August 2011
10 posts
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ScreenChomp- Create and share tutorials on your... →
ScreenChomp is a free app for creating and sharing short tutorials or lessons on your iPad. ScreenChomp provides a whiteboard on which you can demonstrate things by drawing and talking people through your instructions.
See the rest of the post by clicking the link above.
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Activities for Teaching Google Tools to Teachers... →
The above is a link to Richard Byrne’s (at Free Tech for Teachers) post about his activities; here’s a direct link to the activities page.
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Larry Ferlazzo: The best reflective posts I've... →
Larry Ferlazzo is a well-respected name in the education community. I’ve gotten awesome lesson ideas from his blog and teaching tips. Check out the list for some ideas.
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Free Tech for Teachers: ConceptBoard →
There are many ways for teams of students to collaborate online and here’s another promising one. Conceptboard is a service that provides an online whiteboard space that you can use to share drawings, documents, spreadsheets, and more.
Click through to read the rest.
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World History Resources from History Tech →
This is a really well-rounded list, although I’d add Flow of History for some upper-level people :).
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Teacher people: If you don't have a Dropbox... →
girlwithalessonplan:
Click the link above and sign up for a free account.
I use mine for school. It’s so easy to work on something at home, save it to the dropbox, and immediately access it at work. With the printing issues I had today, I could easily go to dropbox’s website, sign in, get my stuff and print it from a different computer.
I also sync this with dropitto.me for students to turn...
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Beginning-of-the-year Student Surveys
Last year, I ditched the idea of having students fill out an “about me” notecard with interests and contact information. Instead, I had them fill out a Google Form I made available online via my class website. It worked really well, keeping the information organized and easy to look up.
I’m going to create my surveys for this year soon and I’m brainstorming new questions...
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What happened this summer?
I completely dropped off the face of the Internet (sans the occasional Facebooking).
Life got the better of me, Tumblr. Things for Teachers was an easy routine for me to continue until May hit. I was still teaching through mid-June, but I decided to start grad classes and my summer job around the same time mid-May. One week, I worked 30 hours outside of teaching- and still had schoolwork to do.
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Earthquake in NJ?
I don’t know if I will ever feel that again!
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Tales of an 8th Grade Teacher: Back to School... →
talesofan8thgradeteacher:
As the school year approaches for me, I always start to get nervous. I work very hard and always try to do my best, but I still worry about a multitude of things.
Am I prepared? Am I ready to meet every day and challenge head on?
Am I growing as an educator? Can I be doing more to develop as a…