AASL invites students to participate in a digital storytelling contest held as part of the 2015 celebration of School Library Month. The contest asks students to reflect on the 2015 theme, "Your School Library: Where Learning Never Ends" and create... Read More › The January/February 2015 Knowledge Quest theme is Evidence-Based Practice.
I have been looking for a link to these ABC/numerical book order templates for a few weeks now. Great find! Use for teaching students how to find books on a shelf. Great skills practice and check!
Naomi Harms and her team of innovators are truly amazing! I've attend as many conferences/sessions as possible with her leading (or her team.) Each time I feel inspired to do something amazing for my students.
Teaching tech in isolation never works. When a reluctant tech user learns how to do something with a project about which they're personally passionate, they're gonna be instantly engaged, work hard at it, and feel super exultant when it works!
Most people equate leadership with a specific position or job title. But you need more then a title on the door to have followers. True leadership is the ability to influence people to achieve a better result for an organization or group.
Provides a list of how technology has changed the classroom. Makes you think about the movement in teaching from using technology b/c you have to, to using technology b/c you need to.
I follow this site off of Facebook. They do great things here and I have found many solutions and ideas in what is posted. Below is a recent post:
This is a guest post from Tom Daccord (@thomasdaccord) of EdTechTeacher, an advertiser on this site. Thanks to a recent partnership with Khan Academy, Duck Duck Moose has made its terrific Draw and Tell iOS app completely FREE. With Draw and Tell, young students can easily create an animated screencast complete with voice, drawings, images, and objects.
Mark Ray is a person I first learned about in my M.Ed. program. He was a featured speaker in my course, and he literally reinvented & brought the libraries back from obsolescence in his district. Follett is now featuring him. Inspirational!