Tuesday, May 3, 2016

My Favorite Poetry Project, 8th Grade-Style

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A few years ago I stumbled onto the My Favorite Poem Project , who has produced about 50 or so videos of people reciting well known poems an...
Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Launching 8th graders into the Twitterverse

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Twitter has been invaluable for me for my own professional learning. It's enabled me to follow my interests and interact with like-minde...
Saturday, January 31, 2015

Teaching kids to curate

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Quite a bit of what I read online are pieces that have been remixed and re-purposed.  It’s content that has been taken from various pla...
Saturday, January 17, 2015

Google Classroom--From Tinkering to Committing, and Reflecting

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For about the last five years I've been fully committed to using Google applications with my students.  From Sites, to Docs, to Chrome, ...
Friday, November 21, 2014

The Chromebook learning curve

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Initially, my students' response to the Chromebooks was mixed.  Some were excited about the opportunity to use new and unfamiliar techno...
Sunday, October 5, 2014

Chromebooks!?

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Two years ago, when I learned that I would be receiving a set of iPads, my classroom use of and personal learning about technology underwent...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

From Blogger to Kidblog to G+ and now...back to Blogger

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Blogging serves an important purpose in my class...it has for the last five years or so, and I've written quite a bit about it.  At fi...