Sounds too good to be true, huh? Professional Development in your pajamas? That is exactly what I did this weekend. Unfortunately, I did not get tickets on time to go to educon in Philadelphia, so I had to go with plan B. I had my laptop up and running with my #educon twitter feed running [...]
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Educon 2.2: Professional Development in my pj’s! #educon
January 31, 2010 · 1 Comment · Cool tools, innovative teaching, technology, twitter
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6 word memoirs…what’s yours?
January 20, 2010 · No Comments · innovative teaching, technology
Legend has it that Hemingway was challenged to write a memoir in only 6 words. I challenged my 8th graders to do the same. The video below shows a short collection of our memoirs. You can go here to see the entire project. The original website can be located here. I also used many excerpts [...]
Cool tool for teachers: Youblisher
January 18, 2010 · No Comments · Cool tools
Oh, how I LOVE this new site (youblisher)! It takes your own PDF files and turns them into a publication in a snap! This is a great way to publish student work! Here is an example of a project I just finished with my 8th graders TKAMB21 (To Kill a Mockingbird Meets the 21st Century). [...]
Tags:pdf·presentation·publication·teaching·technology·youblisher
Things that have become obsolete this decade
January 18, 2010 · No Comments · technology
Check out this great post on The Committed Sardine Blog by Ross Crockett. With my kindle, smartboard, and droid phone, I can’t imagine what the future will hold when these things become obsolete because they have changed the way I live and teach today. To think that I dream of having a classroom that is [...]
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