Author Archives: Julie G. Goode

I am a proud member of The Groovy Grammar Squad. A few of the ITRTs have been working on The Groovy Grammar Squad blog to compile all sorts of literacy ideas that use instructional technology to assist literacy development. Hop on over … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mrs. Turner’s 2nd grade class at Glen Allen Elementary did an outstanding job creating animated Keynote presentations about fractions of a whole and fractions of a set. Check out Anisa and Ryleigh’s creations: Ryleigh from Julie on Vimeo. Let me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The other day one of the elementary ITRTs, Alfonso Favale, recommended an app at the RVA Unconference that makes pictures come to life with talking mouths, blinking eyes, animated eyebrows, etc. He showed the FREE app, YakIt. Not only can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yesterday one of our ITRTs, Julie Franklin, shared a very fun and easy to use site that practices mathematical TEI based questions for grades 2-7 and also Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Algebra 2, and Geometry. I had not seen this site before … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Jon Wirsing showed the ITRTs a cool Google Extension a few months ago that I finally tried out the other day. It is called Split Screen which allows you to have two websites running right next to each other without … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Third graders at Highland Springs Elementary investigated temperature using the county’s digital thermometers: GoTemps. We had so much fun measuring the temperature of different objects/substances and charting our findings on a MAC spreadsheet table. Information that was entered into the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Are you interested in teaching your students how to do Voice Recordings on programs they could use on any computer that has internet access at home? Check out Recordmp3.org and Vocaroo.com. I LOVE using these websites because when you are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mrs. Rife and Mr. Warren’s 5th class at Chamberlayne Elementary had SO much fun today learning about variables. We started out the lesson with a Keynote about what a variable is and how we have really been working with variables … Continue reading → Continue reading →

One of our amazing Henrico ITRTs, Jim Covais, put together a few tutorial videos on Google Drive. I encourage you head over to his blog and check them out. Click {HERE}. Mrs. Bradlee, a 5th grade teacher at Chamberlayne Elementary, … Continue reading → Continue reading →