Learn what I am doing in my classroom with technology this week!
I just finished reading Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives by Randi Zuckerberg, sister to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. In this book, she tackles the subject of how evolving technologies complicate people’s lives.
Read MoreFor my class this week, we’re exploring blogging in the classroom. All of us reviewed a great article, “33 Ways to Use Blogs in Your Classroom and an Educational Setting.” This post has great ideas for every grade level, but here are 10 more ways that you can use blogs in your classroom setting.
Read MoreI just finished teaching Technology for Educators, and one of my brave students still asked questions even after the class ended, proving you should never stop learning. So this post…
Read MoreBookmarking sites are so useful. I love them, and I wish that I had used them back when I was teaching full-time. Why should teachers (or really anyone) think about…
Read MoreEducators in the 21st century are lucky. The advancements in technology have given them so many ways to make education come alive and to extend the walls of the classroom…
Read MoreI have some past blogs on Kidblog, but this tutorial is to walk you through the teacher side of the website. In it, I show you where all of the…
Read MoreTo save time, you probably want to go to gmail.com FIRST and create an email account. That will help you and save you time since you have to have a…
Read MoreThis tutorial on Kidblog will help you see what the site looks like on the student side and some of the important features students can access when creating their own…
Read MoreThis past year, I have learned about a lot of different blog formats to use at schools. Some don’t offer privacy settings. Some cost money. Some don’t let you create…
Read MoreThis past year was my first year of using social media with my students. I was teaching Composition I and II at a small private college. The college had an…
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