Best Apps for my Elementary Classroom
Name: Math Ninja HD Description: Use your math skills to defend your treehouse from an invading army! Cost: FREEEEEE Name: Telling Time HD Description: Fun way for kids to learn how to tell time!...
View ArticleReflection Week 12: The Tempered Radical
Bill Ferriter started this blog off by asking a great question, that many teachers may not want to answer. “How engaged are your students?” He cited a Gallup poll taken this year to show how students’...
View ArticleReflection Week 13: Dangerously Irrelevant
Scott Mcleod asks a great question in his most recent blog. “Should teachers be evaluated by student test score?” There are good arguments on both sides, but like many things in the teaching business...
View ArticleWeek 14 Reflection: Kevin’s Meandering Mind
In this blog post, Kevin Hodgson shares some examples of poetry that he hopes will be an inspiration to young writers and teachers alike. The first one is called “Where it Ends, it Begins”, and is...
View ArticleIPad Reflection
I had never used an iPad before this class, so it was a real struggle for me to figure out how to work it at first. I had to ask for a lot of help from the people at my table, I could have never got...
View ArticleQuestion 1: Best Web Tools for Teachers
I would use Mindmap as an advance organizer for my lessons, I would put the main “big idea” in the center and then have the supporting ideas that the lesson will cover in the spaces around it. Like...
View ArticleQuestion 2: Final Semester Favorites
I would use Wordle to make it fun to practice spelling words in my classroom. I have seen it used in classrooms before and kids loved it. I could also use it to describe things, such as an adjective...
View ArticleQuestion 3: My Wow Moment this Semester
My wow moment this semester was when I learned how to take screen captures on an Apple computer. I was not very comfortable with Macs at first but little by little I became more comfortable. I think...
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