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Visual Digital Library
So often my Jr. High students seem to lose interest in their research and begin to complain that they can not find any good information. Wikipedia and other informational websites by their nature are...
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Scholastic: Interactive Whiteboard Activities
Like every teacher I am always excited to find good resources. Over the past week I came across a great resource site for interactive whiteboards. This site contains many resources for Language Arts,...
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Visual Search Engine: instaGrok
Over the course of the the last few days my students have begun to use instaGrok as a search engine in class. This site conducts searches in a very visual way that invokes students to explore and...
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Best Place to Find Technology For The Classroom
As my regular readers know I am always looking for new technologies to try out in my classroom. But the task of finding new technologies can at times be overwhelming. The amount of apps and programs...
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Spark Student Interest with Time Search
Spark Student Interest with Time Search Time Search is a great resource that I came across near the end of this past school year. It is a great research tool to assist students looking for information...
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Videos that Make for Great Teacher Professional Development
While I normality like to post my ideas and thoughts on education and technology. Occasionally, however I come across a post that is just so outstanding and on the mark that I feel it is just too good...
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myHistro: A Great Teaching Timeline Tool
One of the great things that I have enjoyed about blogging is communicating with people all over the world. Recently, I had a message from a reader Valeria from Tallinn, Estonia who brought to my...
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Hundreds of Great Ideas and Just One Classroom!
Well it is that time of year again and I can already hear the school bell ringing. Like many teachers I am hitting the web and my classroom resource creating and organizing lessons. As I peruse the web...
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5 Teacher Resource Edtech Tools
With the overwhelming amount edtechtools that can be found on the web, this is the first post in a series to highlight some that I have found useful in the classroom and are FREE!! The focus of this...
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5 Edtech Resources for Students
This year I have put together a list for my students of five sites that they might find helpful in their classes. These sites are ones that over the past few years my students have routinely used. I do...
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Four Free Online Audio Editors
Well is that time of year again where students start to create projects. As always I spend time talking about copy-write laws and what is and is not acceptable use of others material. This always leads...
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Video Project:Free Sound Effects and Music Tracks
As the year progresses and my students begin to look for new ideas for projects they begin to see the value of not only sound effects but sound tracks. Music is a powerful element in a movie. Which...
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Teaching Channel “Reading Like a Historian”
Question mark (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This past week our school has been focused on the use of questions in the classroom. As I began looking into the many approaches and types of questions teachers...
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15 Free Safe AVATAR Creators
Every year as my class begin to create their online blogs they always want some type of unique avatar to represent themselves. After a long talk about he dangers of an online presence and why not to...
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The Battle of the Timelines “Timetoast vs. Xtimeline”
This past week I had my students use one of the following timeline creators,(Timetoast, Xtimeline) to discuss the major events leading up to the Declaration of Independence. Since both of these tools...
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