It's Easy… - 0 views
It's Easy… Which path will you take? Image from http://bit.ly/pASkSU As educators, we are often faced with an opportunity to take the easy road or the hard road. the easy road often works for u...
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Spelling mistakes cost millions - 0 views
Spelling mistakes 'cost millions' in lost online sales 13 July 2011 Last updated at 21:09 ET By Sean Coughlan BBC News education correspondent Customer spending on a website can be cut in half by ...
Sixteen Qualities Of a Good Teacher - 0 views
Sixteen Qualities Of A Good Teacher Photo by Moving Mountains Trust Good teachers are rare, and few people, including school administrators who hire teachers, know what it takes to be one. Altho...
Children Who Can Read, But Don't - Tips for Parents - 0 views
Children Who Can Read, But Don't.. Studies show what common sense tells us: the more kids read, the better they read and the more pleasure they get out of reading. Unfortunately, the reverse also...
Great Teacher are Gardeners - 0 views
I think I remember you telling me that you have a class based around video production, but it is only a semester long. If such a class exists, I would love to sit in on one of your lectures. Also, ...
We Give Books - Read a book. Give a book. - 0 views
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Bret Biornstad on 16 Jan 12We Give Books instantly increases your classroom library and puts high-quality books within reach for children everywhere. We Give Books makes an excellent companion to the interactive whiteboard or projector-connected classroom computer for a class read along. Pull up a story and read the book chorally, ask students to take turns reading, or simply follow along. Everyone can see the pictures and words! This is a great resource for practicing reading strategies together as a class. We Give Books makes a wonderful reading station on classroom computers. Students can access wonderful stories any time through We Give Books. For those students that struggle with indpendent reading (or are emergent readers) there is a read-along option on some of the stories. Students can follow along with the reading building fluency, flow and vocabulary. If you are a primary or elementary teacher, this is a must-add link to your classroom website or blog. Be sure to share the site with families so that students can access the same wonderful library of books from home. Students (and teachers) can create their own library where they keep the books they have read (or enjoy reading). To add a book to a library, you must be a member of We Give Books- no problem, it is quick and free to become a member! Tips: Students can use the word cloud on the right side of the We Give Books page to find books about their favorite subjects.
The 6 Best Online Writing Resources - 0 views
The 6 Best Online Writing Resources for Teachers Teaching writing can be a fun and creative experience, but it can also be difficult to keep up with 30 different students who are each working on t...
Comic Creator -- Boys' Life magazine - 0 views
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Comic Creator in the classroom: the Boy's Life Comic Creator is a great little tool to help your boys connect with writing and story telling in a way that they enjoy and understand. the tool is simple enough to use as a writing station/center on classroom computers. the comic does need to be created in one sitting, there is no way to save and come back to a comic later. Completed comics can be printed off and shared. the Comic Creator is a great entry point into writing but could also be useful in math for creating and solving story problems. Students can create a short math comic strip that can be traded with other students to solve. Students taking a foreign language class could practice new words by creating a comic strip story in Comic Creator. Use Comic Creator the first week of school as a way for boys to tell all about themselves. Each student can create a comic strip that stars them as the main character. Invite other students to try to match the comic strip with the student as a fun interactive bulletin board activity (Think comics on one side, student pictures on the other and string to draw the "line" between matches).
Strategies: Is This How We Read? - 0 views
Strategies: Is This Really How We Read? I had a teacher in a workshop recently who told me she didn't think she used any strategies when she read. I explained that, for proficient readers, we ...
The Why Files | The Science Behind The News - 0 views
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Most of the material on the Why Files is geared toward an elementary and middle school audience. the teachers' section of the Why Files offers pdf guides and quizzes that you can use to teach the science of the stories featured on the front page of the Why Files. the Why Files could also be a good resource for students to explore independently or with their parents.
Cultivating a Learning Environment - 0 views
Fill your school(s) with learners. When interviewing prospective teachers, ask "Tell me about something that you have learned lately." "How did you learn it?" "What are you seeking to learn more ab...
