Writing is very a individual skill that all students need to learn. The problem is, I find many writing programs teach a formula… but is that what's best for creativity?

Below are 22 simple assessment strategies and tips to help you become more frequent in your teaching, planning, and curriculum design.

Check out these 3 not so popular but effective Google Apps

What is the difference between an enrichment project and an extension activity, and how does curriculum compating help gifted students?

March 20, 2014 Feedback is an essential element in the teaching/learning process. Through feedback students get to know how they are doing in their learning and through it too teachers learn about the usefulness of their teaching strategies and what should or should not change.

I am pleased to relaunch this popular resource form the Interesting Ways series after a little bit of TLC. If you are new to the idea behind the Interesting Ways series, they are open Google Presentations which teachers add their ideas to - one idea, one slide, one image.

Tackk allows you to create online posters that can be shared via email, social media or be embedded onto a webpage or blog. As soon as you arrive on the website you can start creating your poster by editing their ready made template. You can easily add a title, body text, pictures, videos, and even songs.

The purpose of this site is to help teachers integrate Web 2.0 technologies.

Under 30 min tutorials on how to use many Google Applications that can be useful in the classroom.

Tips and Ideas

Books and homework alone don't make an education. Learning need to be well-rounded - students learn pick up all sorts of life skills and habits in school, even from a very young age...

This link will take you to a page with ideas that you can use in our Google Apps for Education program. A lot of teachers have asked me for ideas on how to use each of the Apps. Here's a good place to get started. Enjoy!

This link will take you to a number of different ideas to use Google Forms for. I thought some of them were relevant. They may not line up exactly for our school's needs but they can definitely be edited to useful documents. Take a look. It might get some creative thoughts going at the very least. Google Forms is really neat once you get comfortable with it.

January 23, 2014 Teaching Math fluency for kids is much easier now with these beautiful iPad apps. The apps cover the basic math concepts that kids can learn through hands-on activities, games, and puzzles. I have meticulously selected these apps to share with you here.

These strategies are based on asking students driving questions that stimulate their thinking and trigger them to delve deeper to find answers.

Schools across the country are increasingly starting to use mobile devices like tablets and smartphones as classroom tools. But some educators are still skeptical that devices will distract students as much or more than they enhance the learning environment.

As 2013 draws to a close, here are some of the most popular web-based educational tools that have risen quickly in popularity this past year. You may have heard of some of these. If not, take a look and see if they are relevant to you and your students.