BHM Technology Integration

Students use google sites for state research reports.

This blog post is dedicated to all of the overworked teachers who just don't have the time to seek out this information. I have provided brief explanations, links to and pictures of the tools mentioned by Simple K12 (and a couple of my favorites). I hope this makes it more manageable for teachers to pick and choose which tools they want to use.

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Time is short and math instruction needs to be focused. This easy tool helps educators locate resources that can help with instruction and identify those skills that are most relevant to the topic of the daily instruction. This tool has been aligned with state mathematics curriculum standards to make it directly applicable to use in the classroom.

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Learning about scientists' struggles had several important benefits versus the other two conditions. Students in the struggles condition developed more rounded, less stereotypical images of the scientists, seeing them as people who worked hard. For students who had no initial interest in science, the information about struggles boosted their interest in the subject. Struggles-based background info also improved students' delayed (a week later) recall of the theoretical material, and it increased their success at complex open-ended problem solving tasks based on the lesson material.

Do you or your students finish a great book and wonder what you could read next? Try this website for suggestions based on books you have enjoyed in the past.

ipad ideas collected by teachers

This app gets a worthy mention for students who need practice narrating or verbalizing their stories or vice versa: Story Wheel is super helpful in giving teachers and parents tips in storytelling.

A quick explanation of twitter, facebook, youtube, google+, tumbler, and digg. It has a How to Begin section and a Learn the Lingo section to help people get started.

Connect with other teachers to Skype around the world

For all you iPad users...5 awesome things you can do with an iPad and an LCD projector. Use it as a doc cam, record demonstrations, real-time Khan Academy, hands-on mind mapping, annotating student work.

Google Forms does not provide an easy way to reset your form data or clear results from the Google Spreadsheet. This screen cast follows the step-by-step directions found at Abhi's Weblog http://bit.ly/cy6IhK. Make sure you follow the directions closely and be sure to practice on a Form before trying this on a Form containing important data.

People are afraid to fail. If they fail, they think their self esteem might drop, they might feel humiliated, embarrassed, lose self confidence - the reasons for the fear are many. But fear it no more because you're going to learn how to rid of it by giving yourself permission to fail.

And so, as a public service, it is my pleasure to present to you the Top 100 Lamest Excuses for Not Innovating -- excuses I continue hearing again and again out there on the front lines of corporate America.

Modern children are more likely to claim "I finished my homework but deleted it by accident", "The internet was down" or "my printer broke". The study also found the average teacher hears at least 20 different homework excuses a week.

Recently I've had some inquiries about the best tool to use for a group to collaborate and share articles, videos, images, documents, etc. My initial thought was a wiki, but now that I've fully investigated the features of Diigo (dee'go), that is the tool I would recommend. Diigo, an online curation tool, is another one of my top 10 tools that I use every day.

These people are the 'curious'. Here is the reason they count. They are the ones who wake others around them from stupor. They are the ones who talk to the masses in the middle who are stuck

Earlier today Google added a handy new sharing setting to Google Documents. Now when you share a document with someone you have the option to give him or her "comment-only" access. Comment-only access means that the person with whom you have shared your document can only add notes to the margins of your document but cannot actually change the content of what you have written. In the past your only sharing options were "can edit" and "can view."