Fostering Resilience - 0 views
Fostering Resilience: ALL Kids Have a Future cc flickr photo by TMAB2003 I have been pondering educational matters…specifically, the challenges schools face in addressing the needs of ALL student...
The Places You'll Go Bulletin Board - 0 views
The Places You'll Go Bulletin Board "The more that you read, The more things you will know. The more that you learn, The more places you'll go." -Dr. Suess As an alternative to a book report, have...
Surfboard // Experience The Web In A Flippable Newspaper-Like Format - 0 views
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Surfboard is a very cool service (similar to Flipboard on the iPad) that displays any website in a flippable newspaper-like display. All your different blog entries or pages are displayed and all the links stay alive. This makes the web reading experience a much more enjoyable one. This is a great Web 2 tool for everyone! To use Surfboard all you have to do is enter the url of your favorite website and click "get surfing." That site will then be displayed in a manner that allows you to flip through the site's content without seeing the sidebar widgets and or advertisements. For proper flippable display Surfboard requires the use of the latest versions of Chrome or Safari.
Free Technology for Teachers: Book Reviews for Kids, By Kids - 0 views
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Scholastic's Share What You Read service is very easy for students to use and for teachers to incorporate into the classroom. the advantage of using the Scholastic service over a creating a wiki for the class is that the Scholastic service saves teachers time. the Scholastic service does not require users to create an account prior to writing a review. In fact, the only information they ever ask for is the student's first name, grade, and state.
How's your Resiliency-3 good things - 0 views
How's your Resilience? How are you feeling about what's ahead for you in 2012? This has been a pretty punishing period for many people who work in western economies and the New Year promises litt...
Pinterest / Home - 0 views
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Pinterest is a great way to organize yourself as a teacher. Gather up all those ideas you see online and then share them with other teachers (who may or may not be Pinterest users…it really doesn't matter). Because you can share Pinterest boards with non-Pinterest users, this is a great way to share things with students. the resource could be anything- pictures, a website, a video. Create a board for every unit that you do and share those boards with students so that they can continue exploring and learning. Students can use Pinterest too, invite young students to help build boards in a class Pinterest account. Create a board for every letter of the alphabet and let students add pictures that they come across to the letter board that it matches. Pinterest has a bookmark tool that you can put in your bookmark bar to make this as easy as one click! Students can put their first name in the description so you (and other students) can keep track of who found what. Like a year-long web scavenger hunt! Older students can create their own Pinterest boards. Pinterest would be a great place for them to collect images that they feel say something about them-an identity board. these boards can be shared with others and added to all year. Not only will you get to know your students better, but other students will find connections they didn't know they had. Pinterest is a nice visual way for students to share their web findings. Pinterest even lets students decide if they want to be the only contributor to their board or if they want to open it up for collaboration so others can add their findings to the board. Way cool. I have two Pinterest boards that may be of interest to you, one is Classroom Inspiration where I am keeping ideas of things I want to do with students or for our classroom. the other is School Design where I am collecting inspirational designs that I want to see in our school when we build our own building.
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The Write-n-ator! - 0 views
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The Write-n-ator highlights words and vocabulary through fun videos and writing challenges starring The PBS character Word Girl. Offer These challenges to your students as a class using a projector or interactive whiteboard. Watch The video clip and create a class response to add to The challenge. Alternately, each student can take The challenge in a writing journal. These videos and challenges make for a fun introductory activity to use as a writing warm up. They have The added benefit of introducing new words and vocabulary.
Why "I Don't Do Tech - 0 views
Why "I Don't Do Technology" Isn't Acceptable The FAA Credit Union building, which stands in for The Crime Lab in "CSI: Miami". Image by Tony Hoffarth. Imagine an episode of CSI where The main ch...
The COW is dead… Long live The POW? - 0 views
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Long live the P.O.W. ~ Projectors on Wheels! Take the computer off the cart and put it in teachers' hands. Take the projector off of the ceiling mount and put it on wheels. Why? Read on
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