outdated, but I love using them in the classroom. Last year, a colleague of mine and I convinced our principal to use some latchkey money to purchase a class set (30) of palms, and we shared them with our 5th graders. At first, we weren’t exactly sure how [...]

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