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 So here's some light-hearted musings on what I DON'T hear from the great inquiry teachers around the world with whom I am so fortunate to work.   

As a PYP ICT Facilitator, I wanted to make the learner Profile and Attitudes more connected to the use of Information and Communication Technology in the classroom.  To do this, I created posters, which are displayed in the computer lab at our Elementary campus.

Getting kids to really focus on what exactly they are searching for, and then be able to further distill idea into a few key specific search terms is a skill that we must teach students, and we have to do it over and over again. We never question the vital importance of teaching literacy, but we have to be mindful that there are many kinds of "literacies". An ever more important one that ALL teachers need to be aware of is digital literacy. I could go off in many directions on this, but for the purpose of this post I'm focusing strictly on the digital literacy of searching.

Students, teachers and the public turn to their librarians for help researching everything from technology to genealogy to homework help and lesson plans. Even if your library is equipped with subscriptions and memberships to top of the line databases and online journals, you've probably had to get creative during a patron's requested search for something unfamiliar.

Last week I ran two workshops on video creation in the classroom. A part of that workshop was a discussion of Common Core standards that can be addressed through video creation projects. I've pulled out some of the standards that I think a video creation project can address. The standards that I chose all came from the Language Arts standards. I would love to hear from mathematics teachers who have ideas about Common Core standards that can be addressed through video creation projects.

Plagium is a cool plagirism detection tool. Just paste in the original portion of text ( shoulnd't be more than 250 characters) and hit "search". You can also check URLs and files but you will have to sign up with them. The service is free of charge.

The poster is an excellent guide for students to help them make the right informed decisions when it comes to photo sharing.

Digital Citizenship infographics, important to share.

Here are two tools that elementary school students can use to create stories prompted by drawings.

I am an educator, a teacher trainer, and a webmaster who specializes in teaching writing in differentiated, project-based environments.

Created by TeachingBooks.net as part of the Caldecott Medal 75th Anniversary celebration, and debuted at the 2013 Newbery/Caldecott/Wilder banquet (June 2013), enjoy personal peaks into the studios of 3 Medalists (David Wiesner, Leo & Diane Dillons, and Kevin Henkes), and then see beautiful first-edition covers of all 76 Caldecott Medal-winning books (generously scanned by KT Horning and the Children's Cooperative Book Center). Under this montage of book covers are audio tracks of 25 of the recipients sharing brief insights into their creative process. Have fun identifying these Caldecott Medal-winning illustrators.

Comics workshop has these two awesome posters to share with you. They illustrate  in a comic way the theory of multiple intelligences as conceptualized by Howard Gardner.

water conservation- 

World Oceans Day Dr. Seuss connections

Photo editing.

Mandala

Screen Capture and Video cast options introduced/explained.

Excellent introduction and explanation about visual note taking!

Copyright instruction