Here is another week of amazing blog posts!
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Saving Sam! — A Team Building Activity – Mari Venturino
Confession: I struggle to teach teamwork well. Teamwork is one of those things that are essential for students to learn, especially in science. I could blame it on never having PD or solid instruction on how to teach teamwork, but I don’t think that…
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I’m excited to announce I’ve taken on a new position as the Technology and Computer teacher at a STEM charter school in Houston, Texas. Yesterday, I met some of my 650 elementary students and their parents.
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A Lever and a Place to Stand: Anchor, Aweigh!
Podcasting is an area that I would like to explore this year. I’m not sure I want to podcast (maybe, though), but I know a lot of people who regularly listen to podcasts and that is not a medium I have tapped into much so far.
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I already wrote a lot this summer about the most exciting, creative project I’ve been involved with in a long time. I worked with some students to create a story one short piece at a time.
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New Edition of Star Trek: Stellar Cartography – The Map Room
A new edition of Star Trek: Stellar Cartography is coming out in October, TrekCore reports. Like The Lands of Ice and Fire, it’s a collection of folded maps—10 of them, 12″×36″ in size—rather than a bound atlas.
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Fostering a Culture of Innovation! Students who S.A.I.L! – Teacher Reboot Camp
Yesterday, I presented a new keynote for the NJAIS Innovation Symposium, The Keys to Fostering a Culture of Innovation! Students who S.A.I.L. The purpose was to help teachers facilitate and inspire student innovation.
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A Game on Rails: the Utility of a Preset Path – Classroom Powerups
I would classify most of my classroom as an “Open World”. Outside of a few required tests and minor activities my students are generally free to explore different elements of the main quest, various side quests, and ranking challenges in their own w…
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I often hear people talking about adding elements of chance to an experience to make it more interesting. For instance, adding a random reward for doing a certain task in a system.
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Digital Storytelling Lesson Ideas with Book Creator – Class Tech Tips
Digital storytelling is more than stories that start with “once upon a time.” It’s all about using multimedia to capture the story of students’ learning. Book Creator is a powerful tool for digital storytelling lesson integration.
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California: How a Charter School Will Harm One Small Public School | Diane Ravitch’s blog
California is a state where charters have gone wild. Rick Hennessy, the part time superintendent of the small Twain Harte School district responds to parents who want to secede to create their own charter school that their action will damage the edu…
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Infographic On Gamification In eLearning: 6 Examples – e-Learning Infographics
Gamification is the integration of gaming elements in eLearning to create a highly effective and immersive learning experience. Here’s an infographic illustrating 6 examples of Gamification in eLearning to engage learners in a better way.
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10 Easy Ways to Create an Awesome School District Culture – The Principal of Change
In the past, I have written about some simple ideas that can help improve the culture in both the classroom and school setting.
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Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: Math and Sorcery
Math and Sorcery is a new free iOS app that is quickly becoming one of my favorite educational games for my iPhone/iPad. Math and Sorcery uses a familiar RPG gaming element to reinforce basic Math skills (i.e. addition, subtraction, etc.).
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Can you take me back to the original inspiration for the book? My first full-time teaching job was at a black college, Tougaloo College in Mississippi.
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With major fires burning in California, the media is abuzz with stories suggesting or stating that global warming is the key driver of these big burns. Some media reports state that the number of California fires and the annual burn area are increas…
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The Adventures of Library Girl: A Back To School Challenge
Yesterday, I stopped at Starbucks on my way home and had a conversation with a barista named Ryan. I’ve replayed it about a hundred times since walking out of the coffee shop with my latte. I doubt I’ll ever forget it. Ryan: “Those glasses are amazi…
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Real or Fake? Factitious is breakthrough tool for assessing student online literacy | History Tech
Real or fake? Biased or unbiased?
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The Reality of Finding a Path to Success – The Principal of Change
Two districts, same area, province, or state. Understand, these places often have very similar constraints. Budgets, mandated curriculum, tests, etc. One finds a way to make it work, and the other identifies all the ways it won’t.
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Game Mechanics Vs. Game Features | David Mullich
One of my Game Production students recently asked me to explain to him the difference between a game mechanic and a game feature.
