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cootPad activities can be played on just about any device including iPads, Android tablets, and Chromebooks.

s a free service offering mathematics and reading practice activities to elementary school students and their teachers.

Mind mapping. concept mapping, or brainstorming are three different names with almost the same meaning : collecting,organizing , and  representing ideas, tasks, words, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea into a mind map diagram .

Mind mapping enables teachers to manipulate ideas and concepts with great ease and flexibility

It helps present information in a visually attracting and comprehensive way

e disposable cameras to capture instances of when they used literacy at home.

exploring and adding to knowledge

Having students become media literate across school subjects has been talked about since the early 1960s but has hardly made a dent in lessons that most teachers teach

Geller encouraged the students to look at Wikipedia, but skeptically

You should not always trust the first thing you see!”

But the obvious thing to do was to evolve the potential of this very stable listserv in a number of social media ways. While I am not sure which of these will be the favourites, the idea looks something like this: share a link on the listserv and store it for easy retrieval any time in the Diigo group! share your library images in Flickr, because we need to collect the ideas from around Australia Like us on Facebook – and include us in your News Feed. Share things you find, and get into the conversation. Perhaps 140 characters on Twitter will be just the thing for you – just another way to stay in touch and build the teacher librarian community.

Most K-12 classrooms in the United States today don’t use interactive blogs. By “interactive,” I mean a blog website which permits posts from students as well as the teacher, and comments from blog visitors as well as class members. As I explained in my post earlier this week on the iThemes education blog,

The past two months, I’ve had opportunities to ask different groups of educators the same question via an interactive SMS poll powered by PollEverywhere. The question I’ve asked has been: How many different assignments last year did you invite students to share on your interactive, classroom blog? The graph below summarizes responses in early June in Fort Bend ISD, which is in Houston, Texas. Of 156 respondents, 78% answered “zero.”

State of Flux - Images of Our Changing Planet

Silk Slides is a new service for easily sharing and discussing slideshows. It is very easy to use the service.

upload your slides

then enter your email address.

This potentially revolutionary change is being driven in large part by technology: it is predicted that e-book technology will give readers the power to annotate not just with text, but also with pictures. Similarly, visuals in maths and science have become increasingly sophisticated.

To this end, mobile apps and Web 2.0 tools can facilitate implementation of activities requiring students to use skills at the top three levels of Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy--analyzing, evaluating, and creating. Here are five examples of activities that target these levels of the taxonomy and can be used with students across grade levels in a variety of content areas. Teachers of very young children can implement these ideas as whole class projects.