Wordle and Animoto in the Classroom

Last month a coworker asked if I would be a guest presenter at her daughter’s school.  Each child in this 3rd grade classroom had the opportunity to invite a guest.  I accepted the invitation, met with her daughter and we planned a presentation of animoto and wordle.  Two of my favorite tools.
We started with animoto.  [...]

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Data- a Magical Solution

In education, we deal with a ton of data.  I can’t begin to count the number of hours I have used excel spreadsheets.  When I was in the classroom, my whole gradebook was in excel- everything calculated for each standard that I taught.  My first year I spent countless hours editting cells to show first [...]

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Top 100 Learning Tools

Ramblings of a Technology Cooridinator and Log into Lane both fellow Google Certified Teachers, posted the Top 100 Tools For Learning 2008 slide show on their blogs.  Knowing that some of my readers do not read these blogs, I wanted to share it here as well.  I regularly use 29 of the tools mentioned in [...]

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Web 2.0 Wednesday Challenge

I found a new site today that I wanted to share.  Web 2.0 Wednesday Challenge introduces a new web 2.0 tool each week and then offers a challenge for using it in the classroom.  You can join in where they are to become eligible for “wordwide fame”, or just make it a personal challenge and [...]

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It’s Delicious!

When our year first began nearly a month ago, I asked teachers at my school to complete a survey about their technology knowledge.  One of the questions asked about Web 2.0 tools.  I dare say out of a staff of over 60, only 3 seemed to have heard the term.  Today was our first inservice [...]

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Wordless Wednesday 5-21

For those of you new to the world of blogging, it is common for blogs to post only a picture on Wednesday- hence the title “Wordless Wednesday”. Here is this week’s picture:

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