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Getting to Know You Survey – Mari Venturino
Back to school is always an exciting time! I love preparing my classroom for my new students, thinking about how to best meet their needs, and anticipating the fun we’re going to have. I loosely plan out what skills I want to hit, but I don’t lesson…
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Google Classroom: Record Video Straight to Classroom – Teacher Tech
This is a game changer, from your mobile device you can record video straight to Google Classroom. On your mobile, create an assignment and tap on the paper clip icon at the top. The last option for attachments is “Record Video.
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Back to School with G Suite: 6 Activities for the Classroom | Shake Up Learning
Around the U.S., teachers are gearing up for back to school–gathering ideas, planning lessons, and getting their classrooms ready for learning. Google tools can help you kick off the school year, get organized, and have some fun.
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5 Steps to Sharing a Copy of a Google Form – Teacher Tech
Sharing Google Forms is tricky. You do not want to make your data you collect in your Google Form visible to others. You can not get a view only link from the Form directly and changing your Google Form to allow others to edit is dangerous. Google F…
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Global Problem Solvers: The Series Videos for Students – Class Tech Tips
Is your classroom full of global problem solvers? There is a new video series designed especially for middle and high school students that addresses this important topic.
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1st Day Student Survey with Google Forms |
On the first day of school, my students complete a detailed student survey. It is designed to collect basic information and help me get to know my new students. The more I know about them, the easier it is for me to design and facilitate learning op…
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An Introduction to Hydroponics – Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization – Cool Infographics
Hydroponics is a method of growing plants without soils. An Introduction to Hydroponics infographic goes over the benefits of using the technique, and a couple of different methods you could use.
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Questions to Assess our Classroom Library Before Back-to-School – Pernille Ripp
I have been spending some time in my classroom these last few weeks. Getting ready, getting excited. At the end of last school year, I moved all of our bookshelves, rearranged the furniture, and tried to update this little space that hopefully bec…
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Growing a Classroom Library? Add these books! – History Gal
Lately, I’ve been daydreaming about creating a social studies classroom library.
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Cece Loves Science | Science for All
OVERVIEW: My daughter Cece is 8 years old and the other day we were walking through a Barnes & Noble (yes they still have those!) and we saw a display for a picture book titled Cece Loves Science. She saw the display and said, “I DO love science!”
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I just put my latest ebook up on Teachers Pay Teachers. It’s called Epic Interactive Comic Projects Using Free Google Apps. I’m really excited about sharing it with the world! It’s at an introductory price of $2.
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Control Alt Achieve: Google Tools for English Language Learners
Google Docs translate add-on Instead of translating an entire document, sometimes you may just need to translate a phrase or sentence. For those occasions you can use the Google Translate add-on for Docs.
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Free Technology for Teachers: A Free Presidential Timeline Poster for Your Classroom
For the last few years C-SPAN Classroom has offered a free poster depicting a timeline of American presidents. That offer is back for the 2018-19 school year.
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My Class: Student Blogging Made Easy! – The Edublogger
Do you have student blogs or are you thinking about setting up student blogs in the future? Maybe you have a class blog but would like students to publish their own posts? My Class is a management tool that brings a class blog and all your student b…
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New National Geographic Video: “Supervolcanoes 101” | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day…
I’m a high school teacher in Sacramento, CA.
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OVERVIEW: In the state of Washington we are committed to engaging K-12 students in learning about climate science and climate change.
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Students Should Be Creative from Day One – John Spencer
When I was a middle school student, I dreaded the first week of school. Teachers would walk us, line-by-line, through the syllabus and handbook and we would practice the classroom procedures. It was as if school started a week before the learning st…
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3 Challenges for the Future of Education – The Principal of Change
I was recently sent an email and asked to identify some of the challenges I see for the future of learning in education. These are things that I have noticed through my travels and after countless conversations with educators, and things that I hav…
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A Principal’s Reflections: TTWWADI – A Culture Killer
In some cases, change has been hard to implement at scale or at all for that matter. Sometimes we are blinded by perceived success as is the case for many high performing school districts that have high test scores.
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Build a Collaborative Classroom with Microsoft Teams | Cult of Pedagogy
This is a sponsored post. All opinions are my own.
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Michael Hynes is a visionary superintendent in the Patchogue-Medford public schools on Long Island in New York. He has written and spoken frequently about the importance of a healthy environment for children to learn and grow.
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