Category Archives: Ideas
Street Art = Hallway Art
The art teacher at Harvie Elementary, Jordan Flower, has transformed the hallways into a street art exhibit. The students in multiple grade levels have been learning about Street Art. Street Art is usually viewed as destructive and “undergrou… Continue reading
Paper Airplanes….. Any Questions?
This is my first attempt at creating an “Any Questions” video. The first place I saw Any Questions was on Dan Meyer’s blog. Any Questions can be followed on Twitter by following the hash tag #anyqs. The purpose of the … Continue… Continue reading
Nasa Digital Learning Network
If you have not checked out the Nasa Learning Network please take a moment to look at the many many opportunities that are there for distance learning. Next week, on Dec. 13th, along with some very excited fourth graders, I will be mapping the moon with Wall-E. Nasa supplies the lesson plans prior to the […] Continue reading
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
Colonial American region websites
The sixth grade students in Mrs. Royall’s social studies classes used the iPads to create websites dealing with 5 areas the Colonial Americans lived in. They used an app called Zapd that allowed them to add text, pictures, and other information. The app was very easy to use and the students LOVED being able to use […] 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
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
Google Searching
Have you ever searched on Google and felt overwhelmed by the amount of sites that you find? Have you ever felt like some are just not very noteworthy and you’d be better off going back to trade books? Well, I may have a trick to help you. I’m sure you have heard at one time […] Continue reading
