Category Archives: Examples
Can younger students blog?
I use my Google reader almost everyday, to stay on top of what other educators are doing. Today’s find was actually an older post from Kathleen Morris’ blog from Australia. She is passionate about younger students blogging, and this post explains how she uses blogging in her primary classroom. She has some great links to blogs […] Continue reading
Discovery Interactive Atlas
Teachers, if you are looking for a great place to research using videos that require no log in, look no further than Discovery’s new Interactive Atlas. The picture below shows you that I have selected China. On the left you will notice the categories say: Culture, Government, History, and Natural World. On the right you […] Continue reading
Weathering and Erosion
I had my first weathering and erosion questions this week. I decided to combine 3 technologies/applications that I love to use to give my teachers the resources they needed. Keynote I created a Keynote slideshow for the kids to use … Continue r… Continue reading
IPads in our classes
Many teachers have said that they need more apps on the iPads. I would like for all teachers to consider that open ended apps allow students to create, modify, and show synthesis of information. I read many educational blogs daily and found this quote from: Diane Darrow (click to see this post on the Edutopia […] Continue reading
4 Icon Challenge
The 4 Icon Challenge is an assignment that was submitted to the Digital Story Telling course (ds106) offered through the University of Mary Washington. DS106 is a unique class because you don’t have to be a UMW student to participate. …… Continue reading
Facebook and Twitter from the Past?
Sure George Washington and the other Founding Fathers didn’t have Facebook and Twitter, but woudn’t it have been cool if they did? It would have been awesome to see Sacagawea’s posts about how Lewis and Clark refuse to listen and &#… Continue reading
Henrico21 Changes for 2011-2012
Now that Mother Nature has calmed down, and we are well into the new school year, it’s time to start thinking about Henrico21 lesson submissions for the 2011-2012 school year. There are quite a few changes that have been made to the process for this year including the deadlines. I will highlight the changes below, […] Continue reading
Be Heard with VoiceThread!
I created a web site containing all you need to know about VoiceThread after giving a presentation about it at EdTech 2011. The site contains: a .pdf download of VoiceThread instructions, a YouTube video tutorial I created about how to set up identities, examples of VoiceThread integration into instruction, and how to acquire VoiceThread educator […] Continue reading
Social Studies Ideas
I tried using Popplet.com some last year but thought I would share a good use. I have been looking for great timeline software for elementary for a while, and think this site may be a good fit for our fourth and fifth grade students. See what you think. Not sure why my pictures aren’t showing. […] Continue reading
Show me what it looks like….
Teachers are asking me all the time what 21st Century skills looks like, and how technology should fit in to their teaching. A wonderful blog “What Ed Said” sums it up perfectly. Here is a portion of her article: “They used to… do leaf rubbings with paper and pencil to see what leaves look like. […] Continue reading
