Category Archives: Ideas
Keeping it Simple
As you begin your plans for your classroom, please consider starting your students immediately on the computers in your classroom. You cannot keep adding jobs for your students, so it is time to replicate one small job a day on the computer. Anything your students do paper and pencil can be replicated on the computer […] Continue reading
Facebook Profile in Google Docs
I am amazed every day that I can find whatever I need from Twitter. I had a request yesterday to do a pretend Facebook Profile in Google Docs. I took a stab at it but didn’t like it- and on Twitter found this template made by Derrick Waddell. Click here to see the template. Continue reading
What Do You Think?
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Tech Portfolio To Go
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Technology Portfolio To Go on Prezi
Digital Stories
I am so proud of my students’ stories. This teacher does her entire grammar/writing unit and then has them write about anything they wish. Many students did lots of research to use in their writing. These are talented and industrious students. They make my job delightful.
Here are a few:
Digital Stories
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Keynote review presentations
Two other fifth grade classes at Varina used Keynote to create review presentations for the other students in their class. Each student worked in either a small group or by themselves to present what information they knew about various science topics, learning more about their own topic in the process. They ended up with some […] Continue reading
ActiVote Review
Two of the fifth grade classes at Varina used the ActiVotes to review Social Studies content to prepare for the upcoming SOL tests. We used a simple Word document with questions as our “test” and used the Promethean ActiVote responders to answer the questions. They loved using them and were VERY excited when they all […] Continue reading
Kindergarten Famous Americans
I have included the templates that can be use to cover the Famous Americans covered in the Kindergarten SOLs. This project will created in Comic Life. Click here to download the template and pictures. Continue reading
21st Century Literacies
What is literacy and what does it mean for teachers? As technology changes, teachers need to keep up with many many things in order to stay “literate”. Here is a great article about what that might mean.
“Twenty First Century readers and writer must:
Develop proficiency with the tools of technology
Build relationships with others to pose and […] Continue reading
Desigining Invitations in Pages
Our 5th grade students are getting ready for their DARE graduation. Today we designed invitations to send home to the parents about this gala. Here are 2 examples from our creative students at Ridge.
We got to use many of the graphic tools in Pages that we haven’t ever used before. Wow these guys […] Continue reading
