Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 21st, 2009 1 Comment »
Many school districts do not allow their students to have email addresses for school use. This can be frustrating because there are many opportunities for teachers and students to communicate and share files. One alternative to individual email addresses is using Edmodo.
“Edmodo is a private microblogging platform that teachers and students can use to send [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2009 1 Comment »
As I have stated in some of my older posts, wikis are great tools to use for collaborating, compiling research, and distributing information. There are various free wiki sites that you can use for your personal use or classroom. Here are some further resources with ideas on how to teach and use wikis:
Wiki Walk Through [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 7th, 2009 No Comments »
I use Google Reader to bring in all of my RSS feeds which consist of different blogs, newspapers, and other resources. This is one tool that I do use daily and it sure beats having to go out rechecking websites for updates. At Will Richardson’s workshop that I attended at METC, Will described how to [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
One thing that METC accomplished was to reinforce over and over that we have to change our way of teaching and reaching our present day students. Meg Ormiston presented the keynote entitled Culture Clash! Wired Kids in Text Driven Classrooms. The remark that she stressed many times is that we are boring our kids and [...]
